THE SILENT STORM (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Damian Lewis (Homeland), Andrea Riseborough (Birdman), Ross Anderson (Macbeth), Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones), Eric Robertson (The Angels’ Share), John Sessions (Filth)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Corinna McFarlane (Three Miles North of Molkom), director, writer; Nicky Bentham (Moon), producer; Alastair Caplin (film debut), composer; Ed Rutherford (Too Much Too Young), cinematographer; Kate Baird (Survivor), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Aislin (Riseborough), an enigmatic outsider living on a remote Scottish island with her fierce minister husband Balor (Lewis), finds herself in the middle of a forbidden affair with Fionn (Anderson), the young delinquent that has come to live with them…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

The Silent Storm is a fierce little film about a troubled woman caught between a forbidden love triangle, one that is bound to provoke and engage its audience with its powerful visual poetry.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 20TH MAY 2016

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