Brash Young Turks
Synopsis
When Mia, a care-leaver searching for love and escape, is pulled into his orbit, she enters a volatile world defined by hustle, risk, and the pursuit of elevation. Moving through the cut-throat arenas of sales and property, where image is currency and success is measured in money, status, and power, the group chase opportunity at any cost.
But as ambition intensifies, loyalty begins to fracture. What once felt like progress turns unstable, and the personal and material costs of rising become impossible to ignore.
Told through intersecting storylines and a visceral, hyper-kinetic style, the film captures a generation in motion—restless, defiant, and unwilling to accept limitation, no matter the consequences.
Details
- Year
- 2016
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 90 min
- Director
-
Naeem Mahmood, Ash Mahmood 1st Feature
- Producer
- Charlie Fletcher, Naeem Mahmood, Ash Mahmood, Bernard Kordieh
- Editor
- Peita Lurie, Naeem Mahmood
- Screenwriter
- Paul Danquah, Naeem Mahmood, Ash Mahmood
- Director of Photography
- Stephen Roach
- Composer
- Edwin Sykes
- Principal cast
- Julian Glover, Melissa Latouche, Tom Bott, Paul Chiedozie, Charlie Macgechan, Kimberley Marren, Annie Cooper, Charles Mnene, Annabelle Lanyon, Niall Costigan, Vidal Sancho, Richard Shelton, English Frank, D Double E
- Associate Producers
- Ola Okunrinboye, Melissa Latouche
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Page updates
This page was last updated on 27th April 2026. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.
See also
You may also be interested in other relevant projects in the database.
Affected
Director: Naeem Mahmood, Ash Mahmood
Year: 2010
In the non too distant future, society seems to be devouring itself in a vacuum of materialistic consumer greed manifesting itself in a disease like plague turning ordinary people into savage, zombie like, sub-humans. Jacob, a young aspiring journalist together with his girlfriend Laura, a young attractive self assured, yet vain, it-girl go on the trail of the Tempter, a figure-head in the media reported to be responsible for the decline of the social order. As Jacob's search for a story takes them out of their comfortable, frappucino filled world and into the seedy underbelly of Britain’s backstreets, low lifes and eventually the decaying Eden Estate, cracks begin to appear in their co-dependant relationship driving a rift between them. At a cross-roads fighting for not only his relationship, sanity and survival, Jacob is left with three pivotal questions; Who is The Tempter? Does the Tempter really exist? And if so, is the Tempter truly responsible for the impending armaggedon, or is there a more darker, more sinister, more simple truth to it all?
Paper Cut
Director: Jack Sain
Year: 2026
Long-lost siblings meet for dinner. They end the night in drag. By sunrise, a shocking revelation tests the limits of love and acceptance. PAPER CUT is a debut feature from queer British writer-director Jack Sain. Alex has just found Alice - the birth sister he never knew existed - living four tube stops away. He invites her and her boyfriend over for dinner at the comfortable London home he shares with his boyfriend Sasha. Everyone is on their best behaviour. Everyone has rehearsed. By midnight, all four of them are in drag at a queer nightclub. By 5am, something comes to light that none of them can take back. The film puts social satire through an experimental lens, with a propulsive original score and formally adventurous set pieces, including a split-screen sequence. It asks what happens when people who pride themselves on openness are confronted with something they cannot absorb. The cast includes legendary trans actress Adèle Anderson, Olivier Award nominee and longtime member of cabaret trio Fascinating Aïda, and Barney White of ITV's Professor T - pairing established stage and screen talent with brilliant newcomers.
Life Is 4 ½ Metres
Director: Jeevan Singh
Year: 2026
A coming-of-age drama exploring identity, faith and belonging. What begins as an internal conflict develops into an emotional journey that forces the central character to confront what his faith, family and heritage truly mean to him. Inspired by true events, Life Is 4½ Metres is an intimate and heartfelt story about growing up, the bonds between father and son, and the quiet struggles that can shape a young person’s identity. At its heart, the film explores how the traditions we sometimes question can ultimately become the things that connect us most deeply to who we are.