Calibre
Synopsis
Father-to-be Vaughn and his lifelong friend Marcus head to an isolated, struggling Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip. After a first night of heavy drinking with the villagers, the men head out on a misty autumnal morning, into a vast forest. When Vaughn tries to shoot a deer, a fatal accident happens. Instead of hitting the animal, his bullet rips into a child in the distance. The men make the fateful decision to cover up the tragic incident. But piece by piece, their secret unravels as they become stranded in the village and sucked into a never-ending nightmare. As the locals close in on the truth, Vaughn is drawn into a series of increasingly unbearable and impossible moral choices that place both his survival and his family at stake.
Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2018
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 101 mins
- Format
- ARRI Alexa 2K
- Director
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Matt Palmer 1st Feature
- Producer
- Alastair Clark, Anna Griffin
- Executive Producer
- Robbie Allen, Jennifer Armitage, Paul Ashton, Richard Holmes, Rob McGillivray, Ben Stranahan, Jamie Jessop, Andrea Scarso, Phil Hunt, Compton Ross, Geneviève Lemal, Lee Brazier, Rachel Robey
- Editor
- Chris Wyatt
- Screenwriter
- Matt Palmer
- Director of Photography
- Márk Györi
- Production Designer
- Miren Marañón Tejador
- Sound
- Ben Baird, Tim Barker
- Composer
- Anne Nikitin
- Principal cast
- Jack Lowden, Martin McCann, Tony Curran, Ian Pirie, Kate Bracken
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Wellington Films
Alastair ClarkBroadway Media Centre
14-18 Broad Street
Nottingham
NG1 3AL
Sales Company
Beta Cinema GmbH
Gruenwalder Weg 28 d82041 Oberhaching
Munich
Germany
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