Project Detail

Hamlet

Synopsis

A modern-day take on Shakespeare’s tragedy, exploring race, mental health and inequality.

Details

Year: 2025
Type of film: Features
Director: Aneil Karia
Producer: Riz Ahmed, Michael Lesslie, Allie Moore, Tommy Oliver, James Wilson
Executive Producer: Ken Kao, Josh Rosenbaum, Eva Yates, Claudia Yusef
Screenwriter: Michael Lesslie (adaptation)
Director of Photography: Stuart Bentley
Music: Maxwell Sterling
Principal cast: Riz Ahmed, Mofydd Clark, Joe Alwyn, Sheeba Chaddha, Art Malik, Timothy Spall

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

UK, US co-production

Left Handed Films (UK), Storyteller Productions (UK), Confluential Films (US), JW Films (US), Waypoint Entertainment (US)

Storyteller Productions

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Sales Company

WME Independent

9601 Wilshire Blvd.
Beverly Hills
CA 90210
USA

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A sobering and powerful imagining of a dystopian near-future. <br /> "In collaboration with actor-musician-activist Riz Ahmed, this work transcends the genre confines of a music video to create an incisive conceptual accompaniment to the title track from Ahmed’s personal album of the same name. Set in a speculative future of a risen right-wing and rampant post-Brexit racism, Riz unpacks his feelings towards his country in a powerful, gut-punch monologue of rap and spoken word." (London Short Film Festival)

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Year: 2020

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