Project Detail

Sky Peals

Synopsis

Adam works nightshifts at a motorway service station and lives a small, restricted and lonely life. Upon hearing that his estranged father, Hassan, has died, Adam finds himself in search of answers. Starting to piece together a complicated image of his father, Adam learns that after leaving the family Hassan had started to believe he had been ‘sent to earth from somewhere far away’.
Initially dismissive, Adam’s mind is soon drawn to the strange episodes he has been having, in which he blacks out and can feel something trying to communicate with him. He thinks about his inability to communicate and connect with people. He thinks about how he’s never fit in. Adam begins to ask himself if his father really was a being from another world, then what does that make him?
Official Selection Venice Critics’ Week 2023 - World premiere
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2023 - First Feature Competition

Details

Year: 2023
Type of film: Features
Running time: 93 min
Format: Digital
Director: Moin Hussain 1st Feature
Producer: Michelle Stein
Executive Producer: Caroline Cooper Charles, Kristin Irving, David Kimbangi, Ollie Madden
Editor: Nse Asuquo
Screenwriter: Moin Hussain
Director of Photography: Nick Cooke
Production Designer: Elena Muntoni
Sound: Sound Designer: Paul Davies
Composer: Sarah Davachi
Principal cast: Faraz Ayub, Natalie Gavin, Claire Rushbrook, Simon Nagra, Steve Oram, Jeff Mirza
Film Title Note: FKA Birchanger Green

Genre

Horror Fantasy Sci-Fi

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

An Escape Films production supported by BFI, Film4, Screen Yorkshire

Escape Films

Michelle Stein
Beehive Mill
Jersey Street
Manchester
M4 6JG

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Sales Company

Bankside Films Ltd

12 Great Portland Street
London
W1W 8QN

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