Project Detail

Violence Violence

Name: Violence Violence
Director: Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Woman Director
Released: 2026
Duration: 100:00

A young person is looking at man who is putting a quail egg in his mouth. They are both sitting down at a table in an airport lounge.

Robbie Ryan

Synopsis

Northern Irish Nollaig begins her Geo-astrophysics internship studies, in the unfamiliar city of Geneva. Its alien nature is compounded by the dominant characters of her host family David and Helen Wilcox, members of the diverse expat community, where the required external presentation of wealth and power is essential - a cloak to their hollow forms.
Nollaig is without self; her observational neutrality disarms, pushing those around her, to only crave more from her. Nollaig anchors her own sense of purpose by blood ties - her Uncle Nigel. His criminal past as a jewel thief, activates Nollaig’s first direction to become a skilled diamond thief herself.
In her exploration of unversed theft-ingesting and passing practices, Nollaig experiences a far more visceral and violent shift of value. Bodily destruction, radical weather events, cracks beginning to form. As Nollaig starts to become stronger, she is no longer a vessel but now an opponent - speaking to the vulnerability of the world and human presence around her. A violence of humanity in its purity. From a violent act, a benign outcome is born and Nollaig transforms everyone in her orbit.

Details

Year: 2026
Type of project: Features
Running time: 100:00
Format: 16 & 35mm
Director: Antonia Campbell-Hughes 2nd Feature
Producer: Rory Gilmartin, Lee Magiday, Alan Maher
Co-Producer: Max Karli, Pauline Gygax
Executive Producer: Tassilo Hallbauer, Greg Martin, Oisín O’Neill, Richard Fearn, Mickey Gooch Jr., Kyle Stroud, Tony Maher, Edmund Tuckett, Michael Wood, Nicolas Sampson and Arno Hazebroek.
Editor: John Walters, Jérôme Pesnel
Screenwriter: Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Director of Photography: Robbie Ryan
Production Designer: John Leslie
Composer: Tom Furse
Principal cast: Raffey Cassidy, Andrea Riseborough, Alessandro Nivola, Guy Pearce

Genre

Sci-Fi Thriller Woman Director

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

Smoke Puppy

Lee Magiday
2/4 Ash Lane
Rustington
Littlehampton
BN16 3BZ

Sales Company

Beta Cinema

Tassillo Hallbauer
Gruenwalder Weg 28d
82041 Oberhaching
Munich
Germany

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