15 UK films to tempt festival directors in 2017
11 January, 2017 | By Screen staff From Lynne Ramsay’s You Were Never Really Here to Asif Kapadia’s Maradona doc, Screen profiles a selection of hot UK projects in 2017. Beast Dir Michael Pearce Former Screen International Star of Tomorrow Pearce makes his feature debut with Beast (working title), described as “a love story trapped inside of a horror film”. Jessie Buckley stars as a young woman who starts to suspect her new boyfriend could be involved in a spate of killings on the island of Jersey. Contact: Stray Bear Productions lauren@straybearfilms.co.uk Dark River Dir Clio Barnard Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley and Sean Bean star in Barnard’s Yorkshire-set drama...