A film by Harris Dickinson
Great Britain 2025, 99 min
NRW-Premiere
Mike, a homeless man in London, is trapped in a vicious circle of self-destruction. Drugs, violence and prison have characterised his life so far, but now he wants to put an end to it. The young man, who has been homeless for years, wants to finally get a grip on his life and break the vicious circle. But the daily challenges keep bringing him to the edge of the abyss.
Before his breakthrough as an actor, director Harris Dickinson worked on voluntary aid projects supporting people with addiction problems. This experience fuelled his desire to tell a nuanced story with empathy and humility. At the Cannes Festival, lead actor Frank Dillane was honoured as best actor in the Un Certain Regard section, and the film also received the FIPRESCI award.
Director & screenplay: Harris Dickinson – Director of photography: Josée Deshaies – Editing: Rafael Torres Calderón – Music: Alan Myson – With Frank Dillane, Megan Northam, Amr Waked, Karyna Khymchuk, Shonagh Marie and others. – World Sales: Charades, charades.eu
Harris Dickinson
BAFTA-nominated British actor Harris Dickinson burst onto the scene in Eliza Hittman’s 2017 Sundance hit Beach Rats. He was nominated for ‘Best Male Lead’ at the Independent Spirit Awards, and ‘Breakthrough Actor’ at The Gotham Awards for his first screen role. Harris can currently be seen in Halina Reijn’s Babygirl (2024) opposite Nicole Kidman, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. In 2023, Harris starred in Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw for A24 opposite Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White and in the FX limited series A Murder at the End of the World from The OA creators Brit Marling and Zal Batmangliij, alongside Emma Corrin and Clive Owen. He also starred in the British independent feature film Scrapper, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. In 2022, Harris led Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winning, Academy Award and BAFTA-nominated satirical comedy film Triangle of Sadness, alongside Woody Harrelson and Charlbi Dean.
Other film credits include Blitz (2024), Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) opposite Daisy Edgar-Jones, See How They Run (2022) starring alongside Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan, Matthew Vaughn’s The King’s Man (2021), Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir: Part II (2021), among others.
Harris pursued acting and filmmaking from a young age, training in theatre with Raw Academy and participating in the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art examination program. At the age of 16, he won council funding to write and direct his first short film. His short 2003 premiered at The BFI London Film Festival in 2021.
