28.7 | FRIDAY | 18:00

23-year-old Franky (Vicky Knight) is a nurse who lives with her large family in an East London borough. Obsessed with a thirst for revenge and a need to assign guilt for a traumatic event that happened 15 years before, she is unable to build any meaningful relationship until she falls in love with one of her patients – Florence. They escape to the coast where Florence lives with her more open-minded patchwork family. But the past will not let her rest…

SACHA POLAK’S first two features received great critical acclaim; Hemel won the FIPRESCI Award at the Berlinale Forum and Zurich the CICAE Art Cinema Award in the same programme. Her feature Dirty God premiered at Sundance and Rotterdam in 2019. It marked the first on-screen appearance for the nonprofessional actress Vicky Knight, who won a BAFTA Award for the role. She also won the Teddy Jury Award at Berlinale Panorama this year for her performance in Silver Haze.