To Nowhere
2023 | 85min | Grapevine Films
Two self-destructive teenage friends embark on an alcohol-fuelled trip around a lonely corner of London. Spiralling out of control, they must confront unspoken trauma and love or lose each other forever.
To Nowhere is the debut feature from UK writer-director Sian Astor-Lewis. Raw, intimate and full of passion, the film blends an emotionally-charged realism with a strikingly original injection of arthouse.
Taking us deep into the emotional journey of two adolescents on the edge, To Nowhere explores vital questions of gender identity, sexuality and abuse. As their journey reaches its climax, this evolves into a dreamlike finale, with a hint of the surreal.
director & writer SIAN ASTOR-LEWIS | producer GEORGIA HURT & FINBAR SOMERS | director of photography MADS JUNKER | production designer CAROLINA de LEMOS | sound designers ANIA PRYZGODA & ANNA SULLEY & RUANTH CHRISLEY THYSSEN | colourist ALEX GRIGORAS | starring LILIT LESSER, JOSEFINE GLæSEL & ORLANDO SEALE
**** “…feels deeply personal, bloody as a fresh wound, and entirely sugar-free.”
”Astor-Lewis draws out superb performances from both the leads, whose dialogue consistently feels spontaneous, their chemistry unforced and as natural as sharing a stall to have a pee with your best mate.”
”…Seale’s performance is mesmerising and the tense last scene with him and the two teens is a remarkable bit of drama – charged and slippery like an electric eel.” - The Guardian
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FESTIVALS:
WINNER of BEST FEATURE FILM and BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR (Orlando Seale) at the British Independent Film Festval 2021 | WINNER of FIRST FEATURE at the Sweden Film Awards 2020 | WINNER of NO-BUDGET FEATURE category at the PARIS Independent Film Festival 2020 | World of Film International Festival Glasgow 2020 | Vancouver Indpendent Film Festival 2021 | NOMINATED for BEST DRAMA FEATURE at the Stockholm Independent Film Festival 2021 | WINNER of BEST DIRECTOR at the Brighton Rocks Film Festival 2021 | WINNER of BEST LGBTQ+ FILM at the New Renaissance Film Festival 2021 | WINNER of BEST FEATURE FILM, BEST PERFORMERS and BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY at the London Rocks Film Festival 2021
