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Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a ...
Oct 24, 2017 | Theatrical Limited (13 locations)
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Jan 23, 2017 (Sundance Film Festival (USA))
Feb 11, 2017 (Berlin International Film Festival (Germany))
Apr 11, 2017 (Istanbul Film Festival (Turkey))
Apr 15, 2017 (San Francisco International Film Festival (USA))
May 25, 2017 (Inside Out Film Festival (Canada))
Jun 6, 2017 (Transylvania International Film Festival (Romania))
Jun 10, 2017 (Sydney Film Festival (Australia))
Jun 10, 2017 (Seattle International Film Festival (USA))
Jun 16, 2017 (Provincetown Film Festival (USA))
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Jun 21, 2017 (Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK))
Jun 30, 2017 (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech Republic))
Jul 17, 2017 (Jerusalem Film Festival (Israel))
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Aug 2, 2017 (New Zealand International Film Festival (New Zealand))
Aug 5, 2017 (Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia))
Aug 5, 2017 (New Horizons Film Festival (Poland))
Aug 19, 2017 (Norwegian International Film Festival (Norway))
Sep 14, 2017 (Jameson CineFest - Miskolc International Film Festival (Hungary))
Sep 15, 2017 (Queer Lisboa Film Festival (Portugal))
Sep 17, 2017 (Helsinki International Film Festival (Finland))
Sep 27, 2017 (Bergen International Film Festival (Norway))
Sep 29, 2017 (Reykjavik International Film Festival (Iceland))
Oct 6, 2017 (Vancouver International Film Festival (Canada))
Oct 7, 2017 (Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival (Brazil))
Oct 11, 2017 (Gent International Film Festival (Belgium))
Oct 14, 2017 (Busan International Film Festival (South Korea))
Oct 17, 2017 (Chicago International Film Festival (USA))
Oct 29, 2017 (Leiden International Film Festival (Netherlands))
Nov 4, 2017 (Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece))
Nov 5, 2017 (Mezipatra Queer Film Festival (Czech Republic))
Nov 13, 2017 (Stockholm International Film Festival (Sweden))
Nov 14, 2017 (Paris premiere (France))
Nov 14, 2017 (Zagreb Film Festival (Croatia))
Nov 25, 2017 (Singapore International Film Festival (Singapore))
Feb 28, 2018 (Belgrade Film Festival (Serbia))
Sep 19, 2020 (LGBT International Film Festival Poland (Poland))
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Sound Mix: Aspect Ratio 1.85:1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Spring. Yorkshire. Isolated young sheep farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker Gheorghe, employed for the lambing season, ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path. Johnny Saxby has turned into a sullen young man in needing to take on the proverbial and literal heavy lifting at the family’s sheep and cattle farm in Northern England following his father Martin Saxby’s stroke, which has rendered him physically disabled, and he requiring a cane to walk still with difficulty. Johnny has taken on this role without much passion and thus without placing much effort into it, especially as Martin is still looking over his shoulder at every turn. Johnny relieves his boredom by drinking to excess at the pub – he getting to the point of needing to vomit every time – and, gay, having casual, indiscriminate and passionless sex with whichever bloke he meets. During the busy birthing season, Martin hires Gheorghe Ionescu, a Romanian migrant farm worker, for a one week period. There is an immediate animosity between Johnny and Gheorghe largely over dealing with the stereotype Johnny has of all Romanians being shifty Romanis aka gypsies. In reality, Gheorghe, who grew up on such a farm back home, knows his farming well and places much care in it unlike Johnny. While Johnny and Gheorghe are away on a several day trip to work on a remote part of the farm, their animosity leads to some physicality between them which further leads to some sexual tension and ultimately a sexual relationship. In their solitude, their relationship turns more intimate, something that has never happened before for Johnny. Gheorghe, who is more experienced in true matters of the heart than Johnny, knows the current status of their relationship is unsustainable, something that Johnny may never get a point to in never having been there. Their relationship however does give Johnny a better understanding of how to live in his path on the farm with his parents especially in the circumstance of Martin’s poor and deteriorating health. — Huggo Since his father Martin’s disabling stroke, adolescent Johnny Saxby needs to grow up fast and step up to save the Yorkshire family’s sheep and cattle farm, but it’s not his choice and grumpy ingrate parental meddling doesn’t help to motivate, so he drowns his sorrows in too much ale frequently, often vomiting afterwards, limiting his further social life to meaningless gay one-offs. For the back-breaking lambing season, Martin hires for a week Gheorghe Ionescu, an actually experienced Romanian migrant farm worker, with more professional dedication. Despite ignorantly calling the ‘intruder’ a gypsy, Johnny learns from him, and after jumping each-other’s bones in the mud on the meadows, they start his first-ever more intimate relationship, yet it has no future, but provides some mentoring Johhny can use on all fronts. — KGF Vissers