Thomas Purdy

David Kinsella, funded by the Norwegian Film Institute, arrived in North Korea ready to make a documentary about a young poet at the invitation of the North Korean government, but filming hadn’t gotten very far when Kinsella realized that everything he was filming was fiction not fact, even the young poet. Each day the government brought in extras and staged every scene too essentially create a propaganda film for the country. Not to be deterred Kinsella took the manipulation of his work in stride and started to capture large expanses of industrial areas to alter later with animation and create an amazing film.

Facing job loss and a best friend’s emigration, Benny forms a ragtag Sunday league football team to cling to the past, sparking a messy romance with his lost-in-life housemate, Laura, only to confront heartbreak and fading hope on and off the pitch.

Follows rookie police officers working in Belfast, a city in which being a frontline response cop comes with unique pressures and dangers.