‘STARK, OPPRESSIVE, MENACING.
A HISTORICAL DRAMA WITH A SLICE OF HORROR’
- Peter Bradshaw, THE GUARDIAN
- The Saltmarshes of Lincolnshire. 1555.
An isolated group of salt famers arrange illegal passage to Europe for an Egyptian family in hiding. But a love affair between Patience, a mute English girl, and Rumi the son of the Egyptians, threatens to destroy both communities.
‘Lapwing’ is a visceral, brutal window into the life of a young woman forced to live on the fringes of society, shunned for her stutter, and under constant threat from the violent and abusive patriarchal leader of her isolated community. Part psychological thriller, part love story, Lapwing sets the contemporary and modern themes of immigration, otherness and the female voice in a dangerous world where violence, superstition and vengeance reign supreme.
WRITTEN BY
Laura Turner
DIRECTED BY
Philip Stevens
STARRING
Hannah Douglas
Emmett J. Scanlan
Sebastien De Souza
Lewis Gemmill
Sarah Xanthie
Javid Khan
Karen Crow
David Clayton
Sophie Kamal
PRODUCED BY
Philip Stevens
Andy Mullins
Justin Tagg
RUNTIME
89 Mins
A World Serpent Production in Association with Hyperreal Films
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Listen to the Official Soundtrack to LAPWING, by Lee Gretton, below: