MOUSE-X

90 MINS | METAPHYSICAL THRILLER
ASPECT RATIO: 2:35:1

WRI/DIR: JUSTIN TAGG

HYPERREAL FILMS in association with ELECTRIC PANDA

Hannah Douglas and Emmet J. Scanlan in LAPWING (2021)

- 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 Egyptian’s, 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.