SILVER HAZE Trailer (2024) Vicky Knight, Drama Movie

SILVER HAZE Trailer (2024) Vicky Knight, Drama Movie

SILVER HAZE Trailer (2024) Vicky Knight, Drama Movie
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Dirty God director Sacha Polak's drama Silver Haze is finally coming to cinemas after running the film festival gamut, and there's a new trailer to gear you up for it.

Set in East London, the film follows 23-year-old nurse Franky (Vicky Knight), who is still navigating the physical and emotional impacts of a traumatic arson attack from her childhood. She wants justice. When she falls for her patient, Florence (Esmé Creed-Miles), they head for Florence's hometown on the coast, where her family life feels much more supportive and stable than Franky's — and it might be just the right space to finally process it all.

Knight won the Berlinale's Teddy Jury Award and was nominated for BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and a British Independent Film Award for her performance, which actually draws on her own childhood experience of surviving a deliberately started fire.

Silver Haze premiered last year at the Berlin Film Festival before screening at the BFI London Film Festival, and will hit cinemas in the UK and Ireland March 29 — U.S. release TBC. Before then, you can catch it at BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival.
Dark Sky Pictures debuted the official trailer for Silver Haze, the award-winning drama starring Vicky Knight as 23-year-old Franky who has spent most of her life seeking revenge for the fire that left her with physical and emotional scars as a child until she meets and falls for one of her patients.

Also starring in the film are Esmé Creed-Miles, Charlotte Knight, Archie Brigden, TerriAnn Cousins, and Angela Bruce

Release Date
Directed by Sacha Polak, Silver Haze world premiered at Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Teddy Award Jury prize, and will open in select theaters on March 1 and on VOD on March 12.

Synopsis
Franky (Vicky Knight), a 23-year-old nurse, lives with her large family in an East London borough. Obsessed with a thirst for revenge and a need to assign blame and guilt for a traumatic fire that happened 15 years ago, she is unable to build any meaningful relationship until she falls in love with one of her patients – Florence (Esmé Creed-Miles). They escape to the coast where Florence lives with her more open-minded patchwork family. There, Franky finds the emotional shelter to deal with the grudges and scars of the past.

Review
Loud and Clear review gave the ‘deeply impactful’ film a perfect 4 of 4 stars, writing “With Silver Haze, writer and director Sacha Polak creates a multi-layered story that is sure to encourage self-reflection from the viewer. Perfect for fans of realism, the character’s humanity, displayed in front of an unrelenting backdrop of an unforgiving Britain, firmly situate Silver Haze within the social realist genre.”

Describing the film as ‘a great little gem’ in their review ScreenAnarchy wrote, “In the tradition of British kitchen-sink realism of Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold, and humanist makeshift family dramas of Kore-eda, Polak and Knight create an emotionally resonant film about forgiveness and finding peace via self-reflexive storytelling. Knight is a natural born actress and the camera (captured by DP Tibor Dingelstad) adores her.”

It continued, “Her brevity in using her life story and stigma she carries on screen is quite remarkable. Sensitively written and directed with clear eyes, Silver Haze is a great little gem and the first great discovery of 2023.”

Official Trailer
Watch the official trailer for Silver Haze