Story
The last night of a friendship and an explosion of new youth culture: a British music drama with a touch of Trainspotting has the screen booming. 1994 in a grey Scottish provincial town. Johnno and Spanner are hooked on beats. Every new techno track is celebrated by the two friends and recorded off the radio. Their lives are at the crossroads: while Johnno, whose stepfather’s a policeman, is moving to a new town with his family, Spanner, who lives with his criminal brother, faces an uncertain future. An illegal rave offers one last night of anarchy and freedom.
Director
BRIAN WELSH (*1981) studied at the National Film and Television School in England and presented his debut Kin in 2009. He‘s made a series of TV films and won an Emmy for an episode of Black Mirror. Beats is his second feature film.Trailer
Info
Beats
Fiction Feature
English
Kaleidoscope | FF2019
United Kingdom
2019
98 min
OV with German subtitles
Brian Welsh
Keiran Hurley, Brian Welsh, basierend auf dem Stück 'Beats' von Keiran Hurley
Christian Ortega, Lorn MacDonald, Laura Fraser, Brian Ferguson, Ross Mann, Gemma McElhinney, Amy Manson, Rachel Jackson, Neil Leiper, Kevin Mains, Stephen McCole, Josh Whitelaw, Ryan Fletcher, Patrick McAlindon, Martin Donaghy
Camilla Bray
Ben Kracun
Robin Hill
Keith McIvor, Stephen Hindman, Penelope Trappes
Victor Molero, Stephen Mason
Altitude
Rosetta Productions
Elodie Dupont, The Festival Agency: ed@thefestivalagency.com