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Wow thank you @indiewire ! A cult classic in the making ! @departuresfilmuk is out now in France and USA via @strandreleasing and @optimale.fr coming to VOD and still some cinemas via @peccadillopics

Departures is @nytimes New York Times CRITICS PICK this week a huge moment for us so proud of everyone !!! 💥 @strandreleasing @peccadillopics

Departures is @nytimes New York Times CRITICS PICK this week a huge moment for us so proud of everyone !!! 💥 @strandreleasing @peccadillopics

@departuresfilmuk hits UK cinemas this week! See what people are saying! book now at peccadillo.film

Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Neil Ely made Departures with their own money. Working-class queer filmmakers from Manchester. No studio. No safety net.

The film follows Benji, played by Eyre-Morgan, who meets Jake at an airport. Two years of secret monthly trips to Amsterdam follow. A relationship Jake refuses to acknowledge outside those trips. The film starts at the breakup and works backwards, into the relationship and into the adolescence that made Benji who he is.

Russell T Davies called it “honest, raw, tough, wildly funny and powerfully heartfelt.” Russell Tovey called it “very beautiful and deeply moving.” Cast includes David Tag, Tyler Conti, Kimberly Hart-Simpson and Lorraine Stanley.

Now streaming on Apple TV, Now TV, Prime Video, YouTube Movies, BFI Player and Peccadillo Player.

Queer arts news at FLICKERMAGAZINE.ART

#Departures #QueerFilm #BFIPlayer #WorkingClassLGBTQ #FlickerMagazine

Exclusive London screening of Chatlines Saturday 16th May 6.55pm as part of @scifilondon from the team behind @departuresfilmuk watch before anyone else with a general release set for early next year ! Book now via @scifilondon

“Somewhere between All of Us Strangers and Black Mirror, this quietly cosmic British gem is one of the year’s most unexpected love stories.”

Jordan is a 30-something and facing terminal cancer, but then he meets Danny. All seems well but there’s a catch; Danny swears it’s 2005, and he’s dying too.

Directed by Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Neil Ely, featuring Siobhan Finneran and a raw, heartbreaking lead duo, Chatlines weaves queer romance, Northern grit, and time-bending tenderness into something that stays with you long after.

📅 SAT 16 MAY
🕧 6.55 PM
📍 @richmixlondon

Tickets are available at the link in our bio 🔗

“Somewhere between All of Us Strangers and Black Mirror, this quietly cosmic British gem is one of the year’s most unexpected love stories.”

Jordan is a 30-something and facing terminal cancer, but then he meets Danny. All seems well but there’s a catch; Danny swears it’s 2005, and he’s dying too.

Directed by Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Neil Ely, featuring Siobhan Finneran and a raw, heartbreaking lead duo, Chatlines weaves queer romance, Northern grit, and time-bending tenderness into something that stays with you long after.

📅 SAT 16 MAY
🕧 6.55 PM
📍 @richmixlondon

Tickets are available at the link in our bio 🔗

“Somewhere between All of Us Strangers and Black Mirror, this quietly cosmic British gem is one of the year’s most unexpected love stories.”

Jordan is a 30-something and facing terminal cancer, but then he meets Danny. All seems well but there’s a catch; Danny swears it’s 2005, and he’s dying too.

Directed by Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Neil Ely, featuring Siobhan Finneran and a raw, heartbreaking lead duo, Chatlines weaves queer romance, Northern grit, and time-bending tenderness into something that stays with you long after.

📅 SAT 16 MAY
🕧 6.55 PM
📍 @richmixlondon

Tickets are available at the link in our bio 🔗

“Somewhere between All of Us Strangers and Black Mirror, this quietly cosmic British gem is one of the year’s most unexpected love stories.”

Jordan is a 30-something and facing terminal cancer, but then he meets Danny. All seems well but there’s a catch; Danny swears it’s 2005, and he’s dying too.

Directed by Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and Neil Ely, featuring Siobhan Finneran and a raw, heartbreaking lead duo, Chatlines weaves queer romance, Northern grit, and time-bending tenderness into something that stays with you long after.

📅 SAT 16 MAY
🕧 6.55 PM
📍 @richmixlondon

Tickets are available at the link in our bio 🔗

“A raw, wry & confrontingly honest look at the pleasures & pains of contemporary British gay life as it converges with low self-esteem & toxic masculinity.”

“Queer As Folk creator @russelltdavies63 has championed this bold & ambitious, fiercely independent feature, which lives in a similar world geographically, socially & tonally to his groundbreaking original series, first broadcast in the UK in 1999. “Who doesn’t love a 90s flashback?” Asks Departures’ Northern gay thirtysomething protagonist, Benji (Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, who also wrote & co-directed the film with frequent collaborator Neil Ely), at one point during his vulnerable yet propulsive voice over. He would probably get along well with Queer As Folk’s self-deprecating fellow Mancunian central character Vince Tyler, portrayed by Craig Kelly.”

“Departures itself, while feeling fresh & of-the-moment, certainly has a 90s indie vibe to it, recalling early work by Danny Boyle like Shallow Grave & Trainspotting stylistically, while the filmmakers forge their own distinctive appraoch.”

“Despite the heavy themes it deals with, Departures is an entertaining watch. Through the film’s dark humour & vivid characters, emerges a cathartic & ultimately hopeful tale of breaking through trauma.”

Head to TheQueerReview.com to read@jameskleinmann’s full ★★★★ review of @neil_ely & @lemfilms’s @departuresfilmuk starring Eyre-Morgan & @davidtagofficial now playing in New York @ifccenter from @strandreleasing.

📸 @strandreleasing

#departuresfilm #queercinema #gayfilm #gayfilmmaker #thequeerreview

Northern. Working Class. Queer. 🎬

Departures proves yet again the power of Northern stories.
This went from a "breadline budget" to a national cinema release.
Russel T Davies and the cast and creatives behind the movie, on why the UK film industry needs more stories like this that aren't London-centric.

In UK cinemas now.
Go support it. 🐝🏳️‍🌈
#indiefilm #ukfilm #queercinema #lgbtfilm #film
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Departures featured on ITV News today thank you for the support with this @russelltdavies63 honestly means the world ! Last chance to catch us in cinemas this weekend !!!

BIFA longlisted feature ‘Departures’ - out at cinemas nationwide NOW! Shot on about every format you can imagine. 35mm // 16mm // Alexa LF // iPhone and FX3. These following frames were all shot with rehoused Canon FD lenses from TLS. During testing we loved the warmer tones, especially on the 35 / 45x and 55. In the flash back scenes we pushed them a little harder to gain some natural softness. Grip provided by @panavisionofficial and lighting by @drop_city_ltd and @knowled_global additional lenses from @media_dog_hire

BIFA longlisted feature ‘Departures’ - out at cinemas nationwide NOW! Shot on about every format you can imagine. 35mm // 16mm // Alexa LF // iPhone and FX3. These following frames were all shot with rehoused Canon FD lenses from TLS. During testing we loved the warmer tones, especially on the 35 / 45x and 55. In the flash back scenes we pushed them a little harder to gain some natural softness. Grip provided by @panavisionofficial and lighting by @drop_city_ltd and @knowled_global additional lenses from @media_dog_hire

BIFA longlisted feature ‘Departures’ - out at cinemas nationwide NOW! Shot on about every format you can imagine. 35mm // 16mm // Alexa LF // iPhone and FX3. These following frames were all shot with rehoused Canon FD lenses from TLS. During testing we loved the warmer tones, especially on the 35 / 45x and 55. In the flash back scenes we pushed them a little harder to gain some natural softness. Grip provided by @panavisionofficial and lighting by @drop_city_ltd and @knowled_global additional lenses from @media_dog_hire

BIFA longlisted feature ‘Departures’ - out at cinemas nationwide NOW! Shot on about every format you can imagine. 35mm // 16mm // Alexa LF // iPhone and FX3. These following frames were all shot with rehoused Canon FD lenses from TLS. During testing we loved the warmer tones, especially on the 35 / 45x and 55. In the flash back scenes we pushed them a little harder to gain some natural softness. Grip provided by @panavisionofficial and lighting by @drop_city_ltd and @knowled_global additional lenses from @media_dog_hire

BIFA longlisted feature ‘Departures’ - out at cinemas nationwide NOW! Shot on about every format you can imagine. 35mm // 16mm // Alexa LF // iPhone and FX3. These following frames were all shot with rehoused Canon FD lenses from TLS. During testing we loved the warmer tones, especially on the 35 / 45x and 55. In the flash back scenes we pushed them a little harder to gain some natural softness. Grip provided by @panavisionofficial and lighting by @drop_city_ltd and @knowled_global additional lenses from @media_dog_hire

BIFA longlisted feature ‘Departures’ - out at cinemas nationwide NOW! Shot on about every format you can imagine. 35mm // 16mm // Alexa LF // iPhone and FX3. These following frames were all shot with rehoused Canon FD lenses from TLS. During testing we loved the warmer tones, especially on the 35 / 45x and 55. In the flash back scenes we pushed them a little harder to gain some natural softness. Grip provided by @panavisionofficial and lighting by @drop_city_ltd and @knowled_global additional lenses from @media_dog_hire

BIFA longlisted feature ‘Departures’ - out at cinemas nationwide NOW! Shot on about every format you can imagine. 35mm // 16mm // Alexa LF // iPhone and FX3. These following frames were all shot with rehoused Canon FD lenses from TLS. During testing we loved the warmer tones, especially on the 35 / 45x and 55. In the flash back scenes we pushed them a little harder to gain some natural softness. Grip provided by @panavisionofficial and lighting by @drop_city_ltd and @knowled_global additional lenses from @media_dog_hire

BIFA longlisted feature ‘Departures’ - out at cinemas nationwide NOW! Shot on about every format you can imagine. 35mm // 16mm // Alexa LF // iPhone and FX3. These following frames were all shot with rehoused Canon FD lenses from TLS. During testing we loved the warmer tones, especially on the 35 / 45x and 55. In the flash back scenes we pushed them a little harder to gain some natural softness. Grip provided by @panavisionofficial and lighting by @drop_city_ltd and @knowled_global additional lenses from @media_dog_hire

BIFA longlisted feature ‘Departures’ - out at cinemas nationwide NOW! Shot on about every format you can imagine. 35mm // 16mm // Alexa LF // iPhone and FX3. These following frames were all shot with rehoused Canon FD lenses from TLS. During testing we loved the warmer tones, especially on the 35 / 45x and 55. In the flash back scenes we pushed them a little harder to gain some natural softness. Grip provided by @panavisionofficial and lighting by @drop_city_ltd and @knowled_global additional lenses from @media_dog_hire

BIFA longlisted feature ‘Departures’ - out at cinemas nationwide NOW! Shot on about every format you can imagine. 35mm // 16mm // Alexa LF // iPhone and FX3. These following frames were all shot with rehoused Canon FD lenses from TLS. During testing we loved the warmer tones, especially on the 35 / 45x and 55. In the flash back scenes we pushed them a little harder to gain some natural softness. Grip provided by @panavisionofficial and lighting by @drop_city_ltd and @knowled_global additional lenses from @media_dog_hire

BIFA longlisted feature ‘Departures’ - out at cinemas nationwide NOW! Shot on about every format you can imagine. 35mm // 16mm // Alexa LF // iPhone and FX3. These following frames were all shot with rehoused Canon FD lenses from TLS. During testing we loved the warmer tones, especially on the 35 / 45x and 55. In the flash back scenes we pushed them a little harder to gain some natural softness. Grip provided by @panavisionofficial and lighting by @drop_city_ltd and @knowled_global additional lenses from @media_dog_hire

We’ve been extended in cinemas for another week 🎬✨ If you haven’t seen it yet, now’s your chance! Rated 100% on @rottentomatoes —head to your local cinema and be part of keeping independent film thriving. Check @vue , @curzonbloomsbury . @homemcr, @fact_liverpool , @arznercinema and @riocinema for listings!