Breathing15

Actor Karl Markovics (The Counterfeiters) makes a hugely impressive directorial debut with this beautifully judged, completely captivating human drama. Non-professional actor Thomas Schubert is perfect as Roman, a sullen, muted eighteen-year-old in juvenile detention. Constantly turned down for parole, he tries a succession of day release jobs that always end in failure. Things begin to change when he starts a job hauling bodies to the city morgue. One of the deceased shares his surname and this sets him on a quest to discover the woman who abandoned him years ago. It is the first step on his way back to engaging with the world and finding a place within it.

The screening on Wednesday 16 May (18.20) will be introduced by Dr Christopher Gow as part of GFT’s Contemporary Cinema Course.