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Synopsis
1862. Two Englishmen climb toward gold, and unravel.
1862, the Canadian wilderness. Two Englishmen have been climbing for weeks, but the peak is still not in sight. Driven by ignorance, arrogance and colonial greed, they are desperate to reach the fabled Cariboo gold fields. But the mountain is indifferent to their pride. As their bodies fail and their masks of civility crack, a blood-stained axe and a stolen photograph trigger a violent psychological break.
Behind the Film
English Beasts is the latest from Nikolas Harris, who made his first feature at nineteen and has taken Best Director and Best Student Director on the festival circuit. It continues his interest in characters pushed past their physical and psychological limits, where the line between what is said and unsaid grows thin.
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Nikolas Harris
Writer & Director
Nikolas Harris is a writer and director based in London, drawn to character-led stories about people pushed to their physical, psychological and emotional limits. He picked up his mother's 35mm camera at eleven and made his first feature, Then I Was Lost, at nineteen, winning Best Director on the festival circuit. His work since includes the period thriller Once Upon a Time in England, which won him Best Student Director, and the WWII drama The Deserter, screened internationally. English Beasts continues his interest in what happens when control slips and the line between what's said and unsaid grows thin.
The Making Of
Gold.
Pride.
Ruin.
Two Englishmen climb toward a fortune that may not exist, dragging their arrogance up a mountain that does not care. English Beasts watches civility fail, slowly, as the cold and the climb strip two men down to what they really are.
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A Nikolas Harris film · United Kingdom
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