EXCLUSIVE: One of many buzzier titles set to debut at this 12 months’s Edinburgh Movie Pageant is Lilies Not For Me, the primary function from American filmmaker Will Seefried, which we are able to share a first-look clip from above.
Set in Twenties England, the movie follows a homosexual novelist and his psychiatric nurse who type an unlikely friendship over a sequence of doctor-prescribed ‘dates’. By way of their conversations, he tells her the story of his relationship with an outdated good friend which spiraled uncontrolled after they turned to a dangerous process to treatment themselves of their forbidden emotions for each other.
The movie stars Fionn O’Shea (Regular Folks), Robert Aramayo (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Energy), Erin Kellyman (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Louis Hofmann (Darkish), and Jodi Balfour (Quarry). Producers are Hannes Otto, Roelof Storm, Will Seefried, Naima Abed, and Emilie Georges. Memento Worldwide is dealing with the pic.
Director Seefried is finest identified for his brief movie Homesick (2022), which premiered at SXSW and went on to win the Wanting the Yr Viewers Award. The movie was a Vimeo Workers Decide and gained Greatest Midnight Insanity on the Oscar-qualifying competition Hollyshorts. He’s a co-founder of Wolflight Movies, a manufacturing banner primarily based in Los Angeles and Cape City the place he most just lately served as Government Producer on two upcoming movies for Amazon Prime Video. He’s at present creating a number of tasks, together with a sequence and a function with Sue Naegle.
Seefried has mentioned the inspiration for Lilies Not For Me got here from analysis the place he found the historical past of a “stunning process from the Twenties which claimed to ‘treatment’ homosexuality.”
“This historical past struck me as a chilling expression of the violence that queer folks nonetheless endure to at the present time, whereas evoking the books and movies that have been most influential to me as a youngster — haunting interval romances with queer relationships at their middle, like James Baldwin’s masterpiece Giovanni’s Room, Todd Haynes’ Carol, and Service provider Ivory’s Maurice, to call a couple of,” Seefried mentioned.
“I needed to make my debut function on this custom. Society likes to faux that queerness is a current phenomenon, so I feel there may be nice energy in tales that discover the previous in new methods.”
Take a look at the clip above.
