The Selfish Giant
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Directed and adapted to screen by British filmmaker Clio Barnard, this BAFTA-nominated film offers a gripping script and powerful performances from its UK cast, featuring Bradford-born Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Ralph Ineson and Sean Gilder. Human, sympathetic and with an atmospheric score from British composer Harry Escott, the drama is co-produced by Film4, BFI and Moonspun Films.
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In Bradford, two thirteen-year-old working-class friends Arbor (Conner Chapman) and Swifty (Shaun Thomas) get excluded from school after Arbor defends Swifty in a fight. Now free to do as they please, they visit a shady dealer called Kitten (Sean Gilder), hoping to exchange metal scrap for money.