Drama “All of Us Strangers” was the big winner at the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) on Sunday, taking home seven awards, including best British independent film and best director.
Actors and makers of some of this year’s most talked-about movies, including Jodie Comer and Celine Song, attended the gala ceremony in London.
“All of Us Strangers”, a mystery drama about love and loss, stars Andrew Scott as Adam, a writer living in a near-empty London high-rise. Adam’s loneliness is alleviated when he meets Harry, one of his few neighbours, and visits his childhood home to find his parents living there, despite their death decades earlier, as if no time had passed.
Directed by Andrew Haigh, the movie is based on Taichi Yamada’s 1987 novel “Strangers” and also stars Paul Mescal as Harry and Claire Foy and Jamie Bell as Adam’s parents.
Actors George Mackay and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett picked up the best joint lead performance award for “Femme”, an intense revenge porn thriller-tragedy by Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping.
French filmmaker Justine Triet’s Palme d’Or-winning movie “Anatomy of a Fall” was named best international independent film.
