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Paris-based Paradise City Sales has released a first look of Bill Nighy and Makram Khoury successful Babak Jalali’s Liverpool-set play A Town successful Nova Scotia arsenic it gears up to motorboat nan title successful adjacent month.
Nighy plays Irishman Leon whose girl suggests he joins her successful Canada’s picturesque Nova Scotia state aft nan decease of his beloved wife. As he mulls her suggestion, he launches a crusade to make his aging artifact of flats safer successful nan aftermath of a deadly occurrence successful a akin spot successful London.
On a ngo alongside his neighbour and long-time closest friend, Saleh (Khoury), Leon turns their chap residents’ quiet lives upside down.
The characteristic is Iranian-British head Jalali’s 5th characteristic after Frontier Blues (2009), Radio Dreams (2016), Land (2018) and his award-winning 2023 activity Fremont (2023), which premiered successful Sundance and travelled to much than 40 festivals worldwide.
“A Town successful Nova Scotia is astir organization and camaraderie successful nan second shape of life, and choosing really and pinch whom you want to walk that peculiar phase,” said Jalali.
Paradise City Sales, which rebranded from Memento International successful 2025, antecedently handled income connected Fremont.
A Town successful Nova Scotia was co-written by Jalali pinch Carolina Cavalli (Amanda) who collaborated pinch nan head connected Fremont.
The film’s high-profile unit features accumulation designer Paulina Rzeszowska (Saint Maud), cinematographer Crystel Fournier (Girlhood), costume designer Jessica Schofield (Boiling Point), hairsbreadth and constitution designer Caroline Rose (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) and Bafta-winning Aftersun casting head Lucy Pardee.
It is produced by Naïma Abed and Émilie Georges for Paradise City (Call Me By Your Name), and Jennifer Monks for The Fold.
The movie is financed by BBC Film, BFI (awarding National Lottery funding), Liverpool Film Office (through nan LCR Production Fund), Calculus, Hoopsa Films and Desmar.
Executive Producers are Kristin Irving for BBC Film, Ama Ampadu for nan BFI, Christopher Moll for Liverpool Film Office, Sonny Gill and Peter O’Leary for Hoopsa Films, Naomi Despres and Michèle Marshall for Desmar, Brad Noel and Mariyah Dosani for Calculus. The movie was developed pinch BBC Film.
