Hoard

by Luna Carmoon

Synopsis

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1984, London: 7 year old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother. An older stranger, Michael, then enters their home, opening the door to past trauma, magic and madness…

Specifications

UK 2023 126 mn 16:9 5.1 English 1st Feature film

directed by

Luna Carmoon

Produced by

BBC and BFI present a production of Loran Dunn (Delaval), Helen Simmons (Erebus Production) and Andrew Starke (Anti-Worlds)

Cast

Saura Lightfoot Leon (Maria)

Hayley Squires (Mother)

Joseph Quinn (Michael)

Crew

Cinematographer: Nanu Segal

Editor: Rachel Durance

Production Design: Bobbie Cousins

Costume Design: Nat Turner

Music: Jim Williams

Festivals

European Film Awards Nomination 2024- European Discovery Prix Fipresci

Settimana Internazionale della Critica – Audience Award – Award for most innovative film – Special Mention to Saura Lightfoot Leon for her performance – Female Authors Under 40 Valentina Pedicini Award for direction and screenplay

London BFI Film Festival – First Feature Competition

Athens International Film Festival – Best Screenplay

Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid (SEMINCI) – Meeting Point Competition

Cambridge Film Festival – International Festival Highlights

Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival – International Competition

Venezia a Napoli

JIO Mumbai Film Festival

The International Women Film Festival in Florence

International Film Festival of Kerala – World Cinema

2024

Göteborg Film Festival – Ingmar Bergman Competition

Santa Barbara International Film Festival – International Competition

Lux Film Fest – Special Mention for Direction

Kosmorama Film Festival – New Directors Competition

Vilnius Film Festival –SPECIAL MENTION

Festival Cinematográfico Internacional del Uruguay

TIFF Next Wave Film Festival

Istanbul Film Festival – Young Masters Award

Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz

Munich Film Festival – Young Jury Award

New Horizons Film Festival – Audience Award

Melbourne International Film Festival – Bright Horizons Competition

BAFTA NOMINATION for OUTSTANDING DEBUT BY A BRITISH FILMMAKER

Luna Carmoon's bio

Luna Carmoon is a self-taught writer-director born and bred in South East London. Often dissecting the absurd with the mundane, rooted in the mythology of her own memories, conjuring oddness out of the familiar her work is always peppered from her own lived experiences nodding greatly to 60’s/70s British cinema. Luna was a 2022 Screen “Star of Tomorrow”.