Unique: In the present day, WE ARE PARABLE launch a full-length trailer for DREAMERS, the highly effective debut characteristic by acclaimed UK filmmaker Pleasure Gharoro-Akpojotor.
The movie has additionally excitingly been longlisted at this 12 months’s British Impartial Movie Awards, for classes together with the distinguished Douglas Hickox Award for Greatest Debut Director and Greatest Debut Screenwriter.
Dreamers stars Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo (Been So Lengthy, Rain Canine) as Isio, a Nigerian migrant detained after dwelling undocumented within the UK for 2 years. Isio is satisfied that the one approach out is to play by the principles, even when her charismatic new roommate, Farah (performed by Ann Akinjirin), warns her in any other case. Because the friendship between Isio and Religion evolves into one thing deeper while her religion wanes as her asylum pleas are rejected, she should select between compliance and the danger of escape in pursuit of true freedom.
Following its premiere earlier this 12 months on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition the place it was nominated for the coveted Teddy Award for Greatest Function Movie, Dreamers performed at London Movie Competition in The Sutherland Competitors (for First Function). Gharoro-Akpojotor’s characteristic additionally obtained its Irish Premiere at GAZE Worldwide LGBTQIA movie competition in August, the place it was awarded the GAZE Jury Award for Greatest Function.
Produced by Emily Morgan at Quiddity, and financed by BBC Movie, BFI, Newen Join, Finite Movies and OnSight, Dreamers is a poignant and well timed story that explores the energy of queer love, id and resistance throughout the confines of a UK immigration removing centre. We Are Parable acquired the movie from The Yellow Affair by Studio TF1.
Gharoro-Akpojotor first gained widespread acclaim because the producer of Blue Story (2019), which went on to gross £4.5 million on the UK field workplace and have become a cultural touchstone. Her producing credit additionally embody Boxing Day (2021), the UK’s first all-Black Christmas movie and the BBC sequence Champion (2023).
Dreamers is in cinemas within the UK & Eire fifth December 2025.