‘The Ceremony’ Filmmakers On Shining A “Nuanced” Light Migrants, BAFTA Nomination & Future Projects

You can’t always live in the past. In some cases, reinvention and the suppression of the emotional baggage you carry are the only things essential to your survival. Writer-director Jack King’s The Ceremony, produced by Hollie Bryan, weaves a touching story about two men who, despite their differences, find themselves connecting through their shared sense […] The Ceremony Cosmosquare Films You can’t always live in the past. In some cases, reinvention and the suppression of the emotional baggage you carry are the only things essential to your survival. Writer-director Jack King’s The Ceremony, produced by Hollie Bryan, weaves a touching story about two men who, despite their differences, find themselves connecting through their shared sense of humanity and morality. Shot in black and white, the story follows Cristi (Tudor Cucu-Dumitrescu), a young undocumented Romanian car-wash supervisor, and Yusuf (Erdal Yildiz), a gruff undocumented Kurdish employee, who work their lives away washing cars in Bradford, an industrial city nestled in West Yorkshire, England. When one of their fellow migrant coworkers (Mo’min Swaitat) suddenly ends his life after being accused of stealing from a client, Cristi and Yusuf must work together to quietly dispose of the body out of fear of being falsely caught up in a crime that could upend their lives, the lives of those in the migrant community around them, and expose their troubled pasts. Related Stories News 'SNL's BAFTA Racial Slur Sketch Decried As "Horrific" By Leading Tourette's Charity