The intensity of sororal love through thick and thin
Ongoing contemporary world, Hard Truths provides a tragicomic study of human strengths and weaknesses through the life of Pansy, a woman struggling with depression and anger, and her colorful yet tender relationship with her sister.
Outstanding Lead Performance, Toronto International Film Festival), 2024, ca
Best Lead Performance, BFI London Film Festival, 2024, gb
Best Actress, Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, 2024, us
Best Original Screenplay, Top Ten Independent Films, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, National Board of Review, 2024, us
Nominated for Best Leading Actress, Nominated for Outstanding British Film of the Year, BAFTA, 2030, gb
Mike LEIGH
Mike Leigh is an English film and theatre director, screenwriter and playwright. He studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Camberwell and Central Art Schools in London, and at the London Film School.
Across his career, Mike Leigh’s films have collected 25 BAFTA nominations and seven wins, as well as 16 Oscar nods and 2 wins. His actors and actresses have garnered nods for their performances, and he has been personally Oscar-nominated seven times and scooped three BAFTAs personally, as well as their highest honor, the BAFTA Fellowship, in 2015.
Vera Drake (2004) won Venice Film Festival‘s Golden Lion for Best Film, and his films have been in Competition at Cannes five times, winning the Palme d’Or for Secrets & Lies (1996), the Best Director prize for Naked (1993) and an Ecumenical Jury special mention for Another Year (2010).
