Sheffield Film Festival: Yardie 15
Set in ’70s Kingston and ’80s Hackney, Yardie centres on the life of a young Jamaican man named D (Aml Ameen) on a quest for retribution for his revered brother.
D never fully recovered from the murder of his older brother, Jerry Dread (Everaldo Creary), committed during his childhood. D grows up under the wing of a Kingston Don and music producer named King Fox (Sheldon Shepherd).
But before he can be convinced to abandon his life of crime and follow “the righteous path”, he encounters the man who shot his brother 10 years earlier, and embarks on a bloody, explosive quest for retribution — a quest which brings him into conflict with vicious London gangster Rico (Stephen Graham).
Adapted for the screen by Brock Norman Brock (Bronson) and Martin Stellman (Babylon), and directed by Golden Globe and SAG winner Idris Elba (Beasts of No Nation, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom), Yardie is another bold entry into the visionary Warp Films canon.
Presented as part of Sheffield Film Festival’s Warp Films retrospective.
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- Director
- Idris Elba
- Year
- 2019
- Duration
- 1 hour 42 minutes
- Language
- English
- Cast
- Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Stephen Graham
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