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SEBASTIAN

By Mikko MÄKELÄ

PECCADILLO PICTURES - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, UNITED KINGDOM, Republic of Ireland

Drama - Completed 2024

Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel.

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance 2024

World Cinema Dramatic Competition

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Drama, LGBT
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 111 mn
- Director(s)
- Mikko MÄKELÄ
- Writer(s)
- Mikko MÄKELÄ
- Cast
- Ruaridh MOLLICA, Hiftu QUASEM, Ingvar SIGURDSSON, Jonathan HYDE, Leanne BEST, Lara ROSSI
- Producer(s)
- James WATSON (Bêtes Sauvages)
- Synopsis
- In this queer drama, we follow Max, a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write, finally seems within reach. As Max increasingly struggles to remain in control of a delicately balanced double-life, he must reckon with whether Sebastian is merely a writer’s tool in their quest for the ultimate sense of first-hand authenticity – or whether something more is at stake.