The Ceremony15

Directed by Jack King | UK | 2024 | 1h 32m | Arabic, Kurdish, & Romanian with English subtitles | Starring Tudor Cucu-Dumitrescu, Erdal Yildiz, Mo'min Swaitat, Liam Thomas, Mustafa Husseini

As night descends over the Yorkshire Dales, two undocumented Romanian men working at a local car wash are pulled into a spiralling moral crisis. Their contrasting beliefs and troubled pasts threaten to divide them, unless they can find common ground to survive what lies ahead. Bradford-born writer-director Jack King’s haunting and visually striking debut won the Sean Connery Award for Feature Filmmaking Excellence at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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We showed The Ceremony between September 19, 2025 and September 24, 2025.

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