The Rose of Nevada + Q&A with George Mackay

"– uncanny ghost ship story from one-of-a-kind Cornish auteur ★★★★" - The Guardian

Riverside Studios are delighted to welcome back George Mackay, star of The Rose of Nevada, to our cinema for an in-person Q&A following this show.

Shot on 16mm, Cornish auteur Mark Jenkin’s (Bait) film sees him return with a political folktale of two fishermen trapped in a time-loop. Thirty years after the Rose of Nevada fishing boat and its crew vanished without a trace, the vessel inexplicably returns to its old harbour in a small Cornish village, unchanged by time. Drawn by the promise of steady work and escape from hardship, two young men join its new crew: Nick (George Mackay), a devoted father struggling to provide for his family, and Liam (Callum Turner), a drifting outsider living on the margins. When the Rose docks once more, the men realise they have slipped back in time. Trapped in the past, they are mistaken for the original crew and burdened with the expectations, fears and unresolved grief of a community desperate for answers, forcing them to confront their identity and fate, and the cost of survival.