Apostasy (2017 film)

Apostasy
Film poster
Directed byDaniel Kokotajlo
Written byDaniel Kokotajlo
Produced byAndrea Cornwell
Marcie MacLellan
StarringSiobhan Finneran
CinematographyAdam Scarth
Edited byNapoleon Stratogiannakis
Music byMatthew Wilcock
Production
companies
iFeatures
Creative England
BBC Films
BFI
Oldgarth Media
Frank & Lively
Distributed byCurzon
Release dates
  • 8 September 2017 (2017-09-08) (TIFF)
  • 27 July 2018 (2018-07-27) (UK)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesEnglish
Urdu

Apostasy is a 2017 British drama film about Jehovah's Witnesses directed by Daniel Kokotajlo. It was screened in the Discovery section at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. Kokotajlo was nominated at the 2019 BAFTAs for the Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.

The film follows two sisters who are brought up in a tightly knit group of Jehovah's Witnesses in Oldham and the tension that results from one of them being disfellowshipped.

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