Director Aleem Khan

Editor Gareth Scales

Producer The Bureau

Festivals Official Selection for BFI London Film Festival, Cannes Critics Week 2020, Telluride, Rome, Tokyo, Les Arcs (Winner of Best Original Score)

Year 2020

Duration 90’

‘After Love’ is BAFTA-nominated director, Aleem Khan’s, debut feature, and has been selected for Cannes Critics Week 2020, Telluride, Rome, Tokyo and BFI London Film Festivals. The score was also awarded Best Original Score at Les Arcs Film Festival.

Set in the port town of Dover in the South-East of England, Mary Hussain suddenly finds herself a widow following the unexpected death of her husband. A day after the burial, she discovers he has a secret just twenty-one miles across the English Channel in Calais.

The soundtrack features cellist and improviser Alice Purton, and was inspired by the wind, waves, seagulls and distant ferry horns of the Dover and Calais.