Bill Nighy leads the cast as Leon, a widowed man living in a block of council flats in Liverpool. Makram J Khoury plays his best friend Saleh. Shooting commenced in and around the city of Liverpool earlier this month.
“A Town in Nova Scotia” marks the fifth feature from Iranian-British director Jalali, best known for “Radio Dreams,” which won the top honor at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2016, and “Fremont,” which premiered in Sundance in 2023, landed a British Independent Film Award nomination and earned him the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards 2024.
The film was co-written with Carolina Cavalli who collaborated with Jalali on “Fremont.”
“A Town in Nova Scotia” is being produced by Naïma Abed and Émilie Georges for Paradise City, and Jennifer Monks for The Fold. The film is financed by BBC Film,…
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