A TOWN IN NOVA SCOTIA

United Kingdom

Following a plea from his daughter to join her in Nova Scotia, widowed Irish senior Leon instead launches a crusade to make his aging Liverpool building safer after news of a tower fire in London. On a mission alongside his neighbour and closest friend, Saleh, Leon turns

their fellow residents' quiet lives upside down in a warm story of friendship, stubbornness and small acts of defiance.

Director:
Babak Jalali 

Screenplay:
Carolina Cavalli & Babak Jalali 

Producer:
Naïma Abed & Émilie Georges (Paradise City), and Jennifer Monks & Michelle Stein (The Fold)
Executive Producers:
Kirstin Irving (BBC Film), Ama Ampady (BFI), Christopher Moll (Liverpool Film Financing), Sonny Gill & Peter O'Leary (Hopsa), Brad Noel & Mariya Dosani (Calculus), and Naomi Despres & Michèle Marshall (Desmar) 

Cast:
Bill Nighy, Makram J Khoury
supported by:
BBC Film, BFI, Liverpool Film Office, Calculus, Hoopsa Films and Desmar

Babak Jalali's fifth feature stars British National treasure Bill Night and acting legend Makram Khoury.