The Ceremony

Two troubled migrant workers in a Bradford car wash are dragged into an escalating moral crisis as night falls.

Winner of the inaugural Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Bradford-born writer–director Jack King's The Ceremony is a haunting, visually arresting road drama set against the raw beauty of Bradford and the Yorkshire Dales.

The story begins with a stolen watch, a tragic death, and two migrant workers (played by Tudor Cucu-Dumitrescu and Erdal Yıldız) who make a fateful decision: to bury a young asylum-seeker (Mo’min Swaitat) in the hills.

As they journey through the landscape with the man’s body, the pair are forced into a powerful reckoning—with grief, with each other, and with the land itself.