Inside Outside Lydia's Head

Writer/Director: Dominick Reyntiens

Drama / Thriller
Excerpt from Director's Statement
"'Inside Outside Lydia's Head' was driven by my experience of working on an aid convoy to Bosnia-Herzegovnia. The level of destruction I witnessed will stay with me forever. After I returned, I cried for three days. The dead are dead, there is nothing you can do other than afford them the dignity of burial. I thought of those living, their lives irrevocably destroyed by war. Thoughts of who was at fault, rapidly became irrelevant. I started writing on the basis of putting one of these victims into an environment where they had no chance of understanding what had happened (or was happening) to them. The script was written over a very short time and whilst there are characters of different hues, they are all victims of life in their own way."

A traumatised refugee has fled to London. But when the war is over … the nightmares begin.

Lydia has come to London. She wants to lose herself in urban anonymity; fade into the background of city life. She wants to forget the atrocities of the war she has left behind in her homeland, Yugoslavia. Her nightmares are filled with the horror of this war and, tortured by these nightmares, she is pushed to the edge of madness. But she is waiting. She waits to be followed. She knows he will find her and she waits to be found....

As children, Lydia and her twin brother Stefan, were witness to the murder of their parents; Lydia turned to the church and nunhood, Stefan to the gun and the ways of the devil. But Stefan, now a wanted war criminal, has disappeared off the face of the earth.

By day Lydia makes frequent visits to Father Ignatius, seeking forgiveness for her brother's sins. By night, she is consumed by the vileness of these sins. She seeks peace and an end to the terror, to the waiting. But there are others she must deal with before the pain and suffering can end.

A soul searching film exploding with rich imagery, pain and elation. Is there salvation? Can there be peace after inhuman devastation?

Production
Writer & Director, Dominick Reyntiens
Producer, Simon Foster
Music composition, Simon Foster & Martin Price
Main Cast
Lydia, Natasha Milkovich
Duke, Tom Bushe
Zoltan, Goran Kostic
Stefan, Richard G. Lyntton
Father Ignatius, John O'Byrne
Johnny, Brett James

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