Steve

Oscar winner Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) and Small Things Like These director Tim Mielants reunite for a powerfully affecting adaptation of Max Porter’s bestselling novella Shy. 

It’s the mid-1990s. Steve (Murphy) is the passionate headteacher of a crumbling reform school for teenage boys. With meagre resources, overstretched staff, and a growing sense of futility, Steve must navigate one pivotal and precarious day, explored in parallel with the struggle of one of his students, Shy (Jay Lycurgo). Also starring Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman and British rapper Little Simz (Simbi Ajikawo), Steve is a bruised elegy for institutions under siege and the courage of those who persist within them.