Corinna McFarlane is making her feature film directorial debut this weekend with new drama The Silent Storm.

The Silent Storm

The Silent Storm

McFarlane is no stranger to the director's chair with documentary Three Miles North of Molkom under her belt, but this is her first live-action feature. As well as being in the director's chair, McFarlane has also penned the film's screenplay.

The Silent Storm sees the director team up with Damian Lewis, Andrea Riseborough, and Ross Anderson as they take on the central roles of Balor, Aislin and Fionn. And you can see this trio of fine actors in action in these great new clips.

On a wild and remote Scottish island, the respected local minister, Balor, fights to keep his disappearing community together. His beautiful, enigmatic wife Aislin is more in tune with nature than she is with her husband or the villagers. It's clear she doesn't belong here and is treated as a total outsider. A storm is raging inside their marriage.

They inhabit a strange, troubled relationship, which is reaching breaking point. A violent fight erupts between them. Suddenly amidst the chaos and confusion, there is a knock at the door: a rugged 17-year-old delinquent has been sent to live with them - his last chance at rehabilitation. Aislin is drawn to this kindred spirit, another outcast.

Together they drink in all the sensual beauty the island has to offer and their relationship delicately blossoms. His youthful nature ignites a passion within her, which offers her a way out of a life bound by convention and into the world beyond.

The Silent Storm is out now.


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