Rose of Nevada

Synopsis

Three decades ago, a fishing boat called the Rose of Nevada vanished at sea, along with its crew. Now, it has returned. In a remote fishing village, its reappearance is embraced as an auspicious sign, with the local citizens convinced the luck of their economically devastated community may turn, if only the ship sails again.

Shooting on a 16mm Bolex camera and constructing all the sound in post, Mark Jenkin (Enys Men) writes, directs, edits, and scores a haunting and hallucinatory time-travel mystery that further solidifies him as one of the most distinct, singular artists working in film today. With performances from George MacKay (1917) and Callum Turner (Eternity), Jenkin conducts a cinematic séance, conjuring a portal into another world that forces us to confront the past and our relationship to it.

“A dreamy tale of loss and grief, death and resurrection, as well as a supernatural reverie about the mysterious relationship between the present and past—one in which the living are reborn as ghosts.” —Nick Schager, The Daily Beast

“Seen from the vantage point of our hyper-digital 2020s, Jenkin isn’t just a stark outlier from the current media regime. He’s also among the very few working directors whose cinema feels both familiar and viscerally new.” —Leonardo Goi, The Film Stage