Vicky Knight Stars in 'Silver Haze' Sacha Polak's Passionate LGBTQ+ Drama

Silver Haze directed by Sacha Polak official trailer and release date — Silver Haze (Viking Film)

Dark Sky Pictures debuted the official trailer for Silver Haze, the award-winning drama starring Vicky Knight as 23-year-old Franky who has spent most of her life seeking revenge for the fire that left her with physical and emotional scars as a child until she meets and falls for one of her patients.

Also starring in the film are Esmé Creed-Miles, Charlotte Knight, Archie Brigden, TerriAnn Cousins, and Angela Bruce

Release Date

Directed by Sacha Polak, Silver Haze world premiered at Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Teddy Award Jury prize, and will open in select theaters on March 1 and on VOD on March 12.

Synopsis

Franky (Vicky Knight), a 23-year-old nurse, lives with her large family in an East London borough. Obsessed with a thirst for revenge and a need to assign blame and guilt for a traumatic fire that happened 15 years ago, she is unable to build any meaningful relationship until she falls in love with one of her patients – Florence (Esmé Creed-Miles). They escape to the coast where Florence lives with her more open-minded patchwork family. There, Franky finds the emotional shelter to deal with the grudges and scars of the past.

Review

Loud and Clear review gave the ‘deeply impactful’ film a perfect 4 of 4 stars, writing “With Silver Haze, writer and director Sacha Polak creates a multi-layered story that is sure to encourage self-reflection from the viewer. Perfect for fans of realism, the character’s humanity, displayed in front of an unrelenting backdrop of an unforgiving Britain, firmly situate Silver Haze within the social realist genre.”

Describing the film as ‘a great little gem’ in their review ScreenAnarchy wrote, “In the tradition of British kitchen-sink realism of Lynne Ramsay and Andrea Arnold, and humanist makeshift family dramas of Kore-eda, Polak and Knight create an emotionally resonant film about forgiveness and finding peace via self-reflexive storytelling. Knight is a natural born actress and the camera (captured by DP Tibor Dingelstad) adores her.”

It continued, “Her brevity in using her life story and stigma she carries on screen is quite remarkable. Sensitively written and directed with clear eyes, Silver Haze is a great little gem and the first great discovery of 2023.”