★★★★
“A deeply personal movie: painful, complex, challenging and engaging”
– Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Emma Matthews’ and Christopher Petit’s (Radio On) unique and tender new film is a meditation on cinema, the NHS and family relationships. D is for Distance tells the story of the filmmakers’ son Louis, and his debilitating epilepsy, through an extraordinary archive of personal footage and Jodhi May’s narration.
Credits
Finland 2025
88 mins
Certificate 12A
DCP available with subtitles including descriptions of non-dialogue audio (DS) / Audio Description (AD)
Dir Christopher Petit & Emma Matthews
With Louis Petit
Narrated by Jodhi May
Screenings
Q&A screenings
March
26 March
Depot, Lewes – Q&A with Christopher Petit
Garden Cinema, London – Q&A with Emma Matthews, Louis Petit, and a volunteer from Epilepsy Action
April
6 April
Purple Day previews
March
26 March
Curzon Hoxton
Curzon Camden
Curzon Kingston
Curzon Oxford
Curzon Canterbury Westgate
Storyhouse Chester
Pictureville Cinema (National Science and Media Museum), Bradford
Garden Cinema, London
Q&A previews
31 March
Curzon Soho
1 April
Bertha DocHouse, Bloomsbury
2 April
BFI Southbank, London
Release screenings
April
3 April
BFI Southbank, London
Bertha DocHouse, Bloomsbury
Curzon Camden
ICA, London
Edinburgh Filmhouse
Showroom Workstation, Sheffield
6 April
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle
12 April
Triskel Arts Centre