Year: 2024
Director: Amy Hardie
Writer: Amy Hardie
Producers: Sonja Henrici, Amy Hardie
Co-Producer: Arne Birkenstock
Executive Producer: Lori Cheatle, Mark Thomas, Sandra Whipham, Lisa Marie Russo
Production Companies: Sonja Henrici Creates, Amy Hardie Productions, Fruitmarket GmbH
Screen Scotland support: The film accessed £34,007 through Screen Scotland’s Film Development and Production Fund.
Synopsis
A young couple get married with high ideals and hidden pasts. An intimate exploration of traumas and how to negotiate shame, anger and love.
Kenny and Kerry marry with secrets that almost blow their marriage apart. After their new baby is born, Kenny’s PTSD is triggered by his crying. Kenny no longer knows what is real, calls it ‘the screams’. It seems the marriage is over. But Kerry decides to go back to school, to study how the brain works, and discovers that suffering isn’t a given – you can do something about it. We follow their recovery over ten years, through psychiatric medication, talking therapy, horses, race-cars and ice swimming as they emerge with new insights and resilience for their life ahead.
More information
Premiere: Love & Trouble will have its World Premiere at Dokumentale'24 in October 2024.
Image Credits: Stills from Love and Trouble courtesy of Sonja Henrici Creates