HERE [FESTIVAL RUN ongoing]

(2025)


dir. LILLY ZHUANG

Written by Pete Restrick
Produced by Christian Dametto, Lilly Zhuang

@here_shortfilm[INSTAGRAM]
 In East Riding, Yorkshire, seventeen-year-old KADEN reluctantly takes a job at the local strawberry field over the Summer. A quiet introvert, KADEN clearly doesn’t fit in with the other farmhands, who are all older, more experienced, and treat him with contempt. It is here he encounters LUCAS, an aloof eighteen-year-old who has worked at the farm for several Summers now. Underneath his initial indifference, LUCAS hides a deeper curiosity for KADEN. Desires disentangle in this new, uninhibited, and sun-drenched environment, as the two boys tentatively begin to explore their feelings towards one another in secret, a kinship that forces them to confront their own internalised homophobia, shame, and sense of belonging.










Screenings
More screenings announced soon

Past screenings
BFI FLARE
- 23.03.2025 @10.45am/NFT1 BFI Southbank
- 26.03.2025 @8.50pm
- 30.03.2025 @5pm

SUTTON QUEER FILM FESTIVAL
- 20.06.2025 @6.30pm/Throwley Yard Cinema

FLICKERS’ RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
- 09.08.2025 @6.30pm/Avon Cinema

BEIJING QUEER FILM FESTIVAL 
- 03.11.2025 @5.54pm/French Institute Beijing 

Melbourne Queer Film Festival
- 15.11.2025 @8.30pm/Cinema NOVA, Cinema 1

Bradford Queer Film Festival 
- 23.11.2025 @13.15/Cubby Broccoli Cinema

BRITISH SHORTS / Lichtspielklub Short Film Festival
- 26.01.2026 @8.00pm/Kino Intimes Berlin

RE:MIND Film Festival 
- 16.05.2026 @19.00/King’s College London
w/ 16.05.2026 @14.30 Panel Discussion: Asian Diaspora Flimmakers  

KASHISH PRIDE FILM FESTIVAL
- 06.06.2026 @15.30/Alliance Française de Bombay

Fivefold/Young Space
- 09.06.2026 @7pm

KINO LONDON SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: “The Many Faces of Modern Masculinity”- 29.08.2026 @6.00pm/art’otel London Hoxton
~ AWARDS ~

BEST DIRECTOR OF A SHORT FILM at FLICKERS’ RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2025

SPECIAL MENTION at REMIND FILM FESTIVAL 


Cinematographer: Hayley Grant
Steadicam Operator: Alex Kingston
1st AC: Luke Debord
2nd AC: Max Whitaker
DIT: Lilly Zhuang

Gaffer: Marta Vitola
Spark: Joseph Wharfe

1st AD: Pete Restrick
Script Supervisor: Pete Restrick
Sound Recordist: Dan Ellaby
Drone Operator: Joel Greenbank
BTS Photographer: Jet Magielse

Casting: Lilly Zhuang & Pete Restrick
Consulting Casting Director: Shakeel Haakim
Production Designer: Ye Lynn Sim

HMU: Amy Rowley
Costume Coordinator: Jet Magielse

Editor: Irfan van Tuijl

Executive Producer: Kate Shelley
Production Company: House on Fire Productions
Cast: Fraser Patrick Kelly & Cameron Dews with Jamie Patterson, Adan Osborne, Kieran Downes, Tim Zhuang
ZHUANG LILLY© ZHUANG LILLY @ZHUANG LILLY [INSTAGRAM]