‘Rain Catcher’ Trailer: Dudley O’Shaughnessy & Iris Law Lead Karlovy Vary Competition Title

EXCLUSIVE: Rain Catcher, starring Dudley O’Shaughnessy (Top Boy) and Iris Law, is one of the UK’s entries at this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Check out the trailer for the film above.

The work, which was a finalist for the Netflix + Creative UK Breakout program and won the NAFF Award at the Sitges FanPitch in 2022, extends Fiascaris’ Silver Méliès-winning short of the same name, which premiered at the Sitges Film Festival. HBO Europe later distributed the short.

Set against the backdrop of a rainy, nocturnal London, O’Shaughnessy reprises his role as photographer Miles who obsessively captures unforgiving, morbid portraits of unaware strangers. When he’s not selling them, he shares them anonymously online under the moniker of “Rain Catcher.”

But soon he notices something unsettling in his photos: a mysterious woman watching him and photographing him—turning the lens back on Miles. As her gaze closes in, his world fractures—his work is sabotaged, his name defamed, his loved ones endangered. Consumed by paranoia, he spirals into a dark, delirious obsession to uncover the truth behind her motives.

Polesel produces for Yellow Pill Films alongside Julien Loeffler and James Kermack for Featuristic Films. Henrik Källsson from Yellow Pill serves as executive producer, alongside Keith Kehoe, David Gendron and Ali Jazayeri for TPC. Associate producer Alba Moyano co-created the story.

Also starring are Jessie Mei Li (Shadow and Bone, Havoc), Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones), Youssef Kerkour (Napoleon) and Lorenzo Richelmy (Marco Polo).

Vorteks, the genre label of Dubai-based sales agency Cercamon, is handling world sales rights.

Check out the trailer above.