Pablo Trapero’s & Sons, his first film in English, adapted by Sarah Polley from David Gilbert’s novel, screened in the Love strand of the 69th BFI London Film Festival.
Pablo Trapero’s & Sons, the Argentine director’s first film in English, screened in London on Tuesday 14 October 2025 in the Love strand of the 69th BFI London Film Festival. Sarah Polley adapted it from David Gilbert’s novel.
Trapero was born in San Justo, Buenos Aires, in 1971. His first feature, Mundo Grúa, took the critics’ prize at Venice in 1999, and The Clan won him the Silver Lion for Best Director there in 2015.
Bill Nighy plays A. N. Dyer, a reclusive, hard-drinking novelist who believes he is about to die. He summons his estranged sons, played by Johnny Flynn and George MacKay, to reveal a secret about their half-brother Andy, played by Noah Jupe. Imelda Staunton plays Dyer’s former wife.
Polley, the Oscar-winning writer of Women Talking, moved Gilbert’s New York story to England. It was shot over the winter of 2024, with scenes at Worcester College in Oxford.
The film had its world premiere in Toronto’s Special Presentations in September and went on to Rome before London. Icon Film Distribution released it in British cinemas on 21 August 2026.