MUBI hosted an after party in Toronto on Sunday, September 8, 2024 to celebrate the World Premiere of Christopher Andrews’ gripping debut feature and MUBI Production, Bring Them Down.

Andrews was in attendance alongside lead actors Christopher Abbott, and Barry Keoghan, as well as Colm Meaney and Nora-Jane Noone.

Bring Them Down marks the debut feature film from Screen Star of Tomorrow writer and director Christopher Andrews, following his award-winning short films Stalker (2019) and Fire (2015). The film is a European co-production; financed by MUBI in conjunction with Screen Ireland, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and the UK Global Screen Fund – financed by the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and administered by the BFI.

Synopsis: Michael (Christopher Abbott), the last son of a shepherding family, lives with his ailing father, Ray (Colm Meaney). Burdened by guilt over the death of his mother, Michael has isolated himself from the world. When a conflict with rival farmer Gary (Paul Ready) and his son Jack (Barry Keoghan) escalates, Michael is drawn into a devastating chain of events, forcing him to confront the horrors of his past and leaving both families permanently altered.

In Bring Them Down, Andrews takes the parable of ‘The Good Shepherd’ and turn it upside down. No one in the film is without fault. In what we would normally think an idyllic place, a farm in rural Ireland, people are tormented by past deeds and current circumstances that keep them stuck so to speak. T

Andrew’s film is not for the weak hearted, as it starts off with a jolt. We are thrown into an opening scene that sets the tone for the rest of the film. The lives of these characters are filled with plenty of anger and resentment that has been brewing for many years. The result is a story that will shock, anger and even make audiences gasp. In these uncomfortable spaces lies what makes this film interesting and challenging. I, for one, do not mind it.. it leaves us with plenty to think about in terms of how we might deal with past actions, how we treat one another, and how we choose to resolve conflicts or not resolve them.

Content advisory: explicit violence, accident trauma, simulated animal violence, coarse language.

Bring Them Down will be released by MUBI at a later date.

Photos Courtesy of Arthur Mola / MUBI.