As He Lay Falling

Georgios has travelled to Scotland from Greece, settling on a peninsula at the edge of the remote Scottish Highlands. A ghost in a foreign land, he digs peat for food and board on Bronte’s rundown croft – his unwelcome presence hanging darkly over her partner William, an English incomer. Trapped within a forced intimacy, lost from a life he left behind, Georgios discovers the stark difference between choosing to disappear and losing yourself completely.

As He Lay Falling premiered in competition at the 68th Edinburgh International Film Festival. It won the Directors Jury Award at the 16th International Short Film Festival of Soria and Special Mentions at the 11th Reykjavik International Film Festival and the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus. It was released online through BFI Network and NoBudge.

Starring
Christopher Greco, Simone Lahbib and Bill Fellows

Writer/Director Ian Waugh
Producers Richard Warden and Jim Webster
Cinematographer Julian Schwanitz

Full Credits

Watch Online
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Festivals + Screenings

68th Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2014
20th International Short Film Festival in Drama, Drama, Greece, 2014
11th Reykjavík International Film Festival, Reykjavík, Iceland, 2014
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, Limassol, Cyprus, 2014
25th Stockholm International Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, England, 2014
Inverness Film Festival, Inverness, Scotland, 2014
goNorth Festival, Inverness, Scotland, 2014
16th International Short Film Festival of Soria, Soria, Spain, 2014
12th London Short Film Festival, London, England, 2015
11th Pantalla Pinamar International Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015
8th Glasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, 2015
Cinema Perpetuum Mobile Film Festival, Minsk, Belarus, 2015
Kyiv International Short Film Festival, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2015
32nd Busan International Short Film Festival, Busan, South Korea, 2015
Madeira Film Festival, Funchal, Madeira, Portgual, 2015
Leiden International Short Film Experience, Leiden, Netherlands, 2015
11th Piélagos en Corto International Short Film Festival, Piélagos, Spain, 2015
XpoNorth Festival, Inverness, Scotland, 2015
The Shortest Nights, London, England, 2015
Cinema Jam, London, England, 2015
’Scottish Shorts 2014’ Robert Burns Centre, Dumfries, Scotland, 2015
’Scottish Shorts 2014’ Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, 2015
’Scottish Shorts 2014’ Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2015
BAFTA Scotland Showcase, Glasgow, Scotland, 2015
’Scottish Shorts 2014’ Waterfront Greenock, Scotland, 2015
’Scottish Shorts 2014’ Eden Court, Inverness, Scotland, 2015
’Scottish Shorts 2014’ Phoenix, Orkney, Scotland, 2015
’Scottish Shorts 2014’ Macrobert Arts Centre, Stirling, Scotland, 2015
‘Bordering Strangeness’ Passenger Films, London, England, 2015
‘F**K UKIP: Tales of Migration’, Nottingham, England, 2015
Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de México, México City, México, 2015
Bucharest International Short Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania, 2015
8th Northern Wave International Film Festival, Grundarfjörður, Iceland, 2015
Colchagua International Film Festival, Colchagua, Chile, 2015
33rd Festival Tous Courts, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2015
13th ‘In The Palace’ International Short Film Festival, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2015
Arroios Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 2016
Ekurhuleni International Film Festival, Ekurhuleni, South Africa, 2016
9th British Shorts Film Festival, Berlin, Germany, 2016
Network@LFF Showcase, 63rd BFI London Film Festival, London, England, 2019
’Trì Às A Trì / Three From Three’, An Lanntair, Stornoway, Scotland, 2024

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