YARDIE

By Idris ELBA

THE FESTIVAL AGENCY - as FEST

Crime - Completed 2018

It follows the story of a young Jamaican named ‘D’ who, on arriving in early 1980s London, unexpectedly finds the young man who assassinated his revered brother back in Jamaica ten years before. His quest for justice explodes into a violent street war that could end up killing him and his loved ones

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance 2018
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Crime
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 101 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Idris ELBA
    • Writer(s)
    • Brock Norman BROCK, Martin STELLMAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Gina CARTER, Robin GUTCH
    • Synopsis
    • Based on the cult novel by Victor Headley, Idris Elba’s stand-out directorial debut fuses the hard-boiled gangster genre with a dramatic coming-of-age period-piece. YARDIE centers on the life of a young Jamaican man who has never fully recovered from the murder of his older brother. Before he abandons his life of crime to follow a righteous path, he encounters his brother’s murderer, and embarks on a bloody, explosive quest for retribution. Elba expertly recreates the atmosphere of the times with an eye for detail and an evocative soundtrack that captures the tumultuous spirit of Kingston and London in the ’80s—where identity, culture, and even the cities themselves were in flux.