Overview

• Kristin Scott Thomas directs her first feature film, drawing on childhood experiences of loss to shape the narrative.
• The drama is inspired by the deaths of her father and stepfather, both Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilots killed in training accidents.
• Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller and Emily Beecham star as the daughters confronting their own grief alongside Thomas’s character.
• Thomas co-wrote the screenplay with her husband John Micklethwait and first unveiled the story at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival under the title North Star.
• The project underscores Thomas’s switch from award-winning actress to director and highlights her bicultural ties to England and France.