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I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

Five friends. Five lives. Countless hopes.

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Childhood friends Patrick, Shiv, Rian, Oli, and Conor played together, skipped school together, and dreamt of the lives they would have one day. Now they’re thirty, and the future they imagined is slipping quietly out of reach.

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Released
Budget
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Language
English
  • drug dealer
  • friendship
  • husband wife relationship
  • based on novel or book
  • capitalism
  • assault
  • working class
  • public housing
  • childhood friends
  • gentrification
  • woman director
  • millennial

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Behind the camera

Director

Clio Barnard

Writers

Enda Walsh

Produced in

United Kingdom, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereHamptons International Film Festival3 Oct 2026
    • PremiereChicago International Film Festival17 Oct 2026
    • PremierePhiladelphia Film Festival19 Oct 2026
    • PremiereAFI Fest21 Oct 2026
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereBFI London Film Festival16 Oct 2026
    • PremiereCambridge Film Festival22 Oct 2026
    • PremiereCINECITY Brighton Film Festival6 Nov 2026
    • PremiereCheltenham Film Festival8 Nov 2026
    • PremiereCornwall Film Festival16 Nov 2026
    • Theatrical154 Dec 2026
  • AustraliaAU

    • PremiereSydney Film Festival6 Jun 2026
    • PremiereMelbourne International Film Festival7 Aug 2026
    • PremiereAdelaide Film Festival18 Oct 2026
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereVancouver International Film Festival2 Oct 2026
  • BrazilBR

    • PremiereSão Paulo International Film Festival17 Oct 2026
  • FranceFR

    • PremiereCannes Directors' Fortnight20 May 2026
    • PremiereJean Carmet Film Festival12 Oct 2026
    • PremiereFestival du Film de Sarlat3 Nov 2026
    • PremiereArras Film Festival11 Nov 2026
    • Theatrical16 Dec 2026
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereMunich International Film Festival30 Jun 2026
    • PremiereLiteratur Film Festival19 Sept 2026
    • PremiereMannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival12 Nov 2026
  • IrelandIE

    • PremiereCork International Film Festival14 Nov 2026
    • Theatrical15A4 Dec 2026
  • ItalyIT

    • PremiereRome Film Festival14 Oct 2026
  • KazakhstanKZ

    • PremiereQyzqaras Film Festival25 Aug 2026
  • LithuaniaLT

    • PremiereLokys, liūtas ir šakelė1 Oct 2026
  • NorwayNO

    • PremiereBergen International Film Festival15 Oct 2026

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I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning was released on 4 December 2026.

Audience reviews

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  • B

    Brent Marchant

    10/22/2026

    6/10

    For many of us (especially those under 30), the expectation of being able to afford a reasonably comfortable life is slipping away, ironically, and all too regrettably, becoming little more than a dream in a very real sense. It’s a change that seems to be occurring worldwide, too, as economic disparity continues to take root around the globe. And one locale in which that trend has been occurring is Birmingham, the se…

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