BIFA Nominee ‘Straight Circle’, Starring Elliott & Luke Tittensor, Gets UK Deal

EXCLUSIVE: Obscured Releasing has acquired UK distribution rights to Straight Circle, starring real-life twins Elliott and Luke Tittensor of House of the Dragon, with Neil Maskell.

The film is the debut feature of British writer-director Oscar Hudson, who has previously directed music videos for Radiohead, James Blake and Bonobo. Straight Circle will have preview screenings on November 27 before its full theatrical release in the UK from January 15.

Straight Circle is described as “a surreal black comedy following two enemy soldiers stationed on a remote border in a vast featureless desert, as they descend into a state of profound disorientation after they forget which side of the border is which. As they grapple with their identities, loyalties and the absurdity of their situation, their isolation slowly gives way to unfathomable nightmares that blur the lines between friend and foe.”

Following its world premiere at Venice Critics’ Week 2025, where it won the IWonderfull Grand Prize and the Verona Film Club Award for Most Innovative Film, the film made its UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival and screened at AFI Fest. At the Marrakech International Film Festival, Hudson won Best Director and Elliott and Luke Tittensor received a Special Mention for their performances. The film also won the Grand Prize and Audience Award at Taipei and the Taiwan Directors Guild Award.

The film was recently nominated for five BIFA nominations for cinematography, editing, production design, costume design and make-up and hair design.

Pic was produced by Magna Studios, 2AM and Such, with support and financing from BBC Film. Written and directed by Oscar Hudson, the film marks Magna Studios’ debut scripted feature. It was produced by Kevin Rowe, Thomas Benski, Rik Green and Riaz Rizvi. Eva Yates, William Rosenfeld, Robert Kapp, Ulf Ek, Marisa Clifford, Davud Karbassioun, Tim O’Shea, Charlie Alderman, Christopher Dodds, Greg Field, Christine D’Souza Gelb, David Hinojosa, Anthony Kingsley, Sophie Kingsley, and Oscar Hudson as executive producers.

“Oscar Hudson has created an astute political satire akin to Armando Iannucci and the absurdist frenzy of Terry Gilliam,” said RJ Millard and Bill Guentzler, Co-Presidents of Obscured Releasing. “The performances of Elliott and Luke Tittensor take the audience to the frontlines of a border conflict where the statement of purpose and the rules of engagement are constantly shifting with the winds to hilarious and profound effect.”

“Nations exist in people more so than in soil so with Straight Circle my aim was to locate exactly the spot inside the soft human body where nationalism takes root and multipliesm,” said writer/director Oscar Hudson. “Straight Circle is my attempt to perform the world’s first procedure to surgically extract the nationalist identity from the individual and to find out what remains.”

The deal was negotiated by Fabien Westerhoff of Global Constellation and Tim O’Shea on behalf of the filmmakers and Bill Guentzler and RJ Millard on behalf of Obscured Releasing.