Mark Jenkin, the BAFTA-winning filmmaker from Cornwall behind Bait and Enys Men returns with a ghostly time-slip tale based in a Cornish harbour village, filmed entirely in the county
George Mackay (Nick), left, and Callum Turner (Liam) in Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada(Image: Ian Kingsnorth)
Audiences in Cornwall will be among the first to see the much-anticipated new film by Cornish BAFTA-winning filmmaker Mark Jenkin.
Following his box office hit Bait and the surreal folk horror Enys Men, Rose of Nevada hits British screens next April but us Cornish will have a chance to see it a bit earlier.
The ghostly time-slip drama stars George MacKay (For Those in Peril, 1917) and Callum Turner (The Boys in the Boat, Masters of the Air) alongside Francis Magee and Cornwall-based Edward Rowe – AKA Kernow King, who is just about to star in the new Hall for Cornwall panto – and Mary Woodvine.
The main cast also includes Yana Emily Penrose, from Cornwall but currently based in London, and Cornwall-based Mae Voogd and Tori Cannel.
Rose of Nevada is the third full-length film to be written, directed, shot on 16mm using a Bolex clockwork camera and edited by Newlyn-based Mark and like his previous features makes major use of Cornish coastal locations. All shooting took place in Cornwall, with the main locations being Hayle, Gwinear Churchtown and Mullion Cove.
The new film is not due for official UK and Ireland-wide release by BFI Distribution until April 24 next year, but plans are currently being finalised for Mark to host a series of advance Q&A screenings in Cornwall and at other South West cinemas starting immediately after the Easter 2026 weekend.
He said: “It’s fantastic that Rose of Nevada premiered in Venice and has since gone on to screen at a host of international festivals, but it’s really important for me that Cornish and regional audiences get the chance to see it as soon as possible and so I’m excited to be personally taking the movie out to local cinemas ahead of the official release.”
Cornwall’s award-winning Mark Jenkin, director and writer of Rose of Nevada
The film’s title is that of a fishing boat which reappears in its old, now distressed, harbour 30 years after it and its crew were lost at sea in a storm. Villagers who remember better times, take it as a sign the Rose of Nevada needs to go out again and perhaps change the community’s fortunes.
Jobless young father Nick (George MacKay) and enigmatic drifter Liam (Callum Turner) sign up for the trip with captain Murgey (Francis Magee), but when they return, satisfied with a hold full of fish, time has slipped, the harbour is bustling and they are greeted as if they are the original crew. Spooky.
Dates of the South West previews are still awaiting confirmation, but the tour is expected to take in around 12 cinemas. Rose of Nevada is produced by Denzil Monk for Bosena. The film was developed with Film4 and co-financed by the BFI (awarding National Lottery funding) and Film4.
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