Departures

Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, Neil Ely
2025

FILM INFO

It’s instant chemistry when Benji encounters Jake at an airport departures gate. Their on-going relationship unfolds through intimate trips to Amsterdam, revealing a complex power dynamic.

Original title
Departures
Country
UK
Year
2025
Duration
82’
Color / Black&White
Color
Form
Fiction

DIRECTOR

Lloyd Eyre-Morgan

Lloyd is an award winning writer and director for film and television. His passion for story telling has been heavily influenced by his northern roots upbringing and background within the LGBTQI+ and neurodiverse community. Growing up with Dyslexia, Lloyd also has a motor co-ordination learning condition which he has now embraced and incorporated into his approach to story-telling. In 2020 together with Neil Ely they co-wrote and directed coming of age short film S.A.M, which explores acceptance and how people living with a learning disability can feel about love and sexuality.

Filmography

S.A.M (2020); Boys on Film 24: Happy Endings (2024)

DIRECTOR

Neil Ely

Neil is an award winning neuro-divergent writer and director for film and television. Neil and his writing partner Lloyd Eyre-Morgan's debut feature film DEPARTURES, has been nominated for Best Comedy at the National Film Awards 2025 and was selected as a festival favourite at BFI Flare 2025.In 2020 they co-wrote and directed coming of age short film S.A.M, which explores acceptance and how people living with a learning disability can feel about love and sexuality.

Filmography

S.A.M (2020); Mirrors (2015)

team

Director
Lloyd Eyre-Morgan, Neil Ely
Screenplay
Lloyd Eyre-Morgan
Producer
Paul Mortlock, Neil Ely, Lloyd Eyre-Morgan
Production
Punk Spirit Films
World sales company
Rapt Films International