Fractured City

25m • Drama, Short • 2016

The new dance culture in 19902 Belfast was kicking in and doing something that no one had seen before - getting people together.

Fractured City charts the story of two friends, Paul and Seamy, growing up in Belfast during a period of political turmoil. Belfast in the 1990’s could have been mistaken for any other city but the legacy of war ensured otherwise. The new dance culture was kicking in and the raves were doing something that no one had seen before – getting people together. But the drugs that came with it were always going to be a problem. Some groups were selling it, and some were killing you for selling it. After attending a nightclub, the lives of both young men change forever after an unfortunate encounter with a leading paramilitary. The gravity of the situation becomes apparent as the boys are caught between the grip of conflicting political ideologies and a police force interested in only one thing – recruiting informants.