Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film No Self at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces him to a mesmeric French musician called Noah.
Acting
Colin Morgan's anxious physicality — all twitch and swallowed words.
Writing
Amstell's script weaponizes self-awareness into comedy.
Direction
Intimate framing that refuses to look away from embarrassment.
Director
Simon Amstell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Simon Amstell wrote this semi-autobiographically after his own late-coming-out and therapy journey. The panic attack scenes? Based on real recordings from his actual sessions.
Released as UK indie cinema was having a brief queer renaissance (God's Own Country, Weekend), Benjamin deliberately rejects that gritty realism for something messier and more metropolitan — divisive then, oddly prescient now.
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