The Guitar

Part of Get Shorty

Eye To Eye Productions in co-production with Meerkat Films

Gateshead, North East England. Chaim is a 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish boy. His widowed mother has just remarried and he’s not happy about it.

16-year-old Kayleigh has been kicked out of her house and has nowhere to go.

When an incident forces these two very different young people together, unexpected things happen.

Made by Tyneside-born film and theatre director, Richard Beecham, The Guitar is a bittersweet story about being Jewish, being Geordie and being different.

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