In a Cornish fishing village hollowed out by the loss of its industry, a boat returns to the harbour after vanishing with its entire crew thirty years earlier. Nick, a young father in need of money, and Liam, a newcomer with nowhere to go, join its new crew. After a successful trip at sea, they sail home to find the village transformed, and themselves mistaken for the men who disappeared.
Mark Jenkin approaches time travel less as a puzzle than as a physical disturbance. Shot on a clockwork 16mm Bolex, the film is assembled from saturated grain, abrupt cuts and close views of rusted metal, wet rope, fish, faces and working hands. No sound was recorded on set; voices, engines, waves and footsteps were reconstructed afterwards, creating a world that feels at once immediate and slightly detached from reality.
George MacKay and Callum Turner bring different energies to men caught between lives that may or may not belong to them. Beneath its maritime mystery, Rose of Nevada is a film about what disappears with a working community, what the present owes the past and whether belonging can demand sacrifice.
