Lilies Not for Me

Lilies Not for Me (2025)

Love cannot be cured.

Haunted by a forbidden affair, a young man in a 1920s “conversion” clinic finds hope in a compassionate nurse who challenges the era’s cruel norms.

Date of release
2025-04-30
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 39m
Genres
Drama, History
Director
Will Seefried

Casting

Interesting facts

Lilies Not for Me is a 2024 period drama film, written and directed by Will Seefried. It premiered at the 2024 Edinburgh International Film Festival and was released digitally by Gravitas Ventures in April 2025.

Production

Lilies Not for Me marks Will Seefried's feature directorial debut, produced by Émilie Georges and Naima Abed (whose past credits include producing Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name). Seefried, who also wrote the screenplay, drew inspiration from archival research into early 20th-century practices that had purported to "cure" homosexuality.

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