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
- Fionn O'Shea — Owen James
- Robert Aramayo — Philip Fairfax
- Erin Kellyman — Dorothy Ellis
- Jodi Balfour — Alice Green
- Louis Hofmann — Charles Green
- Nicholas Pauling — Mr. Green
- Benjamin Pelser — Baby Vicky
- Albert Pretorius — Attendant
- Adrienne Pearce — Matron
- Aidan Scott — Young Man
- Francis Chouler — Arthur
- Jacques Bessenger — Bartender
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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