An aspiring actor faces endless knock-backs in writer-director Naqqash Khalid’s enjoyably exaggerated skewering of the TV and film industry

There’s only so much rejection an aspiring actor can take, only so many tone-deaf notes from distracted casting directors before it starts to take its toll. Aden (Nabhaan Rizwan) is a husk of a man, his own identity hollowed out, ready to be filled by a role – any role. Meanwhile, his Scottish flatmate Bo (Rory Fleck Byrne), a junior doctor, is so wrung out by exhaustion that the boundary between reality and nightmare is blurring (this subplot is the least successful).

Then a new lodger moves in. Conrad (Amir El-Masry) has a smile full of teeth and glittering opportunities. He works in fashion but spends most of his energy marketing himself. And in him, Aden sees a way to combat the indifference of his industry.

In UK and Irish cinemas