God’s Own Country

Directed by Francis Lee

In Yorkshire, Johnny Saxby, a solitary sheep farmer drowning his frustrations in alcohol and intimate encounters, has his world shaken by the arrival of Gheorghe, a migrant worker from Romania hired for lambing season.

God’s Own Country

Directed by Francis Lee

In Yorkshire, Johnny Saxby, a solitary sheep farmer drowning his frustrations in alcohol and intimate encounters, has his world shaken by the arrival of Gheorghe, a migrant worker from Romania hired for lambing season.

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Raw, tender and deeply rooted in the Yorkshire landscape, God’s Own Country is one of the great modern British gay films. Francis Lee finds real intimacy in the relationship between a closed-off young farmer and a Romanian migrant worker, creating a romance that feels physical and unsentimental.