Break My Fall (Redux)

Directed By Kanchi Wichmann

Three days in the life of four friends, after which there's no going back to how things were.

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Four friends -- girlfriends Liza and Sally, and their best friends Kyle and Vin -- experience three tumultuous days that will change their lives forever. Liza and Sally hover precariously between trying to fix their troubled relationship and chasing success with their band, Blanket, while sex worker Vin and gay bartender Jamie each harbor desires to make big changes to their lives. When emotions finally boil over during a chaotic night at an illegal rave, there's no going back to how things were. BIn BREAK MY FALL REDUX, lovers Liza and Sally experience three turbulent days that will change their lives forever. As they hover between trying to fix their passionate, but troubled relationship and chasing success with their band, Blanket, emotions finally boil over during a chaotic night at an illegal rave, from which there’s no going back.


Featuring music from top independent UK talent, this is the definitive director’s cut of Kanchi Wichmann’s searing portrait of a tempestuous love affair and an ode to the vibrant, thriving 24-hour party scene of East London’s underground music pubs, queer clubs and cabaret bars.REAK MY FALL REDUX, lovers Liza and Sally experience three turbulent days that will change their lives forever. As they hover between trying to fix their passionate, but troubled relationship and chasing success with their band, Blanket, emotions finally boil over during a chaotic night at an illegal rave, from which there’s no going back.


Featuring music from top independent UK talent, this is the definitive director’s cut of Kanchi Wichmann’s searing portrait of a tempestuous love affair and an ode to the vibrant, thriving 24-hour party scene of East London’s underground music pubs, queer clubs and cabaret bars.

Kanchi Wichmann is a British/ German filmmaker based in Los Angeles since 2022. Her debut feature BREAK MY FALL (UK 2011) was released theatrically in Germany and the UK and sold to over 20 territories worldwide. It was the first British lesbian feature to gain a UK cinema release and is on the BFI list of 10 best lesbian films. Kanchi was also named on the 2012 After Ellen list ’50 directors Hollywood should be hiring’. A brand new directors cut of Break My Fall; BREAK MY FALL REDUX was released online in fall 2023. Kanchi’s 10-episode comedy web series, MIXED MESSAGES (DE 2017) is released online by London-based Peccadillo Pictures. Kanchi has also made several short films and written for film and LGBTQ* publications including Another Gaze (London) and Siegessäulle (Berlin). She was the directing recipient of the FilmNetzwerk Berlin mentoring programme 2021/22 (Mentor - Kerstin Polte) and was on the UDK artist development program (Berlin) 2021 with her series pilot entitled Adults of Berlin. She has participated in screenwriting programs/ residencies including Hothouse (London), Babylon Europe (London/ Cannes) and most recently at the Vermont Studio Center (2023/ USA). Her feature script GROWING UP IN PUBLIC was a semi-finalist in the Table Read my Screenplay competition (Sundance 2023 and Hollywood 2023) and quarter-finalist in Emerging Screenwriters (2024). Kanchi is a BAFTA US Newcomer screenwriting fellow.

"Like earlier London-based slices-of-life such as Bronco Bullfrog and The Low Down, Break My Fall floats in that nebulous space where its young dreamers haven’t yet discovered who they are, their alienation only heightened by the city around them. There is"
The Guardian (UK, 2023)