The Trench

Directed by William Boyd

Produced by Portman Entertainment Group, British Screen

A grim, claustrophobic portrait of young soldiers awaiting slaughter at the Somme, balancing intimate bonds with the creeping dread of inevitable catastrophe.

The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' experience as a mixture of boredom, fear, panic, and restlessness, confined to a trench on the front lines.