"What do you owe the charming disaster who raised you?"
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A family's "vacation" spirals into a turbulent journey as they grapple with lost homes, fractured identities, and the grip of a troubled patriarch.
When foreclosure strips the O'Briens of their home, their erratic patriarch launches one last grand plan: a nautical escape and a high-stakes fishing tournament to win it all back. In the close quarters of the boat, the family's fragile equilibrium, long organized around his volatility, begins to crack. As Nicole refuses the role she's been taught to play, her mother is forced to confront the cost of building a life around a man who demands devotion but can't offer safety. What was meant to save them becomes the moment they must choose whether to finally let him fall.
Capsized began with a contradiction I couldn't stop thinking about: the person who teaches you to love the world can also be the person who distorts your understanding of it.
This film examines the impossibility of separating what someone gave you from what they cost you, living in the tension between gratitude and grief. I wanted to explore how love and damage get so knotted together that you can't pull one free without unraveling the rest, and I wanted to do it without simplifying anyone into a villain because that's not how it works. The moments of tenderness and the moments of turbulence coexist, as they always do.
They say you can't choose your family, but you can choose what you build from what they gave you. I took the salt, the restlessness, the stubborn belief that the horizon is worth chasing and I made this film. That feels like the most honest answer I have.
— Lindsey Ryan
Selected for the 79th Edinburgh International Film Festival — and one of ten world premieres competing for the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence.
“Lindsey Ryan’s comedy debut Capsized, starring Rhys Ifans, about a houseboat holiday thrown into disarray.”
Read at THR →“Capsized is one of 10 titles, all world premieres, competing for the Sean Connery Prize for Feature Filmmaking Excellence.”
Read at Screen →“A debut feature from Lindsey Ryan featuring Rhys Ifans as a hapless holidaymaker on a houseboat.”
Read at The List →“Lindsey Ryan’s comedy Capsized, about a family holiday aboard a houseboat that goes awry.”
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See it on the big screen at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, 15–18 August 2026.
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