Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Rhubarb farmer Harry Bamford spent his working life growing and perfecting his prize-winning crop. Now, long retired and under the care of his struggling wife Joyce, Harry begins to experience vivid and disturbing hallucinations.

TUSKY is a short film from Writer-Director Steven Boyle. It stars BAFTA nominated actor Phil Davis (Vera Drake, Quadrophenia, Whitechapel, Slow Horses, True Love) and Felicity Montagu (I’m Alan Partridge, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Landscapers, Beyond Paradise)

TUSKY was produced by Nicola Dempsey through production company Little Battle.

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