Andrew Haigh

Andrew Haigh is an openly gay British director whose quietly devastating films excavate intimacy, grief, and the difficulties of connection. His feature Weekend (2011) — a low-budget portrait of two gay men who meet for a one-night stand and spend the following weekend together — was acclaimed as one of the most honest and tender films ever made about gay life, and became a cult classic. He then directed the TV series Looking (HBO, 2014–2016), a naturalistic drama about gay men in San Francisco, and followed it with 45 Years (2015), a subtle and harrowing film about a marriage shaken by a long-buried secret, starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay. Lean on Pete (2017) and Lean on Pete preceded All of Us Strangers (2023), a profound and wrenching film about a gay screenwriter reconnecting with the ghosts of his deceased parents, starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, which many critics named the best film of that year.