English director Shane Meadows doesn't get the attention afforded to some of his higher profile, flashier brethren and that is truly a shame because Meadows is a true master, one of the absolute finest film makers working in the world today, having put together a simply stunning resume of films devoted to his blue collar, Midlands origins. Meadows' films launched Paddy Considine to international attention and if there is any justice in the world This Is England - for my money Meadows' finest work to date - will do the same for it's young star, Thomas Turgoose. Well, while nobody has been paying much attention Meadows has reunited with Turgoose to create Somers Town, a low budget project that came together remarkably quickly and slipped into the just passed Berlinale without much of anybody noticing because nobody really knew it was coming.

Tommo, just turned sixteen and released from social care, runs away to London from a lonely, difficult life in the Midlands. Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives with his father, who drinks with his friends most evenings after working on a construction site. Marek is a keen photographer, quiet and sensitive - he is not comfortable in his father’s world.

Both struggle to make sense of their new world and a chance meeting in Somers Town, London, leads the two to form an unexpected partnership.

Shot in black and white in contemporary central London, Somers Town shows that in alienating urban environments and fractured family relationships, redemption is found through friendship.

There's no trailer yet for the film but Meadows has cut together a brief slideshow of images from the picture which you can find in the Twitch Player below the break.