Rye Lane

Dom and Yas are two people in their twenties, each coming out of a painful breakup, who meet by chance and spend an eventful day together in South London. Over the course of that day they help one another face the exes who still loom over their lives, and what begins as a chance encounter leaves open the possibility that romance is not finished with them yet. The comedy follows the pair through the places and conversations that carry them from mutual consolation toward something more.

Rye Lane was released in March 2023 and runs 82 minutes. It is the feature debut of director Raine Allen-Miller, working from a screenplay by Nathan Bryon and Tom Melia, and it was produced by Damian Jones and Yvonne Isimeme Ibazebo for Searchlight Pictures, BBC Film, BFI and DJ Films. David Jonsson plays Dom and Vivian Oparah plays Yas, with Poppy Allen-Quarmby, Simon Manyonda, Benjamin Sarpong-Broni and Karene Peter among the supporting cast. The production credits list 59 cast members and 85 crew.

The film found a warm reception. Critics rated it 8.2 out of 10 across 137 reviews, while audiences gave it 7.2 out of 10 on IMDb from around 16,000 votes and 7 out of 10 on TMDB from roughly 264 votes, so the critical scores sit higher than the viewer scores on both platforms. Its worldwide box office take was about 2 million USD.