Legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans is unmoored by loss in this hauntingly beautiful black and white portrait. Rejecting the conventions of the biopic, it drifts through grief, memory and withdrawal, tracing a private world shaped as much by absence as by the music itself.

2026
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Director
Runtime
102 Minutes
Country
United Kingdom, Ireland
Classification
Unclassified 18+
Unfolding in fragments, the film traces a private world of quiet disintegration with remarkable precision. Shot in striking black and white, it renders the early 1960s as authentic artefact rather than just period reconstruction. Less a portrait of genius than a study of absence, it lingers in what cannot be played.
“ … elusive, ruminative and very absorbing.”
The Guardian
Berlin – Silver Bear Best Director
Dublin
Melbourne

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Film Credits
Director
Grant Gee
Year
2026
Country
United Kingdom & Ireland
Language
English
Type
Feature Fiction
Program Strand
Music on Film
Producer
Alan Maher & Janine Marmot
Writer
Owen Martell & Mark O'Halloran
Cinematographer
Piers McGrail
Editor
Adam Biskupski
Cast
Anders Danielsen Lie, Bill Pullman, Barry Ward & Laurie Metcalf
Music
Roger Goula
Film Source
Mister Smith Entertainment
Genre
Biographical, Drama & Music
