BFI and BBC Films, 2014

X+Y

The debut feature film from director Morgan Matthews, inspired by the documentary Beautiful Young Minds, X+Y focuses on an English teenage maths prodigy named Nathan (Asa Butterfield) who has difficulty understanding people, but finds comfort in numbers.

When he is chosen to represent the United Kingdom at the International Mathematical Olympiad, Nathan’s mathematical brain collides with a new and baffling equation for the first time: love.

DIRECTOR

Morgan Matthews

PRODUCERS

David M. Thompson
Laura Hastings-Smith

WRITER

James Graham

ACTORS

Asa Butterfield
Rafe Spall
Sally Hawkins
Eddie Marsan
Jo Yang

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Danny Cohen