Winner - Silver Bear for Best Director (Grant Gee), Berlinale 2026

June 1961, New York City, the legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans forms his perfect trio and records two of the greatest jazz records of all time in one night. Central to the success of this project is Evan’s soul mate and bass player Scott LaFaro. Ten days later, LaFaro dies in a car crash. Numb with grief, Evans stops playing.

“...the movie’s artful direction, nimble structure, visual richness and impeccable performances make for something full-bodied, compelling and deeply affecting, its melancholy beauty lingering long after the end credits roll.” David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

“This elusive, ruminative and very absorbing movie presents its successive scenes like a sequence of unresolved chords carrying the listener on a journey without a destination....” Four stars. Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian.

“..like Gee’s perceptive doc about Joy Division, the highly influential Manchester post-punk band of the late ’70s, Everybody Digs Bill Evans is about the ordinary that feeds the extraordinary and leaves us to figure out the rest for ourselves..” Damon Wise, Deadline.

Directed by Grant Gee

Written by Mark O’Halloran

From the novel, Intermission, by Owen Martell

Produced by Janine Marmot, Alan Maher

Starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Barry Ward, Valene Kane, Katie McGrath, with Laurie Metcalf and Bill Pullman