Surviving Earth: bruising portrait of addiction and redemption

The addiction-recovery mantra of taking it one day at a time is at the heart of this honest-feeling drama from 1st-time London film-maker Thea Gajić. Surviving Earth features Vlad, a charismatic recovering heroin addict living in Bristol, having arrived in the UK in the 1990s, fleeing the Yugoslav civil war. After years of using heroin, he’s now clean, working as drug counsellor.