Not to be confused with the 2006 film Broken, directed by Simon Boyes and Adam Mason, The Brøken is a rather more ambitious production directed by Sean Ellis and released in 2008. With a budget of around £4million, it can count itself as unfortunate not to have been granted a wider release; it played in several festivals around the world and had a limited release in the UK and internationally, but most of its business will inevitably be done on DVD.