Competing with her mother’s boyfriend and their new baby for attention, a neglected sevenyear old girl slips into violence against a younger child. Echoing the controversial British murder case of twoyear old James Bulger, this is an extraordinarily wellobserved film which is shocking both for the girl’s actions and the blindness of the adults who fail to see their children’s needs. Directed by British student Grant Thoburn at the Lodz film school.
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Billy’s Wake
Film elegy resonates with the distortions of memory, guilt and lost time, full of longing for the kind of youthful exuberance that can bubble over… -
About a Girl
A burbling stream of conscientiousness by a working-class teenager (the superb Ashley Thewlis) recounts scenes from her life in the North of England. -
Camouflage
Mixed animation and live-action techniques tell the stories of kids with a schizophrenic parent. -
Home Road Movies
About a shy and clumsy father, who thinks that a family car will turn him into a better parent. -
Field
An elegant, abstracted expression of provincial life in which ordinary everyday details become frozen and magnified. -
Film details
- Productielanden
- Poland, UK
- Jaar
- 2001
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2002
- Lengte
- 14'
- Medium/Formaat
- 35mm
