One friend vanishes. One night remains. Childhood's expiration date just got moved up.
With the very first day of high school right around the corner, a final summer night turns out to be a deciding moment between childhood and adulthood for a close-knit group of friends, when one of them mysteriously disappears.
Direction
Jan van Rees stretches 70 minutes into an entire emotional summer
Acting
Young cast captures that specific panic of time running out
Cinematography
Golden hour becomes a character—sunset as deadline
Director
Albert Jan van Rees
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dutch coming-of-age cinema has been quietly dominating this space—this joins a tradition of compressed-time youth stories like 'Ramses' and 'Skin'.
The 70-minute runtime isn't budget constraint; it's thematic—childhood itself is always shorter than you expect.
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