A 45-minute gut-punch about grief that hits harder than most 2-hour Oscar bait.
When troubled 20-year-old Liverpudlian, Cody is sent to live with this uncle in London, a series of unsettling events lead him to witness his friends brutal murder, this haunts, and torments him into facing dark and difficult truths.
Acting
Nico Mirallegro's trembling silence says everything.
Direction
Nygh packs feature-length devastation into 45 minutes.
Director
Teddy Nygh
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Teddy Nygh cut his teeth on grime music videos, explaining the urgent, rhythmic editing that mirrors Cody's fractured mental state.
Released through BBC Three's short film initiative, this represents a wave of micro-budget British cinema tackling systemic youth violence without Channel 4's usual sensationalism.
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