Family vacation from hell, but make it 20 minutes of exquisite pain.
A dysfunctional family of three tries their hardest to holiday together after Mum's most recent psychotic episode.
Acting
Akhurst's unraveling restraint is devastating to witness.
Direction
Eidenbenz makes every cramped frame feel claustrophobic.
Director
Chanelle Eidenbenz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Eidenbenz developed this from her BAFTA-nominated short, expanding her exploration of how daughters become unwilling witnesses to maternal collapse.
The resort's artificial cheerfulness—those forced activities, that desperate entertainment—mirrors the family's own hollow performance of togetherness.
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