

Nine minutes. One wedding. Two parents who never learned how to leave.
An estranged couple are brought back together for their daughter’s wedding, but the unavoidable presence of their past reopens old wounds, allowing historic mistakes to be renewed.
Acting
Glen and Skinner compress decades of resentment into loaded silences.
Direction
Murdoch trusts the audience to read what's unsaid — devastatingly effective.
Director
Matthew Murdoch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 9-minute runtime isn't brevity for festival convenience — it mirrors how quickly familiar patterns collapse us back into old selves.
Glen and Skinner had never worked together before; their immediate chemistry of exhausted intimacy came from a single afternoon of rehearsal.