

Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.
Acting
O'Connor and Otto's raw maternal desperation is devastating.
Direction
Kokkinos crafts unbearable tension through parallel suffering.

Director
Ana Kokkinos
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Adapted from Tony Birch's short story 'The Third Room,' relocated from 1950s rural Australia to contemporary Melbourne's urban sprawl.
Kokkinos deliberately cast non-professional youth actors for the children's roles, capturing authentic adolescent volatility that professional child actors rarely achieve.