Robert is stuck on a boating holiday with his parents in the English countryside. Impatient to grow and become a man, an unexpected sight cracks his world open.
Acting
Oliver Woollford's perfectly painful pubescent desperation.
Direction
Ellis squeezes maximum agony from every cramped boat shot.
Director
Simon Ellis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Simon Ellis won the BAFTA for Best Short Film in 2008 for 'Soft' before this.
The cramped narrowboat setting deliberately traps the audience with Robert's hormones—no escape from the awkwardness.
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