Twelve minutes to wreck your whole afternoon—daddy issues never hit this hard.
A young college student reluctantly meets with her estranged father only to discover the truth about the events of the wild summer of '75 that drove them apart.
Acting
Vanier and Backus pack years of damage into silent glances.
Direction
Barnett trusts the audience to fill in the gaps.
Director
Julia Barnett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Barnett uses the short format as emotional weaponry—there's no time to recover between revelations, mimicking how trauma actually surfaces in real conversations.
The film quietly interrogates the 'cool estranged dad' trope popular in indie cinema, refusing to let Mel off the hook with charm or nostalgia.
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