Six minutes. One tree. Zero words. Absolute devastation.
A weary man struggles through an arid world, desperate for food, until he finds a distant apple tree.
Direction
Freyne squeezes an epic into six silent minutes.
Cinematography
Bleached wasteland that'll make you thirsty just watching.
Acting
Doherty's eyes do all the talking. Crushing.
Director
David Freyne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mark Doherty is also a playwright; this was his first on-screen role in years. The girl, Jane McGrath, had no prior acting experience — Freyne found her in a local Dublin drama class.
Premiered at Sundance 2013 alongside 'Whiplash' and 'The Square' — part of a wave of shorts proving genre filmmaking could thrive in under ten minutes during the streaming transition era.
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