13 minutes that'll wreck your whole day—in the best way.
When a relationship collapses and the mother is trapped with the child, love and anguish are portrayed in an almost raw documentary way where all the emotional and telling details are present.
Acting
Preston Crayford directs herself—brave, unflinching, devastating.
Direction
Documentary rawness without the safety of distance.
Editing
13 minutes feel like hours lived, not watched.
Director
Chelsie Preston Crayford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Preston Crayford cast her actual infant daughter Olive, making the on-screen mother-child bond unsettlingly authentic.
Part of a wave of Kiwi female filmmakers exploring maternal ambivalence—rarely seen on screen before the late 2010s.
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