A mother vanishes, a family fractures, and 14 minutes will wreck you completely.
Andrew's mother disappears without a trace, leaving the differently-abled young man in his grandmother's care. Discovery of her sister's departure prompts an estranged aunt to rush back to the family home in an effort to institute order.
Acting
Grover and MacDonald communicate entire histories in loaded silences.
Direction
Egoyan squeezes feature-length dread into 14 suffocating minutes.
Director
Arshile Egoyan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Arshile Egoyan is the grand-nephew of Atom Egoyan, and this short carries that same surgical eye for family damage.
The film deliberately never shows the mother, making her absence feel like a ghost that haunts every frame.
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