A 15-minute Christmas dinner that'll wreck your whole year. Pass the trauma, please.
Over Christmas lunch an estranged daughter struggles with her Dad’s Alzhiemer’s and the reaction her return creates in the family.
Acting
Cormack's silent breakdown is devastating.
Direction
Morgan-Rhind makes 15 minutes feel like a lifetime.
Writing
Every line of dialogue cuts like broken glass.
Director
Felicity Morgan-Rhind
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a single day on 16mm film, with most dialogue improvised from a 3-page outline.
Premiered at Cannes Critics' Week 2004, part of a wave of brutal Kiwi shorts examining colonial family structures.
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