COMPETITION

Aftersun

Charlotte Wells
2022 - United Kingdom / United States - 1h41

Screenings : monday 23 - 7:15 pm - Centre de congrès - Auditorium tuesday 24 - 10:30 am - Pathé - 1 thursday 26 - 2:30 pm - Pathé - 2

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.

Charlotte Wells is a Scottish filmmaker based in New York. She wrote and directed three short films as a student in the MBA/MFA dual-degree program at NYU where she was supported by BAFTA New York and Los Angeles. Charlotte has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine's “25 Faces of Independent Film” and was a Fellow at the 2020 Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Labs. Aftersun is her first feature.

CAST AND CREW

Cast : Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham
Screenplay : Charlotte Wells
Cinematography : Gregory Oke
Editing : Blair McClendon
Music : Oliver Coates

Production : AZ Celtic Films, BBC Film, Pastel

French distributor : Condor Films