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DEPARTURE

By Andrew STEGGALL

Drama - Completed 2015

A mother and her teenage son spend a week packing up the contents of the family’s remote holiday house in the South of France. Sixteen year old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice.

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& Awards

Dinard British FF 2015

2 special mentions

BFI London FF 2015

"Stars of tomorrow" - Alex Lawther

Rome FF 2015

Alice Nella Cita / official competition

Gent IFF 2015

Brighton 2015

Prague Fabiofest 2016

Serbie - British FiIm Festival 2016

Goteborg IFF 2016

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- Year of production
- 2015
- Genres
- Drama, First film, LGBT
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH, FRENCH
- Budget
- 0.6 - 1 M$
- Duration
- 108 mn
- Director(s)
- Andrew STEGGALL
- Writer(s)
- Andrew STEGGALL
- Cast
- Juliet STEVENSON, Alex LAWTHER, Phénix BROSSARD, Finbar LYNCH, Patrice JUIFF, Niamh CUSACK
- Producer(s)
- Guillaume TOBO (Connectic Studio), Pietro GREPPI (MGP ltd), Cora PALFREY (Amaro Films)
- Synopsis
- A mother and her teenage son spend a week packing up the contents of the family’s remote holiday house in the South of France. Sixteen year old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realisation that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. In the near-by village a touring theatre prepare their play based on the myth of a water-nymph who yearns for love. While Elliot seeks out the identity of a strange “figure on the landscape”, an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly compels both mother and son to confront their needs and, finally, each other.
  Departure is an intimate story beginning at dawn on the first day and ending at night on the sixth, charting the end of a summer, the end of a childhood and the end of an otherwise nuclear, middleclass family.
- Partners & financing
- Connectic Studio, Motion Group Pictures, Amaro Films, Peccadillo Distribution, BFI award

DEPARTURE

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