AFTERSUN

By Charlotte WELLS

SPHERE FILMS - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, CANADA

Drama - Completed 2022

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 them as she tries to reconcile the father she knew, with the man she didn't.

Festivals
& Awards

Cannes 2022
Critics Week
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama, Female director, Family
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 98 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Charlotte WELLS
    • Producer(s)
    • Adele ROMANSKI, Barry JENKINS, Amy JACKSON, Mark CERYAK
    • Synopsis
    • At a fading vacation resort, 11-year-old Sophie treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie's tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't, in Charlotte Wells’ superb and searingly emotional debut film.