DEPARTURE

By Andrew STEGGALL

SALZGEBER & CO. MEDIEN GMBH - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, GERMANY

Drama - Completed 2015


Festivals
& Awards

Rome FF 2015
Gent IFF 2015
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 110 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Andrew STEGGALL
    • Writer(s)
    • Andrew STEGGALL
    • Producer(s)
    • Pietro GREPPI, Guillaume TOBO, Cora PALFREY
    • Synopsis
    • An English mother and her teenage son spend a week packing up the contents of their remote holiday house in the South of France. Fifteen-year-old Elliot struggles with his dawning sexuality and an increasing alienation from his mother, Beatrice. She in turn is confronted by the realization that her marriage to his father, Philip, has grown loveless and the life she knows is coming to an end. When an enigmatic local teenager, Clément, quietly enters their lives, both mother and son are compelled to confront their desires 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, middle class family.