Director: Charlotte Welles
artists: Francesca Corio, Paul Mescal, Celia Rowlson-Hall
Premiere: 16 December 2022
‘After the sun’ A brashly mature film about parent-child relationships. socialite charlotte wellsThe 35-year-old Scottish filmmaker seems to evoke some of his memory in this subtle film about memory, absence, discovery and recognition. Set twenty years ago, when young Sofia shares a summer vacation with her father, the story interspersed with short scenes of the protagonist in their 30s, as a counterpoint to not so much sadness. daughter of divorced marriage, Sofia observes the world with keenness and curiosity, which does more or less the same thing as the film’s director’s camera.e: what the girl thinks, how she experienced the separation from her parents in these quiet and sweet days of summer, the curiosity of learning to know herself for the first time in her life, maybe for the first time in her life.
officially daringalthough it seems like a movie with a calm scene, ‘After the sun’ The same name as the name of an equally interesting, more experimental Catalan film shot by Lluís Galter that same year, was created from footage recorded with a video camera that summer when there was no Instagram or other social networks to be shot in Turkey. and reproduce our daily images. The memory 30 years later was brought to life by the capture of that innocent camera.