Aftersun

Directed by Lluís Galter | 70 minutes | 15+ | Australian Premiere

12pm, Saturday, 3rd February | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes

The other Aftersun (2022), this Lynchian fairytale finds three teenage girls investigating the mysterious story of a missing kid.

At an overcrowded summer seaside campsite, a trio of teenage girls spy on a depressed seasonal worker who dresses up as a bear – the campsite’s mascot. Their imagination, fuelled by a chilling story of a child abduction that took place a few decades earlier, leads them to believe there is something fishy about him. In a heady mix of documentary exploration, rite of passage, detective story and fairy tale, Lluís Galter mixes narrative registers to build a singular, seductive, uneasy film set against the backdrop of the torpor of summer.

"The skin-tingling workmanship of the DV Pal delights as it brushes against tanned bodies, merges bare legs and tall grass, and drowns the nocturnal silhouette of a lost child in its pixels." - Claire Lasolle, FIDMarseille

Country: Spain
Year: 2022
Language: Catalan, German