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Aftersun (12A)

Emotionally searing family drama starring BAFTA winner Paul Mescal, exploring a daughter’s holiday memories of her troubled father.

At a fading Turkish holiday resort in the 1990s, 11-year old Sophie (Frankie Corio) treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal, Normal People). 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 recollects their last holiday, trying to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.

The stunning debut from Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells and one of the most talked-about dramas of this year, Aftersun won the French Touch Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the Grand Prize at the Deauville American Film Festival.

  • DIRECTOR: Charlotte Wells
  • CAST: Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Sally Messham, Celia Rowson-Hall, Harry Perdios, Brooklyn Toulson
  • LANGUAGE: English

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