From debut director Charlotte Wells, the film stars Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio, in an astonishing performance.

It bowed to critical acclaim in Cannes Film Fest.

Set in a Turkish holiday resort in the late 1990s, Aftersun centers on a young father, who’s on holiday vacation with his daughter.

The young woman looks back on the vacation and their relationship as an adult 20 years later.

Aftersun
Release poster

A promising new voice in British cinema, Wells is very adept at evoking the inner worlds of consciousness of a young woman,  who blends fact-based events with loosely structured subjective memories.

Wells is assisted by her skillful cinematographer, Gregory Oke, whose fluid camera accentuates the sensual and melancholy elements of the memories, without ever crossing the line into exploitation.

The film was produced by Adele Romanski, Barry Jenkins and Mark Ceryak for Pastel, and Amy Jackson for Unified Theory.

It was financed by BBC Film, BFI (awarding National Lottery funding) and Screen Scotland, in association with Tango. The film was developed with BBC Film.

Executive producers are Eva Yates for BBC Film, Lizzie Francke for BFI, Kieran Hannigan for Screen Scotland, and Tim Headington and Lia Buman for Tango.

End Note:

Aftersun has just been nominated for a Spirit Award for Best First Feature.