A HOLIDAY FROM MOURNING
A teenage girl attempts to flee the grief she has felt since her mothers‘ death by going on a post-exam trip to a Portuguese party town. But the faster she runs, the more the feeling she is trying to escape from catches up on her.
Director: Zara Dwinger
Live-Action, Netherlands, 2020
14:43 min | trailer
nominiert für Best New Horizon Short Film 20MINMAX 2021, Youth Jury Award 20MINMAX 2021
Zara Gina Dwinger is a director & screenwriter from Amsterdam working on film, music videos and commercials. She graduated at the Netherlands Film Academy in 2017 with her short film SIRENE(2017), which screened at multiple international film festivals like Clermont-Ferrand international short film festival and Camerimage. Her debut short film Yulia & Juliet(2018) premiered at Berlinale Generation in 2019 and has more than 2.000.000 views on YouTube. A HOLIDAY FROM MOURNING(2020) is the first short she wrote herself. Currently she’s editing a TV-film of 45 minutes and is set to shoot her first feature film in the summer of 2022.
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