The dark and overcast sky opens to an ethereal other world; a colourless place with long corridors and arches that become engulfed with a longing and an ache, that screams, one day very soon.

The choice to draw on raw acting and cinematic sound added a bold depth to the film and successfully melded the transition from ‘in here,’ to ‘out there.’

raw acting and cinematic sound added a bold depth

Actor Zoe Saldana was an emphatic presence, her face lacking expression yet saying a thousand words, the simple exchange of gifts was wonderful and touching, it cried out the pain of valediction.

Zoe Saldana was an emphatic presence, her face lacking expression yet saying a thousand words

The cinematography by Javier Julia, with low-level lighting and panning onto faces and objects was magnificent and bound the film very well.

Music by Sebastian Kauderer was soothing and deafening, it was a collision of the two worlds separating with a deafening crescendo and yet was euphonious.

A well-directed film by Marco Perego and very rightly deserves its screening at the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts film festival.