38th edition
17-25 january 2026
Image Aftersun
United KingdomUnited States
2022 Fiction 1h41
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn't.
With : Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Sally Messham
Screenplay : Charlotte Wells
Image : Gregory Oke
Editing : Blair McClendon
Music : Oliver Coates
Production : AZ Celtic Films, BBC Film, Pastel
Distribution: Condor Films
Charlotte Wells is a Scottish filmmaker based in New York. She wrote and directed three short films as a student in the MBA/MFA dual-degree program at NYU where she was supported by BAFTA New York and Los Angeles. Charlotte has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine's “25 Faces of Independent Film” and was a Fellow at the 2020 Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Labs. Aftersun is her first feature.