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Ackee and Saltfish

Marvin looks at his drawing on the window

Synopsis

A Jamaican mother in London uses a traditional meal to reconnect with her sons before their Caribbean roots are lost to their new English life.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2025 - World premiere

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Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 15 min 59 sec
Format: 16:9
Director: Jasmin Nunes
Producer: Victor Nauwynck, Leo Villares, Jasmin Nunes
Co-Producer: Celia Legard, Amaya Owen Rowlands
Editor: László Dunai
Screenwriter: Jasmin Nunes
Director of Photography: Tamás Apor Méder
Production Designer: Lauren Taylor
Sound: József Iszlai
Principal cast: Simone Frazier, Kelechi Davies, Stephen Awoyinka, Simon Smith, Joshua Gill
Other Lead Creative(s): Esther McRae
Costume Design: Esther McRae
Hair & Makeup: Georgia Nosal, Chelsea Murphy

Genre

Black Children’s Drama Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Picloc

Victor Nauwynck

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Kevin and Cassandra are a married couple who have lost their only daughter Hannah in a freak car accident. They both raised her differently. Kevin had been a traditional parent, Cassandra a permissive one. While Hannah had decided to exhibit her body and mind online, she cut adrift from her father and gravitates towards her mother. Her death drove a wedge between them. Their lounge becomes a battlefield where incendiary words and spiteful things are said. Their marriage is one where opposites no longer attract. Kevin is filled with loathing for his in-laws, his daughter’s boyfriend, himself. Cassandra wears her daughter’s favorite colours with pride and exhibits her painting on the walls. Kevin finds he is powerless in his home and Cassandra mocks the fact that it was her father who bought it. And when he finally leaves it, he leaves Cassandra forever.

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