Project Detail

Oksijan

Synopsis

The true story of 7-year old Afghan refugee, Ahmad, who is trapped in the back of a lorry being smuggled into the UK, when the air inside begins to run out...
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2017 - Thrill Strand - World premiere

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Details

Year: 2017
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 19 mins 9 secs
Director: Edward Watts
Producer: Caroline Lawrence, Olivia Scarlett, Beatrice Warren
Executive Producer: Stefan Allesch-Taylor, Elizabeth C Jones, Michelle Stein, Esther Paterson
Editor: Bridgette Williams, Jojo Erholtz
Screenwriter: Edward Watts
Director of Photography: Michael Paleodimos
Production Designer: Guy Thompson
Sound: Rob Szeliga
Composer: Sam Britton, Will Worsley
Principal cast: Ella Purnell, Elham Ehsas, Noof McEwan, Saleem Haqdad
Costume Design: Gabriela Yiaxis

Genre

Action Human Rights Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Edward Watts Films

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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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