Aftersun

Sophie reflects on the joy and melancholy of a vacation she took with her father twenty years ago. Real memories, or perhaps imagined ones, fill in the gaps as she tries to reconcile the father she knew… with the man she didn’t.

Charlotte Wells is a Scottish director, screenwriter, and producer. She studied at King’s College London, the University of Oxford, and New York University, where she began developing her filmmaking career. Her short films Tuesday (2015), Laps (2016), and Blue Christmas (2017) received recognition at international film festivals. In 2022, she made her feature film debut with Aftersun, which premiered at the Critics’ Week section of the Cannes Film Festival. The film received widespread critical acclaim and established her as one of the most prominent emerging voices in contemporary cinema. In 2023, she won the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.

Year of Production: 2022

Time: 102’

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English, Turkish, Spanish. Original version with Spanish subtitles

Director: Charlotte Wells

Cast: Paul Mescal, Francesca Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall 

Production: Unified Theory (United Kingdom), Pastel (United States)

Script: Charlotte Wells

Director of Photography: Gregory Oke 

Production Companies:  BBC Film, Creative Scotland, AZ Celtic Films, PASTEL, Unified Theory, BFI Films

International Sales: Charades

Festivals: 98 awards and 182 nominations