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Production Country: UK
Running Time: 5mins
Year: 2026

Keane, nearing thirty, finds a box of his absent father’s negatives. He prints the images in a darkroom’s red glow. As he and his mother Diane look through portraits from long-gone summers, the prints expose a life that was always half out of frame. Working through the past leads them back to the shoreline, where Keane reframes what remains.

FILM CREW:
Director: Robert Ripley
Producer: Connor McCausland
Writer: Robert Ripley
DOP: Piers Deselligny
Editor: Isaac Allen
Sound Design: Marco Biagini, Logan Eason
Composer: Neil McDonald
Production Design: Sophie Wilson


Cast: Kirsten Maguire, Dylan Blore, Oscar Irvine, Sophia Robson


FESTIVALS:
Tees Valley International Film Festival November 2026
Ealing Film Festival October 2026
Bournemouth International Film Festival October 2026
The HB Film Festival October 2026
Buffalo International Film Festival October 2026
Romford Short Film Festival September 2026