Suicide is never an easy topic to process. When movies deal with a person taking their own life, they often go one of two ways. They either build up to it, exploring the state of a character's life leading up to their final moments, or they focus on the surviving family members and friends whose lives have just been altered by someone else's decision. In a compelling new short film After Sophie, however, you get a bit of both, plus an extra twist. After Sophie is presented as a documentary about a teenage girl who has sadly taken her own life. It looks at what was going on in Sophie's world, and questions whether the demons that haunted her were figurative or, in a potentially supernatural twist, literal. It comes from writer-director Minhal Baig who has a knack for...
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- 3/10/2017
- by Peter Hall
- Movies.com
"She told me once that in her dreams, she would be running through this fog, like something was coming after her, chasing her. But she couldn't outrun it..." Kick off your week with this intriguing horror short film from writer/director Minhal Baig (who also directed the film 1 Night). After Sophie is a proof-of-concept film about what happens when a documentary filmmaker investigating the story discovers that the details surrounding Sophie's suicide are both disturbing and supernatural. This short film has some truly gorgeous cinematography and a mesmerizing score that pulls you into the story, making you wonder what happened without ever allowing us to interact directly with Sophie. Impressive work on this short, worth checking out. Thanks to Nowness for debuting this short. Original description from Vimeo: "A documentary filmmaker investigates the troubling, unexpected suicide of a teenager." After Sophie is both written and directed by filmmaker Minhal Baig...
- 3/6/2017
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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