Your dad's locked in a closet and won't come out. Family dinner just got weird.
A family is called together in unusual circumstances when a nursing home rings them all for help when there elderly father locks himself in a closet and refuses to come out. Nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Acting
Per Pallesen's wordless devastation from inside a closet
Direction
Pilmark squeezes a feature's worth of family trauma into 13 minutes
Writing
The script trusts silence more than Scandinavian winter
Director
Søren Pilmark
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Søren Pilmark's directorial debut after decades as a respected Danish character actor, including voicing the Danish dub of Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story.
The film channels classic Scandinavian 'kitchen sink realism'—the more mundane the setting, the more devastating the emotional payload. Think Bergman with better lighting and worse coping mechanisms.
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