18 minutes to watch a genius fall apart. Your move.
When a chess prodigy is faced with someone who is able to view life differently, he struggles to face his shortcomings.
Acting
Evelyn Gunn's stillness weaponized against Samuel Ogundipe's unraveling.
Direction
Ogundipe makes a chess game feel like a knife fight.
Director
William Ogundipe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'classical' keyword isn't just aesthetic—Ogundipe frames chess as inherited masculine intellectual tradition that Evelyn quietly demolishes without playing by its rules.
Director William Ogundipe and lead Samuel Ogundipe share a surname—this is a father-son collaboration, which adds delicious tension to a film about inherited pressure and generational expectations.
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