A 10-minute film that'll wreck your heart and mend it simultaneously.
A lonely 9-year-old boy stumbles across a modest caravan in the American Midwest. Inside the caravan lives Dotty, an eccentric but kind women; old enough to be his grandmother. Dotty invites the boy into her rainbow decorated caravan that is littered with exotic memorabilia from her past, and in particular an incredible collection of brightly colored shoes. The boy, who has a hidden sadness he wont discuss and a suspicious bruise on one arm is able to forget about his troubles momentarily as Dotty and the boy embark on a journey that spans her colorful life.
Acting
Sadie Frost transforms a brief role into pure warmth.
Production
Rainbow caravan is a character itself — maximalist escapism.
Director
Ben Charles Edwards
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Ben Charles Edwards shot this in a single day on a borrowed caravan in Kent, England — not the American Midwest as the story suggests.
The shoe collection was partly Frost's own, blurring the line between actor and character's lived-in warmth.
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