Secret Child (2018)
- Original title
- Secret Child: The Bridge
- Directed by
- Yew Weng Ho
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 18 min
- Rating
- 7.2 of 10 from 4 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A single mother and her eight year old son meet a man from her past after nine years. The film is based on a memoir and covers their reunion.
intimateemotionalbittersweetunderstatednostalgicreunionstendermelancholic
What happens
Secret Child is a 2018 British biographical drama short film directed by Yewweng Ho and is his directing debut. The screenplay, written by Sam Hoare, is based on the memoirs from the book Secret Child by Gordon Lewis. The film stars Fiona Glascott, Austin Taylor and Aaron McCusker, and tells the story of a single mother and her eight-year-old son meeting her man from her past after nine years. Secret Child had its world premiere at the Hollyshorts Film Festival in 2018 and was nominated for Best Period Piece, and its London premiere at New Renaissance Film Festival, in which it won Best Debut Film. The film has received over 20 international awards and nominations with generally positive reviews, who praised the performances of Glascott, Taylor and McCusker, Ho's direction and Darius Shu's cinematography of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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