Regret (short film)
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| Original title | Regret |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| length | 16 minutes |
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| Director | Santiago Menghini |
| script | Santiago Menghini |
| production | Dominique Dussault, Santiago Menghini, Max Walker |
| music | Brian D'Oliveira |
| camera | Olivier Gossot |
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Regret is a short film by Santiago Menghini that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020 .
action
It's night and fog hangs over the city's skyscrapers. Wayne is in his hotel room dealing with his father's death. His sister asks him over the phone to contact her mother. In his room in the Hotel “San Lago” he looks at old videos / recordings of himself and his father, who always called him “junior”. During a phone call with his mother, she asks him to guess who is with her. It's supposed to be his daddy and he wants to tell him something. Before that happens, the conversation is interrupted, and a hand that comes out from under his bed pulls his smartphone under it. There is a knock on the door, but he cannot see anyone outside through the peephole.
Then he sees the shadows and outlines of a person in his room. The dark figure with the shining eyes has a knife with him. Wayne runs out of the room, but there is no one in the lobby and there is no other human being. Suddenly he sees his father. This beats a version of his younger self, a pain that Wayne also feels. The dark figure stabs him. He asks for mercy and leaves the hotel, but the figure hurries after him.
production
It was directed by Santiago Menghini , who previously only directed short films.
Brent Skagford plays Wayne, Mich Todorovic the character who suddenly appears in his room and David Nerman his father, who was believed to be dead.
The film was first shown on January 24, 2020 at the Sundance Film Festival . After the cancellation of the South by Southwest Film Festival , where the film was to be shown in March 2020, the independent film distributor Oscilloscope Laboratories and the technology company Mailchimp made the film available free of charge on a joint online platform for 30 days.
Awards
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2020
- Nomination in the international online short film competition
- Nomination for the Short Film Grand Jury Prize (Santiago Menghini)
South by Sout West Film Festival 2020
- Award in the Midnight Shorts category
Web links
- Regret in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Regret in the program of the South by Southwest Film Festival (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chris Lindahl: Most SXSW Shorts Are Streaming Free Thanks to Oscilloscope and Mailchimp. In: indiewire.com, March 25, 2020.
- ↑ Courts-métrages internationaux. In: nifff.ch. Retrieved July 9, 2020.