The Confession (short film)

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Movie
Original title The Confession
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 26 minutes
Rod
Director Tanel Toom
script Caroline Bruckner
Tanel Toom
production Emily Williams
music Paul Lambert
camera David Cinzi
cut Marianne Kuopanportti
occupation

The Confession is a British short film directed by Tanel Toom . Released in 2010, the drama was nominated for an Oscar in 2011 .

action

Sam, an eight-year-old boy who goes to a Catholic private school, is about to make his first confession . However, he has a problem: there is nothing to confess. But since he thinks that he could only become a good Catholic if he had something to confess, he turned to his schoolmate Jacob. He says that he would confess that he did not listen to his mother and that he locked his sister in the basement. In desperation, Sam asked Jacob to commit a sin with him .

The two friends decide to steal a scarecrow and thereby break one of the ten commandments. The two steal the scarecrow and put it down in such a way that the farmer would have to discover it on his way home. But the plan backfires: a car driver thinks the scarecrow is a corpse, evades it and crashes into a tree. The driver and her daughter are killed. Scared, the two children flee with the scarecrow and throw it into a crevice.

Jacob tries to convince Sam it was an accident and warns him not to say something to anyone. But the guilt is too heavy for Sam. When his father tells about the missing scarecrow over dinner, Sam thinks he knows he is guilty. The two friends meet at the crevice and get into an argument. In a scuffle, Sam accidentally pushes Jacob down the cliff.

Confession is scheduled for the next day. Sam almost ambushes the priest to be the first to go to confession. When he was sitting in the confessional, he only confessed to the priest that he had not listened to his mother and that he had locked his sister in the cellar. The priest gives Sam absolution .

background

Tanel Toom's melodrama about atonement and guilt was made on a budget of $ 7,000 . It was Tanel Toom's thesis at the National Film and Television School . The film won the Student Academy Award in the “Best Foreign Film” category. In 2011 the film was nominated for an Oscar for " Best Short Film ", but lost to God of Love .

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Individual evidence

  1. NFTS graduation film receives Oscar nomination. (No longer available online.) National Film and Television School , formerly original ; Retrieved January 9, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk  
  2. ^ Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , accessed January 9, 2013 .