Far Away
2025 · 10m · USA
Directed by Emily Murnane
Genres: drama
Tones: darkly comic, tender
Two close friends hold space for one another in a moment of quiet crisis — an intimate two-hander about depression, friendship, and the small gestures through which people sustain each other.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Every camera placement is doing emotional work, and Murnane's restraint in not naming the crisis at the film's center proves more powerful than any exposition could.
Two friends sitting with depression, framed through doorways and reflections — every Short of the Week sad-girl drama since 2019. Ten minutes I've already seen a dozen times.
Framing two friends through doorways, glasses, and reflections to make depression's distance visible without naming it is the kind of restrained visual grammar that makes intimate two-handers work. Limperis and Cotter holding space together for 10 minutes — quiet films about quietness are hard, this one sounds composed.
Festivals
- Seattle International Film Festival 2025