Snowfalls in the Summer
2023 · 14m · UK
Directed by Ajuán Isaac-George
Tones: melancholic, tender
A working-class family's decade-spanning story plays out within a single living room.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
A decade in one living room — a real structural commitment, and Aluede has the BFI behind him for a reason. Could be devastating, could be furniture porn with feelings.
Isaac-George collapsing a decade into one unchanging room is the Ramsay Gasman / Rocks lineage executed with real spatial discipline, and BFI backing confirms the seriousness. A formal commitment to domestic continuity as memory-vessel.
14:24 of decade-spanning family drama confined to one living room is a real staging puzzle — the production design has to convincingly age while the camera grammar tracks emotional time. BFI-supported with a 10-person cast suggests serious dramaturgical investment.
Festivals
- BFI London Film Festival 2023