From Under My Bed (2005)

Recommended

France

Short Film

Original Title: Sous mon lit

Writer/Director: Jihane Chouaib

Cinematographer: Dylan Doyle

Composers: Mendelson, Los Tres Amigos

Cast: Emeline Becuwe, Clément van den Bergh

As her parents tootle off on their summer holiday thinking that their daughter is about to board a coach for a school-organised trip to London, Mira, a sexually repressed teenaged girl caught awkwardly between childhood and adulthood, instead returns home alone, where her fears, repressions, and anxieties begin to manifest themselves, in Chouaib’s thoughtfully and viscerally stimulating short film. Iain.Stott