Four Seasons in a Day
Each day, the Carlingford ferry transports people over the border between Northern-Ireland and Ireland, whilst the debate over Brexit rages. Staying or remaining, both options prompt big question marks about the future. The short journey over the wide sea brings different thoughts and reflections to the surface. Four Seasons in a Day creates a kaleidoscopic narrative based on how people’s daily lives and thoughts relate to the imaginary line under the sea. How visible could the borderline eventually become?
Dir. Annabel Verbeke - 77min - 2021 - Belgium, Norway, Croatia, Lithuania
"amiable, breeze-shooting psychogeography...Anxieties about the possibility of a hard border raise the spectre of old enmities, but the general excitement over spotting one frontier-oblivious local – Finn the dolphin – shows there is no sectarian divide a few aquatic somersaults can’t cross" - The Guardian
"an unexpectedly moving portrait of belonging, identity and the threat of the great unknown" - Screen Daily
"Quiet before the storm" - POV Magazine
"A reflective and refreshing non-political look at Brexit’s border impact" - Film Uforia
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Four Seasons in a Day
Dir. Annabel Verbeke - 2021 - Belgium, Norway, Croatia, Lithuania
Each day, the Carlingford ferry transports people over the border between Northern-Ireland and Ireland, whilst the debate over Brexit rages. Staying or remaining, both options prompt big question marks about the future. The short ...
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Four Seasons in a Day - Trailer
The crossing by ferry on a lough between Ireland and Northern-Ireland, obliges the passengers to reflect on the future form of the frontier, somewhere hidden in the sea.