Boxing Day

A father’s struggle to reunite his family over a single afternoon, told in real-time and, effectively, shot in a single take. Living alone on home detention, Chris (Richard Green) is preparing Christmas lunch for his teenage daughter when an old friend offers a disturbing truth about his ex-wife’s new boyfriend. In painstaking detail – minute by minute – he wrestles with this secret and with the prospect of it tearing his family apart. Filmmaker Kriv Stenders has produced a claustrophobic character piece with tension wound so tight it’s sure to snap. As he explains, “The thing I learn as I make more and more films is that, if I frighten myself, if I put myself in compromising positions, I find that the pay-off is more rewarding than being safe.” –MIFF