17 o'clock

A quiet, tender-wounding short that holds its breath alongside a family as ordinary summer life continues under the sound of distant bombs.

Directed by

Flaka Kokolli

Genres

Animation, Family

Overview

A family of four must live an everyday life while the world around them shatters during the armed conflict 2001. While the bombing is ongoing these two parents are in a constant dilemma, protecting and sheltering their children inside thefour walls of their home, as they beg to play in the sun, or allowing them to play and have a childhood, while they’re still young enough to be shielded by their innocence and ignorance. Whatever may happen, summer cannot stop its flow. As the watermelons grow ripe, the tobacco leaves dry and turn to gold, colonies of ants gather their food, the clock never stops ticking, and the bombs continue to fall around the mountain of Ljuboten.

How it feels

Melancholic, tense, warm and bleak. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

War, family, parenthood, survival

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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