One week after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, a father and his three daughters visit a resort from a childhood vacation 25 years ago. Using archival home videos juxtaposed with footage from the recent trip, it is a portrait of the filmmaker’s own family's grief through the lens of memory and nostalgia.
The film had its online premiere on Short of the Week (SOTW) and was subsequently awarded Best Doc of the Year (2025).
Jason Sondhi, founder of SOTW, compared the film to Aftersun in his review:
—It is unfair to compare any short to Aftersun, a film widely proclaimed as the best feature debut of the century, but the superficial similarities between it and Bren Cukier’s family documentary are inescapable: an adult woman reflecting back on a youthful seaside resort vacation, attempting to recontextualize the figure of her father and reconcile it in her memory while haunted by the specter of his loss. These are striking commonalities. The two films even interweave lo-fi DV home video aesthetics, braiding the past with the present.
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