Jack O'Connell is one of our favourite young actors and he is set to make a return in new short film Home, which will be released as part of World Refugee Day.
Home
Home has been written and directed by Daniel Mulloy, who has already brought us short films Baby, Son and Dad in recent years, as he explores the refugee crisis that has been making headlines around the world.
O'Connell is set to take on the central role of a young father and is joined on the cast list by Holliday Grainger, Tahliya Lowles, and Zaki Ramadani.
An official trailer for the film has been released and we have it for you to take a look at:
A family, led by their confident and caring father (O'Connell), heads out on what appears to be a holiday. However it slowly becomes clear that they are in fact leaving the security and safety of a leafy suburb to cross Europe and make their way into the middle of a war zone.
As they travel the father's re-assurances ring hollow as under great stress the father buckles and the mother's (Holliday Grainger) strength takes over. Intimate and touching the film reaches for a truth through its absurd premise of reversing the refugee journey.
Home depicts the breakdown and rebuilding of trust and love amid the horrors of war and migration. We witness the realities and trauma of being refugees as within the family, roles of leadership and bravery are passed from one parent to another. Home is a sensitive, layered and complex exploration of how fear can bring out the best and worst in all of us.
Home is released in cinemas nationwide on World Refugee Day, 20th June. Will you stand #WithRefugees? Visit withrefugees.org
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