Jonah And The Vicarious Nature Of Homesickness

Winner of the Berlin Today Award at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival

SYNOPSIS

One day Jonah left his family. He gave no explanation and no goodbye — only a telephone number that redirected to an answering machine. Now, as he drifts deeper into an abyss of paper planets and cardboard comets, his connections to time, reality and home are falling prey to the vacuum of space. The signal from Earth is fading and his memories are blurring into obscurity. Only home can save him now but is it too late for Jonah?

Financed by the Berlinale Talent Campus & Berlin-Brandenburg Medienboard

Jonah — Jens Winter
Amelia — Sabina Smitham

Writer/Director — Bryn Chainey
Producer — Anna Wendt
Cinematographer — Marc Achenbach
Composer — Ilja Coric
Editor — Courtney Teixera
Production Design — Max Eichenlaub

FULL CAST & CREW

AWARDS

Berlin Today Award — Berlin International Film Festival, Germany
First Prize — Festshortberlin
Best Special Effects & Best Design — Shortcutz Berlin

FESTIVAL SELECTIONS

Berlin International Film Festival, Germany
Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA
Stockholm International Film Festival, Sweden
Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, South Korea
Sapporo International Short Film Festival, Japan
In The Palace International Short Film Festival, Bulgaria
Durban International Film Festival, South Africa
CineFest International Film Festival, Hungary
Leuven International Short Film Festival, Belgium
Pentedattilo Film Festival, Italy
Festshortberlin, Germany
Shortcutz Berlin, Germany