Charlie and Niamh have been inseparable since they were toddlers, they have just finished secondary school and are about to embark on separate life paths for the first time.
Charlie is applying to attend UCLA art school with a scholarship and if he succeeds he’s going to leave everything, and everyone, he knows behind in Dublin. He has to face his own imposter syndrome about his talent but his tight bond with Niamh helps him get through his mental struggles.
Our story is not really about Charlie or Niamh, it’s bigger than both of them. Our last Summer is a really important conversation about so many aspects young people’s experience of love, friendship, loss, invisible mental health struggles, ambition, creativity, imposter syndrome, independence, growing up, relationships and their impact, failure, confusion, anger, grief, shock, how people evolve and how that effects relationships with the people whom we are closest to.
Our Last Summer takes the audience through the underrepresented experience of loss without explanation. An experience, unfortunately, all too common today.
by Alannah Wilson (Ireland)
Cal Film Festival 