Late Afternoon

Emily, an elderly lady struggling with dementia, finds her memory drifting back to the past. Will she manage to connect her scattered memories to the present and remember who the woman bringing her tea and biscuits is?

Emily has trouble remembering things. When a piece of biscuit drops into her cup of tea, she begins to drift between distant scenes from her past. She returns to the carefree days of her childhood: time spent on the beach and bike rides with a friend, and later the rush of first love and precious moments shared with her beloved daughter Kate.

Late Afternoon is a moving, Oscar-nominated animated film about the importance of memory to our identity and how, sometimes, we need to look back deep into the past to fully understand who we really are.

The film is presented alongside Song of the Sea.

Did you know that…

… the director’s grandmothers were the inspiration for the character of Emily? As a child, Bagnall saw them as charming elderly ladies who would secretly bring her biscuits. It was only later that she realised how rich their lives had been, which she wanted to capture by showing the richness of Emily’s memories.