A Day With You

by Jinny Park in Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

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A short fiction film about a girl given a chance to heal her relationship with her mother when she meets her mother's younger self.

by Jinny Park in Bournemouth, Dorset, United Kingdom

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Missing her dead mother, Elle makes a wish to see her mother again for a day. Elle’s wish is granted, but she gets Tracy, a teenage version of her mother who travelled in time from the 1990s, instead of her ‘mum’.

While spending a day together with Tracy, Elle discovers that her strict mother who didn’t get along with her very well used to be a lively teenager who didn’t want to grow up to be a married woman settled with a household. After spending a day with Tracy and getting to know her, Elle tells Tracy the truth about her mother and tells her to live her life the way she wants so she can change the future, even though that means that Elle won’t exist. However, instead of agreeing like she would have before spending the day with Elle, Tracy simply says that she will live her life the way she wants to.


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Through Elle and Tracy's interactions, A Day With You explores the complicated emotions a daughter can feel when thinking about her mother: affection, yearning, admiration, compassion, fear, pain… And how young people can feel about their unknown future, which they could expect to be grim and scary judging by the lives of the adults around them.

Our main themes are:

  • Women's life, because married women/housewives tend to be reduced to someone’s wife/mother rather than having their own identity.
  • Mother-daughter relationship, because some daughters wonder, 'What would have my mother’s life been like if she didn’t have me?'
  • Family, because as much as it is easy to love them, it is also easy to dislike them.
  • Life, because we end up making choices that we never thought that we would make in our lives.


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Elle, The Daughter

Elle is an ordinary girl living in the 2020s. She is a quiet, organised, and hardworking student at university. She had a common relationship with her mother: loving each other and not understanding each other at the same time. Elle misses her mother very much and wonders if her mother regretted her life when she died.

Tracy, The Mother

Tracy is a rebellious teenager living in the 1990s. She hates the idea of living her life on someone else’s terms or settling down for a stable life. Therefore, she never wants to get married or have children. With a spontaneous and opinionated mind, Tracy seeks freedom and dreams of travelling the world.


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Jinny Park, Writer/Director

Katie Burroughs, Lead Producer

Henry Blandford, Producer, 1st Assistant Director

Jess Rooke, Producer

Olivia Bailey, Producer

Rin Gamboa-Kerwood, Director of Photography

Samhita Vishwanath Siddappa, Camera Operator

Tom Sheriff, Gaffer

Emily Jupp, Production Designer

Oliver Leung, Art Director

Duru Yildiz, Sound Designer

Finlay Williamson, Sound Recordist

Mia Bloch, Editor, Script Supervisor

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