雪人

本片根据社会活动家约翰·戴维森的人生经历改编。他年少时被诊断出患有妥瑞氏综合征，会不受控制地抽动身体或口吐恶言。妥瑞氏综合征迫使约翰与同龄人疏远，而他则不懈与这种鲜为人知的症状作斗争，积极为妥瑞氏人群发声。

艾莉继承祖母乔伊1940年代创立的“永恒喜讯”印社——这间承载着乔伊数十年爱意、奉献与牺牲的手工店铺。艾莉始终将祖母为店铺的牺牲视为人生负累。当她返店筹备出售时，邂逅了守护祖母遗产的老派灵魂本内特。当二人筹划未来之际，天意迫使他们以崭新目光重审店铺与自身的命运。

Facing a long winter of lockdown and combating a bad case of writer’s block, filmmaker Eric agrees to get a dog with his girlfriend Allie. A modern couple – vegan, ethical, millennial, neurotic – much research and negotiation leads to the arrival of Milly, a rescue from the Dominican Republic. This sets off a riotous chain of new challenges on how to best deal with this addition to the household. As Eric contends with a sinister dog-training programme, his introspection spills out onto his film work, with poor Allie and Milly taken along for the ride. The couple each pursue their own deepheld individual questions surrounding trust, purpose and roots, while wrestling with the idea of what it means to be a modern family. Milly, in the meantime, has a lot on her paws with these two!
　　Part rom-com, part rescue-dog story, part autofiction, part self-indictment, part family scrapbook, this debut feature was made with remarkable economy and displays a disquieting amount of (often hilarious) emotional authenticity. Filmmaker Ben Petrie and creative collaborator Grace Glowicki play the young couple and in doing so, capture nothing less than what it means to be human.