Two lives, one road...

A Road Apart
2008

*Nominated for the Fujifilm Shorts Awards 2009 in the category of 'Best Film' and 'Best Cinematography'

Fujifilm Shorts Awards 2009

Rhode Island International Film Festival 2009

Bornshorts International Film Festival 2009

New Orleans Film Festival 2009

Middle East International Film Festival 2009

Branchage Jersey International Film Festival 2009

Plus Camerimage International Film Festival 2009

London Short Film Festival 2010

A Road Apart is a roadtrip involving two characters, an Italian and a Serbian who meet by chance, both travelling back to their homeland to face their two very different pasts.

Set in the Swiss Alps, the story begins at a motorway service station as Boris, desperate to get back to his country having fled the Balkan War over ten years earlier, forces an Italian driver, Filippo, at gunpoint to drive him through Switzerland and over the Italian border.

A Road Apart
2008

Once on the road however, Filippo manages to overpower Boris.  With the tables now turned, we discover that Boris is not the violent man he at first appeared and we learn that like Boris, Filippo too is returning to his homeland to see his family after a long time away.

As the two men continue to talk along the journey, Boris begins to seriously doubt his own motivations for returning to his homeland, forcing him to make a decision that will irreversibly shape his own destiny, as well as that of the daughter he has never met...

A Road Apart
2008

Director:              Olivier Kaempfer

Producer:            Olivier Kaempfer

Writer:                 Olivier Kaempfer

Format:               16mm

Release Date:      June/July 2008

Cast

Giuseppe Lorusso..........................Filippo

Branko Tomovic.............................Boris

Full Crew


Producer:                                     Olivier Kaempfer

Director:                                       Olivier Kaempfer

Director of Photography:            Ji-Hwan Park

Music Composer:                        Nikhil George

Editor:                                           Miguel Caro, Olivier Kaempfer

Camera Operator:                        Robert Wilton

Sound:                                          Nicholas Little

Script Editor/
Production Assistant:                 Amos Soffian

Gaffers:                                         Lee Kwang Hee
                                                      Yoon Jong Han

Grip:                                              David Armstrong

1st Assistant Camera:                Gareth Harfoot

Make-Up:                                      Nicola Murray

Costume:                                      Sophie Howard

Production Assistant:                 Bart Kuijpers