written worlds
Faraday Colony
# family drama feature film
# chamber piece
# psychological realism
# immigrant family
# generational trauma
# religious oppression
# tragic irony
Logline
At a New Year’s gathering in an isolated mountain chalet, a young French woman meets her fiancé’s dysfunctional immigrant family for the first time — but as buried tensions erupt and a child disappears, their engagement announcement turns into tragedy.
Description
A large immigrant family gathers in a mountain chalet for New Year’s Eve. Kirill arrives with Sophie, his French fiancée, hoping to announce their engagement. But what should be a celebration slowly becomes an initiation into a family world governed by religious ritual, emotional cruelty, sacrifice, resentment and silence.
Sophie watches as the family performs closeness without tenderness. The mother speaks of faith while planning her escape. The father hides from responsibility behind failed artistic dreams. The adult children carry the same wound in different forms: obedience, rage, success, isolation. Kirill still hopes the night can heal something. Sophie begins to understand that this family may be her future.
Meanwhile, the youngest child sees what the adults refuse to see. Given a stuffed raven from Mexico, he turns it into a silent companion — a witness from another world. As the family collapses into accusations and rituals, the child disappears.
At midnight, the New Year arrives. Sophie runs into the snow. The cuckoo clock calls. The mountain breaks loose.
Sophie watches as the family performs closeness without tenderness. The mother speaks of faith while planning her escape. The father hides from responsibility behind failed artistic dreams. The adult children carry the same wound in different forms: obedience, rage, success, isolation. Kirill still hopes the night can heal something. Sophie begins to understand that this family may be her future.
Meanwhile, the youngest child sees what the adults refuse to see. Given a stuffed raven from Mexico, he turns it into a silent companion — a witness from another world. As the family collapses into accusations and rituals, the child disappears.
At midnight, the New Year arrives. Sophie runs into the snow. The cuckoo clock calls. The mountain breaks loose.
Concept note
This film is a chamber family drama about love as absence, family as a closed system, and the moment when adults begin to see the world they inherited — without knowing how to escape it.
The story unfolds through psychological realism, tragic irony and the gaze of a child who refuses to grow up into the reality offered to him. The chalet becomes a labyrinth of rooms, rituals, overheard conversations and emotional isolation. At its center is the raven: a symbol of death, passage and release.
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The story unfolds through psychological realism, tragic irony and the gaze of a child who refuses to grow up into the reality offered to him. The chalet becomes a labyrinth of rooms, rituals, overheard conversations and emotional isolation. At its center is the raven: a symbol of death, passage and release.
Script, pitch deck are available upon request.
