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Much Ado ()

Directed by Sophie Superfine

“Some stories teach us how to love. Others teach us how to be brave.”

Fantasy, Romance · 15m

A grandmother reads Shakespeare to her grandson while his parents' marriage falls apart downstairs. In the fairy-tale kingdom of Messina, Beatrice and Benedict wage war with words both too proud to admit they're in love, too scared to be the first to say it. Their friends trick them into confessing, but when the deception is revealed, both retreat behind their sharpest defenses. It takes one honest moment in a grand garden to realise the trick didn't create their love, it only made them brave enough to speak it. Upstairs, eight-year-old Jamie watches his own walls crumble. By the time the book closes, he's learned what Beatrice learned: that being vulnerable isn't weakness. It's the bravest thing you can do. A dual-narrative Shakespeare adaptation about wit as armor, love as risk, and the stories that teach us how to be honest when the world is breaking.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Sophie Superfine
Writer
Holly Elizabeth Williams
Director of Photography
Holly Elizabeth Williams
Editor
Griff Edwards
Producer
Abbie Schofield

Details

Runtime
15m
Genres
Fantasy, Romance
Original language
EN
Countries
United Kingdom