The Tarn Between Us

Childhood friendships can sometimes resonate with us throughout life.  Sometimes they can do much, much more than that.  Watching this short film set in Cumbria’s Little Langdale Valley – the heart of the Lake District, I can’t help but think that James and Adeline will see each other again. Yet first, they must reconcile both to the distance that has been between them and that which will soon inevitably interrupt their friendship again.

This very sweet short film is almost wordless – but then it doesn’t really need a script.  Many of us have been a James or an Adeline and we will recognise in this pair echoes of our own lives and loves.  There’s a Welsh word – hiraeth – a deep longing for something (especially home) and this to me is what this short is all about.

 “The Tarn Between Us”, by Bjornfell UK and directed by Katie Armer, is a hauntingly beautiful short film (a tarn is a small mountain lake formed in a hollow left by a melting glacier before you go and look it up and so make the title quite a clever play on words). The film was produced by Katie Armer and Olivier Jumeau, and filmed and edited by Will Nutter. It stars Angelique Taylor as Adeline, Theo Ives-Leduc as James, and Sue Nutter as Adeline’s Mother.

Watch the short film below.