Eva Victor‘s function directing debut “Sorry, Child” — which the filmmaker additionally wrote and stars in — was the jewel of the 2025 Sundance Movie Pageant. A24 purchased the movie earlier than the competition’s finish, the place this poignant and incisive have a look at a tutorial recovering from trauma received the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award out of the U.S. Dramatic Competitors. “Sorry, Child” will hit U.S. theaters on June 27 from A24 after opening the Seattle Worldwide Movie Pageant for one final competition bow. The movie can even shut this yr’s Cannes Administrators’ Fortnight, the sidebar that often honors boundary-pushing filmmakers. Watch the trailer beneath.
A24’s logline for “Sorry, Child” is curiously mute on particulars — “One thing unhealthy occurred to Agnes. However life goes on… for everybody round her, at the least” — however IndieWire noticed the movie at Sundance and may affirm it takes a tough and strange cinematic have a look at a girl reeling from a horrible encounter from her mentor. Victor, a comic and social media star, makes a daring assertion together with her first movie, each darkly humorous and poignant. She co-stars alongside Naomi Ackie and Lucas Hedges as Agnes, who has stayed behind within the New England cottage city the place she accomplished grad college, right here nonetheless to attempt to make it as a author. A fraught encounter together with her thesis advisor (Louis Cancelmi) has left her scrambling for solutions, because the film charts her belated coming-of-age towards the backdrop of 1 horrible occasion.
Extra from IndieWire’s rave evaluate: “One thing unhealthy occurred to Agnes. However life goes on. Massive, great, humorous, horrible, unusual, unhappy, nice life. How fortunate we’re that Victor is right here to chronicle simply that.”
Victor spoke to IndieWire at our Sundance Studio about how telling this very private story turned a sort of “remedy”: “It was positively in a variety of methods an try and put myself via some type of remedy, it’s a narrative about therapeutic, and in some meta methods, writing was an try at that, making it was an try at that. The movie is about this severe factor in some methods however it’s in regards to the time afterwards and a friendship that will get you thru that. Loads of the movie is about looking for pleasure, and that’s what our characters are doing collectively within the movie.”
“Sorry, Child” finds uncomfortable humor within the darkest of instances. Oscar winner Barry Jenkins produced the film together with Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak. John Carroll Lynch co-stars as a stranger who helps Agnes out within the worst of instances.
Watch the trailer for “Sorry, Child” beneath.