Advent - A Christmas Anthology
2019, 90 minutes
Made up of three substantial yet uniquely identifiable Christmas tales, ADVENT sees 7 specific lives all caught up over the course of December 24th 2020
Made up of three substantial yet uniquely identifiable Christmas tales, ADVENT sees 7 specific lives all caught up over the course of December 24th 2020, starting with Matthew Wood’s opening segment story, HO-HO-HOSTAGE, a comedy that follows Mary and David along with their son Dylan. Tucked in bed on Christmas Eve, little Dylan hears footsteps downstairs, and investigating leads him into a burglary situation. With he and his family held hostage by criminals in their living room, it is up to one of Christmas’ original visitors to step in and help out. Continuing with the spirit of the season, Kaushy Patel presents THREE GHOSTS, chronicling the Wilkinson family, whose continual fighting and arguing tips the balance on Christmas Eve. However, this continual emotional struggle has finally taken its toll on all of them both mentally and physically. Fearing that all hope is lost, they decide to proceed with a devastating course of action. Their only hope? Three Christmas ghosts, who are determined to show each of them how their consequences would have emotional repercussions and that their presence in the world is a blessing and not a hindrance, as they believe. Concluding this new bold anthology is Dave Hastings’s third segment, DOMINIK, which tells the true story of a quiet and gentle stranger, who begins to appear at Midnight Mass every Christmas Eve at a local nearby church. As Susan Wormbourne and her husband, Colin, the vicar, attempt to find out who the young man is, they discover a heart-breaking and tragic past, one that finds him now lost in a country he does not originally come from. An audacious reinforcement of how our many differences can actually bring out our greatest strengths. As ADVENT concludes, the characters and events help reaffirm that Christmas is not just a time for gift-giving, mince pies and office parties, but also a time when we need to watch out for those in society more vulnerable than ourselves.
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