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One school day. The narrative follows six students. One carries something between himself and his brother, one is hiding who he is, one has to keep going to the toilet because of a medical condition, one is the most popular student in the school and one does not speak at all. The film shows the same hours again and again from different people; they pass each other in the corridor and none of them knows what another is carrying. At two thirty seven a student is found in a toilet. Murali K. Thalluri writes and directs. Teresa Palmer is in the cast. It is an Australian production. The film was shown at Cannes and is the director's first feature; Thalluri made it in his early twenties. Its form rests on repeating the same span of time, and on release that structure was compared with another film; the director had to enter the argument about the resemblance. There are interview passages cut in; the characters speak directly to camera, which breaks the sense of realism. The matter it treats is invisibility; each character's trouble has gone unsaid to the others. The ending is shown directly and the film does not cut away from that scene; the choice caused argument in the reviews. Its limit is register; the narrative is too explanatory at times and the last section is heavy. Who it is for: people who watch Australian independent cinema and drama set in schools. Who it is not for: the subject is extremely heavy, the ending is shown directly, and the narrative is punishing.