Wonderwall
TITLE
Wonderwall
DIRECTOR
Róisín Burns
COUNTRY
UK
YEAR
2025
DURATION
28′
GENRE
Fiction
Overview

Wonderwall
Liverpool, 1995. The dockers are on strike. But Siobhan (9) and her big brother Rory have other things on their mind : will their heroes Oasis beat Blur in tonight's Battle of Britpop. When a fight breaks out, Siobhan runs off into the night. She drifts around, tired and alone, and the streets seem strange and unfamiliar.

DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Róisín Burns
Róisín Burns is Irish-English and lives in Paris. She grew up in Liverpool, brought up with the sounds of Merseybeat, football chants and the Irish Sea. In 2018, she directed her first student film, Passing Tides (France 3) followed by a TV documentary, Disparitions, broadcast on ARTE (2021). In 2022, she joined the screenwriting workshop at La Fémis and began writing her first feature film. Wonderwall, produced by Barberousse Films, is her first short fiction film.
Credits
- DirectorRóisín Burns
- ScreenplayRóisín Burns, Aaron Cohen-Yanay
- CinematographyRaimon Gaffier
- Cast
- EditingLuc Seugé
- Producer/s Barberousse films
- Production Company
- Distributor/sManifest Distributor France
- Project TitleWonderwall
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date1 January 2025
- Country of originUK
- Country of filmingUK
- LanguageEnglish
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo

Róisín Burns
Róisín Burns is Irish-English and lives in Paris. She grew up in Liverpool, brought up with the sounds of Merseybeat, football chants and the Irish Sea. In 2018, she directed her first student film, Passing Tides (France 3) followed by a TV documentary, Disparitions, broadcast on ARTE (2021). In 2022, she joined the screenwriting workshop at La Fémis and began writing her first feature film. Wonderwall, produced by Barberousse Films, is her first short fiction film.