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12 minutes of tension and uncertainty heightened by the blazing sun and the intermittent cries from the children. The short film "Caroline" follows of a young girl, Caroline, as her desperate mother is forced to leave her and her siblings alone in an attempt to secure a job during her job interview. Her mother leaves them in the car during a hot summer day. The issue arising when their babysitter does not pick them up as planned and they are instead approached by a stranger with unknown intentions while their mother is absent.

The film uses close-ups and tilted frames along with a shaky camera as it portrays a stressfully realistic scenario. The camera techniques does not allow you to get a clear and calm image of the situation, allowing one to be fully immersed in the emotions of the young girl. It ties in with the emotions of Caroline as the story is told through her limited and child-like perspective. The cries of her baby siblings as well as her harried yet caring mother's desperation adds to the crafting of the tension and unease Caroline feels when confronted with the unfamiliar situation. It is about Caroline. Her emotions and perspectives regarding the events, leaving her and the audience much in the dark to the specific details (a child's innocence and ignorance) of the events occurring while still leaving enough evidence for the audience to comprehend more fully what a child cannot.

With sensational acting from the characters, Catherine Held playing the mother in a convincing and moving play with the young girl. The film displays the dilemma of what a person must do what the best decision would be as they are backed into a corner or left with no options or proper aid.

Provoked a emotional response from its audience. Whether you connect with the characters or not it's a memorable short film that allows the audience to be immersed in the storyline. The story follows a young girl and her family as she deals with the harshness of the inner workings of society. The single mother of three decides to leave her children inside the car on a hot Texas summer day in order to attend a job interview that she desperately needs. The views sympathize with her even though her actions were morally incorrect. As she frantically attempts to find a solution for the issue at hand. Her helplessness is present from the first moment of the film and escalates as the film progresses. By making the viewpoint Caroline, an innocent and vulnerable child, we the audience become conflicted between siding with the mother and her situation and what society norms.

The relationship between the director (Held) and children really shone though in this film, to make a believable and authentic performance. Inorder to create this bond both directors moved in with the children for a period of time in order establish a more comfortable atmosphere. The children acting has very impressive as it made the audience feel uncomfortable

This unique storyline and well executed acting made the film worthy of the praise it received. My criticism on the film was the little backstory it gave to what led up to the events at hand. Viewers had to make many assumption about the living and financial situation of the mother. The film exerted many emotions but abrupt ending made me personally left with many emotions and unable to feel with it. I would recommend this film to a more mature audience as it addresses mature concepts about our society. Overall I thoroughly enjoy the craft of this film and would watch again.

Close up shots, sweat, tears and a confined space. It's tense.

Caroline is a nerve-wracking short film directed by Logan George and Celine Held centered around a six year old girl who's mothers is in distress and the responsibilities of looking after her siblings have fallen upon her. Caroline's mother is in need of a job and the film begins with the family in the car on the way to what seems to be a job interview on a very hot day. Being the only adult, Caroline's mother must leave her children in the car in hopes that a six year old will be able to handle anything that may arise during the time that she is gone. 3 young children alone, inside of a hot car with no AC on. Attention is drawn to them and tension rises as the film progresses.

Caroline is a film that keeps you on your toes, creates tension and makes you uncomfortable in the best way possible. The sweat, uncomfortable movement and the cry of the children all serve to keep the audience invested in each scene.

Although it had a little bit of a lackluster ending, the film successfully kept me interested in the storyline. I would recommend it to older audiences who are able to understand the struggle of the mother and the burden that is constantly put on this 6 year old child so that they may better comprehend the film as a whole. .

Every time I watch this 12 minute short, it brings me to tears! The anxiety of the situation in this short film had me sitting on the edge of my seat. The emotional roller coaster brought out the mama bear in me and the cliff hanger left me wanting more. God forbid you're in this situation and how horrible for the moms that are!

No wonder this short has won so many awards, it is a brilliant made film. So intensive and filled with emotion, what all films should be!

Wow, that was an intense short film. I can see a mom struggling with three young children like this. If a film leaves me wanting to see more, I know I've become involved in the story. And isn't that the point?

This short should have won the Palme D'Or at Cannes. It was the only US short nominated in 2018. The coolest thing about Caroline- you can watch it over and over again and pick up nuances that you missed the first time- it is packed with hidden meaning. It is BRILLIANT. Well done - love the kids and the mom <3

What was the point of this short? I mean, very little happened. It started abrupt and ended abrupt. So there was no beginning, middle. Just an ending which was unsatisfying. Everything that happened was over the top forced writers drama.

I didn't believe a thing that happened. A mom just left the kids in the car to go in and see a tax dude in scolding heat? I mean, really? Even if i believed that, once Caroline told them where the mom was, they should have gone to get her. And then the overreaction of the crowd, getting into physical fights etc.

The kids seemed fine, because they could have opened the door at any time, which she did anyway.

I never sympathized with the mom, nor any of the random people in the parking lot.

Everyone says the kids were amazing, but they literally had no idea they were being filmed, at least the two youngest and with Caroline they just grabbed candid moments of her.

This has potential to go somewhere, but it didn't. Instead it just frustrated me with one bad decision after another.

It was trying WAY too hard to be dramatic and ended up being melodramatic.

A hot summer day in Texas puts a mother of three in a very difficult situation between work and her kids. The camera is focuses on 6-year old Caroline who is distracted by her fingers wondering in her mouth while the mother of three is scrambling to find someone to take care of her kids as she is late for a job interview at a tax service place. Held and George's created a situation with many controversies over the outcome of this short film. By using techniques which lead the audience to anticipate the worst of the situation, then realizing that the final outcome was not as treacherous as it could have been. A great technique used to pull the audience in as Caroline is faced with a situation way above her age level of problem solving. The perspective the directors put the audience in allowed the audience to feel as though they were in the car as well but with no power over the situation. The camera angles and the effects of the noise levels Held and Georges used to set the situation helped create a more uneasy feeling for the audience. The love felt between Caroline and her mom, and the mom to the kids was very moving and helped reinforce a good intention when the decision between work and the kids came to light. While Caroline and her two younger siblings were unaware of the significance of their situation many times, we noticed Caroline without hesitation stepping in to calm them down. As the situation becomes more heated when a lady in the parking lot steps into help, and the mom comes out fully aware of what her decision has led to as she runs through people swarming her car. The situation goes of a slippery slope shortly after that as people are screaming and trying to get the mom out of the car. During which there is a short fight which breaks out we notice how Caroline only being 6-years old steps in to defend her mom by biting the arm of the lady who saved them in order to get her off of her mom. As Caroline is scrambled back into the car by her mom, she notices that her tooth fell out which symbolizes the loss of youthfulness and innocents. Although the film kept the audience on the edge of their seat not knowing what would happen next, the one downside to the film was the lack in detail over the location changes throughout the film. Overall, this film brings light to current problems and stereotypes of mothers and their children, and the way people view working moms. I would recommend this stressful and thrilling film to teens and young adults.

This short film had me gripped from the start and as a mother I can empathise with the situation.

The film Caroline focuses on a young girl named Caroline whose mother leaves her in a boiling hot car in a Texas parking lot with her 2 other siblings, one of which is a very young baby. The film starts off with a stressed mother who desperately needs a job in order to feed her kids because we can assume she is a single mother as the dad is not present in the car or around to look after the kids. The mother had planned in advance for one of her friends to look after the kids while she goes in for a job interview. Her plan changes as the person who was supposed to look after the kids bailed on her and is not home when she should've been. The mother gets super stressed out as she is late for her interview and if she brings her kids in with her she most likely will not get the job. At the parking lot she quickly rushes to get ready and tells her kids that someone will come to take of them so she leaves them in the steaming hot car which leads to a number of events that really increase your anxiety and leave you on the edge of your seat the whole time they are in the car because there's a possibility that something possibly really bad is about to happen.

This film was inspired by real life circumstances that happen often especially in very hot places such as Texas. The purpose of this film is to show that even just a single decision can ruin your life and you may not be able to control it. It also shows that responsibility is a key factor for both parents and children as not taking responsibility into your own hands can result in a sequence of bad events.

The film did a really good job at really getting your attention because nobody wants to see children suffering and having them cry gets you dry emotionally as a child's cry is very unsettling. Another positive about this film is the suspense that it creates, as you watch you often question and want to know what's gonna happen to both the kids and the mother because the attraction of strangers creates an suspenseful plot that goes by slowly to create even more suspense. This film was pretty good the whole time but it was not perfect and there are a few negatives to take from this. The first one being the crying of the children got a bit excessive and started to get very annoying and it changed your emotions from sad and shocked to getting very annoyed. Other than that this film was very well done and I would recommend it to others because it shows just how important your decisions can impact others and teaches parents a lesson if they do not take responsibility.

With the sweltering, suffocating heat of the summer air, a single mother tries her best to protect and serve her children through the best means she's aware of. Though imperfect, the relationship between mother and child remains strong in Caroline. With clever direction and skillful acting, the film refuses to categorize the conflict of the film in a binary way and instead focuses on a very human consequence of bearing witness, to be a bystander, to conflict. Caroline inspires discussion with its criticisms of society and with an ambiguous resolution to the central conflict between two well-intentioned "sides". Instead of proposing answers it forces watchers to ruminate on the flaws of our society, the factors that facilitate the setting of the conflict. This, however, proves to be the films main weakness. By choosing to the end the film in the way that it did, the criticisms presented are made more subtle. As such the value of the short film may vary between the individual dramatically without sufficient directional cue's.

Overall, an exceptional film that asks difficult questions. From a technical aspect, a high degree of skill is shown. I enjoyed the film, but with certainty I would be able to say some people may not.

Caroline is a film that explores the far-from-glamorous life of a presumably single mother with 3 children, the eldest of which is the titular Caroline. Through young Caroline's eyes, we are able to feel the array of emotions that she experiences, paired with the childish sense of innocence that made the film so endearing. I rate the film highly because of the visceral response it is able to evoke after each watch. The directors' brilliant and deliberate use and juxtaposition of cacophonous sound versus silence, creates an atmosphere where the viewer is quite literally on the edge of their seat. The film does an excellent job of evoking some of our most primal instincts - sensing danger, and foreboding.

The film's pacing felt natural, and yet was able to convey the sense of urgency that plays a prominent role in the film. All in all, it is a beautiful piece that tackles the realities that many individuals face today.

I would definitely recommend this film to anybody who enjoys the feeling of mounting suspense, as well as cohesive and intense story-telling.

A single mother bearing the responsibility of her three young children struggles with maintaining her family safe and happy while balancing the efforts of earning money in order to support them. Allowing the viewers to become connected and more aware of the little girl's, Caroline, life was a smart move on the directors, Logan George and Celine Held's, part. Creating a connection and sense of trust between the audience and the characters allows there to be a sense of comfort and pity when watching. Since we know that this family already isn't living in the best possible conditions they could be, causing us to be wary of their surroundings.

Also making the camera angles from the perspective of the children added more of a wary and anxiety driven experience since often children are ignorant of their surroundings. So adding these camera angles made me feel as if there was a much, much worse outcome awaiting the children. Considering that all the other characters who ever looked at them were full grown adults who would just stare.

I also enjoyed the attention to detail that was sprinkled throughout the short film of insinuating that it was a hot day rather than one of the characters clearly pointing it out. These include what everyone was wearing, the little fan toy that the children held, the fact that we were shown them sweating and breathing heavily. And the bumper sticker indicating that the film was set in Texas was a great touch since it is common knowledge that the weather over there is extremely hot and humid, especially on a summer day.

A criticism I would give to this short film is that I would most likely not watch it again due to the undeniable dread I felt throughout the whole watching. The experience of watching this film is unlike any other, more so with the choice of sound and the lack of a musical score. That being said I do recommend this film to viewers who are first made aware of the possible intense feelings of anxiety and dread.

On a hot summer Texas day, outside of a tax service centre, Caroline (Caroline Falk), her brother, and sister are left in the car. Their mother (Celine Held), who is going to interview for a job, gives Caroline the keys to turn the A/C on. Unable to start the car, a woman (Tam Jackson) comes to the children's aid, sitting in the car while they wait for mom to return. The woman confronts the mother and an altercation breaks out. Directors Logan George and Celine Held explore the ideas of poverty, motherhood, and growing up fast in the Southern US in their 2018 short film Caroline.

The setting of a minivan struck out to me to symbolize the state the family is in. The car was littered with toys. It's clear that the children had spent a lot of time in the car. The routine of putting on the mother's lipstick and entertaining her siblings was something Caroline had experience with. Without a second parent in the picture it seems that Caroline has taken the role of caregiver when the mother is gone. The mother is the family's breadwinner while Caroline cares for the children.

The choice of sound design was very apparent. The sound was from Caroline's perspective throughout the film. Noises of adults outside the car were constantly Charlie Brown muffled. But when conflict starts to occur George and Held bring the sound to a disorientating high. The reason being it creates the sense of panic a young child would have seeing their mother in a state of danger.

The directors have created a truly unique film that utilizes interesting setting and sound choices. But these choices pale in comparison to the acting skill of Caroline. She was the linchpin of the film. She created a character that any viewer would naturally care for and emphasize with. The viewer immediately connects with Caroline and wants the world for her. Caroline is a superb movie that everyone with children should see.

On a hot summer day, Caroline and her little sister are looking inside of someone's house and only dogs are barking at them, not a single person is showing in the house. Her finger is inside of her mouth because her loose tooth is bothering her. Then the tension gradually rises, now the three little kids are inside of the car that is not even turned on. They are sweating all over the face, and the fan is broken.

This short film really made me emotional. The fact that the mother is trying to get a job and is leaving three kids in the burning car shows how single mothers are struggling in certain situations where they have to care for all the kids by herself and people who called the cops and stopped her from leaving the parking lot show how society is neglecting them. From the title, I also noticed that they are focusing on one of the kids' names, not the mother. This shows how the mothers don't have a chance to show their identity in this society.

Every scene where the mother is being a parent and having a difficult moment, it drives me so anxiously and pressured that I almost feel like I am in that situation. It is because in the climax, the camera looks outside of the car mostly through Caroline's view. It is a very narrow shot to see outside through the window of the car, and the temperature is also really high, so it makes me feel like I am locked in. Until the very end, the tension still builds up and suddenly, it ends without giving us any time to compose our feelings, so I remained really hyped in front of the black screen.

I would introduce this short film to mothers who can strongly empathize with the role of the mother. Where the mother brings all three kids into the mart to use the bathroom for one of her kids, and when she keeps looking back to the car from inside of the tax service center, they will be able to empathize with these scenes. I would also recommend this film to anyone because it can be the one that changes people's minds and will show that they should support whoever is struggling.

A scalding summer day in Texas leaves a mother and her 3 kids in a dilemma. The camera pans on 6-year old Caroline who watches as her mother struggles to find someone to take care of her kids while she attends a job interview at a tax service place. Held uses a technique that causes the audience to anticipate that the worst possible thing will happen. A small feeling of peace is felt when the ending was not as traumatizing as you would expect. This technique was perfectly executed by having Caroline deal with problems that are way above her level of understanding. The directors are also able to make the film disconcerting by having the camera perspective be from the perspective of the children who are unable to do anything, basically helpless. The camera effects as well as the sound effects make this film even more unsettling for the viewer. As the viewer, it was easy to get emotionally attached to the characters in this story and the plot. The love between Caroline and her mother makes this film very emotional and moving. While the chaos ensues, Caroline makes sure to take care of her siblings and ensure their safety. The situation becomes heated when the man and the woman break into the car to turn on the air conditioning. When the mom returns and sees what is happening she immediately reads the situation and realizes what has happened which is why she tries to leave immediately. The situation gets even worse when a fight ensues and Caroline is forced to bite the woman attacking her mother to protect her mother. When Caroline bites the woman; her tooth falls out. This symbolizes the loss of innocence. Held was able to create a film that kept the viewer on the edge of their seat the whole time. While also being able to have the audience become emotionally attached to these characters. I would recommend this suspenseful film and stressful film to teenagers and adults.