A film that progresses like Arvo Pärt’s music spreads on a cinema screen.

Dule is a happy boy who spends his childhood together with his hero father and mother, too small to understand that his home will soon be taken by the mine next to the village. If death caused by pollution does not take the boy sooner. Dule’s father Vid knows.

Dule playfully tries to find magic solutions in order to extinguish the pulsating ache in his father’s behaviour patterns and to save plants growing in his home garden. One after the other, everyday activities become iconic sparks of hope and the greenhouse becomes an Eden that needs Dule’s protection.

A remarkable feature of “Sun Never Again” is its pervasive symbolism which has been created using the main techniques of the art of film in a manner where besides iconic references, the relationship between light and shadow and composition is meaningfully eloquent. A seemingly unnoticeable story is thereby intertwined with the deeply contemplated philosophical approach of director David Jovanović to create a power pearl of a film which captures the audience with its detail-sensitive dramaturgic flow and fills the soul with meaning.

Elise Jagomägi