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Wasp
In late summer, wasps cannot find enough food to feed their young, so they start looking for sweets. Although they are not especially aggressive, they will sting if provoked… Wasp follows a single mother too young to have four children, and too poor to feed them. When she runs into an ex-boyfriend, very eager to score a date with him, she pretends she is just babysitting the kids.
Andrea Arnold writes about what she knows. The Oscar-winning Wasp was shot in Dartford, a south-east London working-class suburb, where Arnold grew up.
Bio Andrea Arnold
Andrea Arnold (1961) began her career aged 18 as a roller-skating presenter of the British children’s TV show No 73, before studying directing at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. She won numerous awards with her first short film Milk (1998), and went on to receive an Oscar for Wasp in 2005. Andrea Arnold can look back on an outstanding body of work. Her first feature film, the thriller Red Road (2006), won the Jury Prize in Cannes, as did Fish Tank (2009) and American Honey (2016).
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- This film was #12 in the “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025