Photographing Fairies

Photographing Fairies

Another world… as close as the beat of your heart

1997106 min5.7 / 10

A melancholic mystery about grief and the search for transcendence, where a widowed photographer pursues fairy photographs as both investigation and spiritual escape.

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets

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