A Hole

Rated 7.1/10 on IMDb. Winner of Best Foreign Film at the Seattle International Film Festival 2020. Official selections include HollyShorts, London Film Week, Indie Short Fest, Independent Shorts Awards, Sydney Short Film Festival, Flickerfest International Short Film Festival, and Manchester Film Festival. A skilled workman is given a simple assignment: dig a perfect hole in the cracked earthen plain of an endless warehouse. He does exactly that. Then the well-dressed visitors start arriving — sitting on comfortable couches, offering contradictory opinions about the hole, the shape of the hole, the depth of the hole, the purpose of the hole — and the job gradually, magnificently unravels. From James Solomon, the New Zealand director whose McWhopper campaign won the Cannes Grand Prix in 2016, A Hole is a deadpan, Kafkaesque workplace comedy about the absurdity of expert opinion and the quiet dignity of a man who just wants to do his job right. Free with ads.