MISSING HER - Tropfest 2011 Finalist (TSI: "Key")

[annikaSTAR1]

Looks like a buffalo? Elena is absolutely beautiful! ♥

[laythz]

How does the mother know to put stars in the room? i thought she cant understand chinese.

[dorisyau1991]

@laythz it's Vietnamese

[dorisyau1991]

@laythz sorry, it is Thai, not Viet. I think the adopt. mother knows to put the stars because she knows he looks for his mum in the stars. She must have cared for him enough to researched his background and history.

[Darker250]

The fact that this didn't win doesn't mean anything. It doesn't. It will always be a winner in my heart.

[thatgreensister]

Loving all the comments about belonging on here. Yay for last minute related texts!

[bronte1997]

aww i always loved this! HATE THE WINNER!

[miserytube]

I can't decide between this or ONE for my HSC related text :\

[adrianandco]

Belonging ORT for HSC :D

[jordanchames]

really really moving. great camera work, and the message was awesome.

[Schmostle]

my related text for belonging weew!

[xHappyyPills]

@Schmostle LOL same hahahha

[Schmostle]

@xHappyyPills hahaha that's heaps good

[ThroughMyLittleEyes]

I loved this movie it was so touching, it should of won

[KrystadelaCruz]

@ThroughMyLittleEyes it`s should HAVE not should of.:-)

[cscdigitalgraphics]

This didn't win? WTF.

[TwoStupidGirlsYT]

This is my favourite from all the tropfest finalists of 2011. Truly touching and a pleasure to watch.

[Belindaa952]

This was so sad yet beautiful and i wish it had won :)

[itsjustthecause]

@93MickyD1 true

[TheNinjabrownie]

Absolutely beautiful

[Ayp3ros]

amazing

[DanCur4991]

beautiful short that I really got "in to"

but,

what was TOPFEST thinking to have crowned animal beatbox instead!

[ballking123]

tropfest is notorious for selecting terrible winners

[jessicaaa196]

awww this one is so good

[OhHiYourePurple]

So amazing! I love it!! Should have won :/

[Blarney1ful]

this one amazzzzzzing, thanks 4 making it

[goodfilms1000]

If you want to see the tropfest film that should of won type in the search bar Key Suspect 

[goodfilms1000]

If you want to see the tropfest film that should of won type in the search bar Key Suspect

[Hardstyle837]

most saddest part in this is 5:53 to 6:30 :(

[steelblade1998]

its sad and verry overpoering but it just goes to show that we need to cut down on light pollution

[xstncd]

GREAT SHORT, GREAT!

[NguPatYen]

Yeah nah, this should definitely have won, Animal Beatbox was funny but to say that it is comparable-- even better to this? Then no. I don't believe that.

[MissingChunks]

@SuperEverytingman your right. This sholud have won!

[BEATNIKCASS]

mum and the kid were great but as for the story......nowhere

[MiSenigmatic]

omg its like his mom said she'd always be with him

she'd be watching him from the stars

and coincidentally they put stars in his bedroom

meaning his real mom is still there with him watching over him !!

urghhhh i cried when i first watched this

[SuperEverythingman]

Animal Beatbox? More like Animal-pieceofshitshouldn'thav­ewon-box. Yeah, I went there.

[MiSenigmatic]

@SuperEverythingman

lol !

[jeydonwaleforever47]

@SuperEverythingman I AGREE.

[chireengi]

i like :)

[MissHooky08]

youtube.com/watch?v=36wIjfqtup­0

[1wd4y]

how the fuck did this not win it!!!! fuck that gay ass animal beatbox this is sooo much better

[HappyApple330]

2:50 , the mum looks like a pedo

[JESSIKA732]

good :) 

[JESSIKA732]

This Definitely should've won!! The kid is a good actor.. its a sad story i gotta friends who miss' her mum so much :'(

[thehardcoremetalist]

wow that is so awesome.

[marycarter93]

that was beautiful

[steamboatlily]

Oh my gosh. I love this. I cried..-3

poor little boy.-/3

[lovexless]

@steamboatlily actuallly if you think about it, the little boy is very lucky to get adopted by a family who obviously now loves him a lot. in time, the mother will understand and so will he. and he has his stars in his own room. :) but i get what you mean, it was very emotional.

[greasybulletz]

Out of all the short films i rate this the highest.... absolutely amazing ending and great plot.

[whatupfunes]

Nice Ending!!! Nice Story but it was not as touching and sentimental as it could have been... Bet it was good Job!!!!

WHAT UP FUNES gives it 3 STARS!!!!

[scottishcreamthe1st]

cool! I really liked this! it should have won!

[TheStellaAussie]

NAAAAAWWWWW

[LelliLolli]

I cried watching this (:

[HumanWarrior0]

I coundnt

Take one look at the little boy without about cry he is so sad and young one

Thing he loved and next he's knows he has a new mom...

[easycomego]

this made me cry

[TheCollect]

holy shit that was deep

[kiltedman15]

my speling is atroshus

[kiltedman15]

Can't see the key either...maybe the name of one of the constellations he sees at the very biginning??

[journeybeyondmydays]

beautiful <3

[TubeYouShanny]

Im choosing to studying this film for english at school, can anyone explain the meaning and the concept behind it? would be helpful :)

[shinju77]

This was meaningful, drew emotions and wonderfully captured. I don't understand the judging criteria but I can't see how animal beatbox was better than this.

[captFIZZ]

This is absolutely beautiful...shame it didn't win. I've got nothing against Animal Beatbox because I think it's interesting in it's own way but this has so much meaning behind it that it's kinda won in my eyes.

[letsgolefties]

Sad......... Bore baboon bore baboon bore baboon

[jameson3659]

By far, this should have been the winner. A very powerful film. Well done, this is a magnificent work, how it lost to animal beatbox I will never understand.

[composednostalgia]

I just love how his bedroom lights up with stars... very touching.

[InterTay]

I've been watching Tropfest films since 2004, and attending the festival too.

This is the first film to make me cry. So much told in such a short film. I loved it

[midguardz]

he could have saved his time & thrown the binoculars out the window. 

[Cool2brownjo99]

I wanted Bird Therapy to win and this one is so heartbreaking.

[mizkarvio]

this one made me cry. love it.

[ithastoendtobegin]

I would say this is a film which is very meaningful and tpuching. Animal beatbox is unique i would say. But in my opinion i would like this to be the winner.

[TheOldEchoes]

@ithastoendtobegin Animal beatbox isn't "unique!" Go to the video of it - it is a RIPOFF. Agree, this should have won.

[MsHarrythedirtydog]

@TheOldEchoes

check out Snowtown

[danewnoot]

this should have won

[chainlink024]

silencer was the best

dogs n cats n dogs n cats

[chainlink024]

silencer was the best

[itsjustthecause]

animal beat box was funny and good but this is sad yet better  I guess they wanted funny not sad... it sucks this should have won thumbs up if u agree

[hackerboy425]

This should be the winner!!! I love the meaning :)))

[tuFFskittlez1]

wow.. that's incredibly deep in comparison to the winner

[SharonDuke1]

I just watched the winning Tropfest 2011 film and it is awful compared to this . Someone needs their ass whooped!

[SharonDuke1]

Wonderful!

[PocketRocketsXsnipe]

Just wow

[athena32321]

V zzz ggzghhdfffccff

[athena32321]

Hhhs

[elvezs]

It is a sad story, kind of

[TheBlueButterfly212]

He's so Cuuuuuuuute!!:*

[caaaaaaaaat94]

Ok, so as much as I love Animal Beatbox, I have to admit, compared to a video like this, it did not deserve to win.

But seriously, this short film was beautiful.

[ramio1983]

That was cute!

[heyheyitspayday]

You've got to be kidding. How did Animal Beatbox achieve first place over this. Animal Beatbox seems like a silly little internet meme that people would forget about in a few weeks time.

[iloveyourubberducky2]

So sad

[weesinteck87]

what is she doing, unbuttoning his shirt. interracial :)

[JC4EVS1990]

Beautiful.

[RonnyWho]

seriously... i cant stop asking this... HOW THE FUCK DID AN ANIMAL BEATBOX WIN!!??!?!

[odeese]

Wow. Thank you Michael Weisler this was great and in my books you are the winner

[MonkeySayCheese]

Why was the car driving so close to the kerb..? And a kid..??

But wow, this is beautiful. I dead set had the biggest smile on my face as soon she turned off that light.. This should've won, for sure..

[greyfoxau]

animal beatbox was a rip off from Dog Cat by Eustus. Wake up tropfest. Also it wasn't that good for a win. WTF

[seaster2493]

I thought the Winner of this Year 2011 TROPFEST... "Animal Beatbox" was awlful... more like a film clip, not a film and a pointless song anyway...In my opinon this would have been the winner...has depth and meaning and a story we can connect with.

[big1gangsta2clink]

can't believe this didnt win!

[HTYMR]

boo you whore

[donniedarkodevotte]

Yeah, this was a really good film. I didn't notice Animal Beatbox was the winner until I read some of the comments here. It really was the least deserving out of all of the finalists. It's as if the internet has turned against us. Bad internets!

[madhuradeshpande]

Such a beautiful story. A worthy finalist for Tropfest. Shame the Youtube voting system failed. I would've thought people would vote for actual films, not a music video.

[the5coles]

Totally agree - beatbox was a film clip not a film

[jsmcinerney2000]

I think the creators of animal beat box must have slept with a judge because it is terrible and nothing compared to this brilliant film.

[eyesliketowatch]

Loved it

[RyanORLY]

when the lights went off i was like awwwww shieeeeee

[iamSUPERezra]

I swear animal beatbox is a piece of shit compared to this, i'm sorry for being rude. But i thought crap like that belonged on preschool.

[maybemayest]

speak thais :)

[TaReaperz]

Wait, wait wait wait - so the Animal Beatbox won? :S Are the judges mentally challenged? I haven't seen all videos yet but this is better than the beatbox.

[stufog]

i thought this was Australia

[ariukkkk]

How beautiful story!

[EricStatzer]

Brilliant.

[PIECE2YOURMOTHA]

The dad was hot!

[TheCocochanel02]

Shed a tear .,(

[andysgrl33]

This is why people love short films. Great story and characters. No need for a lot of talk when you have a good story and camera work.

[pingpang11]

This is every nice movie, I understand Thai and the little boy was missing his mom.

[theyhavepeabrains]

That almost made me cry at the end.

[ThisIsRandal]

This probably changed my life...

[TaReaperz]

@ThisIsRandal It didn't

[Jubralter]

Llama llama llama llama.

[Wazgazm]

am i the only one that cried

[topherlee25]

@Wazgazm yes dumbass

[A7XDudeDrums]

WOW really good!!!

[player1tv]

great job

[MrAnimated]

I shat my pants when I saw the shelf he had in his room.

[weiyi1123]

Most people don't understand what it takes to leave everything behind, ur friends, your family and your old life. It's like you're reborned on this earth. Most people don't know how hard it is to forget ur past, especially u've had a good life. When u are going through hardship in ur new life, it's hard to not think about ur past. U may enjoy a momentous happiness from retrospect ur old life. But in a long run, u're just hurting yourself cause all ur old memories are never going to come back.

[fredyriptor]

@weiyi1123 i agree my friend

[hhhh132]

My brother is adopted. I've always always wondered what it must feel like to him, to lose family at a young age. This film hit home for me, it's great.

PS: My name's Henry. and my brother is asain. :) coincidence

[mooncowslow]

this is the best.

[Sk8tring]

that was one of the best endings ive ever seen.

[melizitawz]

:'(

[jessimanga1]

AWWWWWWWW

[ajmilagros]

This one was so much better than the winner!

[BaileyStowe]

But all the stars are gone here...

:'(

[fanofbewitched1]

This was actually really good. IT had a good ending.

[eatingcookies]

Wow this actually made me cry. That was so sweet. And sad. I think that it speaks really cleary into the adoption story too because I think we assume children are going to be "so grateful" to get to come "home" with us and really, they're traumatized.

[Alaskare1]

fuck you

[vmmartinezg]

And THIS lost to Animal Beatbox!!?? What's wrong with you people!!! You may as well prefer Playboy over Nature ... oh that's right...you do!!! >:-(

[TreeSniffer2]

@vmmartinezg hav fun jacking off to nature

[dxsbigmack]

That shoudve won, it had so much meaning and was so powerful, unlike the animal beatbox.

[xoxoJuliePhamXOXO]

This Is In Vietnamese Right ? Sorry I Was Listenin Real Hard Tew Wat The Man Who Was Drivin Was Sayin It Was Like Gibberish And Viet So Idkk (Sorry I Am Vietnamese And I Have A Habit Of Listenin Tew People Talking In Viet)

[MrF0B]

@xoxoJuliePhamXOXO @ 0:29 it says Rural Thailand. They sound similar. I'm Viet too.

[xoxoJuliePhamXOXO]

@MrF0B lol kk

[MrF0B]

@xoxoJuliePhamXOXO Always good to know there's another Viet here, besides me.

[xoxoJuliePhamXOXO]

@MrF0B LOL RIGHT !!!!!!

[MrF0B]

@xoxoJuliePhamXOXO Awe Yea!! Hahah

[mistysbike]

@xoxoJuliePhamXOXO It's in Thai.

[sindekit]

that one shelf kid robot toys must've cost over 200 dollars....

[drewleffert]

So much is felt is such little time.

[Bonerific0]

3:03 i thought the mom was about to give the boy a bj

[mahdiaflower]

that was beautiful....

[rachelisanoob]

I loved this one, probably the best I've watched so far. ^.^

It started out sad, and then it has a beautiful and heart warming ending. =)

[BuddyMilo]

I know this kid... they're in for a bumpy ride.

[TheDanger0uz]

This was so sad.

[amayzinglee]

The ending was beautiful !!

[booooomSPLAT]

the mom looks like Sara Bareilles. Just sayin'.

[tokinblckgie]

That was good. 

[BigVKY]

Everything was in sequence, i am loving the cool depth of field. Great piece

I also love the ending :0) two thumbs up

[TechnoBuddy]

duh hello i need to speak to sumbowday who can speak a chinese

[Wujian520]

@TechnoBuddy it's not chinese, i think it's viet.. well anyways you need to go find sumbowday

[BurnOutXL]

Awwww how nice. How do u say "You're welcome!" in Thai? hehe

[Solace2]

This was so sad.

[TheHeavenMarie]

This is a win.

[tporemba55]

this was so sad! but very inspiring to me