Set in an alternate WWI reality where a senseless war rages on, two soldiers on opposite sides of the conflict play a joyful game of chess. A heroic carrier pigeon delivers the soldiers' chess moves over the battlefield as the fighting escalates. Neither soldier knows his opponent as the game and the war builds to its climatic final move. Whoever wins the game, one thing is for certain: there are no winners in war.
Direction
Mullins packs a feature's worth of emotion into eleven minutes
Score
John and Yoko's music recontextualized as wartime lullaby
Director
Dave Mullins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Dave Mullins previously won an Oscar for the Pixar short 'Lou'—this is his much darker follow-up passion project.
Released during ongoing global conflicts, the film revives Lennon and Ono's 1971 Christmas protest song for a generation that never knew it as anything but a shopping mall staple.
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