A Year Later is an intimate, time-jumping queer coming-of-age drama set in Melbourne. At seventeen, Ella and Reece share an awkward first kiss at a chaotic house party. What feels like a one-off moment turns into a pattern: each year, their paths cross again — in parks, supermarkets, carparks, bedrooms — as they grow from teenagers into young women. Through first loves, messy breakups, travel, uni dreams, and engagement parties, their connection survives everything except perfect timing. Told in raw, improvised dialogue and framed around “a year later” snapshots, the film captures the push and pull between independence and intimacy, between the lives we choose and the people we can’t let go.
At once tender, funny, and heartbreaking, A Year Later asks: what if love isn’t about the moments we share, but the years we keep coming back?