Sydney Film Festival 2025 - Sorry, Baby

 “Sometimes bad stuff just happens”

Discomforting, raw and heartbreaking, Sorry, Baby is a deeply personal exploration of the way trauma remains entrenched in one’s psyche despite life moving on, in a confident debut from writer-actor-director Eva Victor that’s intimate, powerful and deeply therapeutic. 

Discussion Points: 

Eva Victor’s directorial debut is a painfully honest and painfully funny exploration of a difficult subject matter handled with raw realism but wry humour. Told in chapters, we see Agnes’ journey from confident and assured, to deeply wounded and vulnerable after she is sexually assaulted by her thesis advisor. When he flees soon after, Agnes is left to pick up the pieces of something that she did not destroy which doesn’t feel fair. And even as good things happen in her life, the shadows and scars of trauma remain entrenched. Panic attacks, flashbacks and self-soothing coping mechanisms reveal how deeply the pain remains buried. They say that time heals. I find that to be a tad too definitive. I prefer the phrase “time is healing” – it’s more fluid and reflective of the journey that healing takes. And pain is a felt reality that needs to be processed. And when it isn’t – it gets buried. And pain buried is buried alive. And no one wants to be buried alive. Being buried alive leads to louder and louder cries for help and more desperate attempts to be set free. So, we can’t bury our pain, we must feel it, but that’s oft too deeply an uncomfortable and difficult thing to do. And Sorry, Baby feels it’s raw pain and allows the audience to take that healing journey.