

Synopsis:
All Rosie wants is to play with her older sister Miranda. However their five year age gap means that eight year old Rosie is often excluded at random from the seemingly enticing games of teenage girls. One day Miranda takes Rosie, but only at their Mother's insistence, along with her and her friend Sophie for a bike ride in the near-by forest. Once there, an innocent game of cops and robbers takes an unpleasant turn when the two older girls leave Rosie alone, scared and tied to a tree, whilst they ride into town.
While the older girls are away a man finds scared little Rosie and on returning to the secluded spot, Miranda sees in panic that her sister has disappeared.
Miranda cycles home in a panic upon which both her and her mum return to the woods to look for Rosie. To her mother's dismay, Miranda confessed to having left her little sister tied to a tree, but still, their frantic searching reveals no sign of Rosie.
Worried and frustrated Miranda and her mum return home only to find Rosie sitting on the doorstep waiting for them.
The man who found Rosie has bought her home safely, but while the mother is thanking him for his act of kindness Miranda discovers Rosie's t-shirt is on inside out. Too scared to tell her mother and unsure of the meaning of her discovery Miranda is forever plagued with the guilt of what may have happened to her little sister while she was off having fun with her friend.
Rosie: Julia Howard | Miranda: Lucy Millet | Sophie: Jessica Chanliau | Mum: Liz Coke| Man: Sebastian Siroux
"Play time" is a co-production with Geißendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion
Shooting: June 2007 | Length: app.10 minutes | Finishing: October 2007
Director: Hana Geissendorfer | Producer: Hana Geissendorfer | Camera: Noah Pankow | Editor: Khaled Salem | Music: Daniel Werner | Sound Design: Jean Nicolas Risler | Production manager: James Farmer | Location manager: Aurelia Dausse | Casting: Nasha Gagnebin | Set designer: Mandy Absil | 1st AD: Ben Adler | 2nd AD: Camille Vong, Yinqing Quan | Script and Continuity: Nini Castaneda | Props: Vanessa Burgmans | Make up artist: Sarah Lochner | 1st AC: Arnaud Gamet, Michel Derbez | 2nd AC: Eli Rosales | Key Grip: Mikael Shirazi | Grip: Andrew Nakajima | Gaffer: David Nelson, Christopher Eide | Sound Operator: Thomas Francois | Boom Operator: Benjamin Albert | Catering: Yanni | Child care: Melissa Twigg, Constance Stalla