This riveting first feature, winner of the Dennis Potter Screenwriting Award, structures its narrative around a diary kept by a woman during the weeks that her premature baby was kept in a neonatal intensive care unit. Director Sarah Gavron brings a visual intensity and single-minded focus to her study that perfectly captures the subjective experiences of the mother while gradually allowing the viewer to glimpse the imaginative relationship she conjures up with her child. This Little Life left audiences in tears at recent festival screenings with its deeply moving and beautifully rendered tale of the travails of new life.