Oxpecker - A Short Film – Best Boy

20:00, Sat 21st June 2025 at Riley Auditorium, Clare College (Private Screening of Work in Progress - Presented By Clare Actors)

ZOE: I don’t know why you insisted on sleeping together like kids. We were eighteen, for god’s sake…
RUWEENA: I just got lonely sleeping without you.

Ruweena and Zoe were best friends - well, sort of. Actually, it was more like Ruweena followed Zoe everywhere, from lunchtime to after school and even to uni, while Zoe kind of… tolerated her.

Then, six years ago, Ruweena disappeared and left Zoe all alone. Zoe likes it better this way. Doesn't she? So why is it that she still keeps the single bed they used to sleep in - why is it that she lets Ruweena kiss her the moment Ruweena reappears?

And why does it feel as if there's something terribly, awfully wrong with the bed they used to call theirs?

IMDb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37884542