Elimination, Eliminatio, Eliminati...

An interesting idea and some good performances prop this up above the team's previous works.

While your structure is good, and the acting, particularly from the elderly gentleman, is quite effective, I think there are a lot of ways this film could have been improved.

A big one would be the colour grade - even just a little touching up to the footage would transform it from desaturated and dull into something more visually appealing. Perhaps you ran out of time, but flat footage with no dimensionality is always an eyesore.

Storywise, I'm left wanting something more. What's the message of this film? It seems so hopeless and tragic, I felt a lack of closure seeing our protagonist lose his mind in his old age. And on that, how old exactly is he supposed to be? The film tells us the final scene is 20 years later, which would place our lead actor, who looks in his 30s, at around 50 years old. Too young to get Alzheimer's surely? I also don't think using the same actor and giving him a bit of old man makeup sufficed here - especially after we'd already seen an elderly man in the film (they do exist!).

A few other nitpicks here and there too - our main guy is clearly reading a script from offscreen in one scene, and the tone of the film is all over the place, though I did find the lead character's face quite haunting when his father yells at him.

I guess my main question for this team is, why this story? What compelled you to delve into the tragic and bleak world of Alzheimer's? This film just feels so sad, and it looks so sad, and so little of it is justifying taking the audience into a grim place. This is a strange common element of plenty of low-fi teams, I don't understand the attraction toward hard dramas over fun and light comedy. This team's best work has been their lighter/more comedic stuff and I'd encourage you to stick with making the audience laugh instead of depressed.

Challenge for next year: Keep working on upping your technical game, and seriously consider the story you land on. Is it one you want to tell?