Charlotte Wells

Directing

Charlotte Wells

Born 1987-06-13 · Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Charlotte Wells (born June 13, 1987) is a New York-based Scottish director, writer, and producer. She wrote and directed three short films as a student in the MBA/MFA dual-degree program at NYU where she was supported by BAFTA New York and Los Angeles. Charlotte has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine's “25 Faces of Independent Film” and was a Fellow at the 2020 Sundance Institute Screenwriters and Directors Labs. Aftersun (2022) is her first feature, for which she received a number of accolades, including Gotham and British Independent Film Awards.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Aftersun poster
7.6

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.

Aftersun

2022

Aftersun poster
7.6

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.

Aftersun

2022

Summer poster
4.1

During a hot summer in rural England, a sheep shearer in his late adolescence struggles with a growing attraction to his colleague.

Summer

2017

The Boys of Dungeon Lane: In Conversation with Paul McCartney and Paul Mescal poster
NR

Premiering exclusively on Amazon Live and Amazon Music, this short film features an intimate conversation between Paul McCartney and Paul Mescal, exploring the memories, relationships, events and stories that inform McCartney’s forthcoming album of the same name.

The Boys of Dungeon Lane: In Conversation with Paul McCartney and Paul Mescal

2026

In a Room Below poster
NR

Recently arrived in New York, an immigrant becomes increasingly interested in the life of the couple living above him. However, events force him to decide whether to turn his interest into involvement.

In a Room Below

2015

Tuesday poster
6.5

Every Tuesday, sixteen-year-old Allie stays with her dad and insists that this week will be no exception. Throughout the course of the day, she endures awkward encounters with family and friends before finally arriving at her dad’s flat where her routine is broken by the silence of an empty home.

Tuesday

2015

Tuesday poster
6.5

Every Tuesday, sixteen-year-old Allie stays with her dad and insists that this week will be no exception. Throughout the course of the day, she endures awkward encounters with family and friends before finally arriving at her dad’s flat where her routine is broken by the silence of an empty home.

Tuesday

2015

Tuesday poster
6.5

Every Tuesday, sixteen-year-old Allie stays with her dad and insists that this week will be no exception. Throughout the course of the day, she endures awkward encounters with family and friends before finally arriving at her dad’s flat where her routine is broken by the silence of an empty home.

Tuesday

2015

Raf poster
3.0

In the twilight of her 20s, Raf works two jobs and spends her free time playing boardgames with her boyfriend’s roommates. Privately, she fantasizes of a life of performance and dance clubs. Over the course of several charged encounters, she becomes friends with a charismatic and wealthy woman named Tal. Raf becomes infatuated with Tal’s take-no-prisoners lifestyle. With Tal as her guide, Raf begins to see a new vision of herself, until a weekend at Tal’s country home reveals the true power balance between them.

Raf

2019

Briefcase poster
NR

After giving birth to a briefcase, a woman kidnaps her neighbor's baby.

Briefcase

2016

Blue Christmas poster
6.6

On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronting his wife’s worsening psychosis at home.

Blue Christmas

2017

Blue Christmas poster
6.6

On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronting his wife’s worsening psychosis at home.

Blue Christmas

2017

No artwork available
NR

Charlotte Wells drops into the YWCA of the Greater Capital Region to visit Paula Spiro, a legendary drummer and drum teacher (whose former students include Luscious Jackson drummer and original Beastie Boy Kate Schellenbach). Having left New York in 2024, the elderly Spiro recalls her life in the city with wonderment and an unerring sense of rhythm, in a tribute to the artists and queer elders being pushed out of the place they shaped.

New York Never Let Me Down

2026

Alice poster
7.5

A young woman goes about her day despite the impending departure of her lover. A portrait of someone determined to carry on and an exploration of the pain of being left.

Alice

2017

No artwork available
NR

Biopic about the new wave band Blondie.

Blondie

No artwork available
6.5

When a high school student sets out to find an elusive red folder, he finds himself trapped in an uncaring system.

Red Folder

2016

Laps poster
6.8

On a routine morning, a woman on a crowded New York City subway is sexually assaulted in plain sight.

Laps

2017

Laps poster
6.8

On a routine morning, a woman on a crowded New York City subway is sexually assaulted in plain sight.

Laps

2017