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Volvo
'Moments That Never Happen'
5 September 2024 3 mins 45s
Different paths.
by Melissa Roberts

In this stirring short film for Volvo, the brand’s tagline ‘for life’ really comes into its own. It opens with a couple finding out they’re pregnant, and the husband calling his mother to share the news. This touchingly vulnerable conversation becomes the film’s narration, as he outlines his fears, his hopes for his child, and his sureness that they’ll have a daughter.

The voiceover is accompanied by stylistically day-dreamy scenes of the family’s future and a little girl growing up, cut with moments of the present as his wife goes out to pick up celebratory takeaways. Also cut in, are cinematic shots of another woman driving her Volvo EX90, who becomes dangerously distracted while driving.

After the super reads ‘sometimes the moments that never happen matter the most’, the outcome of this sliding doors moment, and whether the family’s projected life was real or imagined, is revealed. It turns out, the superior safety design of the car has ensured the family’s future together. And as this isn’t director Marcus Ibañez’s first piece of emotionally-laden branded storytelling for the car company, it’s likely there’s more collaborations in their future too.

Product Category: Cars

Territory: UK



production
new—land
Director: Marcus Ibañez
Producer: Mårten Melinder
EP: Erik Torell
DOP: Hoyte van Hoytema
editing
Cabin Edit
Editor: Nik Kohler
color
Company3
Colourist: Greg Fisher
sound
String and Tins
Sound: Adam Smyth / Nik Kohler
Composer: Theo Elwell
casting
Road Casting
Casting: Coralie Rose

  Volvo - 'Moments That Never Happen'


Volvo
'Moments That Never Happen'
5 September 2024 3 mins 45s

Different paths.

In this stirring short film for Volvo, the brand’s tagline ‘for life’ really comes into its own. It opens with a couple finding out they’re pregnant, and the husband calling his mother to share the news. This touchingly vulnerable conversation becomes the film’s narration, as he outlines his fears, his hopes for his child, and his sureness that they’ll have a daughter.

The voiceover is accompanied by stylistically day-dreamy scenes of the family’s future and a little girl growing up, cut with moments of the present as his wife goes out to pick up celebratory takeaways. Also cut in, are cinematic shots of another woman driving her Volvo EX90, who becomes dangerously distracted while driving.

After the super reads ‘sometimes the moments that never happen matter the most’, the outcome of this sliding doors moment, and whether the family’s projected life was real or imagined, is revealed. It turns out, the superior safety design of the car has ensured the family’s future together. And as this isn’t director Marcus Ibañez’s first piece of emotionally-laden branded storytelling for the car company, it’s likely there’s more collaborations in their future too.

Product Category: Cars

Territory: UK



production
new—land
Director: Marcus Ibañez
Producer: Mårten Melinder
EP: Erik Torell
DOP: Hoyte van Hoytema
editing
Cabin Edit
Editor: Nik Kohler
color
Company3
Colourist: Greg Fisher
sound
String and Tins
Sound: Adam Smyth / Nik Kohler
Composer: Theo Elwell
casting
Road Casting
Casting: Coralie Rose

Volvo 5 September 2024
'Moments That Never Happen' 3 mins 45s

Different paths.

by Melissa Roberts

In this stirring short film for Volvo, the brand’s tagline ‘for life’ really comes into its own. It opens with a couple finding out they’re pregnant, and the husband calling his mother to share the news. This touchingly vulnerable conversation becomes the film’s narration, as he outlines his fears, his hopes for his child, and his sureness that they’ll have a daughter.

The voiceover is accompanied by stylistically day-dreamy scenes of the family’s future and a little girl growing up, cut with moments of the present as his wife goes out to pick up celebratory takeaways. Also cut in, are cinematic shots of another woman driving her Volvo EX90, who becomes dangerously distracted while driving.

After the super reads ‘sometimes the moments that never happen matter the most’, the outcome of this sliding doors moment, and whether the family’s projected life was real or imagined, is revealed. It turns out, the superior safety design of the car has ensured the family’s future together. And as this isn’t director Marcus Ibañez’s first piece of emotionally-laden branded storytelling for the car company, it’s likely there’s more collaborations in their future too.

Product Category: Cars

Territory: UK



production
new—land
Director: Marcus Ibañez
Producer: Mårten Melinder
EP: Erik Torell
DOP: Hoyte van Hoytema
editing
Cabin Edit
Editor: Nik Kohler
color
Company3
Colourist: Greg Fisher
sound
String and Tins
Sound: Adam Smyth / Nik Kohler
Composer: Theo Elwell
casting
Road Casting
Casting: Coralie Rose