Directed by Paris-based filmmaker Joaquim Bayle, PRECIOUS builds on Carhartt WIP’s last full-length skate project INSIDE OUT, which was released in 2022. The name of the project derives from the delicate yet gruelling process of shooting tricks on film. “Now that I understand skateboarding a little more, I wanted to pay tribute to its subversive form, its poetic form,” says Bayle of the feature, describing a “precious feeling I had when I started skateboarding and which, as I have gotten older, I've tended to forget.” In encapsulating this, he employs a multi-sensory approach. Warm, gauzy footage is punctuated by shutter clicks and black and white photography. Quiet moments of reflection are interrupted by the sound of wheels on concrete. Softly spoken word drifts in and out of a soundtrack of sludge metal and synthwave.

The story of a boy who, driven by the search for his lost brother in the turmoil of WWII, joins a group of children in order to survive the chaos of post-war anarchy in the haunted forests of Lithuania.

Featuring Willow Voges Fernandes, Aleksi 'Aatsi' Suovarra, Simon Hallberg, Fredrik Winsents, Bert Roeterdink, Jan Hirt, Diego Todd, Mehdi Soltane, Rob Maatman, Alex Tsagalidis, Alexey Krasniy, Axel Cruysberghs, Bjarne Tjøtta, Chris Pfanner, Gabriel Bjørsvik, Helena Long, Jonathan Vlerick, Joscha Aicher, Martino Cattaneo, Notis Aggelis, Schianta Lepori, Albert Nyberg, Tania Cruz, Tommi Björk, Victor Pellegrin, Yann Horowitz and more. Filmed by Max Pack, Jon Wolf, Otto Ray and Tobbe Tiusanen. Edited by Paul Labadie.