Desperate to become a father, a man spends a weekend falling for a woman who believes God has warned her never to have children.
Year of production 2026 Length 19' CountryUSA Shooting Format 4K Digital Aspect Ratio 1.78:1 Dialogue English
Director Reuben Hamlyn Producers Devin Carey, Sara Boutorabi, Reuben Hamlyn Writer Reuben Hamlyn Director of Photography Mélanie Akoka EditorReuben Hamlyn Casting Director Violette Trotter First Assistant DirectorRaha Amirfazli Sound Designer David Doubtfire Production SoundRobin Zeijlon, Liat Krongrad Costume DesignerSara Boutorabi Special Effects Make-Up Artist Tara Atefi Art Director EJ Rosen Set Decorator Jamie Kiernan O'Brien Intimacy CoordinatorKristina Valentine Cast Maximilian Isaacs, Blu Hunt, Kristiana Priscantelli, Christian Lorentzen, Reuben Hamlyn, Jingle & Jangle
Director's Statement I wanted to make a dark, funny, formally playful love story about the complexity of what influences the way we envisage our life (our desires, our beliefs, experiences, material reality, estimation of our own capacities, our degree of faith in what the future will bring to the world) and the way we reductively narrate these influences to ourselves and others. I wanted the central characters to embody opposites: Kasia, a worn-down realist, and Dennis, a naive, entitled optimist, someone blind to the world beyond them, convinced the future will resolve in his favour. He struggles to recognise the autonomy of those he becomes close to, not out of malice, but because his solipsistic worldview cannot accommodate it. Over the last few years, there’s been resistance to representing the point of view of characters who do bad things, but I have always been interested in their psychology. I think this interest stems from a firm belief in the importance of attempting to understand everyone, no matter their crime because if we refuse someone even a modicum of empathy, it is then easy to dehumanise them. Granting access to Dennis is not an attempt to justify him; it is a way of examining how a vision for one's life can be built at the expense of others, how another’s agency can be disregarded when you see your own desire as destiny.
