A dinner party where Mom brings the tea, the trauma, and possibly the murder weapon.
When Sasha's mother doesn't show up to her fiancé's funeral, she invites her over for dinner to settle the matter. The evening becomes increasingly sinister when her mother lets Sasha in on a little secret about her fiancé's death.
Acting
Mariah Inger's maternal menace hits like a slap.
Direction
Lorna Kidjo packs a feature's worth of dread into 13 minutes.
Writing
Dialogue that starts polite then curdles spectacularly.
Director
Lorna Kidjo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kidjo explores how Black matriarchs often weaponize care as control, a horror trope rarely centered in genre cinema.
The film's festival run notably included BlackStar, where audiences reportedly gasped in unison at the mother's confession.
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