Mom steals phones. Teens suffer. Marriage implodes. 15 minutes of pure chaos.
Janine forces her teenage daughter and her two besties to have an actual conversation by confiscating their cellphones for one hour. Meanwhile she texts her husband she wants a divorce.
Acting
Meredith Thomas nails desperate-mom-trying-too-hard energy.
Direction
Godoy stretches 15 minutes into genuine narrative tension.
Director
Jeannette Godoy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Godoy made this as a thesis project examining how screens mediate even our most intimate failures — Janine demands authenticity she can't model.
The film's festival run happened during peak 'phone bad, book good' discourse, making its satire accidentally zeitgeist-y.
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