Tender world première closes Dances With Films, 28 Jun 2026 Tender begins with a shot of an incinerator blazing, and with Billie Royce (Jess Weixler) declaring in voice-over, “Failure is something I generally avoid”, while describing the refusal of herself and her husband Mick (Jesse Garcia) to recognise the “bad spot” that they are in…
Rob Grant’s This Too Shall Pass opens with Simon Benson (Maxwell Jackson) sitting, stern and bloody-faced, in the back of a police car – and explaining to Officer Harris (Chris Sandiford) how a kid from Syracuse, New York came to be under arrest in Ottawa, Canada without his parents, all to the synth pop accompaniment…
Thou Wast Mild And Lovely first published by Grolsch FilmWorks “There’s just something about the way you carry yourself, about the way you walk. You carry a lot of tension in your shoulders. Like you got a secret you don’t want anyone to know. Or maybe you’re gay.” The speaker is Jeremiah (Robert Longstreet), the sly,…