Jessie Pinnick

A 16-year-old leaves her depressed father to visit her novelist aunt in Chicago over the summer, where she falls for a neighbor girl.

Intimacy is brilliantly weaponized in this standout film from American rising star Kit Zauhar. Assembling a chamber drama with staggering performances and bruising humor, she twists space and sound into battle zones of emotion where closeness is at once bitter and erotic, touching and barbed.