Miriam Silverman

During a star-studded charity gala brimming with celebrities, billionaires, and empty speeches, a movie star in the midst of an existential crisis is taken hostage by a radical warrior and her devoted followers. As the night descends into chaos, both an inward journey and an outward adventure ensue, where the line between performance and belief, salvation and sacrifice, begins to blur.

A superintendent of a school district works for the betterment of the student’s education when an embezzlement scheme is discovered, threatening to destroy everything.

Desperate for money and running out of options, Marine veteran Brian Brown-Easley holds several people hostage inside a bank, setting the stage for a tense confrontation with police.

In an alternate present society where the state frees parents from the burden of raising children, a rule enforcer learns a shocking truth that sparks her rebellion.

A polaroid flashes, it’s 1978 and Frances, twelve years old, drops a risqué photo of herself and a love letter into an envelope to slip under the door of her crush. But when an older friend suggests she may be coming on too strong, Frances tries desperately to undo what she did.

After dropping her daughter off at school, Sophie heads into the woods to reopen the family cabin after a long winter. Alone and surrounded by nature, she begins to reconnect with parts of herself long buried beneath her roles as a mother and wife, lost in the rush of everyday life.

Suzanne is a homemaker with an erotic fixation on her butcher and his expert handling of flesh…a skill that stands in sharp contrast to the rote sex life she shares with her husband, Tom. To make matters more complicated, the butcher, unbeknownst to our protagonist, is trans-masculine, and Suzanne is not exactly LGBTQ+ aware; she’s overtly dismissive of her non-binary teenager’s gender identity, Ruth. Things come to a head when Tom invites Tracy, his estranged adult niece, to dinner. Suzanne visits her butcher and prepares a prime cut exactly as he suggests. Later, when the doorbell rings, she’s met with a shocking surprise. This mystery family member is the butcher – the butcher is Tracy. As the evening progresses, Suzanne must navigate her conflicting desires, face her prejudices, and acknowledge a deep-seated longing for something more.

An ambivalent mother resolves her struggle with the all-consuming nature of motherhood by making a startling choice on a family beach trip.

During Shabbat service at a synagogue, a woman sorting canned goods for a food drive receives a disturbing call from a stranger.