Short film

Flesh Impact
2026 · 17 min
A quiet, unsettling conversation that slowly reveals hidden layers, asking you to lean in and listen closely.
- Directed by
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Dakota Johnson, Ellen Burstyn, Peter Sarsgaard
- Overview
- A mysterious old woman auditions for a play at a small blackbox theater in New York City. As she describes her qualifications and her acting experience, secrets about her identity and the misconceptions about her life bubble to the surface.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, tense, eerie and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Identity, memory, isolation, aging
- Content
- Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Maggie Gyllenhaal
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Dakota Johnson, Ellen Burstyn, Peter Sarsgaard







