Short film

Vespers
2026 · 12 min
A quiet, uneasy short that sits with loss and tentative kindness, feeling like a held breath in a small room.
- Directed by
- Charlie Schmidlin
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Tara Mallen, Vic Kuligoski, Morgan Brendan Sexton
- Overview
- Adrift after her Unitarian Universalist church is firebombed, a Midwestern woman attempts to welcome two promoters renting out the congregation’s basement for a DIY punk gig.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, tense, earnest and warm. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Grief, faith, isolation, found family
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Charlie Schmidlin
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Tara Mallen, Vic Kuligoski, Morgan Brendan Sexton

