Short film

Inheritor
2026 · 14 min
A hushed, hallucinatory plunge into ritual and longing, where devotion and desire press against each other in a small, enclosed world.
- Directed by
- Ryan Lilienfield
- Genres
- Horror
- Starring
- Nastasia Koulich, Piper Verbrick, Alyssa Renee Olson
- Tagline
- Duty and desire cannot co-exist.
- Overview
- On the day of her ascension within her secluded, tree-worshiping cult, Ama, a sheltered young woman, leaps into a treacherous psychedelic ritual that faces her with a choice between her duty to her people and her desire to be with her childhood best friend and lover, Oakley.
- How it feels
- Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Identity, love, faith, isolation
- Content
- Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Ryan Lilienfield
- Genres
- Horror
- Starring
- Nastasia Koulich, Piper Verbrick, Alyssa Renee Olson


