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2024 · 10m · USA
Directed by Santi MacLean
Genres: coming-of-age, drama, LGBTQ+
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, tender
Two 10th-grade BFFs have a sleepover where they contemplate love, God, queerness and loss — chewing through SSRIs, dead pets, AP classes and cold pizza in one small room.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A sleepover film that takes teenage God-talk seriously while editing like a TikTok on amphetamines. That tension alone earns the slot.
MacLean splices teen-sitcom sensibility with hyperactive multi-camera coverage until the form thinks the way the characters do — that's the right ambition for a sleepover film in 2024. The Schoenbrun comparison is doing real work in the description.
Macbook-webcam-as-primary-POV plus phone-screen overlays and gen-Z vernacular for two 10th-graders cycling SSRIs/God/queerness over cold pizza — that's editorial mania serving content, not decoration. The form thinks like the kids.