Some Day All This Will Be Yours
2023 · 11m · United States
Directed by Cricket Arrison
Genres: dark comedy, drama, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, surreal
An increasingly strange pregnant woman tours her unborn child through its inheritance in her crumbling childhood home.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A pregnant woman narrating the apocalypse of her own bloodline to a fetus—it's absurd, uncomfortable, and refuses to resolve into sentiment or moral clarity, which is exactly why it works. This is the kind of premise that makes festival programmers nervous and then quietly champion it three years later.
Arrison's command of tone—balancing dark comedy against genuine melancholy while maintaining the film's surreal register—suggests a sophisticated understanding of how tonal constraint creates formal discipline. The inheritance conceit sits in conversation with Gothic family narratives, but the pregnancy frame inverts that tradition into something genuinely unsettling.
The decision to let the mother's strangeness accumulate gradually rather than announce itself upfront—letting us inhabit her voice first—transforms what could've been a gimmick into something that actually lands; that single calibration in performance and editing timing is what elevates this from conceptual to haunting.