Sweet Child of Mine
2026 · 13m · Canada
Directed by Fereshteh Nezakati Rezapour
Genres: drama, horror, mystery
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
After years of estrangement, Liz returns to her childhood home to finalize its sale following her mother's death, and fractured memories begin to surface.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
The premise reads like grief-adjacent indie wallpaper—estranged daughter, dead mother, house sale—but if Nezakati Rezapour's actually threading horror and surrealism into the memory fragments, that's the move that could make it genuinely unsettling instead of just sad.
Nezakati Rezapour is working in the lineage of psychological haunting—the house as text, estrangement as formal rupture—and a 13-minute runtime that trusts fractured editing over exposition suggests real curatorial control over how memory becomes image.
The unusual element here has to be how she's using the surreal tone: a single sound design choice or a cut that slips between present and false-memory could be what separates this from standard grief drama into something that actually feels haunted rather than just mournful.