VOMIT
2026 · 16m
Directed by Roi Cydulkin
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: dark, darkly comic
A wildcard addict on the run shows up bloodied at the door of his home health aide ex-girlfriend, turning both their lives upside down in a dark comedy about love, death, drugs, and ferrets.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A bloodied addict showing up at his ex-girlfriend's door *should* be maudlin disaster porn, but Cydulkin somehow makes it a dark comedy about ferrets and mortality—the kind of premise that sounds like a rejected pitch until you realize it's the only honest way to tell this story.
The tonal architecture here is precise: Cydulkin holds the line between pathos and absurdism without letting either collapse into sentiment, positioning the film within a lineage of character-driven dark comedies that refuse easy catharsis.
There's a single decision—maybe it's the ferret, maybe it's the blocking when he arrives at her door, maybe it's a cut I can't unsee—that transforms what could be a tired addiction narrative into something that actually breathes with specificity and weird tenderness.