10 minutes. Two friends. One cup of tea that might be poison.
After a brief hiatus due to a shared tragedy, two friends from high school meet up for the first time in years. Old wounds threaten to tear them apart when it appears one of them has sinister motives
Acting
Tori Helm's eyes do ALL the talking
Direction
Helmueller wrings feature-length tension from a single room
Director
Max Helmueller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in a single day in Helmueller's actual apartment; the tea set belonged to his grandmother.
The 10-minute runtime mirrors the average time between a poisoned drink and symptoms—Helmueller timed the tension to biological reality.
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