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HER LOVER (SHORT)

HER LOVER

By Elizabeth STUELKE

SNL FILM, LLC - as PROD

First film - Completed 2024

A young woman’s world is sent reeling when her lover discloses a family secret that led to her mother’s death and threatens their new life together.

Festivals
& Awards

TINFF 2024
Best Cinematography
Milan Independent Film Festival 2024
Best Mirco Budget
Milan Independent Film Festival 2024
Best Psychological
Big Apple Screenplay 2024
Semi-Finalist
Page Turner Awards 2024
Semi-Finalist
London Women Film Festival 2024
Best Short
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    • Year of production
    • 2024
    • Genres
    • First film, Family, Drama
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH-UNITED STATES
    • Budget
    • 0 - 0.3 M$
    • Duration
    • 15 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Elizabeth STUELKE
    • Producer(s)
    • Elizabeth STUELKE (FUZZY PANCAKES PRODUCTIONS. LLC)
    • Synopsis
    • A young mother, Sandy, and her lover, Cecil, are creating a life for themselves.

      But what happened before this moment is of crucial importance to their happiness. The discovery of her mother’s involvement with Cecil, her lover and father of their baby, which begins here, will fuel Sandy and the viewer to ask questions of memory, love, and betrayal.

      Sandy and Cecil are in love, they enjoy each others company and they share a son. But Sandy can’t help but feel sad and reflective about her past, about her late mother, now that she’s a mother.

      Cecil helps her navigate the secrets of her past by showing Sandy her mother’s letters, written years ago to him, her mother’s secret lover (however, the extent of that relationship is not fully clear and fuels the mystery of “Her Lover.” ) Cecil hopes to explain to Sandy what her mother was going through at the time of her suicide and perhaps provide the needed connection for Sandy.

      A family secret is revealed by Cecil, who was a family friend when Sandy was younger, which implicates him in the events leading up to her mother’s suicide. The strength of who Sandy is, having been raised by this flawed but loving woman, in this unmistakably American family…existing in that working-class world of hope and despair in the 1970s, is compelling and inspiring.

      The sadness and longing, the love created by this couple and their child, in the wake of life-changing events, and the long-awaited understanding of those events, lead Sandy to end the short with the mussing: “I wonder.”

      The viewer is left with the same feeling and a desire to know more about this family and what happens next.
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