"Weedling" (dir. Angie Black 2023)

Weedling is an 18-minute magic realist narrative short film that investigates themes of male perpetrated violence against women and children, queer sexuality, gender nonconformity and biophilia without falling into gendered cinema tropes of showing a woman in fear. The narrative portrays Alix, a gender non-conforming teenager who steals their father's car to save their spirit plant and themselves from an unsafe home, at the risk of leaving their mother who can't protect them.