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BOOKENDS w/ Mutual (short Film)
2026 | USA | 99 MIN
When Nate (Noam Ash) is forced to leave his fabulous city life behind and move in with his grandparents after a bad breakup with his boyfriend, he is determined to escape the confines of retirement community life and his meddlesome grandparents’ relentless attempts to ‘improve’ him. But when his Holocaust-surviving grandfather, Saul (F. Murray Abraham), shows signs of cognitive decline and his grandmother, Miriam (Caroline Aaron), refuses to acknowledge her husband’s early dementia, Nate finds himself torn between his desire to flee, family responsibilities, and an unexpected romance with his grandparents’ handsome doctor (Charlie Barnett).
DIRECTOR MIKE DOYLE
WRITER NOAM ASH
PRODUCERS ALON SHTRUZMAN, SCOTT EINBINDER, NOAM ASH, HENRY RUSSELL BERGSTEIN, WARREN OSTERGARD
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS SCOTT KRIEGER, CHAD E. BROWN, GIL GOLDSCHEIN, NOAH EISENBERG, NICOLE EISENBERG, STANFORD BROWN, NICK FRANCESCON, DEBORAH SHMUELI, ODED SHMUELI, C. GRAHAM BERWIND III, ELENI GIANULIS-VERMEER, REBECCA GOLD, SHIRA MILIKOWSKY, S. ASHER GELMAN, STEFANO MILICI, F. MURRAY ABRAHAM, CAROLINE AARON, MIKE DOYLE, CHARLIE BARNETT
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY DABNEY MORRIS
CAST F. MURRAY ABRAHAM, CAROLINE AARON, NOAM ASH, CHARLIE BARNETT
Mutual (Short Film)
2026 | AU | 13 MIN
An ambitious filmmaker lands a directing gig on the set of a historical series and must fight to prove himself. As tensions mount, his growing connection with the show's charismatic star blurs the lines between performance and reality.
Amid sabotage, grief and the relentless pressure of a collapsing production, he must decide whether success is worth sacrificing the people who believed in him. A darkly comedic queer industry drama, Mutual examines the cost of creative control, ambition and intimacy when art becomes war.
WRITER Jonathan Zsofi, Jack Stratton-Smith
DIRECTOR Jonathan Zsofi
CAST Jack Stratton-Smith, Jen Van Epps, Ashley Sawko, Kirby Lunn, Francois Theurel, Laura Lattuada
