Awards & Recognition

• Winner — Best Student Film
  2025 Ardelion European Film Association Awards Gala

• Official Selection — 2026 All American High School Film Festival(one of the world's most prestigious student film festivals)
  Screening:October 16–18, 2025 at AMC Empire 25, Times Square, Manhattan, New York

• Finalist & Nominee – 2026 ICE Movie Awards

  • Best Short Film (Fiction)

• Finalist & Nominee – 2025 International Indie Film & Screenplay Festival

  • Best Short Film

  • Best Student Film

  • Best Non-Dialogue Film

• Official Selection – 2025 Indie Short Fest

  • Best Young Filmmaker

  • Best LGBTQ+ Short

• Official Selection – 2025 Red Movie Awards

  • Best Short Film

• Honorable Mention - 2026 International Film Arts and Hearts Film Festival

  • Experimental Film

CREDITS :

Therese Sacerdote : Nova Boylan

Lover : Aliette Mardin

Director : Cat Soares

Director of Photography : Catarina Soares

Editor : Catarina Soares

Assistant Camera #1 : Elijah Allick

Assistant Camera #2 : Sasha Flores

Assistant Camera #3 : Jeanne De Navelle

Set Design : Catarina Soares

Makeup Artist : Catarina Soares

Lighting Coordinator : Catarina Soares

Song : Despair Came Knocking by Daniel Johnston

Written by Catarina Soares

Produced by the New York Film Academy (La Femis/PARIS)