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Film Spotlight  

A SWEETNESS 
OF LAPSE

Writer/Director: Bashir Aden
Runtime: 15 min.
Genre: Sci Fi/Thriller
Format: 16mm Film
When best friends, Ava and Mina, experiment with a viral-internet trend called “timeline shifting.” What begins as a curious shared experience slowly veers into the unsettling, testing their friendship and their sense of reality.






 
Bashir’s film fuses speculative storytelling with intimate realism. Through subtle performances and dreamlike cinematography, A Sweetness of Lapse transforms the sci-fi idea of alternate timelines into a metaphor for grief and rebirth and examines the ways we attempt to rewrite our own histories, to bring back what’s been lost, and hold on to one.





Official Selections:
2024 Milwaukee International Film Festival Official Selection
Cream City Cinema Special Jury Prize
2023 Black Harvest Film Festival Official Selection
2023 Blow-Up International Arthouse Film Festival
Currently Streaming on OPEN TELEVISION (OTV)










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