TRUST ISSUES
COMING SOON
Director: Reva Santo
A young and traumatized musician navigates trust issues, new love, and a destabilized career.
When we meet Aliya she is vibrant, carefree, charismatic. An excellent performer of full sex appeal, however, she is guarded, and not particularly vulnerable. Behind her eyes, there is something tender. She is protective of her true self. This part of her identity gets amplified after a few experiences with sexual assault. She struggles to get back to the person she used to be, worried that her career will fail if she can’t get back to her former self.
Flash forward and we find Aliya at a low point, triggered by intimacy with love interest Dre, and falling deeply into flashbacks of her sexual trauma. Dre is kind and genuinely cares about Aliya. She checks on her even when Aliya tries to ghost her, but Aliya doesn’t know how she can trust anyone and isn’t ready for a relationship. She figures out how to express this to Dre by the end of the film.
