August 8, 3:00PMFinsbury Park Picturehouse
dir. Millicent Hailes
USA, 2026
August 9, 3:00PM
Curzon Soho
During the worst drought on record, a wealthy pregnant woman living out an escapist fantasy falls in love with a younger woman starting her life over.
At TFFF, one of our priorities when programming new independent work is identifying emerging filmic movements and creatives voices that feel underrepresented within London’s screening culture. With Julia Fox - the Uncut Gems it-girl turned contemporary cultural icon - appearing across two of this years selections, a certain sensibility begins to emerge: films concerned with transgression, queer expression and the collision between personal desire and wider social anxieties.
In Millicent Hailes Perfect, a yassified end-of-the-world cross-class romance becomes a magnifying glass for our relationship with consumption, privilege and environmental collapse. It belongs to a lineage of music video directors crossing into feature filmmaking - from David Fincher to Jonathan Glazer - but replaces their industrial and technological anxieties with the visual language of contemporary rap, internet culture and a world reshaped by climate crisis. Perfect is an irresistibly seductive debut from a self-taught filmmaker with a clear voice.
- Jack Hewitt
starring —
