Still Life is set in the Bay Area in 1999, and centers on Dafne, a teenage ballet student whose mother is battling leukemia. Over the course of several months, Dafne juggles school, dance rehearsals, a nascent romance and the everyday rhythms of youth — all while living with the underlying fear and grief that her mother’s illness casts over everything. As the year turns and her mother’s condition worsens, Dafne stands between childhood and adulthood, between having someone who loves her and losing that person, embodying the film’s notion of “living on the brink.” The film concludes with her mother’s death, leaving Dafne alone in that liminal space: grown and still growing, alive but changed. - Lucy Hanna, SF IndieFest

Filmmakers expected for post-screening Q&A.

Co-presented by JFI.