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Lunch

Directed by Lyla Claggett
United States
2025
7 mins

Eight-year-old Olivia wanders through the crowded cafeteria, searching for a place to sit. Left out by her friends, she hesitantly joins a kind little girl with pink bows which wrap her pigtails, who notices Olivia has no lunch. That moment sparks something in Olivia. Later at home, she carefully makes her own sandwich and proudly packs it into a baggie she also does her own pig tails, imitating what she saw at school.

The next day, she sits beside the girl again, now with her own lunch in hand. But when Olivia notices the sweet note tucked into the girl’s sandwich bag—signed by her dad—she’s reminded of what she doesn’t have. After school, Olivia enters a room in her house that’s been closed off, filled with packed boxes and old photographs. Sitting at her father’s desk, she picks up a picture of the two of them, and a quiet tear falls.

'Lunch' is screening with:

Cinemaslam

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  • Year
    2025
  • Country
    United States
  • Language
    English
  • Premiere Status
    Other
  • Director
    Lyla Claggett
  • Producer
    Lyla Claggett
  • Writer
    Lyla Claggett
  • Cinematographer
    Christo Amygdalitsis
  • Editor
    Sydney Demaline
  • Genre
    Drama
  • Theme
    Short, Directed by Women
  • Award
    Special Presentation

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