Our protagonist Anthony is the head of the theater department at a middle school, a space that becomes a playground for all his dormant and denied ambitions of becoming a playwright. For the annual production, he sets up the students to perform a play purportedly by a famous German playwright who has very graciously offered it to the school, when in fact, there is no such playwright in existence, and the authorship belongs to no other than our desperately impatient protagonist himself. To further complicate matters, Anthony hires a filmmaker to document this entire endeavor. 

From the word go, things begin to go downhill, and the film does a hilariously entertaining and engaging job of portraying it all for the viewer. The big tragedy of Anthony’s life could lie in the answer that is crucial to this whole foolhardy endeavor - does he even have the talent to be a writer to begin with? The answer could be in the negative, or swing the other way, and reaffirm his already shaky faith in his writing and talents. 
At no point does the film overburden itself with the expression of all of these ideas, staying true to its amusing core all along. While our protagonist continues to deal with one hiccup after another, the viewer is always able to find the comedy in it, and it is in the achievement of this result that the film succeeds at being a complete, comprehensive whole.

Sure, Your Play is Good | Short Film Nominee

At first glance, the film presents a regular evening when three students complete an assignment the old-school way - in a library surrounded by books. However, while their research might be underway away from screens, something forces them to pay attention to their phones. 

The three soon begin to receive horrifying videos that completely alter the course of this mundane night. As violence makes its presence felt, it becomes clear that a terrible entity has the library, and the fate of those inside it, in its grip. The narrative does a zealous job of employing a fixed physical space to invoke horror, alongside the devotion of its cast and makeup department to portray it all for the viewer. 

The moment thus presented is suspended in time within the brevity of the end result which wastes no beats, and in the process, keeps the storytelling and the subsequent narrative, controlled, engaging, and tight all along.

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