Years after a harrowing sexual assault, a young filmmaker aesthetically reconstructs the complexities and contradictions of her trauma in this rhythmic non-fiction short detailing a search for healing.
You Were Never Really Here
2024
Directed by Flor Portieri
You Were Never Really Here is part of the WEG Short Film Lab commissioned by the White Elephant Group and the After School Film Institute.
The WEG Short Film Lab provided $70k in funds to local filmmakers in South Florida thanks to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Short Films from the program have gone to screen at Tribeca, Leeds, New Orleans, and more.
This film is also a part of the Miami Film Festival and If/Then 2022 Knight Heroes: Development Program, supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
