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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like Disconnect, it treats online contact as an intimate threat with painful consequences for a family, sustaining tension through believable emotional fallout rather than flashy cyber-thriller mechanics.
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Why this pick
A journalist’s online investigation becomes a morally fraught, increasingly personal connection, echoing Disconnect’s mix of screen-mediated intimacy, professional pressure, and escalating danger.
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Why this pick
Its intersecting storylines reveal how private choices collide with institutions and exploitation, delivering the same anxious, humane sense that no character can remain untouched by a wider system.
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Why this pick
This is a more overtly dystopian companion to Disconnect’s concern with digital life: it explores how connectivity, visibility, and professional ambition can erode trust and personal boundaries.
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Why this pick
Told through devices and online traces, it turns digital communication into a tense emotional investigation while retaining the parental fear and human vulnerability beneath the technology.
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01 / THE STORY
Ambitious, up-and-coming reporter Nina Dunham interviews an underage video chat-room stripper named Kyle. Kyle, a runaway, works for a man named Harvey in a "house" with other chat-room strippers. However, after the interview achieves some prominence, the FBI demands that she reveal the address of the house so that they can shut down the operation. Since she has paid Kyle in order to make initial contact, she may have broken the law. As a result, police and her employer also put pressure on her to cooperate. Nina wants to save him from the business, yet fears losing his trust in the process. Kyle reluctantly gives her the address, but Harvey is tipped off and the entire household flees. Nina follows them to a motel where they're staying and asks Kyle to leave with her. Kyle is willing to do so at first, but when Nina is hesitant to guarantee him safe haven in her home, he refuses. Harvey watches them argue, then slaps Nina. The entire group of chat-room strippers leave and Nina drives away in tears.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Rich Boyd
Lydia Boyd
Mike Dixon
Stephen Schumacher
Cindy Hull
Nina Dunham
Derek Hull
Kyle
