DON'T TELL MAMA
Director: Chloe Leigh King
United States, 2025, 11 min
Shooting Format:Digital
Festival Year:2026
Category:Narrative Short
Genre:Drama
Cast:Uliks Fehmiu, Jordyn Jenkins
Crew:Writer: Chloe Leigh King. Producers: Shaka King, Daniel Croix, Mele Hamasaki, Oona Roche. Editor: Kristan Sprague
Email:kingchloeleigh@gmail.com
Synopsis
A Montenegrin father takes his teenage daughter on an unforgettable dinner date.
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About the director
CHLOE LEIGH KING is a writer, director, and actor whose work pushes her audience, with unrelenting guile and delicately straddled boundaries, to engage with the unspoken, subconscious perversions that make us human.
Her debut narrative short, DON'T TELL MAMA, most recently screened at Sundance 2026, and is continuing to circulate the festival space.
She is currently developing her first feature film, SO BELOW, which she will write, direct, and star in.
She can next be seen on screen in BUTTERFLY JAM, the opening film for Cannes Directors' Fortnight 2026, directed by Kantemir Balagov.