Rose’s wayward brother returns home on the same morning their quiet neighborhood is roiled by a violent crime. Across town, their ailing aunt Chris lives in self-imposed isolation with no interest in receiving phone calls or mail. As a house-to-house manhunt is underway, Chris finds a bloodied gunman hiding in her living room. She calmly assures him, “I’m not going to scream.” 

Shot on location in Cape Cod, Strange Kindness is a tense, smoldering, narrative feature debut from award-winning music video director Joseph Mault. Anchored by emotional honesty with hints of magic haunting the outskirts, it explores, “what empathy might look like at its further limits.” Screening Support: Independent Film Festival Boston