First Kiss

Maggie goes to a bonfire where she barely knows a soul, and rather than steer the night she lets it happen to her. First her friend Julia pulls her along, then a cute stranger draws her attention, and Maggie drifts between the two, unsure what she wants until a moment arrives that makes the answer impossible to ignore. Margaret Donahoe's ten-minute Canadian short stars Abby Weisbrot, Tori Devine and Nathan D. Simmons, capturing the woozy, firelit texture of a teenage evening where every glance feels loaded. It is a small, tender study of passivity and longing, about a young woman learning to tell the difference between what other people expect of her and what she actually desires, and about how a single kiss can bring that difference into focus.