Jamaal

A couple's quiet home life shifts when a friendly AI android named Jamaal is delivered to their door. Designed to help, to listen, and to learn, the robot slips into the rhythms of the household with unnerving ease, and the two men soon find that a machine built to serve them is also a mirror that reflects the cracks in their relationship. Co-directed by Philip Johnson and Taariq Muhammad from Johnson's script, this intimate science-fiction short uses a small cast and a single domestic setting to ask what companionship, trust, and intimacy mean when a third presence in the house never sleeps and never forgets. Matthew Jennings, Philip Johnson, Jaquan Solomon, and Arabia Little star. Produced by Philaye Films, Jamaal treats its premise as a relationship drama first and a genre piece second.