Milk of Dreams

Name: New Zealand Film Commission
Price range: $

New Zealand Production

Short 2024 Drama 16.00 minutes

Two women, a mother and her young adult daughter, inhabit a timeless world on a small rural farm where they share in daily work and rituals. Between farm chores, brushing each other’s hair at night and sharing a bed, the potency of their glances suggests an undercurrent of change that will deliver the daughter onto her own. The presence of a stranger at the dinner table marks a shift in the closeness of the mother and daughter. The daughter grapples with feeling herself outside, sitting unnoticed between the lovers’ gaze. She finds herself shut out from the bedroom that she is used to sharing with her mother. The mother dreams the touch of the stranger. The touch is transferred onto the daughter. Awakening to a surge of sexual curiosity, the daughter re-enters the world according to herself.