Anna Baumgarten

Julie has an anxiety attack when she discovers all of her building's laundry machines are broken, and reluctantly accepts help from her neighbor Kris.

After failing her final college class, Jane returns home to her family's lake house, coming to terms with the trauma that derailed her senior year.

Disfluency is a short film that follows a young woman through her daily life, from her passive usage of the phrase "I'm sorry," to her being raped and the emotional aftermath. All the while, this habit of apologizing eerily stays with her throughout, begging the question: have we let rape become a cultural disfluency - an expected, almost unnoticeable interruption-in our culture?