Bad Actor

  • Director

    Sonea Patil

  • Country, Year, Length

    United States, 2025, 17:45

  • Category

    Narrative Short

  • Festival Year

    2025

Synopsis

We follow Danny, a depressed convenience store owner and aspiring actor, who believes his routine day is the start of a big film shoot. He begins to obsessively spiral and mimic customers during lunch, which ultimately isolates him. Finally, the audience is faced with a harrowing question: was it reality or all just a performance?

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Film Information

From the Director

Director Biography

Sonea Patil is a filmmaker based in New York City, originally from India. She studied Practical Filmmaking at Met Film School in London, where she began shaping her voice through stories that attempt to give attention to what often goes unseen.

“Bad Actor” is her third short film. Her work circles themes of identity, perception, and the quiet strangeness of belonging. She moves between genres, drawn less by category and more by a feeling of discomfort, of recognition, of something shifting just beneath the surface. Her films invite pause. They ask questions, without always answering back.

Credits

    • Sonea Patil
      Director
    • Sonea Patil
      Writer
    • Sanat Patil
      Writer
    • Amina Bejja
      Producer
    • Ian Gould
      Key Cast
    • Graceann Kontak
      Key Cast
    • Andy Wolf
      Key Cast