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Love You

It's moving day for Chioma and Sam, as they head to the new flat they now own together. But when they arrive, Chioma is confronted by a harrowing realisation.

Made with the support of the Roundhouse Film Fund and Wiggin Foundation

  • Martha Nabila
    Director
    A+B
  • Martha Nabila
    Writer
    A+B
  • Thomas Bergmann
    Producer
    Interview
  • Chioma Nwalioba
    Key Cast
    "Chioma "
  • Matt Williams
    Key Cast
    "Sam"
    Jerusalem- West End
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Horror, Psychological horror
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    June 2, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital and Go Pros
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Martha Nabila

Martha is a British-Palestinian writer and director. Though her work varies in form and style (her debut short, A+B, was selected for several festivals and received several nominations and her second, Love You was awarded the Roundhouse Film Fund 2025) she frequently seeks to explore themes of women’s intuition, human connection and grief- both grief of loved ones and of the self.

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Director Statement

The things we truly fear, that plague us, are frequently much closer to home than many horrors would suggest. I adore a good slasher, but am more likely to be deeply unsettled by a film exploring something I genuinely feel could happen to me at any moment.

I wanted to make a short full of cognitive dissonance- visually exploring how what ostensibly looks like a lovely situation (buying your first home with your long-term partner) can turn into a harrowing situation.

Women cutting themselves off from their intuition- saying yes to situations they don’t want to, from a scale as small as unwillingly eating a canape out of politeness to signing a lease- is something I feel extremely strongly about. It makes us ill.

My protagonist is a 30 year old woman who has “I don’t mind, I’m easy”d her way through her entire relationship without seeing an issue with it, to the point where her mind has all but given up on either internally or externally evoking her authentic emotions. In the film, we see the moment her real feelings about moving in with her partner into a forever home hit her- but it is too late.