Private Project

Stockholm

Claire, a bright but restless 25-year-old, dives into an exploration of kink with the encouragement of her best friend, Skye. What begins as playful curiosity on a dating app quickly spirals when Claire matches with Leo, a charismatic older man who lures her into a captivity that blurs the line between coercion and desire.
Months later, Claire resurfaces: bruised, haunted, and back in the Bushwick apartment she once shared with Skye. Torn between the safety of home and the dark pull of her submission, Claire struggles to adjust to her old life.
Through fractured timelines of present-day recovery and flashbacks of captivity, Stockholm dissects friendship, sexuality, and the unsettling psychology of power. The proof-of-concept offers a chilling glimpse into Claire’s paradoxical truth, where survival and surrender are indistinguishable, and freedom might not be what she wants after all.

  • Kaitlyn Mikayla
    Director
    Ragamuffin
  • Kaitlyn Mikayla
    Writer
    Ragamuffin
  • Jenna Harwood
    Writer
  • Lily Greenwald
    Writer
  • Erica Pappas
    Producer
    Little One, Lost Dog, Barbizon
  • Jake Silbermann
    Producer
    Little One, Stuffer, Barbizon
  • Caroline Mariko Stucky
    Cinematographer
  • Michael Wiley
    Editor
  • James Parker
    Composer
    Ragamuffin
  • Mason Brown
    Sound Designer
  • Grace Moroses
    Production Designer
  • Leah Jean Gallagher
    Costume Designer
  • Jenna Harwood
    Key Cast
    "Claire"
  • Lily Greenwald
    Key Cast
    "Skye"
  • Josh Davis
    Key Cast
    "Leo"
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes 24 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 5, 2025
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Arri Alexa
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Cinequest Film Festival
    San Jose, California
    United States
    March 14, 2026
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Miami Film Festival
    Miami, Florida
    United States
    April 11, 2026
    Florida Premiere
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Kaitlyn Mikayla

Kaitlyn Mikayla is a writer-director, photographer, and Sundance alum whose work fuses striking visuals with raw, character-driven storytelling. Her directorial debut, RAGAMUFFIN, a deeply personal narrative drawn from her childhood racing motocross, world-premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The award-winning short continues a robust international run, screening across the U.S. and in seven countries worldwide, including at the Cannes Film Festival’s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase. Before moving into narrative filmmaking, Kaitlyn built a celebrated career as a photographer and commercial director, with print work appearing in The Wall Street Journal, PAPER Magazine, New York Times bestsellers, and on Times Square billboards. She has directed and shot international campaigns for major fashion brands. She aims to help close the gap for female directors and bring gritty, subversive stories of badass young women to the big screen.

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Director Statement

STOCKHOLM was born from a desire to wrestle with the blurred lines between power, intimacy, and survival. It is an erotic thriller on its surface, but at its core, it’s a psychological maze around consent.

Like so many women, my relationship to consent, sex and power dynamics is complicated. When the writers came to me with their story, it was illuminating to not feel alone in this experience but also heartbreaking to know this abuse is universal. I wanted to put the audience into the headspace that most women have felt before and push it to its extremes, without making a caricature of our trauma.

There’s a point where trauma consumes us, where identity feels rewritten by what has been taken from us. STOCKHOLM lives in that liminal space between control and surrender, between captivity and connection.

By confronting these contradictions through cinema, I wanted to make a film that doesn’t give easy answers but instead lingers in the discomfort, because that is where truth lives.