From executive producers of ‘JOY LUCK CLUB’ & 2026 Best Short Oscar winner ‘SINGERS’
“Hunger” – Deep in the mountains, an inn-keeping vampire meets a lonely traveler, both hungry for something the other might be able to provide. Anne has survived her self-imposed isolation in the Sierra Nevada mountains by draining the blood of periodic hikers who have landed at her mountain cabin for a hot meal and a warm bed. John, a boorish hiker, finds his way to her table where she feeds him poisonous mushrooms, drains his veins, then leaves his body in the woods. Weeks later, Nora, John’s widow, comes to the same mountains to scatter his ashes after it was found in the woods. When she encounters Anne’s cabin, she’s invited in for a hot meal and warm bed. A friendship sparks as they cook together…until Nora discovers that Anne killed John. Nora asks: What kind of monster is Anne? Ultimately, the two women come to understand one another’s plight and humanity, and both discover that though neither had control over the state of their own bodies in life, they can–together–choose how they want to end it.