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A HANDFUL OF DUST (2019)

USA 18 MINS

Director: Grayson Whitehurst

Writer: Grayson Whitehurst

Stars: Eileen Weisinger, Atticus Cain, Dannah Basgall

Country/Language: USA/English

Notable Festivals: Hollyshorts Film Festival, Pendance Film Festival

Synopsis: Dr. Neal Goodman enables terminal patients’ right to die through the practice of mercy killing via his one-of-a-kind device. But when he sets out to fulfill a mother’s request to euthanize her “terminally-ill” daughter, he discovers that his procedure is the crux of an elaborate cult ritual that tests his ethics like never before.