Jayden Stevens’ A Family is an unsettling Australian drama about loneliness, authorship, and the fragile line between performance and truth. A man living in isolation constructs surrogate family moments with low-grade impersonators, meticulously documenting each scene as emotional refuge. But when his “sister” adopts his method and begins shaping her own fictions, their bond destabilises. Spare, introspective, and quietly confronting, the film explores how identity can be curated - and what happens when authenticity slips through the cracks.

_Rialto Recommends: _ Watch A Family for its disquieting originality - a film that probes how much of our emotional lives are staged, curated, or quietly fabricated to survive. Intimate and provocative, it’s a slow-burn psychological study that lingers, asking what’s left when the performance falls away.