Loz is a 25-year-old aspiring playwright stuck in a quarter-life crisis, living at home and questioning everything about her future. When she meets the seemingly perfect Dave, she believes he might be the answer to her chaotic life. But as love, ambition and insecurity collide, Loz must confront the messy truth about who she is and what she really wants.

Rialto Recommends: Funny, raw and painfully relatable, Hot Mess captures the chaos of a quarter-life crisis with disarming honesty. Writer-director Lucy Coleman delivers a sharp, intimate indie comedy about ambition, heartbreak and the humiliations of modern adulthood. Anchored by Sarah Gaul’s fearless performance, the film is messy in the best possible way-awkward, heartfelt and recognisably human.