Brush Strokes

Title: Brush-Strokes Marie is a talented artist trapped in a soul-crushing job at Wentworth & Dross, an insurance company obsessed with shades of beige. When a mysterious antique shop gifts her an old paintbrush, she discovers it can turn her worst days into something better — a boss's cruelty becomes an accidental promotion, a mugging undoes itself by morning. But when her mother dies suddenly, Marie learns the brush can soften almost anything except the one thing she needs it to fix. In her grief, she breaks the brush, mends it with her own hands, and paints one last picture — of herself and her mother, together — and steps into it, disappearing for good. A magic-realist comedy, set in the 1930s, about a dead-end job, a secret talent, and the difference between what can be painted over and what can't. Director: Amelia Oosthuizen