Talking Stage (2026)

Max and Gina match, chat, and agree to meet for a first date. But before they can sit down together, their friends Lucas and Amy invade the conversation via group chat, offering unsolicited advice, over-analyzing every emoji, and accidentally steering the budding connection into a minefield of misinterpretation. What starts as sweet anticipation becomes a comedy of digital interference.

Told almost entirely through phone screens and split-screen reactions, the film captures the absurdity of modern courtship where the real conversation happens not between two people, but between two people and their entire contact lists.