The short film makes its world premiere at the Raindance Film Festival in London this June.
Husband and wife K.D. and Chris Chalk are taking their creative partnership to London. Bless the Telephone, written, directed by, and starring K.D. Chalk, has been selected as an Official Selection of the 2026 Raindance Film Festival, where it will make its world premiere with screenings on June 22 and June 24 at Vue Piccadilly.
Set in post-hurricane Helene Asheville, North Carolina, the film centers on two estranged parents whose paths converge on their son’s fifth birthday. What begins as a reluctant reunion quickly becomes something more complicated, a quiet reckoning with grief, love, and whether what once existed between two people can survive after loss has reshaped them both.
“Bless the Telephone is a film about the ache of trying to return to someone after life has altered you both,” K.D. Chalk said. “It asks what remains when people can no longer love each other in the same way they once did.”
The project also stars Chris Chalk, known for IT: Welcome to Derry, Perry Mason, 12 Years a Slave, and Gotham, and marks the fourth creative collaboration between the husband-and-wife duo. The film originated as a Columbia University MFA project.
One of the world’s premier independent film festivals, Raindance has long been a platform for distinctive voices in cinema. For the Chalks, London is the next stop.