Freti throws up worms. Mawn thinks she’s a cow. Oh, and also, a notorious college rapist is banging at their door. With urgency and absurdity, WORMBALL disrupts the oppressive need for clarity. What if several stories were true at once? What if a lie is a symptom of a greater societal failure?
Freti, Mawn, and May are seniors at a tiny unnamed liberal arts college, navigating a toxic world of secrets, sex, lies—and worms. Freti is unraveling: constantly drunk, vomiting worms, plagued by panic attacks, and flashbacks of a sexual trauma from her past. After a rough night, she hallucinates a grotesque version of herself—Pig Freti—who devours worms like candy. On the same night, Mawn, a sex worker with deep-seated trauma of her own, hallucinates her Cow Self in lingerie and lipstick. Something is boiling to the surface for both of these women.

Over the course of one night, Mawn becomes convinced that Freti has been sexually assaulted, and her rage fixates on a rumored predator: Steven, a student canceled by most of the campus. When Mawn, May, and Freti learn that Steven is expected to come to their house for a pre-game, panic erupts. What happens is unclear—but by the end, Mawn has blood on her knuckles, a pig spits on Freti, and Mawn and Freti both throw up worms.

Directed by Ella Talerico (USA)