23rd Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 16-26, 2026 Globe Cinema

14th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 18-22, 2026 Globe Cinema

BEAUTY SLEEP

United Kingdom, 2025: 13 minutes: Alberta Premiere
Special Guest!
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description

A creatively stifled beautician-turned-mortician, provides makeovers at a funeral parlour for living teens.

In the Beauty Sleep world, cosmetic enhancement is more extreme than our own. New boobs, butts and faces can be purchased, sewn on and bedazzled to your choosing. And the latest trend? A living embalment, where teenage girls, for their Sweet 16, emerge from a sparkling coffin instead of a giant cake. But when an eccentric mortician, trapped under the patriarchal thumb of her controlling boss, accidentally kills a client, she sees a twisted chance to escape. As the clock ticks, she plots her way out by stealing “the face” from the client, but not before giving the dead girl the most bizarrely beautiful makeover of her afterlife. Beauty Sleep is a dark, satirical dive into perfection, creativity, and control.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Fantasia International Film Festival 2025
HollyShorts 2025
LA Femme International Film Festival 2025
Wench Film Festival 2026
Final Girls Film Festival 2026
Manchester Film Festival 2026

details

Women Director / Narrative

English
13 minutes

special guest

Director, screenwriter Jasmine De Silva in attendance

credits

Director
Jasmine De Silva

Screenwriter
Jasmine De Silva

Executive Producer
Jasmine De Silva

Producer
Tuli Litvak

Cinematographer
Beatriz Delgado Mena

Editor
Kate Miller

Composer
Hollie Buhagiar

Music
Papa Roach
Last Resort.

Sound designer
Conor Kelly

Cast
Ebony Aboagye
Insia Durrani
Jes Hynes
Emma James
Cecilie Krasnik
Abi McLoughlin
Eleanor Thornedyke

Official website:
http://www.jasminedesilva.com

Instagram:
https://instagram.com/beautysleepfilm

awards

Winner, BIFA / Canadian Award, Fantasia International Film Festival 2025