Marina Tempelsman & Niccolo Aeed’s film ‘This Will Never Work’, with original music by Shruti Kumar, has its world premiere today at the Brooklyn Film Festival.

“This Will Never Work follows a dysfunctional family staging an intervention for Amanda’s drinking—complete with a hired therapist, heartfelt letters, and a carefully chosen location. But when Amanda arrives, therapist Trevor quickly realizes the family hasn’t told him the whole truth.

What starts as a routine intervention unravels into a darkly funny whodunnit of emotional baggage and buried secrets. Flashing between conflicting family memories and the tense present, we piece together how this family ended up so broken—and why they can’t help but trigger each other.”