A NORMAL CONVERSATION
Virtual Showing
2021 | USA | 7 min | Drama
Director: Gairo Cuevas
Producers: Bianca Vidal, Gairo Cuevas
Two teenagers debate the issue of gun control on their walk home after leaving a memorial service honoring friends they lost during a school shooting.
PURCHASE PASS RETURN TO FILMSOther Films
- Published in 2022, Feature Films, SHOWROOM
NAPO
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA, Brazil | 17 min | Animated
Director: Gustavo Ribeiro
Producers: Gustavo Ribeiro, Thais Peixe
John, unable to understand the illness that drives his grandfather between past and present states, stumbles into an old album full of photographs. The images guide his imagination, transforming his grandfather’s memories into drawings that shape their relationship into a history of memory-building and remembrance.
PURCHASE PASS RETURN TO FILMSOther Films
- Published in 2022, Feature Films, Virtual
MAUDE
Virtual Showing
2019 | UK | 18 min | Drama
Director: Toby Frow
Producer: Jessica Hodges
Trans athletes have to work harder than their cisgender peers in order to thrive in their field while also having the courage and resilience to face daily harassment and discrimination. The kids in this film have found sports as a way to channel the negativity around them into a positive, to gain a sense of self-worth and validation. This film is their urgent, articulate plea for acceptance.
PURCHASE PASS RETURN TO FILMSOther Films
- Published in 2022, Short Films, Virtual
MAN IN THE FIELD: THE LIFE AND ART OF JIM DENEVAN
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 77 min | Documentary
Director: Patrick Trefz
Producers: Christine Jarvis, Patrick Trefz, Jesse Carfield, Andreas Jaritz
Profiles Outstanding in the Field founder Jim Denevan, his trials of growing up in a turbulent family dynamic, and the artwork that came of it — both in his geometric land drawings and table-to-farm dinners through OITF. Instead of bringing the food to the restaurant, Outstanding in the Field has brought the restaurant to the food since 1999. Hosted at one long table, with 100 to 1000 guests dining together, Denevan has set tables in vineyards, beaches, meadows, fishing docks, and city streets.
PURCHASE PASS RETURN TO FILMSOther Films
- Published in 2022, Feature Films
LUZZU
Virtual Showing
2021 | Malta | 95 min | Drama
Director: Alex Camilleri
Producers: Rebecca Anastasi, Ramin Bahrani, Alex Camilleri, Oliver Mallia
A hardworking Maltese fisherman, Jesmark is faced with an agonizing choice. He can repair his leaky luzzu – a traditional, multicolored wooden fishing boat – in the hopes of eking out a meager living at sea for his wife and newborn son, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Or he can decommission it in exchange for an EU payout and cast his lot with a sinister black-market operation that is decimating the Mediterranean fish population and the livelihoods of the local families who depend on it. Luzzu won a Sundance Jury Prize for its nonprofessional lead actor Jesmark Scicluna, a real-life Maltese fisherman, and heralds the arrival of writer-director-editor Alex Camilleri. His gripping film operates in the neorealist tradition of Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rosselini, and the Dardenne brothers and calls to mind the work of his mentor Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, The White Tiger), also a producer of the film.
Sundance Film Festival 2021 (Winner: Jury Prize for Acting), New Directors/New Films 2021
“Understated in a way that would make the gods of neorealism proud, the film is anchored by the alluring, underlying rage in Scicluna’s lived-in performance.”— Carlos Aguilar, RogerEbert.com
PURCHASE PASS RETURN TO FILMSOther Films
- Published in 2022, Short Films, SHOWROOM
LITTLE GAMES
Virtual Showing
2020 | UK | 13 min | Narrative
Director: Stéfane Houssier
Producers: Geraldine East, Stéfane Houssier
Escaping from a violent lover to a country manor hotel, Natasha becomes the unwilling confidant of Amelia, a young child, in a family secret. Could Amelia’s secret be true, or is it a cruel game and Natasha her plaything?
PURCHASE PASS RETURN TO FILMSOther Films
- Published in 2022, Feature Films, SHOWROOM
HOW TO FALL IN LOVE IN A PANDEMIC
Virtual Showing
2020 | Ireland | 11 min | Drama
Director: Michael-David McKernan
Producer: Michael-David McKernan
Editor: Michael-David McKernan
A capsule romance accelerates against the backdrop of the pandemic as two filmmakers are forced to move in together after two weeks of knowing each other.
PURCHASE PASS RETURN TO FILMSOther Films
- Published in 2022, Short Films, SHOWROOM
HIVE
Virtual Showing
2021 | Switzerland, Albania, Kosovo | 83 min | Documentary
Director: Blerta Basholli
Producers: Yll Uka, Valon Bajgora, Agon Uka
Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo, and along with their grief, her family is struggling financially. In order to provide for them, she launches a small agricultural business, but in the traditional patriarchal village where she lives, her ambition and efforts to empower herself and other women are not seen as positive things. She struggles not only to keep her family afloat but also against a hostile community that is rooting for her to fail.
Winner at the online Sundance film festival this year, picking up the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic, Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic, and Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic prizes.
PURCHASE PASS RETURN TO FILMSOther Films
- Published in 2022, Feature Films, Virtual
HANNINGS: NOT YOUR AVERAGE ELECTRICIAN
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 19 min | Documentary
Directors: Briana Gilman, Bailey Matteson
Producer: Douglas Challenger
Editors: Briana Gilman, Bailey Matteson
For years as the campus electrician at Franklin Pierce University, Rob Hannings does more than help keep the lights on. Alongside his duties working on the buildings and grounds of the Rindge, New Hampshire campus, he sees himself as an educator and mentor to students. This short documentary shows his passion for athletics, family, and education.
PURCHASE PASS RETURN TO FILMSOther Films
- Published in 2022, Short Films, SHOWROOM
GRAFTON
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 26 min | Narrative
Director: Bryan Santiago
Producers: Anthony Pedone, Katherine Partington, Andrew Wilson
A psychological thriller about a woman who gets lost on the interstate and stumbles upon a small town where she reluctantly assumes the identity of someone else.
PURCHASE PASS RETURN TO FILMSOther Films
- Published in 2022, Feature Films, Virtual