Troy Billings is seventeen, overweight, and suicidal. Just as he's about to jump in front of a bus, he's saved by Marcus, a charming high school dropout/street musician. The two begin an uneasy friendship when Marcus en...

Loveless, jobless, possibly terminally ill, Frank has had enough of the downward spiral of America. With nothing left to lose, Frank takes his gun and offs the stupidest, cruelest, and most repellent members of society. ...

Koldo and Clara are about to celebrate the most important day of their lives: their wedding. Everything appears to be running smoothly and the bride, the groom and their families are enjoying a wonderful day in the count...

A wolf in sheep's clothing who thinks he is a sheep.......

 

The Chair is the story of a mysterious outbreak of poisonous mold in a small town and one boy's attempt to understand his mother's death, his grandmother's obsession with their discarded recliner, and the roots of this s...

 

An inmate convinces his mother to take a risk smuggling a cell phone for him into the penitentiary.......

 

Nicola is in hospital after giving birth. When her school friend Tess comes to visit, Nicola is forced by her mother to introduce 'Joy', her new born daughter, who lived for seven hours.......

 

After 14 year-old Tara's boyfriend comes out to her and ends their relationship, she can't help feeling confused and angry with him. But when Tara's older sister and her friend become convinced that Brian was lying about...

Peter doesn't want his seven year-old to get picked on. Peter doesn't want to get picked on, either.......

 

Another Bullet Dodged Director: Landon Zakheim In the fading echoes of a relationship, character is revealed. The Chair Director: Grainger David The story of one boy's reaction to a mysterious outbreak of poisonous mold...

Warren has just been laid off from his job at a slaughterhouse in small town Alberta, Canada. With his father dying in the hospital, his romantic relationship on the rocks, and his struggle with substance abuse getting t...

 

New York electronic music duo, The Golden Filter, have collaborated with Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli to create a darkly beautiful short film entitled SYNDROMES. The film focuses on a young girl's bizarre and une...

 

While moving 40 kids, all by himself, across six New York City blocks, a stressed man accidentally loses a bouquet of a hundred balloons. A lone black balloon in the bunch learns that humans are complicated creatures wit...

 

Inspired by real events and featuring non-actors, A Chjàna (The Plain) follows Ayiva, an African migrant worker who seeks to reunite with his best friend in the wake of the most significant race riot in Italian history....

 

A modern Miami adaptation of the 1962 French short film 'La Jetee', the film recounts Luke's (Uncle Luke, legendary rapper from the hip-hop group 2 Live Crew) rise to fame as he changes the face of hip-hop and fights for...

 

Thomas has moved to a remote countryside cabin in search of solitude. He fills his days with mundane chores to deaden his feelings, but as he reflects, a question arises: Will he ever be able to disappear completely... e...

 

The Black Balloon Director: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie In New York City, a lone black balloon, once part of a huge 100-balloon bouquet, learns that humans are complicated creatures with extreme highs and lows. Part Sci-Fi...

Told from the point of view of a dying shark, 'Reinaldo Arenas' metaphorically captures the current state of the aging Cuban-American exile community, many of whom have still not come to terms with the Communist Revoluti...

 

REMAINS is a film about a man's memories of his wife. We see snapshots of these memories; we are a fingertip running through hair, a foot plunging into the ocean, a swaying tree branch. The film is comprised of sound des...

Through a visceral, visually striking sequence of events, Sea Meadow reinvents the thriller genre using dance, choreographed gesture and pop mashups to investigate the themes of identity, mortality and memory. A young wo...

 

Through the Freak’s musings, this film chronicles the last days of the iconic and abrasive Coney Island attraction Shoot the Freak. Remaining in masked anonymity, the nihilistic teen indulges in drug-induced daydreams...

 

"Dollhouse" explores a night in the life of a group of street teens from Dublin's inner city who break into a house in an upper class suburb. The break-in quickly moves into a night of frenzy, driven by a serie...

 

In the summer of 1976, keen drama teacher Vivienne fights sweltering heat and general teenage apathy to put on an end of year music version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. To engage her students, she uses hits of the tim...

 

Small Apartments' Franklin Franklin is a fully realized and sympathetic protagonist in the vein of Ignatius Reilly (A Confederacy of Dunces), a simple man who yearns for “a land of pastoral serenity” devoid of the ir...

Charged with murder and likely going to jail, crime boss Reg Bellavance is out on bail and wants to skip town with his son. The only problem is that the money he had stashed away for just such an occasion has gone missin...

I am a 66-year cicada. There was a big earthquake. There was a big tsunami. There also was a big accident.......

 

663114 Director: Isamu Hirabayashi I am a 66-year cicada. There was a big earthquake. There was a big tsunami. There also was a big accident. Belly Director: Julia Pott I can feel you in my belly. Caldera Director: Eva...

Oscar is coming of age, against his better judgment. In doing so he must experience the necessary evil of leaving something behind, but he can still feel it in the pit of his stomach.......

 

Caldera is an animated short film about a young girl struggling with mental illness. The story follows her as she goes off her medication and leaves a bleak metropolis to immerse herself in a vibrant oceanic cove.......

Chocolate Milk is the #1 goal. At least, that is what the Rehab informs the teenage Izzy as she enters for drug treatment. If she follows all their rules, then she can have chocolate milk. But why would she want some lam...

 

Combustion plunges the viewer, from each image and note to the next, closer and closer to its materials as they catch fire and culminate in an explosion of colours and sounds! Carried along by a scorching musical score, ...

A giraffe with personal space anxiety has a really bad day.......

 

A boy goes missing in the snow covered wilderness, feared taken by wolves. A hunter undertakes a journey to find the boy; dead or alive. As the hunter tracks the boy into the mountains, he discovers that his instincts ca...

 

A little boat goes on a journey......

 

A strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful creation of his life.......

 

An animated account of an organism adapting to its environment.......

Once It Started It Could Not End Otherwise is an animated horror film constructed from the candid photos and handwritten messages of discarded high school yearbooks. As an unknown force seeps into the walls of the school...

 

Swirling cosmos of paint give way to a storm of color and drips. An experimental animation that is a mix of paint on glass and stop motion, Paint Showers is the anticipation, fury, and release of a colorful storm.......

 

An elderly woman living in an abandoned town finds a camera, which becomes a means for her to recreate her past life and remember a lost love.......

Using a found object as a catalyst Reddish Brown and Blueish Green explores a family’s destructive journey through childhood. Much of the imagery in the film comes from a baby book found on a curb in Philadelphia, Penn...

An elk wanders through a world of madness.......

 

A man daydreams about what terror could be lurking in his backyard pool.......

AARON BURR, PART 2 is a contemporary re-imagining of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. The film explores the idea of history as a contested narrative.......

Jack means well, but sometimes good intentions have horrible consequences.......

Ellen and James are the only couple living in a ghost estate, an eerie silent maze of uniform houses populated only by spectral shrieking foxes. Ellen starts to photograph the foxes that raid the couple’s rubbish bin a...

 

Simultaneously an exploration of nature and psyche, 'In The Pines' documents a young woman's hunt for extraterrestrial meaning. Following a mysteriously purposeful hike through the Olympic Mountains, this film roots itse...

 

An honest look at honesty and the effects of such when sexual identity, masculinity, jealousy, insecurity and trust all play out against one another amongst two individuals in the confines of a bedroom. Oh, and there's p...

 

A Short Film About Ice Fishing Director: Jason Shahinfar In rural South Dakota two friends go out for the most explosive day of ice fishing either will ever experience. Aaron Burr, Part 2 Director: Dana O'Keefe History ...

Liam (Liam Cunningham) and Michael (Michael Fassbender) are professional safe crackers who meet on a simple job to relieve an office safe from its contents. The catch is a light activated alarm system impelling the men t...

Inspired by Billy Wilder's "People On Sunday" & Richard Linklater's "SLACKER", Playtime ("Spielzeit") is a seamless journey through the lives of German youth on a Sunday afternoon. Jan (...

 

Two friends devote a winter afternoon in South Dakota to ice fishing, cold beers, friendly chatter, man’s best friend, guns, dynamite…all on a frozen lake.......

Two friends play 'Would You Rather.' When their choices magically start to come true, they find themselves in a variety of awkward and funny situations.......

Fame today is more than an obsession. Fame has become what millions of us follow, believe in and seemingly what we care about most - as well as a billion dollar-a-year industry. But what does our intense fascination with...

SXSW & The Alamo Drafthouse present an Texas-sized screening of the web phenomenon, EPIC MEAL TIME.......

"Amor Cronico" follows the flamboyant Grammy nominated Cuban-born and New York based singer CuCu Diamantes on her tour around Cuba. The film interweaves footage of live musical performances with a fictional lov...

 

"V/H/S" is a POV, found footage horror film from the perspective of America's top genre filmmakers. In "V/H/S", a group of misfits are hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house in...

While moving 40 kids, all by himself, across six New York City blocks, a stressed man accidentally loses a bouquet of a hundred balloons. A lone black balloon in the bunch learns that humans are complicated creatures wit...

 

Inspired by real events and featuring non-actors, A Chjàna (The Plain) follows Ayiva, an African migrant worker who seeks to reunite with his best friend in the wake of the most significant race riot in Italian history....

 

A modern Miami adaptation of the 1962 French short film 'La Jetee', the film recounts Luke's (Uncle Luke, legendary rapper from the hip-hop group 2 Live Crew) rise to fame as he changes the face of hip-hop and fights for...

 

Thomas has moved to a remote countryside cabin in search of solitude. He fills his days with mundane chores to deaden his feelings, but as he reflects, a question arises: Will he ever be able to disappear completely... e...

 

The Black Balloon Director: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie In New York City, a lone black balloon, once part of a huge 100-balloon bouquet, learns that humans are complicated creatures with extreme highs and lows. Part Sci-Fi...

Told from the point of view of a dying shark, 'Reinaldo Arenas' metaphorically captures the current state of the aging Cuban-American exile community, many of whom have still not come to terms with the Communist Revoluti...

 

REMAINS is a film about a man's memories of his wife. We see snapshots of these memories; we are a fingertip running through hair, a foot plunging into the ocean, a swaying tree branch. The film is comprised of sound des...

Through a visceral, visually striking sequence of events, Sea Meadow reinvents the thriller genre using dance, choreographed gesture and pop mashups to investigate the themes of identity, mortality and memory. A young wo...

 

Through the Freak’s musings, this film chronicles the last days of the iconic and abrasive Coney Island attraction Shoot the Freak. Remaining in masked anonymity, the nihilistic teen indulges in drug-induced daydreams...

 

When Robert's girlfriend dies in a car accident, he turns his grief against his younger sister Jo. Jo dives into a new hobby - ice hockey - where she gathers the strength to bring her brother back to the land of the livi...

A musical documentary that tells the true life story of Trevor's great-uncle Jimmy in six original songs.......

 

Heimkommen (Coming Home) Director: Micah Magee When Robert's girlfriend dies, he turns his grief against his younger sister Jo. Jo plays ice hockey with the boys, hoping to gather strength to bring her brother back to th...

Bill finds himself in a hospital struggling with memory problems, in this third and final chapter to Don Hertzfeldt's "Everything will be OK" trilogy.......

Rocky and Lulu live in opposite sides of the planet: they bump into each other in ChatRoulette and decide to stay in touch. They get closer, but we find out more about them that they will never tell each other. It's a lo...

 

Zach, a wealthy, alcoholic divorcee and father, is torn between his past love and present infatuation. His obsession for Rebecca, who he affectionately calls Crazy Eyes, seems to be driving him to the brink of madness an...

See Girl Run is what happens when a 30-something woman allows life's "what ifs" to overwhelm her appreciation for what life actually is. Disregarding her current obligations, she digs into her romantic past in ...

"Lovely Molly" is a gripping horror thriller that begins as newlywed Molly Reynolds moves back into her long-abandoned childhood home. Soon, she experiences unnerving and impossible things. What starts as a sim...

 

Cold Rock, U.S.A. Children have gone missing over the years leaving neither a clue nor a witness. Superstitious locals talk of The Tall Man, a legendary, mysterious dark figure who takes children away never to be seen ag...

When Simon’s brother is arrested for armed robbery, he is asked to commit a string of similar crimes in an attempt to get his brother acquitted. Caught between loyalty to his brother and his own will, Simon is forced t...

 

Jenn and Matt are best friends from college who are now in their thirties. Single by choice, Jenn spends her days teaching hot yoga and running errands for her boss. Matt suffers from comic-book writer’s block and can�...

 

Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch faces financial strains, Armando's younger brother Raul (Diego Luna) shows up with his new fiancée, Sonia...

 

Armando Alvarez (Will Ferrell) has lived and worked on his father's ranch in Mexico his entire life. As the ranch faces financial strains, Armando's younger brother Raul (Diego Luna) shows up with his new fiancée, Sonia...

 

Indifferent even to the prospects of inheriting his father's estate, Swanson (Tim Heidecker) whiles away his days with a group of aging Brooklyn hipsters, engaging in acts of recreational cruelty and pacified boredom. De...

Charged with murder and likely going to jail, crime boss Reg Bellavance is out on bail and wants to skip town with his son. The only problem is that the money he had stashed away for just such an occasion has gone missin...

Girl Walk // All Day is a feature-length dance music video and tale of urban exploration that follow three dancers across New York City. They turn the city's sidewalks, parks, and stadiums into an evolving stage as a sto...

 

Nominated for Outstanding Debut at this year's BAFTAs, "Black Pond" tells the story of an ordinary family who are accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table. Two-time BAFTA winner Chris Langha...

 

Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters follows the acclaimed photographer’s decade-long quest to create a series of haunting, surreal, and stunningly elaborate portraits of small-town American life. His photographs are lik...

 

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Koldo and Clara are about to celebrate the most important day of their lives: their wedding. Everything appears to be running smoothly and the bride, the groom and their families are enjoying a wonderful day in the count...

"Sun Don't Shine" is a subtly cryptic story driven by the powerful performances of its lead actors and its eerily poetic setting. The film follows Crystal (Kate Lyn Sheil) and her boyfriend Leo (Kentucker Audle...

20 years after riots ripped through Los Angeles, "Uprising" documents how hip hop forecasted – and some say ignited – the worst civil unrest of the 20th century. The film revisits the riots in gripping deta...

 

In 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested in Milwaukee and sentenced to 957 years in prison for killing 17 people and dismembering their bodies. "Jeff" is a documentary that explores the city of Milwaukee by meeting ...

Despite a lack of obvious similarities between Siberia and Tokyo, a thriving model industry connects these distant regions. "Girl Model" follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply ambi...

 

"Tchoupitoulas" is a story of the New Orleans night. It is a visually exhilarating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys act as our wide-...

 

Cold Rock, U.S.A. Children have gone missing over the years leaving neither a clue nor a witness. Superstitious locals talk of The Tall Man, a legendary, mysterious dark figure who takes children away never to be seen ag...