TELEPHONEME

DescriptionDescription An entertaining and informative lesson on a massive linguistic conspiracy.

TIME FREAK

DescriptionDescription The story of Stillman, a neurotic inventor who builds a lime machine and gets caught up traveling around yesterday.

STRIPS

DescriptionDescription A vintage erotic film is cut into strips and then reassembled

SUCCESSFUL ALCOHOLICS

DescriptionDescription A comedy of substance about two alcoholics who need to redefine their idea of success.

SUBMARINO

DescriptionContactDescription Thomas Vinterberg has made some of the most acclaimed Danish films of the past decade in his still-young career. After two trips to our shores for English-language films, Vinterberg returns to his early roots with an unrelenting character-driven drama. As the film opens, two young brothers share a childhood trauma, caring for their infant...

SOME BOYS DON’T LEAVE

DescriptionDescription The story of a breakup without the break.

SOME DAYS ARE BETTER THAN OTHERS

DescriptionDescription Delicately weaving together the lives of three lonely strangers, Matt McCormick makes a graceful, unassuming feature debut. The story explores the elusiveness of personal fulfillment as McCormick's characters bump up against the discarded - from a kind-eyed sheller dog to the ownerless urn of a little girl's ashes - and are forced to confront...

A SCREAMING MAN (HOMME QUE CRIE)

DescriptionContactDescription There is a consistency and calm to Adam's life as a hotel pool attendant, working alongside his son Abdel, that is lost when change comes in the form of new proprietors who terminate Adam's employment For Adam, a former swimming champion whose moniker "The Champ" is intrinsic to his identity, this displacement leads to...

SHIT YEAR

DescriptionContactDescription Santa Cruz filmmaker Cam Archer makes his feature film debut at AFI FEST this year (his short film BOBBYCRUSH played to acclaim in 2006) Sacrificing his signature lush color landscapes, Archer has embraced black and white photography for this, his second full-length feature The aesthetic choice has produced a bold cinematic vision, combining sometimes...

THE SANDPIT

DescriptionDescription Composed from more than 35,000 stills in Manhattan and Brooklyn, using a "tilt-shift" style, this film watches the pulses and rhythms of the city and its inhabitants from a different perspective.

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