The Pressure of Sweetness

Two Asian-American teenagers meet in the bathroom of a Chinese restaurant while having dinner with their families.

Joseph Fulton, a famous director, wants to work at a cemetery. Meanwhile, he has his last will and testament drawn up. His girlfriend thinks he's dying. Rumor spreads and soon everyone he knows gathers to say their last farewells.

After distancing herself from a complicated relationship with her father, 22-year-old Kate Young returns home for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Following the death of their mother, a Thai American brother and sister from Queens navigate living in the city and beyond.

A young couple recount their visits to Coney Island as children.

In his first semester at an out-of-state university, Ison navigates new friendships and a romantic interest.

During the summer semester at a New York City arts school, boundaries begin to blur between an adjunct professor and the students in her Personal Documentary filmmaking class.

After glancing at his girlfriend's phone, Mr. Carlos struggles keeping himself together around his after-school students.

A distraught teen attempts to track down her recently-deceased father’s missing cat, only to unearth a devastating family secret in the process.

On their anniversary, a spontaneous sex-tape forces a 30-something couple to confront dormant issues in their relationship.

When two brothers get together for dinner and start trading stories about their girlfriends, their comfort with one another leads them to reveal a bit too much. To the rhythm of its sultry score, the film folds pithy observations on love — both romantic and fraternal — into a compendious morality tale that’s as funny as it is disturbing.

The last day of the Iceworm Festival in Cordova, Alaska.

Experiencing a painful toothache, Roy Kim, a floater, must address the estranged relationship he has with his dentist.

After calling to have a plumbing issue repaired, Paul struggles to navigate a social interaction with his superintendent.

When two reckless best friends get evicted from their apartment, they embark on a road trip with a pair of German immigrants attempting to trap them into green-card marriages.

Michael, a new tenant at his Brooklyn apartment, hires a monk to host an overnight week long meditation retreat on his rooftop. When nobody shows up, the monk starts growing restless, fixing to leave early.