Crime Film

A break from our regularly scheduled programming.

An allegorical tale of a couple who attempt to renew their dying relationship by plugging directly into recordings of their memories.

On a pivotal ballet performance night, Annie, a reluctant dancer battling an injury and uncertainty, faces the pressures of her mother, family tensions, a ready-to-rise younger sister, and Juilliard scouts in the audience.

RELIGION OF MESS. A kaleidoscopic tapestry of colorful characters collide in a small Iowa town. Runaway children make a movie, aging idealists hatch a dangerous plan, aimless townie girls get into mischief, a mysterious mother digs for buried treasure, and shirtless man ponders the meaning of the town’s towers. Spooky, serendipitous resonances bubble up between stories where people play themselves in fictionalized as well as real life scenarios. In a world in crisis, filmmaking itself becomes a form of coping and celebration.

You can't win a game you don't know how to play, but you also can't lose.

Two misguided young women become feminists in order to impress a man, while rival student organizations attempt to stop their movement, threatening their future and the state of their friendship.

A fragile young woman takes her lifelike doll out in public for the first time, but a visit to the natural history museum triggers a dark childhood memory, forcing her to confront reality and let go.

An experimental animated documentary based on an anonymous interview with a US Army veteran who served in Afghanistan. The interview deals with the traumatic experiences of war and the difficulties of returning to civilian life—both through what is recounted, and in the gaps of what can never be said. The imprecise and fragmentary animation style incorporates drawn and stop motion animation shot on a very small “macro” scale (16 mm X 9 mm).

During a party at her house, when a young woman comes out to the backyard, a series of interactions with her friends leads her to question if she is making the right choice to go back to Iran to visit a dying family member, at a time of chaos and uncertainty.

An alien arrives on Earth in hopes of being cast as the lead of a sci-fi film.