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Grandma died at the worst possible moment.

After his beloved cat disappears amidst a global pandemic, a lonely man turns to his neighbor for help. As isolation takes hold, their search becomes a surreal descent into loneliness, longing, and dimensional dissolution.

Three white male filmmakers meet for a long weekend to make a final attempt to salvage their ambitious, semi-fictional film about “reality.” However, holed up together in an empty room, their creative disagreements only escalate, and the dialogue becomes increasingly defensive and toxic. As the Hollywood film they imagined collapses, the three begin to wrestle each other—desperately, shamelessly—for control over the narrative about what poisoned their collaboration.

Sigmund Snopek III’s long, idiosyncratic, unpredictable career deserved an equally long, idiosyncratic, unpredictable documentary. The film features extensive footage shot over six years with Snopek himself, along with original interviews with fellow musicians, fans, and industry insiders—including longtime Snopek collaborators and fellow Milwaukee eccentrics, the Violent Femmes. Through archival footage, live performances, and even a few glimpses into alternate realities, viewers will gain a newfound appreciation for Snopek’s restlessly innovative spirit and enduring legacy.

Radical left-wing author Jarett Kobek's last novel was a massive commercial failure. As he sees it, the only hope left for his career is to promote his newest book, Only Americans Burn in Hell, by debating prominent conservatives on right-wing media. But can America's last dissident author save his career while democracy dies around him?

Chase with knife.

During the holidays in the year of the pandemic, an interviewer pummels author David Shields (who never answers) with increasingly personal, fraught, and scathing questions.

Following a decades-long fascination with the horror genre, a couple purchase an abandoned duplex to use as a location for their low-budget horror film. They soon notice that random strangers are drawn to the old building, but never approach, merely standing outside and staring at it in a sort of trance. Delighted to find themselves embroiled in a real-life scary story, the two team up with an old friend and put their years of horror expertise, amateur ghost hunting, and paranormal obsession to use in the hope of discovering why this building holds such a strange power over people.