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- The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..
- The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
- An alien invasion threatens the future of humanity. The catastrophic nightmare is depicted through the eyes of one American family fighting for survival.
- In the New York of the late '80s and early '90s, this is a story of ball culture and the gay and trans community, the raging AIDS crisis, and capitalism.
- Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's annual Met Gala.
- Music superstars Kat Valdez and Bastian are getting married before a global audience of fans. But when Kat learns, seconds before her vows, that Bastian has been unfaithful, she instead decides to marry Charlie, a stranger in the crowd.
- In New York City 1981, an ambitious immigrant fights to protect his business and family during the most dangerous year in the city's history.
- New York City writing professor, Frannie Avery, has an affair with a police detective who is investigating the murder of a beautiful young woman in her neighborhood.
- The music of The Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper-class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist.
- This down-and-dirty musical set in the world of working-class New York tells the story of a husband's journey into infidelity and redemption when he must choose between his seductive mistress and his beleaguered wife.
- Mobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol's care, where only more chaos ensues.
- Les is making a film about his old neighborhood in Brooklyn. One-eye Jimmy goes missing and Les switches to making a film about Jimmy and the people searching.
- Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.
- Paroled after 8 years in prison, Bullet's picked up by his brother and a friend. Bullet assaults a drug dealer and two customers. Things escalate.
- A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.
- A cold-blooded hitman visits his estranged Russian immigrant family in Brooklyn.
- Millions in diamonds are stolen from a safe in NYC and later the burglar is killed. Shamus is paid $10,000 by the owner to find the diamonds or killer.
- A mattress salesman's plan to adopt a Chinese baby is augmented by the arrival of a young woman who comes to his workplace, falls asleep on one of the beds, and upon waking starts to affect his life.
- Two adventurous young New Yorkers go on a first date to a mysterious Brooklyn art gallery where things are not as they seem. After consuming LSD-infused olives, their perceptions of reality - and each other - begin to unravel.
- A young man living in poverty makes a plan to rob a drug dealer and change the life of his family.
- A short Film based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- An energy business exec is assisted by a private investigator in his effort to expose his corporation's corrupt practices.
- Max lives in Brooklyn. He enjoys playing soccer, skateboarding, and drinking with his friends at local bars. Last summer he and his girlfriend, Willow, won a free cruise to Jamaica but two days before the trip she dumps him cold. When his friends flake, Max winds up alone on the high seas, navigating the crowds of gray-haired cruisers. Over the course of several days he flirts with the staff photographer, drinks cocktails with the boat's celebrity juggler and has several strange encounters with the only other loner.
- Cute waitress/hooker is romanced and wed to handsome stranger/funeral director. He, as well as most of the town prefer their women dead. She is the obvious candidate for that position, as his two previous wives were in terrible shape even for dead persons. She must be fleet of foot indeed to avoid their fate.
- A veteran tries to put his life back together, but is drawn to deeds that may be more dangerous than his tour of duty.
- Away from the city for the weekend, Rebecca must choose between her fiance, Thomas, and his best friend, Willy.
- In the latest stunner by the team behind the Academy Award-winning short Curfew, a married couple's bubble of suburban normality is punctured when they find a surprise inside their toddler's teddy bear.
- On the night of his twenty-seventh birthday, Spyder, a Glam Rocker returns to New York for a concert appearance with his band, The Lost Soulz. In a contrived homecoming birthday celebration, Spyder unwittingly sets the wheels of fate in motion leading him headlong into a collision with his past.
- A teenage boy about 18 years old, not very talkative, escapes from reality by filming people with his cellphone. One night he is the witness of a strange scene which looks like a rape. A strange relation is going to create between the rapped girl and him, based on mutual attraction and fantasy.
- The blaring, eerie rhythm of life comes to a sudden screeching halt in "Off Hour", the story of Bruno, in search of meaning in a seemingly meaningless world. A handsome vagrant in need of work and a good meal, Bruno lands a job at the docks, a cacophonic post-industrial maelstrom of sights, sounds, movements and actions. With his beloved trumpet slung over his shoulder, Bruno struggles to make sense of a senseless world, of the chaos, which is order, and of the aimless, repetitive physical toil which rules life at the docklands. Everything is in constant pointless motion in this mystical dreamscape, but what is the hidden force, which keeps this world moving? Bruno is the rebel who dares to ask "why", and this quest for knowledge drives him ever forward toward his destiny. Bruno's cohorts, a bedraggled bunch of lowly longshoreman, have no idea what to make of the majestic Thor, who magically appears to them like a god from on high. With his strapping physique and his commanding presence, Thor confronts these men, issuing an urgent, incessant, otherworldly rhythm from the monumental alphorn which he never ceases to play. Thor is here on his own quest, for a salvation which he believes is to be found in this grim place of toil and tears within the untarnished soul of one of this world's denizens. Tender, pitiful Claudette arrives on the scene, astride her rusty bicycle, like a breath of Spring. Too young and innocent to comprehend her loneliness and isolation, it is hard for her to understand what she hungers for most, food or human contact. She is instinctively drawn to Thor, who ages rapidly with each note he sounds on his mysterious alphorn. Claudette strives to help him, to take over his burden, but she is not strong enough. There is only one man who can help save the day, and in one simple guileless act of thievery, this lithe young creature literally helps set the world in motion.
- Max is on a blind date and his anxiety is running high. After a few too many glasses of wine mixed with his desperation to make it work, he decides to share a story about a past relationship with a parakeet named Roscoe, and loses himself.
- While an unseen serial killer stalks the imaginary town of Bluefish, New York, the accidental vehicular homicide of a young vandal by a local drug dealer leads to a case of mistaken identity that precipitates a cycle of violence and death among a house full of partying teenagers who have reunited for the first time since graduating from high school the previous year.
- A young actress living in Brooklyn discovers how profoundly her hostile environment has affected her.
- 5-year-old "Pandora" lives vicariously through her imaginary world: she builds a spaceship to travel beyond; she races classic cars around the neighborhood; she creates opera novellas for her masked friends; she befriends a live worm. "Toya" the older sister and matriarch, isn't as carefree. But together alone in an unforgiving world, they promise to save one another.
- Over the course of one night in Upstate New York, Jane and Gus realize their relationship is at an end.
- The town of Red Hook and the people who live and work there.
- A queer friendship between two production assistants is tested by an unexpected robbery attempt while on the job. They must now protect an expensive bottle of wine from being stolen and drive away with their lives.
- A short satirical film that looks into the life of Brandon who nonchalantly manipulates his partner by creating an ideal world, where Brandon looks perfect. All is great until he rises to Meme Stardom, and must decide between fame and love. A selfish narcissistic white man might finally have something to lose.
- 100 years into the future. Hell, Heaven, and Earth are dimensions contained within an intersection of technology and the spirit world, which citizens of Earth can navigate via a biotech device called the Google Lattice. A diplomat named Clarence is allowed a trip to Heaven upon winning a Nobel Warprize, but is first sent by the President of Earth on a rescue mission to save the Princess of Hell, and the fate of the planet, from the Illuminati.
- Through flashes of memory she often mistakes for dreams, Ella is relearning her history piece by piece, including the pieces she would have rather left in the dark.
- Main Son has a black eye. Embarrassed by the eye jammy, he tries to hide out from his friends by staying in the house, but to no avail. His ace, Son 2 wants to know how he got the eye jammy with the intent of seeking revenge. Kid is trying to rub salt in his wound. And Son 3 wants to be entertained by the story. So Main Son begins to embellish a tale about going to Brownsville, Brooklyn, to visit Shorty and getting into an altercation with a group of Bloods in Shorty's project complex. He is interrupted after almost every twist and turn of the story. Main Son begins to wonder if he'll ever get to the finish the story before he reveals the truth of the black eye's origin...
- Retelling a woman's time on a sinking ship, this beguiling work evokes a sense of apocalypse and asks how to live on when life's structures show themselves and begin to disintegrate.
- Josh has inherited an Irish bar in New York from Roxy, his mother, who recently passed. He's in denial: her ashes are in a box under his bed, he can't bring himself to deal with the bar's mail and bills, and he may be seeing things. A date with the woman who delivers the bar's mail ends abruptly when she cottons onto his state of mind. Can he dismiss his mother from her own establishment? And if he does, how will others react?
- Two local New York DJs walk into a Red Hook record shop searching for a rare salsa record, where the record shop clerk shares their love of Caribbean music. As the day unfolds, different dynamics come to the surface between the three of them.
- Festival Select Short details the abated evolution and becoming of a french egg auteur.