MANHATTAN 17-27th FILM FESTIVAL JUNE, 2021
Cinema Village, East 12th street Tix New York, 10003 www.manhattanff.com 15TH ANNUAL TITLE: Spidermable - A TITLE: Real Life Superhero Drown The Clown Story DATE: DATE: 06/18/2021 06/18/2021 TIME: TIME: 03:00 PM 01:00 PM
Description: In the typical comic book superhero story arc, Description: In the typical comic book superhero story arc, tragedy strikes, a superpower is revealed, and the hero tragedy strikes, a superpower is revealed, and the hero must come to terms with their new abilities all while not must come to terms with their new abilities all while not losing track of who they are. But how often is that lived out losing track of who they are. But how often is that lived out in real-life ... especially by a child? in real-life ... especially by a child?
TITLE: TITLE: Morning Smoke Me To Play
DATE: DATE: 06/18/2021 06/18/2021
TIME: TIME: 03:00 PM 03:00 PM
Description: Jim is an aspiring actor who has moved from Description: Dan Moran and Chris Jones are professional Atlanta to New York City in pursuit of his dreams. But naive actors who share six decades of acting experience. Now actors like him are a dime a dozen in New York City and they share another bond: Parkinson’s disease, a the doors to the brutal, cutthroat, New York acting world progressive disorder that disables the brain cells that help keep slamming shut in his face. None of what worked for control movement and balance. him down south seems to work for him in the big city. On the gritty streets of New York, Jim learns a valuable lesson about what it takes to be an actor, and his small-town kindness opens door for him and his future. TITLE: Before The Storm
DATE: TITLE: 06/18/2021 Double Dragonz TIME: DATE: 03:00 PM 06/18/2021
TIME: Description: An estranged father and daughter arrive in 03:00 PM New York City on the eve Hurricane Sandy threatens to make landfall.
Description: In the wake of the L Train shutdown, two best friends fight to save their struggling Brooklyn bar before they get evicted.
02 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: The Executioners The Keeper We All Had A Chance DATE: 06/18/2021 DATE: 06/18/2021 TIME: 03:00 PM TIME: 05:00 PM
Description: A lonely widow yearning for connection, Description: The Executioner We All Had A Chance, is a meets a collector of art at a speed dating event. They documentary about two men who started a boxing gym to make a palpable connection, but what they are looking for save the young boys from the mean, gang invested streets in each other is vastly different. of Philadelphia in the early 70's. In doing this they would develop some of the greatest amateur fighters world would ever have. Unfortunately life decision in the end would cost most o them their dreams of becoming Champions. TITLE: Blackball TITLE: DATE: The States of 06/18/2021 Emergency New York & New Jersey TIME: 09:00 PM DATE: 06/18/2021
Description: Following the narrative throughout Carmelo TIME: Anthony's career, blackball celebrates an all-time 09:00 PM comeback story by one of the all-time players in NBA history. Description: In addition to fear, panic, and uncertainty, 2020 was the year when many small business owners had their American dreams pushed to the brink—can they make it one more day? (A documentary on the hardships TITLE: faced during the COVID-19 Pandemic). Black Girls Cheer
DATE: 06/18/2021 TITLE: Once Upon a Place TIME: 09:00 PM DATE: 06/19/2021
Description: What happens when a previously TIME: homogeneous community gains diverse participants who 01:00 PM continually push the boundaries of the original mold? How do underrepresented athletes celebrate the very challenges that keep them from fitting in? Nothing comes Description: "Once Upon a Place" is the story of “La easy in the world of All-Star cheer. Nacional,” a nondescript building in New York City that welcomed thousands of immigrants to the United States over its 150-year history. The building itself narrates its striking story, yet unknown but so relevant today, although it remains a mystery to most New Yorkers and Americans.
03 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Vegan On A Jet The Pigeon Plane: Bali DATE: DATE: 06/19/2021 06/19/2021 TIME: TIME: 01:00 PM 02:00 PM
Description: A real-estate broker and the neighborhood Description: Nutritionist and world traveler Ally Teixeira homeless man see the best in each other after becoming searches for the best vegan foods this world has to offer. temporary roommates. Her journey starts in Bali, Indonesia where she’ll take you on an island tour of a lifetime.
TITLE: Come Find Me TITLE: The Hideaway DATE: 06/19/2021 DATE: 06/19/2021 TIME: 03:00 PM TIME: 03:00 PM
Description: A sensitive five-year-old girl finds the connection to her parents severed by trauma; in search of Description: No longer girlie enough for her girlfriends and comfort and company, she drifts into fantasy. starting to become too girlie for her guy friends, and eager to grow up, Nika, a 14-year old tomboy, is just trying to figure out her place in the adolescent world. When she hears a rumor that her mother is a stripper, she at first TITLE: doesn’t know what to do. Shocked, dismayed, and then Ruby Days curious, Nika decides to investigate. When she sneaks into the Hideaway, the strip club on the edge of town, she DATE: is ushered into adulthood, changing her relationship with 06/19/2021 her mother forever. TIME: 03:00 PM TITLE: Al Dente Description: Red is a boy who lives in his own imaginary world and shares all his fantasies with his best friend DATE: Ruby. The treatments for his illusions eventually come to 06/19/2021 an end, and he has to say goodbye to all his fantasies. TIME: 03:00 PM
Description: Years since his last Christmas visit, Giorgio is confronted with the bitter reality of familial relationships he was blind to as a child.
04 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Steps Booth Reading
DATE: DATE: 06/19/2021 06/19/2021
TIME: TIME: 03:00 PM 03:00 PM
Description: "Steps" tells the story of step-sisters creating Description: Joe encounters a girl who seems too good to a music video on a family bonding trip. With unforeseen be true. and eerie twists and turns, the relationship between these bitter step-siblings and their pasts unravel. Created by Will Lucas at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. TITLE: Minor Accident of Wa TITLE: DATE: Caravan 06/19/2021
DATE: TIME: 06/19/2021 03:00 PM TIME: 03:00 PM Description: "Minor Accident of War" is based on a true story written and narrated by the man who lived it -- Edward Field, 95 yr old WWll veteran. In 1945, at 20 years Description: The film centers on an outcast in a rural old, Field was the navigator in the 8th Air Force during the English community who draws the attention of a vengeful war. On his 3rd mission over Germany, his plane lost all mother after a chance encounter with her two young four engines after being hit by flak and crash landed in the boys. North Sea. Hanging on to one of the two rafts in the freezing cold water, a decision was made that to this day has affected Field......
TITLE: Parklife TITLE: DATE: The Tuneful Trolley 06/19/2021 DATE: TIME: 06/19/2021 03:00 PM TIME: 05:00 PM Description: Parklife chronicles life in Manhattan's Columbus Park, where groups of Chinese seniors congregate on a daily basis. As seasons change and an Description: Failed 1960’s bubblegum boy-band "The unexpected crisis unfolds, the park's seemingly outlandish Tuneful Trolley" reunites for the first time fifty years after cultural spectacles and nostalgic performances wane. recording their one and only album for Capitol Records in 1968. Discovered by National Recording Artists Jay and the Americans, and signed to Capitol by soon to be producer...
05 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Fairview Brando's Spoon
DATE: DATE: 06/19/2021 06/19/2021
TIME: TIME: 07:00 PM 07:00 PM
Description: Sam Clark is running for City Council in a Description: Two brothers at odds bicycle across New purple district in Fairview, Colorado. And he’s running in a York City in hopes of locating a beloved family heirloom. new, bold, and very American way—with no platform of his own. His platform is a platform of pure democracy: it’s all direct quotes, from real, everyday Fairviewians.... TITLE: The Letter
TITLE: DATE: Don't Jump 06/19/2021
DATE: TIME: 06/19/2021 07:00 PM
TIME: 07:00 PM Description: A grieving NYPD detective's attempt to connect with her deceased friend's family gives her unexpected insight into the mystery surrounding her Description: Patricia and Todd clash over a charity death. skydiving event. After both sides get advice from their friends, will they stay grounded or take the plunge? TITLE: Last Call: The TITLE: Shutdown of NYC What COVID-19 Bars Exposed in DATE: Long-Term Care 06/19/2021 DATE: TIME: 06/19/2021 09:00 PM TIME: 09:00 PM Description: Filmed during the height of the pandemic, Last Call explores the social and economic impact of Description: As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged COVID-19 on the Queens hospitality industry. long-term care and skilled nursing facilities, blame was thrown quickly at the facilities and their operators. But where does the responsibility actually lie for the failure to protect tens of thousands of frail seniors? This 20-minute documentary explores the causes behind the COVID-19 crisis in long-term care facilities across the United States.
06 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Love Reaches A Plague On All Our Everywhere Houses DATE: DATE: 06/20/2021 06/20/2021 TIME: TIME: 01:00 PM 01:00 PM
Description: Actor Gerard Butler embarks on a Description: In the shock of the theater gone missing, A life-changing journey to see how his mother's favorite Plague follows four dancers who take to their window non-profit organization transforms the lives of children in sills, bathrooms, and park benches to show us that they some of the world's poorest countries. are very much still here.
TITLE: TITLE: Safu Episode 1 - Girl Boxer Funge & Sashimi DATE: DATE: 06/20/2021 06/20/2021 TIME: TIME: 03:00 PM 03:00 PM
Description: A hard-up-single-mother and former boxer, is Description: James Masala and Hanae Mizoguchi, two lured by the Irish mob into an underground boxing match chefs from opposite cultures, butt heads as they realize where questions of right and wrong are challenged when they need each other to achieve their personal goals. the love of family is concerned.
TITLE: TITLE: Borderline Coffee Grafton DATE: DATE: 06/20/2021 06/20/2021 TIME: TIME: 05:00 PM 03:00 PM
Description: "Coffee?" Asks the mysterious blue post-it. Description: A psychological thriller about a woman who "To Bed" replies the red. A young woman's thoughts battle gets lost on the interstate and stumbles upon a small it out as she ventures through her anxiety to accomplish town where she reluctantly assumes the identity of what would seem to be a simple task: a cup of coffee. someone else.
07 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Sundown The Black Kite
DATE: DATE: 06/20/2021 06/20/2021
TIME: TIME: 05:00 PM 05:00 PM
Description: A woman with Alzheimer's and her husband Description: Through the dynamic of a seven-year-old girl experience an unexpectedly magical day in New York City. and her father’s relationship, The Black Kite portrays the contradicted, chaos mind of people under totalitarianism.
TITLE: A Ride To Heaven TITLE: In My Eyes DATE: 06/20/2021 DATE: 06/20/2021 TIME: 05:00 PM TIME: 05:00 PM
Description: The story of a man who has given up on life. Will he find hope? Description: Based on a true story. A day in the life of Charlie, a 75 year old man. We follow him on his very special day around the streets of NYC. A story of true love and loss. TITLE: The New Abolitionists TITLE: DATE: Beat the Shift 06/20/2021 DATE: TIME: 06/21/2021 07:00 PM TIME: Description: We follow four NGOs (non-governmental 01:00 PM organizations) throughout Southeast Asia that are struggling to end sex trafficking and save as many children, girls and women as possible. Description: A landfill worker yearns to reconnect with his estranged son while side-stepping manDATE:d orders from his troubled parole officer. Meanwhile, vagabond teenagers search for a new life while scamming men on dating apps.
08 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Broken Souls Second Chance
DATE: DATE: 06/21/2021 06/21/2021
TIME: TIME: 03:00 PM 05:00 PM
Description: Julián decides to embark on a journey with Description: A brave mother with a rare disease writes no destination, leaving everything behind. Ten years later, inspirational songs for her teenage daughter to sing, he returns in search of his past. before receiving a transplant where the odds are 50/50.
TITLE: TITLE: Generation Dual Action Lockdown DATE: DATE: 06/21/2021 06/21/2021 TIME: TIME: 07:00 PM 05:00 PM
Description: GENERATION LOCKDOWN is a 17 minute Description: A dying gangster is confronted by two narrative short film, seen through the eyes of an eleven mysterious figures, bringing to question his life's choices year old boy as he tries to save his friend’s life during an and the loss of the only "good" thing he ever had. "An active shooter attack in his school. entertaining ride that is filled with good humour, suspense and drama." ~ Jason Knight, UK FIlm Review
TITLE: Matched TITLE: Buzz Kill DATE: 06/21/2021 DATE: 06/21/2021 TIME: 07:00 PM TIME: 07:00 PM
Description: A young woman searches for an item of vital importance in an unfamiliar apartment during a blackout Description: While watching a new type of 3D TV two with nothing more than a box of matches. But she’s not stoners get sucked into a slasher film called Chainsaw alone... Cheerleaders and have the time of their lives trying to stay alive.
09 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: My Dinner with Water Werner DATE: DATE: 06/21/2021 06/21/2021
TIME: TIME: 07:00 PM 07:00 PM
Description: A wildly bizarre comedy about a 1987 dinner Description: In a dystopian Miami landscape in the late DATE: with a murder plot as the main dish. Inspired by the 1960's, Lucy, is trapped in a cult-like pool club; an real-life, insane "friendship" between filmmaker Werner example of a social group reinforcing societal pressures Herzog and actor Klaus Kinski. of conformity. In this world, at the age of ten everyone is required to choose a social group an...
TITLE: Greetings From TITLE: Sarajevo The Stranger DATE: DATE: 06/21/2021 06/21/2021 TIME: TIME: 07:00 PM 07:00 PM
Description: Hana, an assassin, arrives in New York ready to exact justice on a war criminal whom Sofia, a survivor Description: A cruel, self-serving man is disillusioned by a of the Bosnian genocide, had discovered hiding in plain surreal mental lapse, leaving him lost in Brooklyn, sight in the city. When Hana reaches her target she estranged from his comfortable life. discovers Stanislav, the monster she wa...
TITLE: TITLE: The Business Of Misery Illgiving DATE: DATE: 06/21/2021 06/21/2021 TIME: TIME: 07:00 PM 07:00 PM
Description: A woman who feels disenfranchised in her Description: A hypochondriac mother puts the stresses of abusive relationship with her boyfriend; has an affair with two pandemics on her son the morning of Thanksgiving his friend where she manipulates him in becoming part of 2020. a twisted plan.
10 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Fractal My Friend's Play DATE: DATE: 06/21/2021 06/21/2021
TIME: TIME: 07:00 PM 09:00 PM
Description: Juvi is dealing with the burden of guilt put Description: A mother's love. A co-workers support. A upon him by his boyfriend, when an otherworldly force friend's obligation. They all had reasons to see the play. gives him the opportunity to begin a journey of Would their lives ever be the same? forgiveness.
TITLE: TITLE: Down the House We Are Conjola - Our Fire Our Story DATE: DATE: 06/22/2021 06/22/2021 TIME: TIME: 01:00 PM 01:00 PM Description: Down the House transports the viewer to the Description: NYE 2019. Director and film maker Ash town of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Once the epicenter of Brennan lost his house in the Conjola Park Bushfire which the U.S. Steel Industry, the steel production in the region nearly killed his brother and many others who stayed to helped build the U.S. and win WWI and WWII. Abandoned fight. From a Perth hotel room Ash saw the first image of and facing economic implosion in the 1980s, the town what used to be his house in the backgro... lost near...
TITLE: TITLE: Savage Days Destination Marfa DATE: DATE: 06/22/2021 06/22/2021
TIME: TIME: 03:00 PM 05:00 PM
Description: A contemporary vision of a generation in Description: While on a road trip from a long weekend at Paris, today. Savage Days is the fate of three characters: a the Terlingua cookoff, four lifelong friends decide to veer student eager for experiences, a dealer who has just off road and venture into a small West Texas town known landed in the world of drugs but who is trying to get out of as Marfa. What attracted them to do so? Could it be the it, and a trader tired of his loneliness... Money, pleasure strange unexplained ghost lights t... and ambition but also lies are the foundations of their relationship.
11 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Rounded Corners Pulling Wool DATE: DATE: 06/22/2021 06/22/2021
TIME: TIME: 07:00 PM 09:00 PM
Description: A book smart 13-year old girl, raised alone by Description: Described as an R-rated Olsen Twins her Wall Street father, learns about life from her new Adventure in Brooklyn, PULLING WOOL will show you the carefree babysitter over summer vacation. true meaning of being an emergency contact and leave you wondering how far you would go to save your best friend's life.
TITLE: Evergreen TITLE: DATE: Mother 06/23/2021 DATE: TIME: 06/23/2021 01:00 PM TIME: 01:00 PM Description: On his way up north to visit friends, BEN picks up a mutual acquaintance, SAM, from her apartment in the city. Instead of taking the Interstate, they both agree Description: When a boy is getting ready to sleep, he for the longer but more scenic coastal highway, exploring hears a familiar loving, caring and supporting voice. But and developing a companionship.... what he hears during the next two minutes really shocks him. Inspired by the “The Black Mirror” storytelling style, this dystopian short film is only 4 minutes long but according to the film director Serge Velbovets, it creates a TITLE: paradigm shift in our understanding of today's world. Retributive Minds
DATE: TITLE: 06/23/2021 Routine TIME: DATE: 03:00 PM 06/23/2021
TIME: Description: A man returns to his home country expecting 03:00 PM to grieve his sister’s death but instead finds himself struggling to reconcile his ideologies while immersed in the society he left behind. Description: Five next-door neighbors eavesdrop on pedestrians passing outside of their apartments. One morning, they overhear something that disrupts their daily routine.
12 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Another Spleen Conversation DATE: DATE: 06/23/2021 06/23/2021
TIME: TIME: 03:00 PM 03:00 PM
Description: When Tom reaches the very edge of his Description: A father is getting more and more anxious as sanity, it’s up to Jack to talk him down. Little does Jack his family is getting further away from him. know that not only is Tom intending to end his life - he’s about to shake the very core of their entire relationship. TITLE: Salmon Run
TITLE: DATE: The Consultation 06/23/2021
DATE: TIME: 06/23/2021 03:00 PM
TIME: 03:00 PM Description: There are two friends named Paislee and Aviana having a conversation on the plain of existence between death and the afterlife. There is a tremendous Description: Aniès, an arrogant woman, believes she can perfectly handle her future until the day she has a decisive amount physical, mental and spiritual pain for both meeting that will predict the exact opposite... characters. Paislee is the character that has died and is going toward...
TITLE: TITLE: Andrà Tutto Bene Buzz, Buzz, Buzz DATE: DATE: 06/23/2021 06/23/2021 TIME: TIME: 03:00 PM 03:00 PM
Description: During the first lockdown, Chiara feels safe at Dave's the kind of guy who enjoys nothing home and tries to spend her time as best she can. During Description: more than a cool beer after a hard day's graft in his quiet a video call with her sister, strange things begin to happen neighbourhood. This idyllic life is shattered by a noisy in the flat. scooter's incessant motoring past his house. Driven to distraction, Dave is on a mission to restore the peace.
13 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Apart We Are Was I Next? The Together Sean Cribbin Story DATE: DATE: 06/23/2021 06/23/2021
TIME: TIME: 03:00 PM 05:00 PM
Description: A pandemic lockdown short embracing the Description: Was I Next? The Sean Cribbin Story, a limits of isolation to remind us that while the restrictions multiple-award winning documentary from iCogitate on travel and human connection have altered, the nature Productions, tells the story of Sean Cribbin, a gay man of human connection and sense of togetherness is as true who lived through a shocking brush with death.... and important as ever.
TITLE: TITLE: In A Whole New Way Man On The Tower - Short Film DATE: DATE: 06/23/2021 06/23/2021 TIME: TIME: 07:00 PM 05:00 PM Description: Ensnaring almost four million Americans, Description: Kids playing in their back yard witness the probation has evolved from a way to avoid prison to a Charles Whitman sniper shooting from the University of sanction actually feeding mass incarceration. Some Texas Tower in Austin that occurred Aug. 1st, 1966 and people of color set out to change all this, equipped only decide they must save their father. with cameras.
TITLE: TITLE: Right Livelihood A Race Night Journey To Here DATE: DATE: 06/23/2021 06/23/2021 TIME: TIME: 07:00 PM 07:00 PM
Description: In this short documentary, we go behind the Description: Race Night is a documentary short exploring scenes with Buddhist Chaplain, Justin Von Bujdoss as he the culture and community of flat-track motorcycle racing shares the complex and important role he plays in holding in America’s Midwest. It follows three teenagers who, space for the correction officers during meditation at alongside their parents, pursue..... Rikers Island one of the most dangerous prisons in the country.
14 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: The Della Morte An Afternoon At Sisters Denny Moe's DATE: DATE: 06/23/2021 06/23/2021 TIME: TIME: 09:00 PM 07:00 PM
Description: In the heart of Harlem, stands Denny Moe’s Description: A recent death in the family brings three Superstar Barbershop, the barbershop that gives back to sisters together where they discover a shared dark past the community. In addition to providing expert hair that changes everything they thought they knew about treatments, Denny and his staff are actively involved in each other and their family. promoting health and education in the neighborhood.
TITLE: TITLE: Blindado (Steel Clad) "A" For Alpha DATE: DATE: 06/23/2021 06/23/2021 TIME: TIME: 10:00 PM 09:00 PM
Description: A plot to steal $12 Million from an insurance Description: Harrison is a man stuck between two worlds: company goes wrong when the chosen scapegoat the one he was raised to know and the reality that he is outsmarts the plotters and gives them a run for their actually living. Harrison and Vanessa appear to have the money. FULL ACTION perfect relationship, but Harrison is struggling with insecurities regarding his role as a man in his relationship.
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TITLE: Homies To the Madness (TV DATE: Pilot) 06/24/2021
DATE: TIME: 06/24/2021 01:00 PM TIME: 01:00 PM Description: Nick shares a studio apartment with not one, but two roommates, and to make matters worse, his Description: Two actors are forced to dabble in criminal landlord is his maniac of a mother. The three roommates schemes while navigating the cutthroat world of audition struggle to make ends meet while they c rooms. This is a television pilot for a prospective series.
15 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Stuck! Check, Please! DATE: DATE: 06/24/2021 06/24/2021
TIME: TIME: 01:00 PM 01:00 PM
Description: An oddball, a hothead, and a former child star Description: Check, Please is a comedic web series about become unlikely friends as they band together to fight for a French immigrant who just moved to NY to pursue her their shared dream of becoming actors. American dream and starts working in a small chaotic restaurant. She will learn how to survive this urban jungle the hard way because serving in NYC is not an easy ride. TITLE: Aseem (Without Boundaries) TITLE: DATE: New York Our Time
06/24/2021 DATE: TIME: 06/24/2021
03:00 PM TIME: 05:00 PM Description: Aseem is a story of dreams - some broken, some realised. Told through the eyes of Irfan - a young boy who dreams of being a motorbike designer and Anita a Description: Filmmaker Vivienne Dick's new film contrasts doctor who dreams of building a hospital for women in the concerns of present day living in New York with the her village. bohemian wildness of the city in the late 70's, reflected through the lives of artists, musicians and friends of the filmmaker. TITLE: On Our Own Island TITLE: The Charmed Life DATE: Of Fig Dauphine 06/24/2021 DATE: TIME: 06/24/2021 07:00 PM TIME: 09:00 PM Description: This remarkable documentary chronicles the seasons of a relationship and the power of true love from its romantic beginnings through life's final moments. Description: A spirited young girl fortune teller in New Orleans leads her teenage sidekick through escapades involving unruly gangsters and a drag queen known as The Countess, while trying to solve the mystery of her unwitting birth father.
16 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Majestic 8 Ex-Sisters-In-Law
DATE: DATE: 06/25/2021 06/25/2021
TIME: TIME: 01:00 PM 01:00 PM
Description: A coming-of-age comedy set in 2008, Description: Ex-Sisters-In-Law hilariously confronts the MAJESTIC 8 follows high schooler Brandon, whose meaning of family, friendship and economic disparity - desperate search for a job leads him to the poorly managed this pathos-filled story follows the reunion of the Orlando branch of the Majestic Theatres cinema.... sheltered Millicent, who wants nothing more than to have her sister-in-law back and Deniz, the pragmatic woman who divorced Millicent's brother twenty years ago! TITLE: The Last Christmas Party TITLE: DATE: Retra 06/25/2021 DATE: TIME: 06/25/2021 01:00 PM TIME: 01:00 PM Description: Over the course of one night, a group of college friends try to navigate their complicated love lives before they leave for winter break. Heartbreak ensues. Description: A young woman deals with an endless amount of street harassment throughout her day until she can't take it anymore.
TITLE: Rehab Cabin TITLE: DATE: Before The Close Of Day 06/25/2021 DATE: TIME: 06/25/2021 03:00 PM TIME: 05:00 PM Description: Best friends Chloe and Domenic are quickly growing apart. At Chloe’s insistence, for their last hurrah, they kidnap their favorite celebrity, washed-up former Description: The experimental documentary Before the child star Amanda Campbell. Driving a stolen limo, they Close of Day is a poetic meditation on Dante’s Purgatorio. take Amanda to a secluded cabin where they improvise a Set on the Staten Island Ferry during winter storms, reh... passengers cross the New York Harbor while Cantos from Purgatorio are read evoking a spiritual passage between places. As...
17 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Hold Me Right Roe v. Wade
DATE: DATE: 06/25/2021 06/25/2021
TIME: TIME: 07:00 PM 09:00 PM
Description: Hold Me Right is a documentary that explores Description: Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred the aftermath of sexual assault through intimate first-hand Jefferson square off in a national battle in this untold testimonies that take us through the arc of a survivor’s conspiracy that led to the most famous and controversial journey. The film focuses on the stories of 10 main characters, court case in history. interweaving portraits and verité sequences that take us into the lives of both survivors and perpetrators. What is created is a truly unique film that exposes the consequences of our TITLE: misconceptions about these unspeakable crimes while All Hail the simultaneously providing a way forward. Champion DATE: 06/26/2021 TITLE: Old Dad TIME: 01:00 PM DATE: 06/25/2021 Description: A depressed man goes to the same therapist TIME: as a superhero. 09:00 PM
TITLE: Description: Paul Barton has a perfect life, a hot Chloe and the Five thirty-five-year-old girlfriend. But everything is about to Elements change when he finds out he'll be a first-time father at the age of fifty. DATE: 06/26/2021
TIME: TITLE: 01:00 PM Justin and the Werloobee Description: A girl falls into the Five Elements while DATE: walking in the wood. 06/26/2021
TIME: 01:00 PM
Description: Fantasy film about a bullied boy's selflessness and kindness toward a creature who is similarly ostracized by his peers.
18 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Swimming Upstream Anacronte
DATE: DATE: 06/26/2021 06/26/2021
TIME: TIME: 01:00 PM 01:00 PM
Description: Sometimes life may be experienced as a test Description: Anacronte and the Sorcerers of Evil, without in determination and tenacity and is played out in our any emotion and fulfilling their destiny, they put to test dreams. Reaching for another shape like words making humanity's happiness in a struggle that, in short, has each their way through dreams, perhaps, life in its of us as winners and losers. complexity—makes a surreal experience after all.
TITLE: TITLE: The Hole Daddydelphia DATE: DATE: 06/26/2021 06/26/2021 TIME: TIME: 01:00 PM 01:00 PM
Description: A soldier hides in a cave to avoid the big Description: Five twenty-somethings become lost while snake in the woods. He finds a brief rest in the cave, even on a road trip to a weekend getaway due to their makes a little bat friend. But after eating all of the foods, navigator’s alcohol-fueled gross negligence. As a result, he hears the snake hissing again. they are no longer destined for sunshine.
TITLE: TITLE: Prologue Gold DATE: DATE: 06/26/2021 06/26/2021 TIME: TIME: 03:00 PM 03:00 PM
Description: Prologue is a short film charged with secrets Description: Inspired by the legacy of Breonna Taylor and and terrible communication skills. It follows Julie, a young comic books series like Black Panther, Gold is a Black Italian woman living in Northern California who is perfectly Woman Superhero dance film that explores Black happy in her marriage until she stops being able to go American culture, ancestry, and fantasy.... along with what her husband wants. With the unexpect…
19 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Detour How Much We Feel
DATE: DATE: 06/26/2021 06/26/2021
TIME: TIME: 03:00 PM 03:00 PM
Description: Joseph and Anna are both outsiders - Description: How Much We Feel takes an intimate look at immigrants, isolated in a city of millions, trapped for very an interracial relationship over the course of its first year, different reasons. When their paths cross on a rainy New as told through slices of their life. This short examines York night, they might just have a chance to remake their how the couple grows together and struggles with subtle, lives. modern racial issues they encounter along the way.
TITLE: TITLE: Shades Of You Horace DATE: DATE: 06/26/2021 06/26/2021
TIME: TIME: 03:00 PM 03:00 PM
Description: Andrew goes through an existential life Description: When Horace, Jr. shows up at his old man's changing transition as he walks the streets of Manhattan, house to set right past wrongs that he'd done to his father, NY. he faces more challenges than he'd imagined.
TITLE: TITLE: Walking Rebel Lock Pick
DATE: DATE: 06/26/2021 06/26/2021
TIME: TIME: 03:00 PM 03:00 PM
Description: This is the story about one day in the life of a Description: A burglar finds themself confronted with a young writer, Fedor Bogdanovich who doesn’t want to choice of life or death. stay inside. However, he lives in a world where everyone believes they are safer by sta....
20 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Cry Later Dagger
DATE: DATE: 06/26/2021 06/26/2021
TIME: TIME: 05:00 PM 05:00 PM
Description: A woman stumbles through her daily life as Description: "To be or not to be?" The very moment Tom her depression followers her around. When her (Will Chase) contemplates this famous question about confidence attempts to rectify situations, it often only whether his life is worth living, a disembodied, cheeky, makes them worse. and outspoken William Shakespeare (Jack Davenport) intervenes, via the chandelier.
TITLE: The Other Morgan TITLE: Mutiny! DATE: 06/26/2021 DATE: 06/26/2021 TIME: 05:00 PM TIME: 05:00 PM
Description: Morgan Yardley works as an exterminator and loves her little, unremarkable life, until she discovers Description: Mutiny! is a swashbuckling, action-adventure there's another Morgan. comedy featuring a progressive Captain dealing with a crew that's set in their old ways— all while confronting gender inequality and the lack of self-awareness of overt TITLE: masculinity… but all seen through the eyes of 17th Century Pirates. Like Daughter, Like Mother
DATE: TITLE: 06/26/2021 Hit or Miss TIME: DATE: 05:00 PM 06/26/2021
Description: LIKE DAUGHTER, LIKE MOTHER is about a TIME: mother and daughter navigating the world of online 05:00 PM together.
Description: When a perpetual casanova believes that his closest friend has begun finding men on a dating app, he is forced to come clean about his secret feelings for her. But she has a secret of her own…
21 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: Superstar American Social
DATE: DATE: 06/26/2021 06/26/2021
TIME: TIME: 05:00 PM 05:00 PM
Description: A day in the life of Martin, a homeless man Description: Skylar and her boyfriend Jake's relationship attempting to keep his individuality despite being is tested in unexpected ways when they take a break from dehumanized by everyday society. the city and go upstate for a hike.
TITLE: TITLE: How Am I Doing? The Expat
DATE: DATE: 06/26/2021 06/26/2021
TIME: TIME: 05:00 PM 07:00 PM
Description: A recovering alcoholic battles old habits Description: A PTSD stricken former American Marine on while trying to rebuild his fleeting acting career and regain vacation in the Philippines becomes the prime suspect in the respect of his young daughter. a series of murders of his romantic partners.
TITLE: TITLE: Come Back Lucky Walk With Me Cat DATE: DATE: 06/26/2021 06/26/2021 TIME: TIME: 09:00 PM 07:00 PM
Description: After a night of losing at the Mahjong table, Description: As she braves life after divorce, a young Harry is desperate for a way to win back his money. He mother must challenge herself to take some personal happens upon a small sugar cane juice shop in the middle risks after finding love in an unexpected place. of Hong Kong. While he waits for Vae to pour his juice, he is struck by a magical lucky cat sitting atop a shelf against the wall that could be the key to turning his luck around.
22 Manhattan Film Festival | June 17-27th, 2021 TITLE: TITLE: There Is No Other Bullets to Books Place DATE: DATE: 06/27/2021 06/27/2021 TIME: TIME: 01:00 PM 01:00 PM
Description: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Description: Follow one man's journey to heal his native Jerusalem, the holiest Christian site, is shared by six country of South Sudan through education. dominations fighting each other for every square meter. Two Muslim families, guardians of the entrance key to the church, argue who is the true key custodian. TITLE: Pot Luck
TITLE: DATE: Act Social 06/27/2021 DATE: TIME: 06/27/2021 03:00 PM
TIME: 03:00 PM Description: The war on drugs has failed, but is legalization of cannabis the answer? Five years after full legalization of cannabis, filmmakers Jane Wells and Description: From politics to medicine, Act Social explores Barbara Bossuet take an intimate journey into the lives, the healing potential of applied improvisation. Features homes and thoughts (sometimes drug-fueled) of famed improv comedian Colin Mochrie of Whose Line is it, Coloradans either invested in cannabusinesses or Anyway? committed to teaching the world what legalization has wrought. Meanwhile, overwhelmed law enforcement juggle with a blazed new world. TITLE: The Biggest Obstacle TITLE: DATE: Hold Me Right 06/27/2021 DATE: TIME: 06/27/2021 05:00 PM TIME: 08:30 PM Description: The Biggest Obstacle follows the investigations of researcher and disability rights activist Jessica Murray as she examines accessibility in the New Description: Hold Me Right follows both survivors and York City Transit System over a two year period wherein perpetrators through the harrowing journey of speaking she progresses from a vocal activist to a person of actual up, healing, and moving forward. influence and import in the system, all while under the shadow of her own imminent decline into disability due to multiple sclerosis......
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