Writer/Director: Yael Grunseit
A young girl faces the aftermath of her innocent but inappropriate phone use.
After an inappropriate use of her phone, Ally navigates conversations with her parents, an awkward call from her boyfriend, and the freedom of her dance class. A BIG HUG tenderly explores resilience, family, and the complexities of young female sexuality.
Writer/Director: Yael Grunseit
When a young Jewish woman’s memories are implanted into a humanoid sex robot, her deepest desires begin to surface.
Miriam is participating in a scientific trial aiming to teach a humanoid robot named Austin how to best sexually pleasure women. All of Miriam’s memories are implanted into Austin to enhance their connection. For the trial to succeed, Miriam has to lay bare her deepest desires by confronting memories of her past and her mother, the rabbi.
BONUS FEATURES: Director’s commentary.
Writer/Director/DoP/Editor: Abyn Reabe
We’re all dragging around the corpse of our memory...
A nameless narrator traverses a lonely city. Distant airplanes pass overhead. The shadows of his former self haunt him in the form of specters as he recollects his sordid past. Reflecting on the brutality of banality, he sells his memories to these other-worldly cashiers that seem to inhabit the world around him.
[Watch the trailer here]
Writer/Director: Dylan Rizzo
A Chinese American woman working at a restaurant steals a customer's purse.
Lulu, a young Chinese American woman, resorts to petty theft as a quiet act of resistance against the wave of newcomers transforming her neighborhood. As she comes of age amidst the shifting fabric of her home, she is confronted with questions of identity and what it truly means to belong.
BONUS FEATURES: Super 8 behind the scenes film by Abyn Reabe.
Director: Abyn Reabe
During a summer weekend in Maine, 11 year-old Alan visits his grandparents, Edith and Harold, unwittingly disrupting their resentful marriage, reigniting old pain and sending ripples of conflict through three generations.
Edith is stuck in a loveless marriage, pining after the one that got away, an old ring, a photo, a letter. The only mementos left of a life that could have been. Her grandson Alan visits for a summer weekend and turns her failing marriage to the alcoholic Harold upside down. Alan discovers the ring while playing alone in the barn, hidden in the glovebox of an old Mercedes. In childish romantic gesture, Alan gives the ring to a neighborhood crush. When Edith discovers the ring is missing, she accuses her husband, opening old wounds and causing her to spiral outwards. What do we do when our family can't seem to communicate?
BONUS FEATURES: A MiniDV short film capturing the essence and nostalgia that inspired TEMPERANCE, shot in the same location as the film.
Writer/Director: Yael Grunseit
A young girl faces the aftermath of her innocent but inappropriate phone use.
After an inappropriate use of her phone, Ally navigates conversations with her parents, an awkward call from her boyfriend, and the freedom of her dance class. A BIG HUG tenderly explores resilience, family, and the complexities of young female sexuality.
Writer/Director: Yael Grunseit
When a young Jewish woman’s memories are implanted into a humanoid sex robot, her deepest desires begin to surface.
Miriam is participating in a scientific trial aiming to teach a humanoid robot named Austin how to best sexually pleasure women. All of Miriam’s memories are implanted into Austin to enhance their connection. For the trial to succeed, Miriam has to lay bare her deepest desires by confronting memories of her past and her mother, the rabbi.
BONUS FEATURES: Director’s commentary.
Writer/Director/DoP/Editor: Abyn Reabe
We’re all dragging around the corpse of our memory...
A nameless narrator traverses a lonely city. Distant airplanes pass overhead. The shadows of his former self haunt him in the form of specters as he recollects his sordid past. Reflecting on the brutality of banality, he sells his memories to these other-worldly cashiers that seem to inhabit the world around him.
[Watch the trailer here]
Writer/Director: Dylan Rizzo
A Chinese American woman working at a restaurant steals a customer's purse.
Lulu, a young Chinese American woman, resorts to petty theft as a quiet act of resistance against the wave of newcomers transforming her neighborhood. As she comes of age amidst the shifting fabric of her home, she is confronted with questions of identity and what it truly means to belong.
BONUS FEATURES: Super 8 behind the scenes film by Abyn Reabe.
Director: Abyn Reabe
During a summer weekend in Maine, 11 year-old Alan visits his grandparents, Edith and Harold, unwittingly disrupting their resentful marriage, reigniting old pain and sending ripples of conflict through three generations.
Edith is stuck in a loveless marriage, pining after the one that got away, an old ring, a photo, a letter. The only mementos left of a life that could have been. Her grandson Alan visits for a summer weekend and turns her failing marriage to the alcoholic Harold upside down. Alan discovers the ring while playing alone in the barn, hidden in the glovebox of an old Mercedes. In childish romantic gesture, Alan gives the ring to a neighborhood crush. When Edith discovers the ring is missing, she accuses her husband, opening old wounds and causing her to spiral outwards. What do we do when our family can't seem to communicate?
BONUS FEATURES: A MiniDV short film capturing the essence and nostalgia that inspired TEMPERANCE, shot in the same location as the film.
