Summer Heartbreak (2021)

My Brother Is an Only Child

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.

Shortcomings

When his girlfriend leaves for New York City on a 3-month-long internship, a strongly opinionated Berkeley arthouse movie theater manager begins exploring life as a bachelor.

7G Rainbow Colony

Kathir is a young underachiever who frequently vents his frustrations through public outbursts. When Anitha, a North Indian girl whose family has fallen on hard times, moves into his housing colony, he soon decides to pursue her with his love, but she keeps rejecting his advances.

Kekaiulu Hula Studio

Kekaiulu Hula Studio follows the Proclaimed Hula Halau of the same name, showcasing their twist on what the real reason for hula is and what life as a dancer in the halau is really like. Something previously unseen in the public eye.

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Fresh out of college and stuck at his New Jersey home without a clear path forward, 22-year-old Andrew begins working as a party starter for bar/bat mitzvahs—where he strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom and her teenage daughter.

Sometimes I Suddenly Think of You

A family trip with boyfriend and child to the stormy island of Hallig Hooge turns into a nerve-wracking confrontation with her role as wife and mother for 35-year-old Lilith.

Des vertes et des pas mûres

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Trying

Meg, a millennial painter with ADHD, navigates her life on the way to a job interview. What starts as a simple task turns into a race against the clock as she encounters society’s stigmas, unlikely allies, and challenges from her past.

Chaperone

A 29-year-old woman is alienated by friends and family for her lack of ambition. While struggling beneath the judgment of her peers, she finds a dangerous acceptance in a bright 18-year-old boy who mistakes her for a fellow student.

Ovosodo

From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.

Now or Never

2001. Soon-to-be-graduate David gets involved in the anti-globalization movement after falling for activist Viola in the months preceding the fateful events of the G8 summit in Genoa.

Speech is Silver

Louis and some friends of him end a party in town. At a Subway station, they realize there is no more to come . With no other solution Clara ask Louis to lodge her for the night. Louis accepted. Everything seems simple at the details that Louis is in love of Clara but he can't tell her.

Sting

Arthur “Art” Prince finds escape from his otherwise unremarkable life by dominating the “Sting-Pong" scene at a local underground club. However, when a mysterious challenger suddenly appears, Art is forced to confront his self-destructive tendencies.

i and i

A short film by Samona Olanipekun. A portrayal of contemporary male identity, which peels back the layers of self. A young man spends a day preparing for his 30th birthday while confronted by a very familar person. Featuring Jonathan Ajayi & Samuel Adewunmi

My Favorite Scene from Gummo

A bolstering eruption of chaos and boyhood; an exploration of the human body and how it interacts with the soul.

Frances Ha

An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.

The Year Between

Inspired by true events, college sophomore Clemence Miller is coming home to the suburbs and a bedroom in her family's basement. After dropping out of school with a newly diagnosed mental illness, she now faces the challenges of bipolar disorder, the responsibilities of adulthood, and her damaged relationships with family and friends. Clemence struggles to figure out what it means to heal without driving everyone around her… well, crazy. As if reckoning with everything and everyone she has taken for granted wasn’t enough, Clemence has to wrestle with the thought that on top of it all, she might also just have a really bad personality.

Esteros

Childhood friends Matías and Jerónimo reach adolescence and experience sexual attraction to each other, before being separated by circumstances. Later, as young adults, they meet again, and the film follows themes of complicated relationships and sexual tensions, as well as issues of homophobia.

Getting Out

Sol and Cami are best friends. Sol goes to Cami's house, trying to get her out and hang with their old friends. This is not easy as it seems, and music, the passion that bonds them, could be the solution.

Salad Days

What is "Salad Days"? Described as the period when one is young and inexperienced, "Salad Days" is the story of a young boy, Jake who is whisked away mid-school day by the weird, and hot...well...you know...Alice! Jake is sent on a whirlwind of an adventure to prove he's not the cookie cutter, small town kid to the quirky girl he admires so much.

Drifting

After a failed life plan in Berlin, Thilo has returned to his hometown. His first day as a delivery driver in his father’s beverage market turns into a road trip through his own past. The trip confronts him with his disorientation and his deep desire for identity and belonging.

Ensayos y errores

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Young Hearts

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No Hard Feelings

On the brink of losing her childhood home, Maddie discovers an intriguing job listing: wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to “date” their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college. To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers the awkward Percy is no sure thing.

Classe que Derreteu

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3 On a Bed

In Kolkata, three art college graduates named Kapil, Debdutta and Padmini decide to live together and share their love for each other equally.

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed

A mosaic-style comedy following the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.

life is cool

22 year old Kali Caldwell interviews her friends about the human experience: love, fear, and understanding.

Ardaas Karaan

During times of conflict, three elderly men try to instill values in their families.

Sincerely Yours, Dhaka

In this omnibus, 11 Bangladeshi filmmakers create a love letter to the city of Dhaka. From young girls looking for a drink in a dry town to a bank scammer's attempted murder to a plumber creating a refugee crisis, the city co-stars every time.

The Lift Boy

A coming of age story of a 24-year-old vagabond who is forced to work at a posh building in Mumbai as a Lift Boy when his bread-winning father falls ill.

Gu

On a gloomy day, Gu takes a train back to his hometown for the first time in years to reunite with his wife and son, in court.

Manchurian Tiger

A dark comedy follows a Siberian tiger, a dog, a forklift driver, a middle school teacher, a poet, a debt collector and a pregnant woman. Beneath the absurdities of an owner trying to avenge his dog and his pregnant wife is a story about reality.

Damn Summer

Julieta and Federico are parents of three boys, it is a high class family. He is a successful architect. They receive the visit of Tito, uncle of Federico, a gray man who has just left the prison. Tito wants to go to the sea and Federico proposes to go to a house that he himself built for some friends, but Federico stays in the city, working.

Luces

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The Man in the Moonlight

Two mysterious strangers arrive uninvited at the wedding of Sergeant O'Farrell of the Royal Mounted Police and Rosine Delorme, the daughter of an innkeeper. After O'Farrell receives a message that Rosine's wayward brother Louis has escaped from prison with the notorious devil-may-care outlaw Rossingnol, O'Farrell postpones the wedding to find the convicts.

Paid in Advance

In the northwestern wilderness of Alaska, an innocent young girl falls into the clutches of a band of evil men of the gold fields.