A compassionate indie drama, a game-changing CG animation and a hi-concept body-swap comedy with heart make up the trio of films selected by the S/W team as our 'Best of the Month' for August 2021.
The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus.
A dive into sunny childhood memories, when a girl is singing and cooking with her father they are swept along by the wafting mass of dough into the emotional depths of loss and disappearance. Helpless, the child is trying to grasp what is not tangible.
It’s 1988. Recently married Dana helps her eternally single friend Aleea make a video profile for a dating service ATOMIC LOVE, provoking a confession that forces them to address the nature of their relationship.
A visual poem combining music, spoken word, dance, and archival footage, "Gold Token" explores Black ancestry and ultimately how society uses the Black experience as a piece of aesthetic consumption.
Wochenbett (Postpartum) delves into the chaotic life of a new mother, who thought that maternity leave would become a sort of easy sabbatical.
A professional mascot named Fauve gets dumped on the Summer solstice, aka the longest day of the year. The icy storm she’s plunged into doesn’t quite fit with the current heatwave.
Safa’s been through a lot. Now her car battery's dead in a strip mall parking lot.
A young woman embarks on a road trip with her boyfriend to a place he promises to be beautiful and peaceful. But a series of strange events occur on their journey, and it becomes clear that their relationship is not what she thinks and their destination is not what was promised.
The sad but true story of Old Bet, the first circus elephant in America, set to a tune sung by her friend, an old farm dog.
