A woman (Alia Shawkat) walks in an Iraqi village. American soldiers drive by. Then, an explosion. But this is not what it appears to be, and the woman isn't happy with her role.
Tribeca's (Online) Film Festival this year is quite extensive: 6 feature films, 9 in-competition shorts and these9 "retro" shorts from the festival's past, all available for free! We'll cover this year's competition shorts in a series of forthcoming posts, but remember that Tribeca has their own spin on this online thing, so make sure to reserve a 24-hour screening window for each film in advance. These 9 retro shorts are a bit easier to manage, rather than signing up for specific 24-hour screening periods, they are available to view at any time between now and May 1st.
**Currently Offline** - An aging Chinese mom suffering from empty nest syndrome gets another chance at motherhood when one of her dumplings springs to life.
A man and a woman meet on a bus. She's an engineer and she's married. He's homeless.
An experimental sojourn into self-help culture and unprofessional hypnosis tutorials. A self proclaimed model attempts to share self help techniques on how not to be boring. Over time he drifts off in thoughts about pigeons, film making and his wife.
Dinosaurs have invaded Earth but neither Tommy nor Stacey care anymore, now that they’ve met each other. They escape the war, but whether they dive to the bottom of the ocean or fly to Outer Space, conflict always seems to find a way into their lives.
Word arrived Stateside this morning, not through any official announcement, but through the tweets of his friends and collaborators. Kon Satoshi, one of the leading lights of Anime, director of the films Perfect Blue and Paprika, has sadly passed away at age 47.
The story of Cecile, an older Vietnamese-American hoarder, whose life is upended when worms open a black hole in her house and threaten to take all her stuff.
The formation of love, and then its disintegration. The cycle of a relationship, told with beauty and empathy.
The most gorgeously realized independent 3D animation in years, a dark mystery slowly unravels via the perspective of exotic frogs having a grand time in an opulent, but empty mansion
