
After getting fired from his assistant job, a young struggling screenwriter hatches a plan to befriend a powerful producer’s troubled nepo-baby son in order to sell his screenplay. But when the nepo-baby learns of his plan things go awry.
Trip Lefkowitz
0.0An anxious passenger fears the worst when a police officer pulls his friend out of the car.
0.0A party entertainer must go to extraordinary heights to escape a house of horror
A stand up comedian goes on a road trip in a last move to save his career.
0.0This film, based on a Jim Carroll short story, recounts the tale of Curtis and his encounter with voodoo. Curtis is a drug addict who has become paranoid, thinking that his wife's mother has cast evil spells on him. He meets his friend Jim and asks him for help in counteracting her black magic. Jim tries to reason with his friend, but when that fails, he decides to play along and make him a talisman. Drawing a snake on a scrap of paper and mumbling an incantation, Jim gives him this charm. This immediately solves Curtis's problems...or does it?
6.01937. Pepita and Mari Carmen spend every afternoon together trying to cope with the loneliness of the war. Between buttons and balls of yarn they talk about life, desires, dreams and love, but that afternoon they did not know what destiny had in store for them. In the end, they will prove that life is like sewing and singing... everything is a beginning.
8.0A five hour and forty-five minute film set on board a BLAH Airlines flight - the boring, beige and dull antithesis of the innovative and stylish experience when flying Virgin America. The film, which will be screened on April 10 as part of the official DIFF Festival Line-Up, is a surrealistic and humorous work of cinema vérité that exposes the grim reality of commercial air travel - characterized by cramped seats, harsh lighting and a lack of entertainment and meal options.
5.4The members of a family come to say goodbye to the recently deceased patriarch. But what should have been a heartfelt wake turns into a crazy gathering when one of the attendees reveals the deceased's best kept secret.
5.0Counter Clockwise is a sci-fi thriller/dark comedy about a scientist who accidentally invents time travel and is zapped six months into the future. He finds himself in a sinister upside down world where his wife and sister are murdered and he's the main suspect. He's forced to go back in time to uncover the mystery surrounding their deaths.
6.2An American family fulfills their dream of moving back to their roots after inheriting a remote cabin in the mountains of Norway. But there's a surprise waiting for them.
0.0A psychological surreal horror story about a Finnish band and its members getting lost in wilderness.
6.5A scientist, his friend's daughter and a con artist get entangled in a scheme to steal the body of a greedy pharmaceutical executive.
6.3Four couples meet for Sunday brunch only to discover they are stuck in a house together as the world may be about to end.
7.1Bari, the last chills of a very cold winter. A gang of petty criminals rummages through the day and night of the suburbs, searching for a precious package sent from the Balkans and destined never to reach its final destination. What does the package contain? Important material for our characters; for the viewer, a passe-partout that opens the door to a jagged and surprising urban undergrowth.
4.7Danny is an ostrich living in Glasgow with his roommate, a monkey named Nelson. After a failed suicide attempt over the break up with his girlfriend, Danny seeks counselling to help him recover from his ordeal and get his life back on track. After meeting Lizzie during a pub quiz, friendship quickly turns into romance but when Danny's former lover reaches out to him again, he finds his new relationship under threat. With his life at a crossroads, Danny reaches out to his psychiatrist for advice that would eventually help him decide whether to open past wounds or plan a new future with Lizzie.
0.0When a depressed public defender ends his own life, he is sentenced to an eternity in Hell. However, after Satan takes notice of his skills, he is offered an afterlife-changing deal that may not fall in line with his own values.
6.3The clumsy and unfunny clown Richard "Stitches" Grindle entertains at the 10th birthday party of little Tom, but the boy and his friends play a prank with Stitches, tying his shoelaces. Stitches slips, falls and dies. Six years later, Tom gives a birthday party for his friends at home, but Stitches revives to haunt the teenagers and revenge his death.
4.0A girly, cotton-candy colored slumber party unravels when a shy teen becomes the center of a bizarre nighttime ritual.
