US Narrative Features
The Place of No Words
Directed By: Mark Webber
Country of Origin: USA
Language: English
Rating: NA
Runtime: 93 min
Synopsis: “Where do we go when we die?” A question by three-year-old Bohdi Palmer sets a real family on an imaginative adventure that explores how we cope with dying and the love, laughter, and pain we can find within it.hold.
The Deeper you Dig
Directed By: Toby Poster, John Adams
Country of Origin: USA
Language: English
Rating: Late Teen / Adult (language, adult themes)
Runtime: 96 Mins
Synopsis: Ivy and Echo are not your typical mother-daughter team. Ivy, once an intuitive psychic, makes an easy buck as a bogus tarot card reader; 14-year-old Echo likes old-timey music, hunting, and black lipstick. When reclusive Kurt moves down the road to restore an abandoned farmhouse, an accident leads to Echo's murder, and suddenly three lives collide in mysterious and wicked ways. Kurt assumes he can hide his secret under the ground. But Echo burrows into his head until he can feel her in his bones. As she haunts his every move, trying to reach her mother from beyond, Ivy must dig deep to see the signs and prove that love won't stay buried.
Thank You 5
Directed By: Reid Estreicher, Michael Barnard
Country of Origin: USA
Language: English
Rating: NA
Runtime: 112 min
Synopsis: THANK YOU 5 (a fully improvised comedy featuring an ensemble of emerging Chicago-based actors) tells the story of a fictional company of floundering thespians as they attempt to stage a production of 'Prelude to a Tradition,' an original work by playwright and director Kurt McAbbott.
The film begins on the first day of rehearsal and follows the cast through tech rehearsal, dress rehearsal and into the play's opening night as the cast and crew argue, bicker, fall in love, fall out of love, and generally clash while attempting to collaborate.
Uncle Peckerhead
Directed By: Matthew John Lawrence
Country of Origin: USA
Language: English
Rating: R / Adult (language)
Runtime: 95 min
Synopsis: As the bassist of the three-piece punk-rock band, DUH, Judy dreams of quitting her job and touring full time. But when the band finds themselves on their first tour with a man-eating hillbilly for a roadie the "gig life" is filled with nightmares and half-eaten bodies.
Sanzaru
Directed By: Xia Magnus
Country of Origin: USA
Language: English
Rating: R / Adult (language)
Runtime: 93 min
Synopsis:When a mild Filipina nurse is hired by an elderly woman declining into dementia, the walls between this world and the next crumble as she uncovers her employer’s shocking family secret.
Foreign Narrative Features