PLEASE BABY PLEASE
Please Baby Please
Suze and Arthur are the ideal Lower East Side bohemian couple. He earns a modest living as a clarinetist, she is a stylish housewife, dutifully doing the washing up. One evening, they witness a murder, committed by a rough gang of greasers in leather jackets, on the sidewalk in front of their house. This introduction […]
Shorts Program 2022
HALF Directed by Jacob Roberts11 minutes | 2021 | United States Half-Jewish, bisexual Jonah Dorman comes out to his girlfriend, shaking the foundation of their relationship and launching a tragicomic exploration of love and religion in New York City. EMERALDDirected by Alejandro Suárez15 minutes | 2021 | Spain Ezequiel, a young hiker, has been kidnapped. His […]
Shorts Program DTH
Neptune Frost
Multi-hyphenate, multidisciplinary artist Saul Williams brings his unique dynamism to this Afrofuturist vision, a sci-fi punk musical that’s a visually wondrous amalgamation of themes, ideas, and songs. Co-directed with the Rwandan-born artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman, the film takes place in the hilltops of Burundi, where a group of escaped coltan miners form an anti-colonialist […]
NEPTUNE FROST
My Emptiness and I
After moving from France to Spain, Raphi fantasizes about romances with princes and about starting a traditional family. However, her situation looks nothing like that in reality. She works in a call center in Barcelona, struggles with dates that often turn embarrassing, and is diagnosed by her therapist as having gender dysphoria. We follow this […]
MY EMPTINESS AND I
Boylesque
Andrzej aka Lulla La Polaca is the oldest Polish drag queen. We meet him when he is preparing his extravagant burial – his ashes are to be buried in an elegant urn in the shape of a stiletto shoe. Although the passing of time makes him nostalgic and miss his dead friend, he does not […]