Celebrate the power of good story

Feature Length Films

  • The Banality

    DAY ONE - MAY 11 7PM

    Michael Stevantoni & Strack Azar (United States) 78:02 minutes

    A small town reels from the sudden and mysterious death of "Feral Boy," a local legend since his discovery in the woods as a child. Father Moss, a priest with a loose grip on the faith, attempts to counsel the forlorn couple that raised the boy. As the answers are revealed, he finds parallels between this grisly incident and his own recurring nightmares, haunted in both sleeping and waking hours. Starring Sherman Augustus (Stranger Things 4, Into the Badlands).

  • Close

    DAY TWO - MAY 12 (6:30- 7:30 Script reading/ 8:00pm feature film)

    Lukas Dhont (Belgium) 105 minutes

    The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approaches Sophie, Rémi's mother. "Close" is a film about friendship and responsibility

    BONUS: Before the Screening of Close, there will be live script readings of the winning scripts from our script competition.

  • Gringa

    DAY THREEE - MAY 13 (6:30-7:30pm Filmmaker’s Panel/8:00pm feature)

    Marny Eng & E.J. Foerster (United States) 103 minutes

    A troubled teenage girl runs away to Mexico to find the father she has never known. Together they learn that a family can be put back together, even if all they have are the missing pieces.

    BONUS: Before the Screening of Gringa, there will be a Filmmaker’s Panel discussing the art of film.