Manhattan Independent Film Festival
The Manhattan Independent Film Festival discovers, supports, and develops new talent in filmmaking, providing a platform for emerging and established filmmakers from around the world, and a unique focus on stories tied to Manhattan, and NYC. Recognizing the important role independent films have in the history of filmmaking, storytelling, and culture, the annual Manhattan Independent Film Festival wants to help empower the next generation of artists.
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Driven by You (China) by Fangji Leo Yin
After being unnoticed and doubted for years, a 16-year-old Chinese ice hockey player faces the question every student-athlete in China must confront: should he follow the path designed by his parents and give up the sport he loves? As expectations and uncertainty pulls him into a spiral of self-d...
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Waiting for the End of the World (United States) by Jeffrey Hoyt
A quiet mosaic of small-town America, tracing the subtle fractures in everyday life.
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Ujvala Jupalli: Asterisk Athlete (United States) by Josephine Harrison
A meditative documentary following the story of Ujvala as she details what being an athlete means to her and the first time she realized she wasn't just an athlete but a female athlete. We see aspects of her training, and also more reflective moments as she tells her story.
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Something Has to Give (United States) by Allison Fan, Fred Midgley
Redemption, rebirth, and the desire for salvation in times of profound loss. Set in the haunting, atmospheric confines of a stark, empty warehouse, the space becomes a canvas where bodies move between tension and release, seeking the answer to whether this earth is a sanctuary or a sterile, white...
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Portals (United States) by Kathi Hendrick, Benjamin Henretig, Cornelia Hodges
PORTALS explores the body, nature, and heart as doorways into deeper dimensions of self and our inherent interrelatedness. Through movement, imagery, and original music, the film enters the liminal space between inner and outer worlds, where the body becomes a threshold into feeling, knowing, int...
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A Horse in the Bed (Belgium) by Kris De Meester
The Horse in the Bed is a darkly comic animated fable about Arthur, a quiet, conflict-averse man who wakes one morning to discover a full-sized horse sleeping beside him.
Rather than confront the impossible situation, Arthur chooses politeness. He asks the horse to move. It does not. He makes ano... -
The Witchdoctor and the Windmill (Australia, France) by Robert Hamilton
“The Witchdoctor and the Windmill” explores the life of the Pintupi artist, Linda Syddick Napaltjarri. After her father’s death in a revenge spearing, Linda came in from the remote Pintupi homelands and was taught to paint by her adoptive father, the famous artist Shorty Tjungurrayi. Her insisten...
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Duos (Mexico) by Frank Rodríguez
Marah has a special relationship with an older man; while trying to understand that relationship, she seeks a scholarship to study theater in New York.