Movies: Slice of life

"Golden Times" tells a story of melancholy, alcohol and loneliness. In the nocturnal light of the street lamps, there are involuntary encounters between nameless characters on their staggering foray from kiosk to kiosk....

Over the brief course of a month, troubled teen Daniella finds solace in the pursuit of another young woman....

A teen buys a goldfish at a pet store and attempts to give it a better life...

James is the lead singer in a local rock band who is allergic to responsibility. Leslie is the bass player in the band, a middle-aged single mom struggling to connect with her teenage son. And Tim West is Booda, a rapper trying to maintain his dreams...

A pixalation animation about a woman's dream....

Cindy spends the summer with her eccentric grandmother....

Mabel Wallace is a woman from Shinrone, Ireland. She has just turned 100. This is her story....

A young woman stuck in her childhood home tries to find purpose and meaning despite living in a quarantined world....

A normal day in the life of the modern anti-hero in the big city....

It is Friday the 13th in Ezpeleta, in the Buenos Aires suburbs. Like every Friday, Fer, Juja, Pepo and Robi meet after school to rehearse with their incipient punk band. Different conflicts and worries prevent them from moving forward and the rehears...

The short film tells a slice-of-life story set in a family-run Chinese bakery, exploring parenting philosophies and the pressures faced by the younger immigrant generation....

Report from life at a campsite on Samsø. The campsite is seen as an introduction to Denmark, as a Danish microcosm....

On his daughter’s birthday, Das chooses not to return home. Instead, he visits Yakob—an elderly man slowly losing his memory. Introducing himself as Yakob’s long-lost son, Yusuf, Das spends the day with him, carefully nurturing conversations and reli...

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Legendary short story writer Lucia Berlin (1936-2004) captured moments of grace in the cafeterias and laundromats of the American Southwest, in the homes of the Bay Area upper class, among switchboard operators and struggling mothers, hitchhikers and...

First short film from Queens-based Filmmaker Shawn Solomon that captures various memories and moments across 2023....

A week after the events of the first film, a new girl arrives. She appears kind but this soon proves to be a form of persuasion on her part....

Come along and experience a hot summer day in the small Japanese town of Misato....

A short film about not knowing what to do with your life....

An OVA supercut of Eien no Once More, Long Goodbye, and Curtain Call...