Tallie Medel

A tender coming-of-age story from Dan Sallitt (Fourteen), The Unspeakable Act lovingly recalls the humanism of Éric Rohmer’s films. Taking on a difficult subject with rare sincerity, Sallitt allows his characters to develop subtly and with warmth. Watch out for Tallie Medel’s mighty portrayal.

Winner of a 2021 Gotham Award for Best Screenplay, FOURTEEN is a beautifully realized story of a friendship between two young women. Mara and Jo, in their twenties, have been close friends since middle school. Jo, the more outgoing figure, is a social worker who runs through a series of brief but intense relationships. Mara, a less splashy personality than Jo, bounces among teacher aide jobs while trying to land a position in elementary education, and writes fiction in her spare time. She too has a transient romantic life, though she seems to settle down after meeting Adam, a mild-mannered software developer. It soon becomes apparent that Jo, despite her intellectual gifts, is unreliable in her professional life, losing and acquiring jobs at a troubling rate. Substance abuse may be responsible for Jo’s instability… but some observers suspect a deeper problem. Over the course of a decade, the more stable Mara sometimes tries to help, sometimes backs away to preserve herself, but never leaves behind her powerful childhood connection with Jo.

After a car wreck, Maya and Jules are rescued by Freddy, a lonely oil worker. In rural Texas, the three confront desire, connection, and isolation.

As her girlfriend's attention is consumed by their ailing dog, Alice's jealousy drives her to lose her grip on reality in this darkly comic thriller.

David, a young man, has gone missing in New York. Todd and Madeleine, who are searching for him, stumble across the supporters of an elusive political theorist. As they join the company of strangers, the reasons for David’s disappearance will soon become much less preoccupying…

Foster Kalt, a famous toy inventor in the 1970s, reflects on his lifelong obsession with Sylvia Frank. From his first meeting with Sylvia in a New York Hotel Room in 1968, to years later when he is stalking her from a cabin in the woods, the puzzle pieces of Kalt’s obsession come together to form his latest, shocking invention.

When a Baltimore gorilla is freed from his droll 9 to 5, he’s mistaken for a guest on a local talk show and quickly becomes an audience favorite.

A young man stays at his aunt's house, which happens to be a home for pregnant teens, and finds himself falling for one of the young women.

Filmed on a bygone video camera, Stinking Heaven immerses you in the darkest crevices of the 1990s: a rehab commune housing a coven of colorful yet caustic personalities. A lucid vision of Sartre’s assertion that “hell is other people,” written with an utmost sincere sense of anarchy. Oddly sublime.

When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, an unlikely hero must channel her newfound powers to fight bizarre and bewildering dangers from the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.