Film Festival 2024

Comedies


All About the Lefkoviches

After his wife's death, a stubborn boxing coach agrees to allow his estranged Orthodox Jewish son from Israel to sit shiva, as long as he brings the grandson he has never met, in this heartwarming dramedy set in contemporary Budapest. Read More

Running Time: 85


Big Boys

This endearing, understated ode to queer self-discovery follows awkward 14-year-old Jamie (the wonderful Isaac Krasner), who discovers on a family camping trip to Lake Arrowhead that he can’t take his eyes off his cousin’s hunky older boyfriend. Read More

Running Time: 88


Bonus Track

An underachieving teenager navigates the rocky road through high school by immersing himself in music. His dream of winning the school talent show seems attainable when he pairs up with a famous musician’s son who understands his music – and his heart. Read More

Running Time: 98


Chuck Chuck Baby

Helen’s humdrum world takes a surprisingly interesting romantic turn with the return of her charismatic childhood friend Joanne. Moving, funny and charming, this is the musical rom-com set in a Welsh chicken processing plant you never knew you needed. Read More

Running Time: 101


Housekeeping for Beginners

Dita lives with her girlfriend, her girlfriend’s two daughters, and a group of queer misfits in the North Macedonian capital, Skopje, in this tender story about families – the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves. Read More

Running Time: 107


Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

This charming, funny and stylish play on the traditional vampire tale tells the story of Sasha, a young vampire who can’t bring herself to kill. Facing starvation, she meets a young depressed man who could help solve both their problems. Read More

Running Time: 92


Laroy

Steve Zahn stars as an overeager small-town private eye alongside John Magaro as a suicidal cuckold who’s mistaken for a hitman in this twisty, darkly funny neo-noir set in a dusty Texas town where blackmail seems to be the local sport. Read More

Running Time: 112


Running on Sand

An audience favorite!

When an Eritrean refugee about to be deported from Israel is mistaken for the Nigerian striker just signed to a struggling soccer team, his fate depends on the team’s success in this charming, socially relevant dramedy. Read More

Running Time: 104


The Sweet East

After Lillian (Talia Ryder) separates from her classmates on a school trip, she embarks on a Kafkaesque journey across America’s East that quickly begins to resemble a modern-day Wonderland. Deliriously funny, dreamy and freewheeling, here’s a trip like no other. Read More

Running Time: 104


The Trouble With Jessica

Here’s a twisty, suspenseful black comedy of which even Hitchcock would have been proud, following a well-to-do couple on the brink of financial crisis who confront the moral dilemma of their lives after an uninvited guest does the unthinkable. Read More

Running Time: 89


Together 99

You don’t need to have seen Lukas Moodysson’s 2000 masterpiece Together, about a Stockholm commune in the ‘70s, to fall in love with this big-hearted, bittersweet follow-up, in which the aging friends gather for a reunion that goes hilariously awry. Read More

Running Time: 115



Film Festival 2024