Based on the novel “9,75 Square Centimetres” by acclaimed Turkish author Mehmet Eroğlu, the film tells the…
Drama
Claire (Lena Olin) lives a domestic life in the Hamptons as the wife of celebrated artist Richard Smythson…
Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature. In her debut feature film, Israeli…
“Buoyancy,” the moving coming-of-age story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor, offers…
In this unsettling and hypnotic Polish thriller, young scientist Anna Waterman (Julia Kijowska) is…
One of Japan’s current cinematic masters, Koji Fukada follows up his critically acclaimed “Harmonium” with…
In Itay Tal’s “God of the Piano,” Anat (Naama Preis, winner of the Jerusalem Film Festival award for Best…
Interfaith Award for Best Narrative Feature. “I Am You” offers an insider’s look at the…
“When I woke up, the nightmare began.” So begins the account of Adriano Doria (Riccardo Scamarcio), a…
After risking his life crossing the Florida Straits on a raft, young Ernesto searches Miami for his…
Imagine waking up in a world where a pandemic has broken out. Imagine that it strikes with no rhyme or…
In the heart of New York’s Chinatown, an ornery, chain-smoking, newly widowed 80-year-old grandma (Tsai…
For 30 years Lila (Liliana Juárez) has been a cleaner in a provincial municipality building. She’s an…
At the outset of “Madre,” Elena (Marta Nieto) receives a call from her 6-year-old son, who tells her that…
Ethan Kochar (former St. Louisan Sathya Sridharan) is a reclusive young neuroscientist whose brilliance is…
Lisa (the wonderful Nina Hoss of “Phoenix” and “Barbara”), once a brilliant playwright, no longer writes.…
An eclectic mix of crowd-pleasing shorts that includes animation, dark comedy, and horror.
Powerful films making strong statements comprise this collection of dramatic shorts.
Janet "Lovey" Herrmann, who programmed the first SLIFF shorts program and continues to help evaluate…
These dramatic shorts transport you to a specific moment in time.
A selection of some of the best narrative shorts from the 2020 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase.
Short films that prove a picture is worth a thousand words.
After toiling for years in bit parts, aspiring actress Nina Wu (Wu Ke-Xi) finally gets her big break with…
This modern Western — which pointedly addresses contemporary immigration issues — is inspired by the real-…
“Oligase” tells the story of a “no-read and no-write” indigenous Matigsalug girl who rebels against her…
Turkish soldier Ismet (Cem Bender), who served at the border as a commander of the Coast Guard, has…
“The Other” — the directorial debut of Charlotte Dauphin, producer of Mia Hansen Love’s “Bergman Island”…
In this bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness, all Melanie (Stefania LaVie…
In 1997 Algiers, when the country falls into the hands of terrorist groups seeking to establish an Islamic…
After accidentally shooting an innocent Black man through a wall in Brooklyn, young Chinese-American cop…
New Filmmakers Forum Emerging Director Award (The Bobbie). “Small Time” takes an…
Essy Award for Best Narrative Feature. “Test Pattern,” the gripping and powerful first…
“There Is No Evil” relates a quartet of stories — about the military executioners Heshmat, Pouya, Javad,…
In his first dramatic feature since 2014’s “Pasolini,” Abel Ferrara (“Bad Lieutenant,” “King of New York…
Pensioners Nina (Barbara Sukowa) and Madeleine (Martine Chevallier) have hidden their deep and passionate…
In “Undine” — the story of a life-or-death love, splendidly and effortlessly told — Christian Petzold (“…
When a suspicious death remains unsolved, three boys suspect a reclusive Indigenous man named Bobby (…