Based on the novel “9,75 Square Centimetres” by acclaimed Turkish author Mehmet Eroğlu, the film tells the…
Drama
Directed by Tom Dolby
Claire (Lena Olin) lives a domestic life in the Hamptons as the wife of celebrated artist Richard Smythson…
Directed by Ruthy Pribar
Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature. In her debut feature film, Israeli…
Directed by Rodd Rathjen
“Buoyancy,” the moving coming-of-age story of a Cambodian teenager sold into forced labor, offers…
Directed by Michal Szczesniak
In this unsettling and hypnotic Polish thriller, young scientist Anna Waterman (Julia Kijowska) is…
Directed by Koji Fukada
One of Japan’s current cinematic masters, Koji Fukada follows up his critically acclaimed “Harmonium” with…
Directed by Itay Tal
In Itay Tal’s “God of the Piano,” Anat (Naama Preis, winner of the Jerusalem Film Festival award for Best…
Directed by Sonia Nassery Cole
Interfaith Award for Best Narrative Feature. “I Am You” offers an insider’s look at the…
Directed by Stefano Mordini
“When I woke up, the nightmare began.” So begins the account of Adriano Doria (Riccardo Scamarcio), a…
Directed by Carlos R. Betancourt & Oscar Ernesto Ortega
After risking his life crossing the Florida Straits on a raft, young Ernesto searches Miami for his…
Directed by Chad Hartigan
Imagine waking up in a world where a pandemic has broken out. Imagine that it strikes with no rhyme or…
Directed by Sasie Sealy
In the heart of New York’s Chinatown, an ornery, chain-smoking, newly widowed 80-year-old grandma (Tsai…
Directed by Ezequiel Radusky
For 30 years Lila (Liliana Juárez) has been a cleaner in a provincial municipality building. She’s an…
Directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
At the outset of “Madre,” Elena (Marta Nieto) receives a call from her 6-year-old son, who tells her that…
Directed by Eric Schultz
Ethan Kochar (former St. Louisan Sathya Sridharan) is a reclusive young neuroscientist whose brilliance is…
Directed by Stéphanie Chuat & Véronique Reymond
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.
Directed by Midi Z
After toiling for years in bit parts, aspiring actress Nina Wu (Wu Ke-Xi) finally gets her big break with…
Directed by Conor Allyn
This modern Western — which pointedly addresses contemporary immigration issues — is inspired by the real-…
Directed by Icko Gonzalez & John Valdes Tan
“Oligase” tells the story of a “no-read and no-write” indigenous Matigsalug girl who rebels against her…
Directed by Mehmet Bahadir Er & Maryna Er Gorbach
Turkish soldier Ismet (Cem Bender), who served at the border as a commander of the Coast Guard, has…
Directed by Charlotte Dauphin
“The Other” — the directorial debut of Charlotte Dauphin, producer of Mia Hansen Love’s “Bergman Island”…
Directed by Inon Shampanier
In this bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness, all Melanie (Stefania LaVie…
Directed by Mounia Meddour
In 1997 Algiers, when the country falls into the hands of terrorist groups seeking to establish an Islamic…
Directed by Aimee Long
After accidentally shooting an innocent Black man through a wall in Brooklyn, young Chinese-American cop…
Directed by Niav Conty
New Filmmakers Forum Emerging Director Award (The Bobbie). “Small Time” takes an…
Directed by Shatara Michelle Ford
Essy Award for Best Narrative Feature. “Test Pattern,” the gripping and powerful first…
Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof
“There Is No Evil” relates a quartet of stories — about the military executioners Heshmat, Pouya, Javad,…
Directed by Abel Ferrara
In his first dramatic feature since 2014’s “Pasolini,” Abel Ferrara (“Bad Lieutenant,” “King of New York…
Directed by Filippo Meneghetti
Pensioners Nina (Barbara Sukowa) and Madeleine (Martine Chevallier) have hidden their deep and passionate…
Directed by Christian Petzold
In “Undine” — the story of a life-or-death love, splendidly and effortlessly told — Christian Petzold (“…
Directed by Steven J. Mihaljevich
When a suspicious death remains unsolved, three boys suspect a reclusive Indigenous man named Bobby (…