Starring: Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Kieran Culkin, George Newbern, Martin Short, B.D. Wong

George Banks (Steve Martin) and his wife, Nina (Diane Keaton), are the proud parents of Annie (Kimberly Williams), but when she returns from studying abroad and announces that she’s engaged, their whole world turns upside down, especially that of overprotective George. From meeting the in-laws to wedding plans with an over-the-top consultant (Martin Short) and his flamboyant assistant (B.D. Wong), it seems as if the troubles never end in this update of the classic Spencer Tracy comedy.

Starring: Marki Bey, Robert Quarry, Don Pedro Colley, Larry D. Johnson, Zara Cully

When nightclub owner Langston (Larry D. Johnson) refuses to sell out to local mob boss Morgan (Robert Quarry), he is beaten to death by a gang of hired thugs. His grief-stricken fiancee, Diana “Sugar” Hill (Marki Bey), vows revenge for his murder and turns to aged voodoo authority Mama Maitresse (Zara Cully). Together they conjure up the demonic spirit of Baron Samedi (Don Pedro Colley), who agrees to help Sugar. He raises an army of zombies and sets them upon Langston’s killers.

Starring: Reed Birney, Jim Carrington, John Fedinatz

Join The FOFIF for a special screening of Martha Coolidge’s restored and essential debut feature film, NOT A PRETTY PICTURE. Screening beforehand is the short film ALPHA KINGS by Faye Tsakas and Enrique Pedraza Botero. Introduction by The FOFIF. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Blurring the line between documentary and storytelling, Martha Coolidge’s compelling meta-narrative examines her own sexual assault by a high-school classmate. Coolidge enlists actors to recreate the circumstances surrounding her rape and interviews her former roommate to illuminate the consequences and complexities of its aftermath. Hailed as “Brechtian” by critics, NOT A PRETTY PICTURE delves into the often-gendered psychology of rape, as well as Coolidge’s own struggle to understand how and why the assault occurred.

Digitally restored in 4K from original 16mm elements in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding was provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. A Janus Films release.

With ALPHA KINGS (2023)
Directed by Faye Tsakas and Enrique Pedraza Botero
From a rented mansion in suburban Texas, a group of young men sell a hyperbolic, alpha-male version of themselves on the internet. 15 min.

Starring: Frederic Forrest, Teri Garr, Raul Julia, Nastassja Kinski, Harry Dean Stanton

4K Restoration, supervised by Francis Ford Coppola, from the original negative

Hank (Frederic Forrest) and Frannie (Teri Garr) argue while celebrating their fifth anniversary. Yearning for a life of excitement and romance, Frannie fears that she is wasting her life on a man who shows no interest in her dreams of traveling to far-off places. The argument escalates and they break up. Heading in separate ways and taking to the streets, they both meet and spend the night with strangers. Hank with the seductive Leila (Nastassja Kinski), a runaway circus performer, and Frannie with Ray (Raul Julia), a handsome waiter who moonlights as a cocktail pianist and singer.

Warning: Images are not from the movies we’re showing. Trust us, you can’t imagine what we’re showing!

Once upon a time, a nice girl from Delaware went to Hong Kong and started kicking ass, becoming the biggest Western action star in Asia. Once upon a time, a scrappy five-year-old kid got sent to Chinese opera school, becoming an acrobatic genius and one of the biggest action stars in Asia. This month, we’re slamming them both together in this pitiless orgy of mayhem that sets the screen on fire with brutal beatdowns, savage storytelling, and some finishing moves that will make your spine shoot straight through your skull. Prepare to witness a pitch black, mid-80s classic of Hong Kong filmmaking on 35mm in a rowdy theater surrounded by a gobsmacked audience. Prepare to experience tooth-shattering, nerve-twisting, knuckle-shredding nirvana.

Starring: Jane Fonda, Maria Schneider, Ellen Burstyn, Jill Clayburgh, Anne Wiazemsky

Join The FOFIF for a special International Women’s Day screening of Delphine Seyrig’s infamous and essential documentary, BE PRETTY AND SHUT UP! / SOIS BELLE ET TAIS-TOI! To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

At the height of her acting fame and when she actively began challenging her image as an ethereal muse, Delphine Seyrig directed this sobering documentary about the male-dominated film industry and the pressures put upon women actors and the paucity of complex roles for them. Enlisting twenty-four American and French actresses, including Jane Fonda, Maria Schneider, Ellen Burstyn, Jill Clayburgh, Anne Wiazemsky and Juliet Berto, to engage in remarkably candid conversations about the obstacles and alienation they have faced, Seyrig tackled head-on, more than 40 years ago, much of the misogyny inherent in the field still being discussed today. Thus both visionary and before its time, yet sadly as relevant as ever, BE PRETTY AND SHUT UP! was an especially bold and brave endeavour for a screen icon whose image had been wrapped up in sensuality and male desire.

With a stark economy of means (filmed simply and directly on portable video in a casual portrait style by activist and filmmaker Carole Roussopoulos) and its focus on unadorned and powerful testimony, the film is very much about not shutting up; it’s about speaking out and being heard, not only as individual voices but also as a collective one. – Andréa Picard

Once again this year’s Music Driven program shows us that there are no lack of new and fresh ideas that defy convention but artists and stories in all genres of music that keep it continously vital. The individual visons and the excitement of watching a filmmaker and musicians creative collaboration unfold on screen show that we are still in a golden age of music videos and documentaries.

Q&A moderated by John Woods, Nitehawk Cinema

“Kandy” / Fever Ray
Martin Falk Sweden / 2022 / 4 min. / English
Martin Falck and Karin Dreijer’s collaboration on “Kandy” is strange and impeccable, tapping into uncomfortable emotions, simultaneously tender and unpleasant.

“Barley” / Water From Your Eyes
Rachel Brown / U.S. / 2023 / 4 min. / English
Music video for “Barley” the first single by Water From Your Eyes from their album “Everyone’s Crushed.”

“Wild Animals” / Liv.e
Liv.e
U.S. 2022 4 min. English Arresting visuals with a poignant narrative, a woman (Liv.e) explores the wild landscapes of both inner environment and outer relationships.

The Innocent Bystander
Sally Eckhoff / U.S. / 2023 / 6 min. / English
A moral tale from a most unusual source.

CORNERBOY
Kai Kurve / Germany / 2023 / 6 min. / English
A bad boy gets possessed by a fly, which confronts him with his own personality, his flaws and wrong doings.

“WILD AGAIN” / Nicole Marxen
Judd Myers / U.S. / 2021 – 2023 / 4 min. / English
A woman is created by unseen forces and set free on a post-human Earth.

“Shrieking Matter” / leor miller’s fear of her own desire
Alanna Floreck / U.S., New Zealand / 2023 / 3 min. / English
A nighttime collage of reflections, explosions of the new year, and other optical illusions.

Fanatic
Taran Killam / U.S. / 2023 / 16 min. / English
Charlie & Gerald revive their early 2000’s boyband, 2N1, for a competition with prize money that could remedy all of their financial woes. What could go wrong?

“One Glove” / Majorette
Paul DeSilva, Danielle Salomon / U.S. / 2023 / 2 min. / English
“One Glove” is a fantastical cautionary tale of the consequences of prioritizing present needs over future self.

“Bored, With You” / Klein Zage
Murdo Barker-Mill / U.S. / 2022 / 3 min. / English
In an after-hours diner, artist Klein Zage paints the aching emotions of a mundane romance.

“PEACE MANTRA” / Vango Jones
Vango Jones, Noel Spiva / U.S. / 2023 / 5 min. / English
A musical meditation for all the ways Vango Jones is welcoming peace into his life. The film was shot in Vango’s hometown, Saint Louis, MO USA.

“Favorite Ghost” / Matracia
Tyler Jensen / U.S. / 2024 / 4 min. / English
Grappling with the memory of an abusive relationship, one man confronts the lingering ghost he cannot shake.

“Sorry” / Domotic & the Lazours
James P. Gannon / U.S. / 2023 / 4 min. / English
Music video for the song “Sorry (for fooling you)” by Domotic & the Lazours from the album “A Brilliant Pairing”.

“Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl” / Chappell Roan
Jackie! Zhou / U.S. / 2023 / 3 min. / English
Our space alien girlie vlogs her first time in Los Angeles.

MnM
Twiggy Pucci Garçon / U.S. / 2023 / 15 min. / English
An exuberant portrait of chosen sisters Mermaid and Milan, two emerging runway divas in the drag ballroom community.

Coming of age, crushes, and confessions are a few things that will welcome you in the morning of our Matinee One program. This selection of films highlights incredibly real slices of life and puts them on display in visually unique, humorous, and sometimes heartbreaking ways. We hope that by the end of this program you feel as invigorated as the activists you will meet, and as liberated as the pair of nuns that you will fall in love with.

Q&A moderated by Caryn Coleman, The Future of Film is Female

Crarylake Boats and Floats
Spencer Thielmann, Emily Berge / U.S. / 2022 / 10 min. / English
At the combo hot dog stand boat rental shop, Lane hopes to wait out her shift by getting high and avoiding the rain.

Lunchbox
Anne Hu / U.S. / 2022 / 16 min. / English
When a Taiwanese American woman prepares lunches from her childhood, she struggles to forgive herself for pushing away her immigrant mother.

Cousins
Karina Dandashi / U.S. / 2022 / 13 min. / Arabic, English
Two cousins born in separate countries reunite in Brooklyn when a run-in with an ex turns the night into a mission of revenge.

What People Burn to Stay Warm
Calyssa Lavery, Sam Lasiter / U.S. / 2023 / 14 min. / English
With a bloody nose and with nowhere to go, 14 year old Ophelia escapes from her abusive home into a waiting sedan.

Things Reaching Toward The Sun
James Kolsby, Myles Brewer / U.S. / 2023 / 14 min. / English
A heartbroken young woman is burdened by a crack in her wall as she moves out of her apartment.

Flores del otro Patio
Jorge Cadena / Switzerland, Colombia / 2022 / 16 min. / Spanish
In Northern Colombia, a group of queer activists use extravagant performative actions to denounce the disastrous exploitation by the country’s largest coal mine.

Confessions
Stephanie Kaznocha / U.S. / 2023 / 11 min. / English
After the death of a friend, two nuns in their golden years contemplate what their future holds.

NoBudge is excited to take part in the Nitehawk Shorts Festival to co-present a program of new work from a group of emerging indie filmmakers. These eight short films are an intriguing mix of narrative, documentary, and animation. A series of intimate portraits and darkly funny visions, each film a fresh take on contemporary life and its myriad lifestyles and identities.

Q&A moderated by Kentucker Audley, NoBudge

Organic Matter
Emily Halaka / U.S. / 2022 / 9 min. / English
A group of scavengers navigate a surreal, acid-colored planet in the aftermath of an ecological reckoning.

Foot Trouble
Vanessa Meyer / U.S. / 2021 / 13 min. / English
Foot Trouble takes a walk in 16 yr old Jade’s uncomfortable shoes – through gym class, an awkward encounter with a crush, and her mom’s new boyfriend.

HAPPY ENDING
Ahmad Bakrin / U.S. / 2023 / 9 min. / English
When a young line cook hears the voices of his favorite podcasters beckoning him like sirens, the mundane becomes macabre.

Mush Luv
N’namdi Andersen / U.S. / 2023 / 7 min. / English
“Tony and Ajani, two mushroom foragers based in Minneapolis, spend the day foraging at a local park and musing on the power of nature.”

Side Hustle
Abby Harri / U.S. / 2023 / 15 min. / English
Side Hustle follows a day and night in the life of Eden, a dancer in New York City who pays the bills with financial support from her sugar daddy.

Hive Wedding
Sam Kerns / U.S. / 2023 / 19 min. / English
Mizzy, bride-to-be, chooses an abandoned nightclub to host her wedding. ‘The Hive’ opens for a final soirée, where club-goers come to send her off in style.

Carmen & Moony
Kate Adams, Max Azulay / U.S. / 2022 / 15 min. / English
A romantic comedy about a semi-recovered kleptomaniac who goes home for the holidays and invites an unlikely guest to her family dinner.

Call Me Mommy
Haley Alea Erickson, Taylor Washington / U.S. / 2022 / 13 min. / English
A pedantic mother-to-be hires a stranger to role-play as her unborn daughter.

Wrapping up our 2024 festival we have a World Premiere by a first time filmmaker, gloriously cinematic sci fi that will burst on the big screen, a richly colorful shot on 16mm piece with fantastical elements, lonely people failing to connect, and a hilarious depiction of a man who risks death over stabbing himself with an EpiPen.

Q&A moderated by Cristina Cacioppo, Nitehawk Cinema

PALOOKAVILLE
Theodore Collatos / U.S. / 2023 / 16 min. / English
Things get turned upside down when JoJo wakes up believing he’s Joe Louis – one of boxing’s greatest legends… (SLAMDANCE *Grand Jury Prize*)

Prick
Alex DiBucci / U.S. / 2022 / 9 min. / English
When a man with a needle phobia has an allergic reaction all alone, he has two choices: face his fear and stab himself with an epi pen, or die trying not to.

Everything Dies Out Here
Sean Mallers, Cian Mallers / U.S. / 2023 / 10 min. / English
A guilt-ridden traveller traverses a wasteland with a peculiar companion in tow: A flower.

Daddy
Jo Steinhart / U.S. / 2022 / 20 min. / English
An aspiring porn star spends the summer sleeping with men who pass through her family’s motel – until she’s forced to contend with her father’s darkest secret.

To My Dearest Red
Red Addis / U.S. / 2022 / 6 min. / English
One mother’s advice to her child during adolescence transcends time as the pair reminisces on their relationship at different stages throughout their life.

Goldilocks
Meryl Jones / U.S. / 2020 – 2022 / 20 min. / English
Two siblings learn a painful lesson when one pursues the other into the woods in search of an elusive mountain lion.

Gold and Mud
Conor Dooley / U.S. / 2022 / 9 min. / English
A sprawling story of love and loss, as reflected on a single face.