Starring: Arata Furuta, Nobuyuki Hiyama, Tetsu Inada

The first feature film from the acclaimed Studio TRIGGER and director Hiroyuki Imaishi, Promare is an explosive showdown between Burning Rescue and the destructive Mad Burnish in an electrifying, explosively colorful action-adventure. Thirty years has passed since the appearance of Burnish, a race of flame-wielding mutant beings, who destroyed half of the world with fire. When a new group of aggressive mutants calling themselves “Mad Burnish” appears, the epic battle between Galo Thymos, a new member of the anti-Burnish rescue team “Burning Rescue,” and Lio Fotia, the leader of “Mad Burnish” begins.

Starring: Megumi Ogata, Megumi Hayashibara, Kotono Mitsuishi

The fate of the world is threatened by seemingly monstrous entities known as Angels. NERV is an organisation set up to counter this threat and it is up to young pilots to protect Earth but exactly what are the real motives behind NERV?

Starring: Jim Gaffigan, Logan Miller, Samantha Mathis, Alex Karpovsky, Danielle Campbell, Anna Gunn

Seventeen-year old Philip (Logan Miller) longs to leave his small town for music school in The Big Apple. His dreams are dashed when his overbearing father, Frank (Jim Gaffigan), forbids it. In retaliation to his father’s dictatorial parenting, he sneaks away in search of a wild spring break. However, when he crosses state lines, he instead finds a charming lake community where he spots his father with another woman. Turns out, Frank lives in this town and has an entire other family. With this bizarre revelation Philip realizes he can either blow the whistle on his father’s deceit or take advantage of the surreal situation. With a well-balanced mix of comedy and drama, Being Frank offers an ensemble cast, led by the terrific Jim Gaffigan and Logan Miller, a chance to turn the heartbreaking into the hysterical.

Starring: Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, Stephen Root

Corporate drone Peter Gibbons hates his soul-killing job at software company Initech. While undergoing hypnotherapy, Peter is left in a blissful state when his therapist dies in the middle of their session. He refuses to work overtime, plays games at his desk and unintentionally charms two consultants into putting him on the management fast-track. When Peter’s friends learn they’re about to be downsized, they hatch a revenge plot against the company inspired by Superman III.

Get ready for a debaucherous selection of sexy shorts will have your palms sweating and your seat squeaking. Join Vimeo curator Jeffrey Bowers as he screens recent and classic erotically-themed animated shorts from the last three decades. From poignant to pure crazy, these 15 shorts run the gamut of sex, from introspective dissertations on small, curved penises to music made exclusively from spanking sounds to straight up porn.

The styles and techniques these films employ range from stop-motion to CGI, but each filmmaker uses them to get at a weird and singular truth that only animation can access. Filmmaker Naomi Uman’s profound Removed finds the filmmaker commenting on gender roles by literally removing a woman from an 8mm porn footage using traditionally feminine products. Acclaimed animator Jeff Scher, whose work often appears on the New York Times, screens his seldom seen Cunning Stunts, a gorgeously hand-painted rotoscope that finds the beauty in hardcore porn. The program, like sex, shifts from moving and deep to fun and WTF including a deranged, meta foot fetish piece from Cool 3D World and a masturbating, life-size bear puppet in The Blindness of the Woods.

Whatever your fetish might be, you’ll find something to satisfy it in this unique screening of very animated sex.

Supervenus (2013)
Directed by Frederic Doazan
A plastic surgeon creates a new Venus.
(3 minutes)

Cunning Stunts (2004)
Directed by Jeff Scher
Using found clippings of French novels, hotel business cards, old show flyers, bits of his stamp collection, and a whole lot of pasteled, goached, and watercolored paintings, animator Jeff Scher honors the rythms and motions of sex.
(2 minutes)

Pussy (2017)
Directed by Renata Gasiorowska
A young girl spends the evening alone at home. She decides to have some sweet solo pleasure session, but not everything goes according to plan.
(8 minutes)

Things I Should Stop Thinking about Thinking (2014)
Directed by Dan Castro
A film about boobs, sex and boys being happy – or not.
A brief look at what stress feels like from inside the head of a youngish bloke.
(1 minute)

Teat Beat of Sex #1 & 4 & 7 (2008)
Writer/director Signe Baumane present
A take on sex exclusively from a woman’s point of view. Showcasing three episodes from Signe Baumane’s acclaimed series.
(6 minutes)

Who’s the Daddy (2017)
Directed by Wong Ping
:< A Tinder tragedy.
:0 An unexpected child.
;( A journey finding my root of shame.
Inspired by true story
(10 minutes)

Destiny/Fate (Keep Going) (2018)
Directors Cool 3D World present
Destiny and Fate go toe to toe in the battle for a pornographer’s pleasure.
(1 minute)

Shunga (2016)
Directed by Roberto Biadi
A hypersexualized stream of consciousness animation that sees humans, demons, and animals morphing, exploding and becoming each other.
(1 minute)

Removed (1999)
Directed by Naomi Uman
Removed is a short film made up of pictures from porn films. The naked woman, an object of desire, is removed from the image with bleach and nail varnish. The viewer is forced to think about man-woman relationships.
(7 minutes)

Short Stories About Love (2015)
Directed by Darío Alva
A glitch in the romantic system allowed this shocking and peculiar brand of love to be told.
(4 minutes)

MLX (2017)
Directed by Simon Landrein
This butt can dance.
(2 minutes)

Superbia (2016)
Directed by Luca Toth
The native people of the surrealistic land of Superbia, where men and women form separate societies, face the changes sparked by the first equal couple in their history.
(15 minutes)

Hot Tea (2018)
Directed by Marcel Tigchelaar
In this hand drawn animation without dialogue, a man indulges in the vapour of a glass of hot tea. He drifts off to a colourful world where scents seem to be visualised and assume physical powers. Just when the man’s pleasure builds up to a sensual climax, the glass throws a spanner in the works.
(2 minutes)

The Blindness of the Woods    (2009)
Directed by Martin Jalfen and Javier Lourenco
A mash-up story of fairy tales and 1970s Nordic erotic films.
(12 minutes)

X.Y.U. (2019)
Directed by Donny Sansone
A hand-drawn morphing sexual circus in the vein of Bill Plympton’s famous “Plymptoons.”
(2 minutes)

Starring: James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone

Twenty-seven years after the Losers Club defeated Pennywise, he has returned to terrorize the town of Derry once more. Now adults, the Losers have long since gone their separate ways. However, people are disappearing again, so Mike, the only one of the group to remain in their hometown, calls the others home. Damaged by the experiences of their past, they must each conquer their deepest fears to destroy Pennywise once and for all…putting them directly in the path of the shape-shifting clown that has become deadlier than ever.

Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Elisabeth Moss, Tiffany Haddish, Domhnall Gleeson, James Badge Dale, Alicia Coppola

In 1978, three Hell’s Kitchen housewives’ mobster husbands are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia’s matters into their own hands.

The 2019 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a program of seven short films selected from this year’s Festival, widely considered the premier showcase for short films and the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers for more than 30 years. Including fiction, documentary and animation from around the world, the 2019 program offers new audiences a taste of what the Festival offers, from sharply-written comedy and drama to edgy genre and an intimate family saga.

Fueled by artistic expression and limited only by their runtime, short films transcend traditional storytelling. They are a significant and popular way artists can connect with audiences. From documentary to animation, narrative to experimental, the abbreviated form is made for risk-taking. The Festival has always treated short films with the highest regard and gives a home to both established and new filmmakers with shorts for audiences to discover and celebrate.

The Festival’s Short Film Program has long been established as a place to discover talented directors, such as past alums Damien Chazelle, Wes Anderson, Jill Soloway, Spike Jonze, Paul Thomas Anderson, Dee Rees, Taika Waititi, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, Lake Bell, Debra Granik, Jay and Mark Duplass, Todd Haynes, Lynne Ramsay, Andrea Arnold, and many others.

The Program:
sometimes, i think about dying
U.S.A., 13 minutes. Directed by Stefanie Abel Horowitz, written by Stefanie Abel Horowitz, Katy Wright-Mead, and Kevin Armento.
Fran is thinking about dying, but a man in the office might want to date her.

FAST HORSE
Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing
Canada, 13 minutes. Written and directed by Alexandra Lazarowich.
The Blackfoot bareback horse-racing tradition returns in the astonishingly dangerous Indian Relay. Siksika horseman Allison Red Crow struggles with second-hand horses and a new jockey on his way to challenge the best riders in the Blackfoot Confederacy.

Suicide By Sunlight
U.S.A., 17 minutes. Directed by Nikyatu Jusu, written by Nikyatu Jusu and R. Shanea Williams.
Valentina, a day-walking Black vampire protected from the sun by her melanin, is forced to restrain her bloodlust to regain custody of her estranged daughters.

Muteum
Estonia, Hong Kong, 4 minutes. Written and directed by Äggie Pak Yee Lee.
In an art museum, we learn—from outer to inner, from deep to its deepest, seriously and sincerely.

Crude Oil
U.S.A., 15 minutes. Written and directed by Christopher Good.
Jenny breaks free from a toxic friendship and learns to harness her magical, useless superpower.

The MINORS
Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing
U.S.A., 10 minutes. Written and directed by Robert Machoian.
A slice of life about a grandpa and his grandsons, the future and the past.

Brotherhood
Canada, Tunisia, Qatar, Sweden, 25 minutes. Written and directed by Meryam Joobeur.
When a hardened Tunisian shepherd’s son returns home after a long journey with a new wife, tension rises between father and son.

November 9, 2005: The Queen of Pop releases Confessions on a Dance Floor, arguably her 21st Century masterpiece, which ultimately peaks at number one in 40 countries, selling over 10 millions copies… Yet another renaissance for the virtuoso of re-invention, another imperial phase in her unprecedented career…

May 21, 2006: Madonna embarks on her seventh world tour to promote the record – nine months after a highly publicized horseback riding accident. Eight broken bones be damned: the Goddess descends upon us in a million dollar disco ball – and emerges an electro-punk dominatrix, with a body as stunning, svelte, and strapping as a stallion.

Collaborating with the likes of Steven Klein, Jonas Akerlund, Stuart Price, and director Jamie King, Madonna crafted a concert of poetic perfection: adorned with a crown of thorns and hung from a diamond crucifix, she returns to her familiar motifs of redemption and salvation… versions of Get Together and Erotica embody a sophisticated elegance hitherto unseen in her finest work… astounding, sumptuous iconography envelopes history’s greatest mistress of ceremonies, as she whips her audience into a frothy, disco-frenzy… and grinds a studded pommel-horse and glittering boom box into submission…

Get on your knees, for the Queen has one but question to ask: Have you confessed?

On the occasion of Madonna’s birthday, Nitehawk Williamsburg welcomes you to an intimate, midnite screening of the Grammy Award winning The Confessions Tour: Live From London, with pre-party at Lo-Res featuring DJ Chauncey Dandridge.

Hosted by Renaissance Boy, Michele Ruiz, Carlo of Icon Project and House of Dandridge!

Starring: Peter Robbins, Pamelyn Ferdin, Glenn Gilger, Andy Pforsich, Sally Dryer, Hilary Momberger

This is a special one day 50th anniversary screening of the original Peanuts film adaptation.

Charlie Brown and his fellow Peanuts make their feature film debut in this animated comedy that is based on Charles Schultz long-lived cartoon strip. The story centers on a national spelling bee. Lucky Charlie Brown is so excited that he is selected to participate in it, but will he be able to overcome his chronic bad-karma and actually win?