FAMILY PORTRAIT

 

director
Lucy Kerr
writers
Karlis Bergs & Lucy Kerr

duration
75’

featuring
Deragh Campbell (Anne at 13,000 ft.)
Chris Galust (Give Me Liberty)

Set at the dawn of Covid, Family Portrait follows a family on an idle morning when they have planned a group picture. After the mother vanishes and one daughter becomes desperate to find her and gather her sprawling family, the film progressively descends into a realm where time and space lose their grip, transforming the family portrait into a solemn and enigmatic ritual of transition.

 

THE VIOLINIST

 

Conservative Texas senator Julian Dobbs discusses his “heartbeat” bill with an interviewer, but something is off: tubes of blood connect him to an unconscious woman in a wheelchair. As the film shifts between past and present, the interview and Dobbs’ domestic life, we learn that Dobbs was kidnapped and connected to the woman (a violinist) against his will, and that he must keep her alive with his body for nine months.

 

STUCK

 

Wanda, a hungover introvert, is oppressed by the big personalities of her housemates. They’ve roped her into a mime routine for their music video shoot. Feeling alienated and ridiculous, she finds a kindred spirit in a mouse stuck to a sticky pad in the kitchen. Will she set him free, or emulate the self-absorbed indifference of her roommates? 

ANNA COMES HOME

 

director | writer
Amber Suzor

duration
95’

featuring

Bella Newman
Raina Morris (Schmigadoon)
Charlie McElveen (The Creator)

A coming-of-age absurdist drama about a young woman's existential breakdown after returning home.

 

LATE CODY

 

director | writer
Stephen Billick

duration
15’

featuring
John Bradford (HBO’s The Sympathizer)
Sonny Carl Davis (Last Night at the Alamo)

Former rodeo rider Cody Burnet enters the empty Devil’s Backbone Bar like a black-hat sort of bad cowboy, but when he engages in conversation with a mysterious woman who invites herself to his table, we learn that Cody has paid a group of West Texans to get a couple of Mexican children across the border to reunite with their parents. As he pays off the woman with a handful of bills, mysteries start to work their way into the narrative. But death is lurking around the edges of the story. Something in the deal has gone wrong. As Cody is approached by a long-haired man his age, the bar now incongruously packed with revelers, the story repeats and confuses, but the reality of his situation becomes clear. Cody’s long gone. 

 

MUSIC

 
 

COMING SOON

 

OYSTER PERPETUAL

 

HOT SHEET MOTEL

 

THE BALCONY