An aspiring stand-up comedian and au pair struggling with PTSD considers whether or not to join the search for a missing teenage girl she used to nanny.
An aimless, 28 year-old Brooklynite, recently single, sort of a musician, depressed without admitting to it, drunkenly falls while doing something stupid and breaks her hip. This lands her in a physical therapy ward full of people twice her age, where she gets a job as a carer.
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Lisa Steen; Writer: Anna Greenfield; Stars: Karen Gillan, Margaret Sophie Stein, Jermaine Fowler, Kevin Nealon, Talia Balsam)
Mustache
It’s the mid-Nineties in Northern California and a 13-year-old Pakistani-American is facing a major crisis — his parents yanked him out of his comfortable Islamic private school and now he has to face life at public school. His fears over this are exacerbated by insecurity about his inescapable, prepubescent moustache.
Two people meet and feel an instant connection on the day that one of them got out of jail for throwing a wine bottle off a balcony and the other got out of rehab for an eating disorder, love addiction and a suicide attempt.
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Brittany Snow; Writer: Brittany Snow, Becca Gleason; Stars: Courtney Eaton, Thomas Mann, Francesca Reale, Gina Rodriguez, Joel McHale, Scott Mescudi, Dave Bautista, Jennifer Westfeldt, Kathryn Gallagher, Chrissie Fit, Kelley Jakle, Own Thiele)
Pure O
Cooper Ganz's seemingly perfect life quickly unravels when he is diagnosed with a crippling form of OCD called Pure Obsessional. This often misunderstood illness forces him to question his identity and sanity, all while trying to keep it together for his fiancé, family, and co-workers. As he learns to accept his disease, and the vulnerability that comes along with it, his world starts to open up.
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Dillon Tucker; Writer: Dillon Tucker; Stars: Daniel Dorr, Hope Lauren, Landry Bender, Jeffery A. Baker, Candice Renee, Breon Gorman, Tim Landfield, Isaac Nippert, Devon Martinez, Clint James)
Raging Grace is a Gothic thriller with the potential to appeal to a wide audience. It’s also a fierce critique of the racism embedded in a culture which still treats it as normal for some perfectly capable people to be waited on by others, and to treat them as less than human in the process.
An undocumented Filipina immigrant is struggling to do the best she can for her daughter when she secures the perfect job, taking care of an extremely wealthy but terminal old man. The new position pays well and guarantees a roof over their heads but very soon, she realise that something is amiss.
(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Paris Zarcilla; Writer: Paris Zarcilla; Stars: Max Eigenman, Leanne Best, David Hayman)
When a single woman with a broken heart learns that her fertility may be in jeopardy, she stares down the barrel of a future without options and decides to freeze her eggs.
(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Leah McKendrick; Writer: Leah McKendrick; Stars: Leah McKendrick, Ego Nwodim, Andrew Santino, Clancy Brown, Laura Cerón, Yvonne Strahovski, June Diane Raphael, Adam Rodriguez, Brett Dier, Sterling Sulieman)
Story Ave
A South Bronx teen artistic talent is on the brink of finding and losing himself at once. Blinded by grief at losing his younger brother, he runs away from home and embraces the world of graffiti.
