My Heavenly City, directed by Sen-I Yu, is an official selection of New York City’s 13th Annual Winter Film Festival. The debut feature film tells three interrelated stories about life as transplants in New York City – three sets of characters connect and inspire one another in their journey to find hope in this heavenly city.
Matter of Mind: My Alzheimer’s, directed by Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green, is an official selection of New York City’s 13th Annual Winter Film Festival. The documentary follows three families as they confront the challenges of Alzheimer’s disease and explores how the disease impacts identities and relationships.
I Am Here You Are Not I Love You, directed by Aidan Ryan, is an official selection of New York City’s 13th Annual Winter Film Festival. The documentary short film follows the writer Aidan Ryan as he attempts to make sense of the work and clues left behind by the late visual artists Andrew Topolski and Cindy Suffoletto, his aunt and uncle, who passed away when he was a teenager.
Playing Sam, directed by Ramon Pesante, is an official selection of New York City’s 12th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival. The film is a semi-autobiographical story that follows Samantha as she struggles to fit into Hollywood’s narrow standards of beauty and ethnicity.
You’ve heard of voguing and drag races — now witness the LGBTQ icons who originated them. See the documentary “The Ball” on February 24 @9:45 PM at LOOK Cinemas (657 West 57th Street) as part of New York City’s 12th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.
Andrew Lyman Clarke’s science fiction thriller Night Sweats tells a riveting story of the disease that is corruption. See “Night Sweats” on February 24 @2:25 PM at LOOK Cinemas (657 West 57th Street) as part of New York City’s 12th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.
“Living Loud” uses percussive instruments to portray the message of community, womanhood, and love through the lens of samba-raggae music from Brazil. See the 40-minute documentary on February 24 @3:15 PM at LOOK Cinemas (657 West 57th Street) as part of New York City’s 12th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.
Directors Anna Moot-Levin and Laura Green follow the extraordinary stories of three people living with Parkinson’s, capturing their Herculean strength and power to adapt. See the NYC Premiere of feature documentary “Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s” on February 24 @12:45 PM at LOOK Cinemas (657 West 57th Street) as part of New York City’s 12th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.
“Pianoman” invites viewers to witness not just instrument restoration but a profound journey of healing, celebrating the universal pursuit of dreams intertwined with the desire to rediscover the comforting embrace of home. See the World Premiere of feature documentary “Pianoman” on February 24 @3:15 PM at LOOK Cinemas (657 West 57th Street) as part of New York City’s 12th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.
Red Canary Song is an abolitionist collective dedicated to decriminalizing sex work – it consists of massage workers, sex workers and allies who organize for the protection of migrant laborers. See their story in the NYC Premiere of feature documentary “Fly in Power” on February 24 @7:45PM at LOOK Cinemas (657 West 57th Street) as part of New York City’s 12th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.
Few filmmakers are able to build their careers off having a distinct style, but Mars Roberge has created his own: Rocktopia. Roberge describes Rocktopia as, “The struggles of the protagonist against the ideals of utopian society, where the only form of escape is to rock out.”
A group of homeless women must learn that a glimmer of hope is worth more than all the money in the world. The women of “Stars” are plagued by hardship, but lean on each other for survival and look to the stars in hope for a better day. See the feature film “Stars” on February 17 @9PM at Cinema Village as part of New York City’s 11th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.
Haunted by her tortured childhood and the violent loss of the great love of her life, troubled dental assistant Eni finds escape in Los Cos, a mysterious underground club where cosplay and burlesque intertwine and heroes and villains blur the line between fantasy and reality. See the feature film on Feb 23 @8:30PM at Cinema Village as part of New York City’s 11th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.
A story about the things that matter: Family, legacy, success, and textiles. Yes, textiles. Two estranged half-sisters form a complicated bond as they work together to retrieve their rare and precious inheritance, which their late father inexplicably leaves to the mysterious Marco. See the feature film on Feb 17 @5:15PM at Cinema Village as part of New York City’s 11th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.
NYC is rapidly gentrifying and pricing out the people and business that make New York, New York. But, things are not hopeless … It’s not defined by politicians. It’s not defined by corporations. It’s defined by people uniting and fighting back. See the documentary “There Goes the Neighborhood as part of Documentary Day on Feb 18 @9PM at Cinema Village as part of New York City’s 11th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival.
