WFA 2019 Film Guide

When Erin moves to New York City for the first time, she encounters some wacky residents and a whole lot of sticky situations.

Nine knots, a prayer for each one, and then, nine wishes for the soul that no longer inhabits in the earth. María knew about the cult thanks to her mother and knew how to tie them thanks to her father. But now she and her brother José are alone.

No Going Back is a cinematic rescue mission of a black rooster from a Satanic cult in Brazil.

At night the forest creatures gather to gamble, putting their innermost at stake.

Robert and Suzanne are an old couple who live in New York and they just don't get along. One day Suzanne insults Robert and he takes a trip down memory lane, back to Greenwich Village in the 60's, when Robert was a folk singer and Suzanne was a photographer. Through the music they both remember why they fell in love in the first place.

Antonio, a single father, lives trapped by his unfulfilled dreams of becoming a rock star. His day to day life has turned into a soul-crushing routine at a job he hates. Antonio misses his band, his friends, and the love of his life who passed away giving birth to their daughter. On top of this, Antonio can’t control the unruly behavior of his daughter. Tired of the constant complaints, he decides to take her to a psychologist who diagnoses her with a severe Pac-man disorder, a strange and complicated disease that is turning her into a kinetic yellow Pac-man.

A breakup 225 million years in the making. Witness the mechanisms of a massive supercontinental breakup within one man’s daydream around the world and through the ages.

This documentary follows a vibrant community of people in Brooklyn NY who love steel pan and are fighting to keep it alive. Through their preparation for an annual steel band competition, known as Panorama, we see how their love and passion helps them to overcome several challenges and obstacles facing the pan community. Through the lens of Steel Xplosion’s journey to Panorama, viewers get a raw look into what life is like in the pan yard and why pan players are willing to sacrifice so much for the opportunity to play pan in Brooklyn and to compete on a national stage. As a newly formed band in 2013, we see how the players in Steel Xplosion persevered through a challenging summer to come out on top.

Layla Bailey and Desi West are a millennial couple who live a nice, comfortable life in LA. When Layla’s Pop-Pop passes, the two head to Layla’s hometown, Gaffney, SC, to spend three days with her family and try to make it out alive. Let’s just say that funerals ain’t fun, y’all.

A lonely woman, yearning to be caressed, allows a man to transform her into a puppet. But when the man loses his interest, the puppet won’t let go. The Puppet Master is a fantasy drama with horror elements. It combines actors and puppets in a poetic story about longing for love, living in an objectifying relationship and clinging to another person.

Lance Mitchell is taking his cat to be put down. As he and Missy make their weary way to the vet, Lance is keen to work over the thoughts he has on the subject. Cornering an old woman on the bus, Lance relates a story he's read about a man who, fearing knowledge of impending death, has planned to kill himself impulsively by stashing a handgun in his kitchen cupboard. But you shouldn't believe everything you read in the paper.

Coach Steve is a worn down thumb wrestling coach, who, with the help of his new fighter, wants to take his last chance to win the Austrian thumb wrestling championship. Unfortunately the competition seems overwhelming.

Based on a true story, Sac de Merde tells the tale of Mazel Mankewicz, an unlucky-in-love, yet irrationally optimistic New Yorker who thinks her luck has changed when she meets the man of her dreams. As it turns out, he might just be full of shit. Literally.

A female Lyft driver navigates the night shift in New York City while waiting to hear life-or-death news from her family in Syria.

Have you ever been ghosted? Seen Your Ghost follows three relationships at varying points in the relationship - each couple very close and then suddenly one lover disappears without notice. After their loved one is gone, the remaining are haunted by their lost love and resort to logging on to dating apps to find a new partner to become ghosts themselves after the date isn't what they expected. Though love comes in many different forms, feeling unworthy and hurt are universal.

Wang Shun is an seventy-year-old single man, who lives for collecting scraps in a backward village; nobody cares about him at all. After his old dog dies, Wang Shun plans to spend all of his saving to hold a magnificent funeral for himself in advance of his death to ensure he leaves evidence of his existence in the village memory. The funeral for a living man makes Wang Shun a local celebrity.

An Australian Shakespeare fan with Down Syndrome, sets off on a solo adventure to discover Tokyo in order to get away from his over-bearing older brother. Along the way he uses his knowledge of the Bard, his sketchbook and his wits to win the hearts of the people he meets.

After calling around looking for his girlfriend, Guy receives a text that lets him know she may be in danger. By the time he finds her it is almost too late. Guy acquires an ancient root from an occultist that will allow him to enter her dreams in an attempt to wake her from her coma, but finding her is not as easy as it seems. Chick has her own internal battle as she finds herself struggling in binds and suffering in silence.

Swiped to Death is a comedy web series that explores the messy realities of online dating. The series follows two newly-single South Asians in New York as they try their luck on a new dating app. Each episode is based on a true story. ​Will they find true love? Or will it be an endless game of swiping?

Juli‘s childhood dream becomes reality the day she enrolls at the technical university’s engineering program. The same day, her long-term boyfriend dumps her, arguing that she’s too emancipated for his liking. Deeply hurt, Juli decides to fight for her love and win him back by any means necessary - in order to dump HIM. Because let’s be honest ... nobody wants to be the dumpee, right?

The global flood is coming, all the radios and TVs are talking about it, but Lioscia knows how to save himself - he will use his old boat. So he takes it to the street, along with his little goat, his violin and a book, waiting for his girlfriend. Unfortunately, a hunter wants to take his wooden boat. In the meantime, other people will cross his path.

A dark animated musical enacted in a modern market place, situated next to a large freeway. The employees of the various commercial venues, portrayed as animals, deal with boredom and existential anxiety by performing cheerful musical turns. The apocalypse is a tempting liberator.

After a car accident, Fran has the opportunity to go back in time and choose his past once again.

The psychological journey of a climate refugee who lost his house and his entire family during hurricane Maria. This is the story of his journey from the darkness back to the light.

The Gift of Love is a dramatization of a real life event that happened in North Hwanghae Province in North Korea. Lee Sojung has done her best to deal with her husband's illness and feed her family but has run out of options. As reality closes in, she resorts to telling a big lie.