Atomic Love (2020)
dir. Imogen McCluskey
It’s 1988. Recently married Dana helps her eternally-single friend Aleea make a video profile for a dating service ATOMIC LOVE, provoking a confession which forces them to address the nature of their relationship.
10 mins
CWs:
implication of miscarriage
[Does The Dog Die?]
Wannabe (2020)
dir. Dorothy Allen-Pickard
A hilarious, heart warming docu-drama about a group of elderly women who form a Spice Girls tribute band to earn a quick buck when one friend can’t pay the bills
11 mins
CWs:
[Does The Dog Die?]
Tho Dai Di Roi / Sigh Gone (2019)
dir. Jeannie Nguyen
Without the guide of her “lost love”, Thuy is on the verge of death by boredom. Having no agenda, she finds odd ways to entertain herself in the bustling city of Saigon, Vietnam.
10 mins
CWs:
[Does The Dog Die?]
LEROY (2017)
dir. Marley Morrison
On a deprived council estate in North east London, oddball teenager Leroy Brown, spends his days fighting with his wannabe ‘gangsta’ brother Kenny, making his own jewellery and playing ‘Planet funk’, a computer dance game with his friend Yukiko. The sudden death of his beloved Grandfather Nelson forces Leroy out of his shell and with the help of a cassette tape his grandfather left him, Leroy learns what it takes to live in a ‘man’s world’.
20 mins
CWs:
alcohol, bodily fluids (vomit, not shown)
[Does The Dog Die?]
In My Room (2020)
dir. Mati Diop
Made during confinement, “In My Room” plunges us into the poignant story of a woman at the twilight of her life, through recordings of the director’s deceased grandmother. Living rooms become stages where life is performed. Windows become portals to the lives of others.
20 mins
CWs:
COVID-19 pandemic, dementia
[none]
Hair Wolf (2018)
dir. Mariama Diallo
The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.
12 mins
CWs:
stalking, posession, jumpscares, anxiety attacks
[Does The Dog Die?]
Sorry for the Inconvenience (2021)
dir. Jane Chow
In Los Angeles Chinatown, a lonely teenager tries to help her parents keep their seafood restaurant afloat during the COVID-19 pandemic.
6 mins
CWs:
COVID-19 pandemic
[Does The Dog Die?]
Across, Beyond, and Over (2019)
dir. Brit Fryer, Noah Schamus
A hybrid documentary about two estranged trans men who used to date in middle school reconnecting over a long weekend to develop a film about their past.
12 mins
CWs:
[Does The Dog Die?]
そうして私たちはプールに金魚を、 / And so we put goldfish in the pool. (2017)
dir. Makoto Nagahisa
One summer day, 400 goldfish were found in the swimming pool of a secondary school. This is a story about the four 15-year-old girls who put them there.
28 mins
CWs:
bodily fluids (spit)
[Does The Dog Die?]
These C*cksucking Tears (2016)
dir. Dan Taberski
Patrick Haggerty, the gritty, fearless voice behind the world’s first and only gay-themed country music album, 40 years after its release.
15 mins
CWs:
[Does The Dog Die?]
