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Comedies

All About the Lefkoviches
After his wife's death, a stubborn boxing coach agrees to allow his estranged Orthodox Jewish son from Israel to sit shiva, as long as he brings the grandson he has never met, in this heartwarming dramedy set in contemporary Budapest. Read More
Running Time: 85


Bonus Track
An underachieving teenager navigates the rocky road through high school by immersing himself in music. His dream of winning the school talent show seems attainable when he pairs up with a famous musician’s son who understands his music – and his heart. Read More
Running Time: 98

Chuck Chuck Baby
Helen’s humdrum world takes a surprisingly interesting romantic turn with the return of her charismatic childhood friend Joanne. Moving, funny and charming, this is the musical rom-com set in a Welsh chicken processing plant you never knew you needed. Read More
Running Time: 101

Housekeeping for Beginners
Dita lives with her girlfriend, her girlfriend’s two daughters, and a group of queer misfits in the North Macedonian capital, Skopje, in this tender story about families – the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves. Read More
Running Time: 107

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person
Winner: Young Cineastes Award.
This charming, funny and stylish play on the traditional vampire tale tells the story of Sasha, a young vampire who can’t bring herself to kill. Facing starvation, she meets a young depressed man who could help solve both their problems. Read MoreRunning Time: 92


Running on Sand
An audience favorite!
When an Eritrean refugee about to be deported from Israel is mistaken for the Nigerian striker just signed to a struggling soccer team, his fate depends on the team’s success in this charming, socially relevant dramedy. Read MoreRunning Time: 104

The Sweet East
After Lillian (Talia Ryder) separates from her classmates on a school trip, she embarks on a Kafkaesque journey across America’s East that quickly begins to resemble a modern-day Wonderland. Deliriously funny, dreamy and freewheeling, here’s a trip like no other. Read More
Running Time: 104

The Trouble With Jessica
Here’s a twisty, suspenseful black comedy of which even Hitchcock would have been proud, following a well-to-do couple on the brink of financial crisis who confront the moral dilemma of their lives after an uninvited guest does the unthinkable. Read More
Running Time: 89

Together 99
You don’t need to have seen Lukas Moodysson’s 2000 masterpiece Together, about a Stockholm commune in the ‘70s, to fall in love with this big-hearted, bittersweet follow-up, in which the aging friends gather for a reunion that goes hilariously awry. Read More
Running Time: 115