Sweet Thing centers around the lives of two children in contemporary New Bedford, Massachusetts in particular one eventful summer spent in a beach house with their mother and her boyfriend. The story is an intense but ultimately uplifting, poetic rendering of childhood that captures the essence of that time in life when a day can last forever. The friendships, loyalties, and challenges of adolescent youth propel the story into a triumph of childhood hope and resilience.
Read MoreGenre: Drama
A teen raised in the Netherlands by her single mother travels to their native Bosnia to visit the father who left them, as he’s been admitted to a rural hospital. Joined by her cousin and his best friend, they hit the road.
Read More
Helmed by one of Korea’s leading directors, Hong Sang-soo, Jisook joins two of her girlfriends for a holiday in Korea’s Kangwon Province. But in an eerie twist of fate, her former lover, Sangkwon, plans a getaway for the same destination, where tragedy brings them together once again.
Read More
Surprised to see this one on our list of 90s gems? We think it’s a classic! Reese Witherspoon and Tobey Maguire play two ’90s teens who find themselves embedded in a 1950s sitcom where they add color and scandal to the monochrome world with their modern sensibilities.
Read More
Leave the glamour of the City of Lights behind, and enter the seedy underworld of a poor suburban neighborhood of Paris. This black and white film follows three young men for 24 hours after a violent riot erupts in their community.
Read More
Choose life. Easily one of the best films of the 1990s, this black comedy follows heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) as he stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends
Read More
The surliest teens in a very 1990s Seattle high school find love in this modern adaptation Shakespeare’s The…
Read More
NOW SHOWING
Screening at Row House Online
Back with a new lineup, NYICFF KID FLICKS TWO is a fantastic trip on the road to growing up. Challenging expectations and reflecting growth and resilience, these short films from around the globe — including France, Iran, Colombia, and more — are made with older kids in mind.
Read More
NOW SHOWING
Screening at Row House Online
Based on the Jack London novel of the same name, Pietro Marcello’s latest follows a sailor (Luca Marinelli) trying to remake himself as a writer, in this passionate and timeless story of class consciousness and failed ideals.
Read More
The film that launched Giulietta Masina and Fellini into international stardom is a tragicomic fable about the brutish traveling-circus strongman Zampanò, who takes as his performing partner Masina’s sensitive, dreamy Gelsomina, a delicate spirit gradually crushed by his cruelty.
Read More