The Variety Club

Coming Up Roses

An award-winning comedy set in a depressed town in the South Wales Valleys. When the local cinema is closed down, the former projectionist, plagued by money problems, devises an ingenious plan to make money.

Shortcomings

When his girlfriend leaves for New York City on a 3-month-long internship, a strongly opinionated Berkeley arthouse movie theater manager begins exploring life as a bachelor.

Once Upon a Time in a Cinema

Earl Clancy, a cinema owner on the edge, battles a series of disasters while juggling personal turmoil and the chaos of a packed Friday night crowd. Told in real time over the course of the movie playing in the cinema (Breathless, starring Richard Gere).

Should I Kill Myself, Or Have A Cup Of Coffee?

When a young filmmaker meets a living film legend and an enigma Albert, for his Mumbai based short film, Albert throws the script away and instead takes him on a journey around the city. Not to shoot a film but to capture the spirit of Bombay in an alcohol bottle.

Notting Hill

London bookstore owner William Thacker's quiet life turns upside down when a chance encounter with famous actress Anna Scott sparks an unlikely romance challenged by their vastly different worlds.

Central Park

Lies

A Korean high school student and a married sculptor embark on a sexual odyssey soaked in sadomasochism and love.

Je ne veux qu'elle

Matinee Baby

In this raunchy and outlandish queer comedy, best friends Robby and Noah-Lee – employees at Portland's historic Clinton Street Theater – find themselves confronted by a parade of increasingly wacky, genre-tinged suitors.

Eyes on the Screen

Arvid and My are on a date at the movies. Suddenly Arvid hears My crying next to him. Arvid asks her why. Her answer brings back repressed memories of a childhood, a loving father and lots and lots of Hot Wheels. Arvid now has to do whatever it takes as to not be caught crying himself, however painful the means.

At the Drive-In

Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight to keep a dying drive-in theater alive by screening only vintage 35mm film prints and working entirely for free.

A Date With a Loved One

Two family friends meet up after not seeing each other for awhile, but one thinks it's a date.

Koroviy Val

Loneliness is an appeal to your Self. Loneliness is the deafness to outer responses. Loneliness is a mute confession.

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

On a dark, wet night in Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. A meager audience, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two, watch King Hu’s wuxia classic "Dragon Inn", each haunted by memories and desires evoked by cinema itself.

The Lens Within Me

An original semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama very loosely inspired by Max Hechtman's adolescence and college experience as a young filmmaker.

Young Rose Tribe Show 7: A Reunion in Shinjuku Ni-chome

Haruhiko and Yukihiko are childhood friends. In elementary school, their homeroom teacher, Mr. Kintama, taught them to be homosexuals, and they became lovers and had a lot of fun in their youth. In junior high school, they met Tamabukuro Sensei, and in high school, they met Maradate Sensei, a biology teacher, and their homosexual life became more fulfilling. After graduating from high school, however, the two went their separate ways. Yukihiko went off to college in Hokkaido, while Haruhiko, in need of money for family reasons, went to work at a bar in Shinjuku's 2-Chome district. They had loved each other for many years, but time and distance had torn them apart. Time passed, and Yukihiko returned to Tokyo with his new girlfriend. There, the two are reunited by fate. Now, what will happen between them!

Wood Screw

When the individual lifestyles of the embodiments of urban and nature meet... They clash, and create a new parasitic relationship.

Out of Time

Jack adheres strictly to his routine, as dictated by his phone. When a friend at work tries to free him, his phone fights back.

The Hypersonic Solution

After narrowly escaping an Antagonist, the Protagonist receives an unwanted phone call concerning the future of his world, but not everything is as it seems.

The Last Drive-In Theater

When returning to his hometown with his ill mother, Marlombrando meets again his father and the Drive-in cinema where he spent his childhood. Almeida keeps the cinema functioning with the assistance of only two employees: Paula, who takes care of the projection and the snack bar; Jose, an old friend of Almeida, who helps selling tickets at the cashier and cleaning up the place. The arrival of Marlombrando and the demolition threatening of the Drive-in will bring new directions to their lives.