Program 33

THURSDAY. October 27 4:00 Program 32 | CINEMA VILLAGE

Unconditional

United States / Drama / 7 mins

Acquiescence

United States / Drama / 11 mins

Couscous, Hand-Rolled, With Olives

United States / Drama / 15 mins

Director/Writer: Nelson Downend

Following a family funeral, a widower is caught off guard when his precocious 8-year-old daughter makes a wish to become a vampire so that she will never die.

Producer: Nelson Downend, Katinka Locascio Cast: David L. Townsend, Celestial Aurora Rose Director/Writer: Manya Branham Glassman

Lily navigates the blurred lines of consensual sex and self blame while pressured by her boyfriend’s persistent and menacing advances. Her relationship to her own body, human touch, and identity as a dancer get caught in the cross fire

Producer: Manya Branham Glassman, Victor Pigasse Cast: Maddy Wood, Louis McWilliams Director/ Writer: Yaari Nadav Tal

“Couscous, Hand-Rolled, With Olives” is the intimate depiction of the tensions between a young Jewish man, Ash, and the two worlds he is stuck between: one with his non-Jewish girlfriend, Rosie, a tattooed musician, and another with his religious Israeli father, whose tenderness for his son is expressed through food and tradition.

Producer: Halley Freger, Julia Maddox, Yaari Nadav Tal Cast: Tirosh Schneider, Arti Gollapudi, Michel Simon

THURSDAY. October 27 4:00 Program 32 | CINEMA VILLAGE

Strangers In The Night

United States / Horror / 20 mins

Director: Ellen Askey, Kyle Oleksiuk

When a landlord tries and fails to buy out two of his longtime tenants, he inadvertently invites his newest tenants—vampires—to attack them. Chaos ensues.

Writer: Kyle Oleksiuk Producer: Ellen Askey, Christopher Giacomini, Kyle Oleksiuk Cast: Deborah Fischer, Xander Jackson, David Dotterer