Events for Sunday, September 21, 2025

Come join us for fun Sunday afternoon! We will have the whole theater. Kids can gather and move around. Chill couches, beer and food.

Join us September 19 to 25, 2025, when over 100,000 film lovers in over 500 cities across six continents gather in Cinemas, Museums, Libraries and Universities for one purpose...to view and vote on the Finalists' Films in the 28th Annual MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival.

A satirical take on the mundane absurdities of life in modern-day Iran, these nine vignettes illuminate the lighter side of enduring under authoritarian rule. Whether choosing a name for a newborn, graduating from grade school, getting a driver’s license, applying for a job, or seeking approval for a film script, if you live in Iran, you best come fluent in Orwellian discourse. Progressing along a rough timeline from birth to death, each story is shot in a static camera angle as a single petitioner negotiates with an authority figure hovering just outside of frame, who is practiced in the language of doublespeak.

A tinderbox of competition and resentments underneath the façade of a picture-perfect couple is ignited when the husband's professional dreams come crashing down.

A teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustles to make $5,000 in this dreamy and surreal animated coming-of-age story.

When Ashley asks for a divorce, the good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. Their secret to happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.

Two grieving men bond in support group and form unlikely friendship.

Tillie and her charismatic, alcoholic father (Craig Bierko), struggle to resolve their fractured relationship: after he dies, his ghost appears in mirrors to haunt everyone in the family but Tillie.