A prophetic young dishwasher with brain-damage and a homeless prostitute are brought together through obscene circumstances and embark on a perverse journey through the gutter.
Gilbert Gonzalez is a portrait of loneliness as he tries to connect with inaccessible women by taking surreptitious pictures of them with his cellphone. But after meeting Jana, Gilbert realizes the price of real love and true human connection. But is he able to pay it?
Twenty-two and unsure on where he is heading in life, college graduate Billy Mitchell finds his plans changing when he falls in love with an inmate with multiple personalities at his father's mental institution.
It can be brutal enough just growing up a girl. Then add poverty, addiction, and God to the mix. SMALL TIME takes an empathetic and at times darkly humorous look at life, faith, and childhood.
THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY tracks a ragtag group of combat veterans in New York whose anti-war art, poetry and papermaking keep them together, despite the spectre of their friend’s suicide and the ever-crystalizing fact that healing from war is sometimes an impossible mission.
Cleanse your palate between films and check out our free-to-watch gameshow: Two teams of festival filmmakers compete to name the most popular responses to survey questions provided by San Francisco art house cinema fans. S02E01 and S02E02.
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