Nathan Silver

With no place to call home, 19-year-old Elena takes a job as a live-in aide. She finds herself thrust into the middle of a family in crisis: all the things that go on between a father, grandmother, mother, and cat. Eventually, Elena strikes something of a balance though... That is, until the prodigal son returns home. Placing fictional characters alongside real people, 'Exit Elena' is shot through with all the rough edges inherent to family life and home movie form. (imdb)

Thrown out of her New York City apartment, Natalia, a 25-year-old hot mess, relies on the kindness of friends and strangers. Seemingly unaware of the havoc she wreaks, she skips from one place to another, including her best friend's, where she crashes a holiday meal and seduces the best friend's socially inept brother. Natalia ends up staying at a shelter run by genuinely good Maury, who takes an interest in making her life better -- but life is not that simple, and tragedy ensues. (konecfilms.com)

Fleeing the city, Robbie takes refuge at his aunt's country house, which happens to be a makeshift home for pregnant teenagers. (imdb)

The birth of a filmmaker (VIFF.org)

A black as tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in 90's suburban New Jersey. (imdb)

The Blind is a portrait of a relationship gone bad that keeps on going. Marcus, a failure of an architect, takes out his frustration on Kate, his young girlfriend, twisting what should be a romance film into a horror movie of everyday life. (theblindfilm.com)

Dreaming of fame and fortune, a local Denver performer hires two indie filmmakers to come to town and make a film with him as the star. (imdb)

Gina, an American flight attendant, falls in with a Parisian bartender on a layover only to find herself tangled in a web of deception, delusion and unrequited amour fou. (imdb)

The lives of a French theater director, her ex-boyfriend, and the two actors playing them intersect dramatically in this tangled and darkly funny roundelay set in the New York theater world. (imdb)

A cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student.