Manhattan Film Festival

A tempestuous romantic drama in seven vignettes that chronicles an interracial marriage, telling a story of turmoil and tenderness as two people try to make their relationship last.

Jim is an aspiring actor who has moved from Atlanta to New York City in pursuit of his dreams. But naive actors like him are a dime a dozen in New York City and the doors to the brutal, cutthroat, New York acting world keep slamming shut in his face....

The money earned by 11-year-olds Sonam and Tashi for doing prayers is only enough to share one small Coke. Sonam is lucky to even get a sip before Tashi, the monastery bully, drinks the entire bottle. Yarne is an annual six-week period when Buddhist ...

3 generations of women get together on Mother’s Day and all sorts of craziness happens. When Sarah’s mother (whom she hasn’t seen in years) unexpectedly shows up, Sarah reluctantly agrees to celebrate Mother’s Day at Grandma’s house. It’s...

Synopsis*: Go/Don't Go is the story of Adam, a loner at the end of human existence. His daily routines keep him sane: wake up, brush teeth, forage for supplies, take out the trash, check what needs to be checked, cross off what needs to be crossed of...

Aaron, a successful screenwriter lost his first love seven years ago without knowing the reason. He deludes himself that another love tooth (wisdom tooth) grows again and it might bring his love back to him. Aaron meets a charming girl, Emma and she...

When 19-year old, Julie Janson, a Columbia University student returns to her dorm room, her college roommate recommends Julie meet with a famous psychic for career guidance. During Julie's meeting, the Janson family secret is revealed.

The Executioner We All Had A Chance, is a documentary about two men who started a boxing gym to save the young boys from the mean, gang invested streets of Philadelphia in the early 70's. In doing this they would develop some of the greatest amate...

How Am I Doing? is a serio-comic deep dive into the world of recovering alcoholic Eli Meyer, a charming, not quite handsome, forty something fading actor everyone seems to recognize from a cancelled series called “Ladder 6.” Working to prove his ...

In the midst of a growing mental illness epidemic, award-winning health journalist Shannon Harvey enlists a team of scientists to put meditation to the test. As she travels 30,000 kilometres around the world, from the bright lights of Manhattan to th...