Manhattan Film Festival

The friendship between an aging physics professor and his fresh-out-of-college assistant is put to the test as the assistant realizes he is becoming his boss’s caretaker.

Three stories, "Until I Met You in NYC," "Leo Dan," and "Television Star," are interconnected in a neighborhood in NYC by an opioid drug deal gone wrong. Written and directed by Antonio De La Cruz.

In July 1916, Garrett Morgan and his brother Frank risked their lives to save miners trapped in an underground inferno using an invention of Garrett's own making. But the morning newspapers left their heroic efforts out of the story entirely. (Inspired by true events).

In the year 4 BC, Israel is under the colonial rule of the Roman Empire. With the unexpected appearance of the Roman soldiers, pandemonium breaks loose in the small town of Bethlehem. The Israelites await the coming of the Messiah, in hopes that he will deliver them from tyranny. Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary arrive in Bethlehem and Mary immediately goes into labor. Joseph desperately sear...

Stranded in Cold War-era Berlin, a British counterintelligence officer anxiously awaits the day his handlers arrive to collect him. Given no information but a time and a place, he diligently keeps his appointment, watching and waiting for something to happen; even as weeks turn to years . . .