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. None of what worked for him down south seems to work for him in the big city. On the gritty streets of New York, Jim learns a valuable lesson about w...

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 monks remain within the monastery grounds for focused study and practice, yet for child monks, it’s more like house arrest. Tired of wasting his mon...

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 an opportunity for her fiancé James to meet her crazy family. Things go sour right from the start. It turns out that Grandpa is buried in the backya...

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 off. Suddenly, when things begin to unravel for him, he is confronted with an unexpected terrifying possibility—maybe Adam is descending into madness...