Opened in 1979 as Chicago's first alternative dance club, Neo reigned for 36 years as a sanctuary for misfits, weirdos, and outcasts and ground zero for an explosion of fashion and music trends.
Also in this Program
- The 39th
- Laura Fallsgraff31mUSAEnglish Documentary Shorts
306 Hollywood is a magical realist documentary of two siblings who undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother’s house.
What kind of film could you create if you were given 48 hours, a character, a prop, and a single line of dialogue? Find out tonight as we screen films from this year’s 48 Hour Film Project.
5 After 5 Productions - Fractured
Blue September Films - The Cakeicide
Buffoonery Films - Snap
Fair Creek Films - Us and Them
Introverse Productions - A Hazy Tune
Manmauji Films - Record Breaker
Midlife Crisis - WTF
Mutant Geek Videos - God is a Dude
Short Bus Talking Pictures - The Lady’s Bro
Swag Chef Chef - Handy Andy #2
T2 Productions - Kraxos
Team Dharma - Infectus
The Randoms - Brushing it Off
The Tribe - Social Bonding
Why April? - Association for Sheep Safety
What kind of film could you create if you were given 48 hours, a character, a prop, and a single line of dialogue? Immediately following our 48 Hour Film Project screenings we’ll award this year’s winners.
5 After 5 Productions - Fractured
Blue September Films - The Cakeicide
Buffoonery Films - Snap
Fair Creek Films - Us and Them
Introverse Productions - A Hazy Tune
Manmauji Films - Record Breaker
Midlife Crisis - WTF
Mutant Geek Videos - God is a Dude
Short Bus Talking Pictures - The Lady’s Bro
Swag Chef Chef - Handy Andy #2
T2 Productions - Kraxos
Team Dharma - Infectus
The Randoms - Brushing it Off
The Tribe - Social Bonding
Why April? - Association for Sheep Safety
Unable to purchase a $50,000 digital projector, a group of quirky film fanatics in rural Pennsylvania fight to keep a dying drive-in alive by showing old 35mm film prints and working entirely for free
Our audience favorite short and feature!
We will be screening films all day long. Check back after Awards Night for a full schedule!
We will be screening films all day long. Check back after Awards Night for a full schedule!
The Tribe - Social Bonding - Best Use of Prop
Introverse Productions - A Hazy Tune - Best Use of Line of Dialogue
Why April? - Association for Sheep Safety - Best Actor (individual), Best Costumes, Best Use of Character
Team Midlife Crisis - WTF - Third Place Overall, Best Writing, Best Acting (ensemble)
Buffoonery Films - Snap - Second Place Overall, Best Directing
Team Dharma - Infectus - First Place Overall, Audience Award, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Design, Best Special Effects
The winners of American Spectrum Lens Short and Feature juried awards.
The winners of Best Documentary Short and Feature juried awards.
The winners of Best Hoosier Lens Short and Feature juried awards.
In this Program
- WTFN?
- Ronald Short12mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- When We Grow Up
- Zorinah Juan1h 37mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Features
The winners of Best World Cinema Short and Feature juried awards.
When a best-selling author has a midlife crisis, he returns to his coastal hometown and embarks on a wild adventure in a desperate attempt to reclaim his youth.
Two men walk. They run away. They cross varied landscapes like migratory birds looking for a warmer place, a better place. “Bi txirula” is a travel. A travel where the characters reflect on the life and the chance of a better world while they manage to survive.
An average restaurant manager develops an interest in a comic character, then finds himself in a relationship that maybe shouldn't have happened.
A city-sanctioned, police-run decoy unit and a radical Marxist attorney clash in post-insurrection Detroit in a struggle to restore civil order after 22 African Americans are senselessly murdered.
When asked to direct the biopic of his actress girlfriend who committed suicide, filmmaker Haskell Edwards becomes obsessed with the lifelike robot created to mimic her.
A Hollywood casting director leaves her lucrative career behind in order to teach filmmaking, and art therapy, to youth in an impoverished community in South Africa.
Want the opportunity to meet actors and filmmakers and learn about their craft first-hand? On Saturday, April 28, join us for an engaging panel discussion at 5:00PM at the Deboest L.H. at Newfields.
A documentary exploring Denmark's secret to happiness.
A couple destined to be together stuck between worlds, traditions, religion, contradictions and prejudices.
Two high school basketball games … one headline grabbing brawl … a memorable reunion amongst rivals 50 years later … GameChangers!
“Getting Naked: A Burlesque Story” reveals the sexy sub-culture of neo-burlesque in New York City, exploring what it means to be an artist, an entertainer, and a woman in the toughest city on Earth.
A father reunites with his daughter 20 years after an accident left her with no memory of her father. But he could never forget her face. They grow dangerously close as his past life returns with her.
Marie is in her mid-thirties and has been with Sascha for a very long time, sometimes she does not even know for how long exactly.
How quilt square trails changed the American landscape and saved Donna Sue Groves' life after job loss and breast cancer.
A look at the life and work of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In a place full of rumors, misery and pot, when life knocks you down, you roll one up.
Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting.
In the frame of a small Italian village, eight characters atone themselves through the structure of the station drama.
The Scary Stories books have become a symbol for an entire genre: children’s horror. They are also among the most banned books of the last 30 years. Find out the true story behind Scary Stories.
The hard truth about dating and relationships.
In this Program
- The Wedding Song
- Thia Schuessler and Rex New14mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- Emily
- Zac Cooper14mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- Blackmoor
- James Lewis11mGBEnglish World Cinema Shorts
- She's Marrying Steve
- Erika Kramer23mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- All the Tired Horses
- Sebastian Mayr24mAustriaGerman (English Subtitles)World Cinema Shorts
Self-discovery can lead to startling breakthroughs.
In this Program
- Ainhoa
- Ivan Sainz-Pardo19mSpainSpanish (English Subtitles)World Cinema Shorts
- Buried Sky
- Nathália Tereza25mBrazilPortuguese (English Subtitles)World Cinema Shorts
- Cautionary Tales
- Christopher & Luke Barrett & Taylor9mGBEnglish World Cinema Shorts
- Writer's Block
- Alex Mendez Giner9mUSA(none) World Cinema Shorts
- Rhapsody in Blueberry
- Gaelle Denis4mFranceEnglish World Cinema Shorts
- Koe (Voice)
- Takeshi KUSHIDA10mJapanWithout Language World Cinema Shorts
- Ginger
- Markus Stoll13mBoliviaDeutsch World Cinema Shorts
Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask.
In this Program
- The Babysitter
- Molly Gandour10mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- Funky Lola
- Julio Mas Alcaraz17mSpainSpanish (English Subtitles)World Cinema Shorts
- Famille À Vendre (Family For Sale)
- Sebastien Petretti15mBelgiumFrench (English Subtitles)World Cinema Shorts
- Sexpert Franzen
- Kaitlyn Busbee18mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- WTFN?
- Ronald Short12mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- Bonboné
- Rakan Mayasi15mPakistanArabic World Cinema Shorts
Battles with our enemies, battles with ourselves.
Strange people, strange situations and the things we do to escape.
Scary, strange, and surreal shorts!
Showcasing the amazing craft of these imaginative storytellers.
In this Program
- Paddleball Hole
- Keith Cantrell3mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- Sea-Tectives
- Christopher Dobbs11mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- Leaves of Fall
- Marc Wiskemann3mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- Spark
- Aharonit Elior6mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- Sand
- Arjan Brentjes5mNetherlandsEnglish World Cinema Shorts
- Ugly
- Nikita Diakur12mGermany(none) World Cinema Shorts
- All The World Is A Stage
- Hannes Rall2mSingaporeEnglish World Cinema Shorts
- Compartments
- Daniella & Uli Koffler & Seis15mGermanyEnglish, Hebrew, German (English Subtitles)World Cinema Shorts
- Our Wonderful Nature - The Common Chameleon
- Tomer Eshed4mGermanyEnglish World Cinema Shorts
- Little Fiel
- Irina Patkanian16mUSAEnglish Documentary Shorts
- 01
- Katharina Potratz7mGermany(none) World Cinema Shorts
- Agent Bird
- Ethan Yazel3mUSAEnglish World Cinema Shorts
Stories unfolding in and around cars.
Testing boundaries and flirting with the long arm of the law.
In this Program
- Night Call
- 18mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- It's Just a Gun
- Brian Robau15mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- Pétage (Breakdown)
- Greg Tudela10mFranceFrench World Cinema Shorts
- For Luck
- TL Westgate8mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- Die Couch (The Couch)
- Joe Paul Kienast15mGermanyGerman (English Subtitles)World Cinema Shorts
- Passion Gap
- Matt & Jason Portman & Donald20mSouth AfricaEnglish World Cinema Shorts
- Sacrilège
- Christophe M. Saber15mSwitzerlandFrench World Cinema Shorts
Exploring the unknown when it comes to passing on.
In this Program
- EVOKE
- Asia LeMasters16mUSAEnglish World Cinema Shorts
- Prenatal
- Bears Fonté11mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- Vigil
- Chris King4mUSAEnglish World Cinema Shorts
- Sog
- Jonatan Schwenk10mGermany(no dialog) World Cinema Shorts
- Reconstructing Reality
- Alice Wong12mNetherlandsEnglish Documentary Shorts
- De Dode Spreekt (The Dead Man Speaks)
- Marcos Mereles3mNetherlandsDutch World Cinema Shorts
- Deaf Bill
- John Wykes14mUSAEnglish Documentary Shorts
- Bang Bang Baby
- Alexander Rodgers5mUSAEnglish American Spectrum Shorts
- Punchline
- Christophe M. Saber9mSwitzerlandFrench World Cinema Shorts
They shape us and challenge us — they’re family.
Refugees, immigrants and the journeys that shape a lifetime.
Seeing the world through their eyes is... eye-opening.
A little something for everyone.
A peek inside the world of movies, movie theaters and acting.
In search of transcendence through stone skipping, a mysterious drifter arrives in a quiet lakeside town. Facing resistance from unimpressed locals, he is forced to consider the merits of his quest.
A warm and meditative slice-of-life about Fiona and her brother Tom on the western coast of Norway.
When a neighborhood conspiracy theorist suspects his neighbor might be a serial killer, he and his friends begin an investigation that soon turns dangerous.
Weather permitting this will be an outdoor screening so bring a camping chair!
Two guys serendipitously meet at a time when they both find themselves at personal crossroads and decide to embark on an unplanned road trip across the American Southwest.
The story of a couple with a child. The owner of their accommodation too greedy for a higher rent, dishes out the door. They have only thirty days to find new housing with their middle-class income.
Marlo, a mother of three including a newborn, is gifted a night nanny by her brother. Hesitant to the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.
TULLY Opening Night Film + Party
Join us for our opening night film TULLY followed by our after party!
Follow three late-model car drivers as they run 'The Eight' a fast paced daredevil competition that pits drivers and machines against the treacherous figure eight.
Teen punks, on the run from the cops and hiding out in the woods, come up against the local authority - an unhinged park ranger with an axe to grind.
For over six years, and for reasons he can't explain, Matt Green, 37, has been walking every street in New York City – a journey of more than 8,000 miles.
New York, 1980: three complete strangers accidentally discover that they are identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but it also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives - and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.
After having broken up a long-term relationship, Antônio has no doubts he will quickly get over Sofia, his ex-girlfriend, but nothing is as simple as it seems, actually, it never is...
Dr. Ivan has found two radical cures for unhappiness: the diagnosis of fake terminal cancers and the temporary elimination of some of the 5 senses. But will the therapies result or do they have unforeseeable side effects?
Two young women, torn apart by a childhood tragedy, unexpectedly reunite and embark on an illuminating 24-hour journey, where they unlock memories of long forgotten innocence and what it means to truly believe.
When We Grow Up is about a close-knit, albeit sometimes contentious, family brought together by an unconventional emergency that forces them to confront each other's secrets, flaws, and inner children.
Ged is a janitor at Polytechnique university in Montreal where he works at night. He meets Audrey, a student who struggles to finish her PhD. René, Ged’s anarchist brother, also reappears in his life, bringing a theory concerning their father who died years ago.