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.
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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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
A documentary exploring Denmark's secret to happiness.
A documentary exploring Denmark's secret to happiness.
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.
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.
In a place full of rumors, misery and pot, when life knocks you down, you roll one up.
In the frame of a small Italian village, eight characters atone themselves through the structure of the station drama.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.