New Jersey Film Festival

The 29th Annual New Jersey International Film Festival competition will be taking place on the Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays

Schedule:

Friday - Online for 24 Hours!

Anima # 1-4 - Vaco Diogo (Lisbon, Portugal)

Anima # 1-4 is a mash up of four different experimental animations that finish a cycle of creative work. The film explores interior sensations and emotions from intra-uterine memories to growing shadows, ghosts and chaos that emerged in a context of generalized anxiety. Instead of trying to give solutions to problems the film expands a space of mystery through screen awareness. 2024; 3 min.

This is a Story Without a Plan - Cassie Shao (Pasadena, California)

A short animated film about two people and an explosion. 2024; 8 min.

Claire Facing North - Lynn Lukkas (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Claire returns to Iceland, a place she visited decades earlier, to tend to a difficult task. While on the road she meets Iris, a young aimless hitchhiker, and together they connect and collide as they struggle to come to terms with the realities of their lives. 2023; 90 min.

Friday - Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM!

Pripyat Horse - Sally Patricia Pearce (Penmachno, United Kingdom)

‘A sparrow flies swiftly in through one door of the hall, and out through another. Even so, man appears on earth for a little while; but of what went before this life or of what follows, we know nothing.’ Bede

A moment for mourning, for a friend, for the earth. 2024; 2 min.

Five Loaves - Nicholas Diodato (Shamong, New Jersey)

The ongoings at a food pantry reveal the workings of a corrupt church. 2024; 6 min.

Muted - Chris Zou (Bridgewater, New Jersey)

Jessica is a Chinese-American high schooler studying for a chemistry test late at night. Faced with the immense pressure of perfection, she turns to pills to enhance her studying. Her actions threaten to jeopardize her relationships with her friends, while exploring her tumultuous relationship with her mother. 2024; 6 min.

The Miracle of You - Peter Spruyt (Hollywood, California)

A man takes us on his meditation journey towards inner-peace and harmony, showing that in these enlightened times one can achieve self-forgiveness for just about anything. 2023; 5 min.

I Want to Live on Mars - Mariya Somova (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)

Two unlikely friends embark on a journey to escape life in a ghost town devastated by disaster. In broad strokes, two young women (Pickles, very rural, and Breezy, very urban) are brought together by the mistakes or the circumstances of their guardians beyond their control. After months of a prickly, unlikely friendship, and a series of poetically unexpected events, the two strike out on their own, leaving behind whatever scraps they had in exurban Pennsylvania in search of "Life on Mars." 2023; 80 min.

General Admission

Ticket=$15 Per Program

Festival All Access Pass=$120;

In-Person Only Student Ticket=$10 Per Program.

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