7th Annual Chain NYC Film Festival Schedule

• Crescent

• The Voicemail

• The Brotherhood

• Trouble Finds You

• Ethically Ambiguous?

• This Great Nation

• Other Shores

• The Shopper

• Blue Murder

• The Super 8 Time Machine

• Clockwork

• Red Watch

• The Nose

• The Unattended

• Yort

• London

• The Turner Exhibit

• Whitetail

• Dodgson

• F.A.M.

Heroic Fernando decides to take the epic journey from Mexico to New York City to find his father and save his family. Along the way, he finds love and befriends an eclectic group of international characters that help him restore his faith in humanity, as Fernando discovers the hard truths about his father, the melting pot of America, and the immigrant experience.

• Someone New

• Bedspread

• Night Song

• Dinner in Hyde Park

• Consent

• The Devolution of Love

• Push Up

My Comic Shop Country

Comic book characters are box office gold, but why isn’t the same necessarily true for comic stores? See how the 20 shops featured in the film are turning the tide, one customer at a time, seven days a week. Plus: Learn the fate—and future?—of Alternate Realities.

Horror Anonymous

A group of over-the-top horror addicts attends a therapy session to try to chase away their demons.

• Masters

• heads/tails

• You Look Great

• Tight Spot

• Corey

• Joe.

• Clean Ice

• Limbs

Family Obligations

In trying to settle affairs after his father’s sudden death, Peter Steele finds himself the unlikely caretaker of his long-forgotten Uncle Frank. As Peter shuffles Frank to and from doctors, he meets neighbor Melanie, a single mother who shows him how to look for opportunities instead of excuses in the people in his life. Through ups and downs, lighthearted moments and devastating news, Peter begins to see that relationships might just be worth the effort after all.

The Blessing and the Curse

The Blessing and the Curse is the surprising and inspiring story of local folk, Americana, and rockabilly musician Lance Canales, who rose from humble California Central Valley farmworker beginnings to prominence in the international music scene. It’s also the story of the curious and tremendous popularity of Americana music abroad in today’s political climate.

A young couple go on a weekend getaway, to help fix their struggling relationship. Things soon go bad, when he discovers a videotape of a murder that occurred in the very same hotel room.

• Athas

• Percht

• Ludere

• Zoe, What’s Going On?

• Carnage Radio

GHABE (Forest in Arabic) Monir is a refugee from Syria who just arrived in Sweden with his older cousin Farid during the 2015 refugee crisis. They are housed by the Swedish Migration Board in a cabin deep in the forest while waiting on residence permit. 

Armenia(s), Time for Artists

An Armenian artistic world exists today in France, that expresses itself, reflects on its identity, its history, but always, at the same time, deeply rooted in the culture of its adopted country.

Past Forward

Rokaya Marzouk, born in the early 60s,was raised in an Arab village in Israel. She knew from early childhood that she couldn't follow the traditional path of an Arab woman. Rokaya went to study in a university while it was very uncommon for Arab women in Israel and became the first school counsellor to work with the Bedouin tribes of South Israel. 

• Foxx n Wolfe

• Deus Ex Machina: Short Circuit

• Yellow Arrows

• Swap

• The Moon

• The Replacement

Vietnam Aftermath

The horrors of war never die. The story emerging is not one on the War itself but on the horrors these men and women now face at home. Their story is of the war after the war, rejection, disenchantment, death, nightmares and resiliency.

Motherland

Residents of Pripyat and villagers of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone recall the oral history of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster while they define what home means to them.

Fascination: Helena’s Story

A documentary about Holocaust survivor Helena Weinrauch. She survived three concentration camps, 2 firing squads and torture by the gestapo. Now 92, as a mere girl of 88, she decided to become a ballroom dancer.

Lonely college student Alex encounters his favorite filmmaker, JP Smith, stalking around his sleepy town in upstate NY.

THE LAST WITNESS is a political thriller based on the harrowing true events of the Katyn Massacre in Spring 1940.

• Life is Live

• Nino

• Louie (KR.ONE) Gasparro 5POINTZ

• Margarita of the River

• 9999 Florentine Memoirs (The Story of the 9999 Group)

• Gawilan

• Beyond Babel in NYC

• Her Turf: The Untold Story about Three Female Football Refs

• Run the Meter

The Right to Rest is a new feature length documentary about Denver’s homeless rights movement which follows the trajectories of Denver Homeless Out Loud and Colorado Village Collaborative towards the construction of Beloved Community Village, Denver’s first Tiny House Village for people coming from homelessness.

• Break Up Out Loud

• Missed Connections

• Fuck’s Sake

• Drift

• A Fairy Tale

• Say Yes

• Coffee and a Donut

Twelve years ago, a group of friends developed an incredible bond during their college mentorship program.

• Other Shores

• The Nose

• The Shopper

• Clockwork

• Voicemails

• The Avant-Gardener