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2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Comedy | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
The Blinking Madonna and Other Miracles
Making ethnographic documentaries about her North End neighbors had allowed filmmaker Beth Harrington to keep her own background and beliefs at bay. But when she inadvertently videotapes a “miracle” with her camera, she has to wrestle with her past and what it means to believe and belong.
2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Drama | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
The Commitment
Robert and Ethan are an interracial gay couple fulfilling their dream of adopting a newborn baby. After they meet the expectant Asian birthmother, however, they receive a surprise that threatens their own relationship.
2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Animation | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Repetition Compulsion
An animated documentary about trauma & the cycles of abuse suffered by homeless women.
2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
FIBA Allow Hijab
Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir is the all-time leading scorer in Massachusetts history for high school basketball (male or female). In 2010, she became the first NCAA Division I player to wear a hijab on the court. But today she is blocked from pursuing her professional basketball career due to a FIBA rule that bans headscarves in international competitions. Forced to sit out, Abdul-Qaadir is now leading the fight for Muslim women’s right to play.
2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Comedy | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Celebration
An unexpected take on emerging from the closet with a deeper meaning about identity.
2021 Online New England Film Festival Retrospective | NewEnglandFilm Discovery | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
My Father’s Story
The story of what happened to the non-Jewish Poles during World War II is seldom heard. “My Father’s Story” is just one Polish voice -out of two and a half million people who were taken from their homes and placed into forced labor by the Nazis. This is the story of Romuald Kocol’s struggle, liberation by the Americans, and his emigration to the United States.
2020 Online New England Film Festival | Online New England Film Festival Local Premiere | Documentary | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Karen Moss in the Studio
Boston-based artist Karen Moss explores social, historical and environmental issues through a variety of media including drawings, paintings and collage.
2020 Online New England Film Festival | | Drama | Massachusetts | Watch Online Now |
Salvation
Salvation is a 1950s period piece about friendship, betrayal, and revenge. When two long-lost friends reunite under strange circumstances, they’re forced to face the consequences of their past, even if it means losing each other forever.
2020 Online New England Film Festival | Online New England Film Festival Local Premiere | Animation | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now |
Yellow Dress
Riss Goodwin is mother, wife, and a reinvented actress who resumes her dreams to get to Hollywood and become a famous actress. She is therefore excited to audition for Medea the Musical in Chinatown, an avant garde iteration with music. However with in-laws coming in five hours with a two hour audition process, counting traffic, she is severely pressed for time.
As she jumps into her work she hears “the wheels on the bus go round and round” and her world alters and she grows younger and younger. In this undesired memory, Riss becomes the child version of herself, Rachel. Rachel and her brother Sang Duk are paid off to be owned by an orphanage. The children scream for their father and the musicality of the screams push Rachel back to reality and Riss’s is surreal. Her eyes land on on the “wheels on the bus.” Riss fiercely turns the program off. She knows she must stay on task.
She looks around the house and grows sick by the mess a toddler can create. But with love for both her husband and son, she does her best to tidy up. Once she enters into Hosu’s (meaning lake in Korean) playroom, she grows envious by the abundance of his toys, books, and play items. She locates a book given to her at her baby shower, titled: BiBimBop – a Korean rice dish and takes a moment to read. She wants to wean away her ghosts.
However as she moves through the pages, she is jerked inside another memory. This time a ghastly series of events leave her naked with black and blue eyes. She is crying and in severe pain. Riss remembers this moment vividly. A friendly outcast brings Rachel clothes and carries her out.
We see Rachel shortly afterwards, staring in a mirror looking at herself in a ripped, tattered and stained yellow dress. She utters yellow dress, growing happier with each utterance. She smiles. Rachel sees herself for the very first time.
2020 Online New England Film Festival | Rhode Island International Film Festival | Drama | Rhode Island | Watch Online Now |
Trio
Two siblings struggle to coexist with their vice-riddled single mother.