Erēmīta (Anthologies)

After being delayed a day, a flight attendant hurries home to commemorate a meaningful anniversary.

Ashley Connor and Joe Stankus’s latest quotidian miniature follows two brothers going grocery shopping together, musing on the products they come across, reminiscing about the past, and, finally, comparing notes on snickerdoodle recipes. - NYFF

The Backseat was made using a combination of documentary and fiction filmmaking techniques. We enlisted our own family members to portray versions of themselves and constructed a fictional situation in hopes of evoking very real conflicts and relationship dynamics. The performers, all of which are non-actors, were never given scripts or made aware of the full story-arc that we, as the directors, had pre-planned. Drawing inspiration from the direct cinema of the Maysles and fiction films like The Blair Witch Project, it is our intention to blur the viewer’s concept of reality and invite them into a world that feels real and honest while still providing the emotional beats and traditional plot elements of a conventional narrative.

A rocky relationship between a female couple forces them to spend the night apart.

A young Muslim man, Rami, who is engaged to a young woman named Sara. We soon discover that Sam is also involved on the side with a young male artist named Lee.

Left alone, Rami must decide if his love for Lee is strong enough to come out as a gay Muslim.

Sam Abbas documents the first public invitation to the Louvre Museum (Monday July 6, 2020) following an unprecedented four month closure.

An observation of labor during a home-birth.