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Cat Sticks
A pack of Calcutta youths seek greater lust and life in their relentless pursuit of Brown Sugar (dirty heroin)... and it’s unsustainable high.
Cat Sticks
A pack of Calcutta youths seek greater lust and life in their relentless pursuit of Brown Sugar (dirty heroin)... and it’s unsustainable high.
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Newly Added
Check out what's new this month on Slamdance.
Newly Added
Check out what's new this month on Slamdance.
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Join Slamdance in celebrating our AAPI talent this month!
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Join Slamdance in celebrating our AAPI talent this month!
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Taipei Suicide Story
A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei, Taiwan forms a fleeting friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can't decide if she wants to live or die.
Taipei Suicide Story
A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei, Taiwan forms a fleeting friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can't decide if she wants to live or die.
Newly Added
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On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. Cat Sticks weaves their stories into a chiaroscuro, traverses with...
Cat Sticks

Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award for Narrative Feature + Acting Award for Tender Huang
A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei, Taiwan forms a fleeting friendship over the course o...
Taipei Suicide Story

Blending autobiographical monologues, intimate conversations, and staged performances, Lynne Sachs’ Your Day Is My Night documents the lives of Chinese immigrants sharing a “shift-bed” apartment...
Your Day Is My Night

“Walls of Sand,” directed by Erica Jordan, is notable for being the first contemporary feature film to be available in its entirety on the internet. The story follows a unique friendship between a...
Walls of Sand
Asian Heritage Month
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Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award for Narrative Feature + Acting Award for Tender Huang
A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei, Taiwan forms a fleeting friendship over the course o...
Taipei Suicide Story

Blending autobiographical monologues, intimate conversations, and staged performances, Lynne Sachs’ Your Day Is My Night documents the lives of Chinese immigrants sharing a “shift-bed” apartment...
Your Day Is My Night

On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. Cat Sticks weaves their stories into a chiaroscuro, traverses with...
Cat Sticks

After the fall of Saigon, millions of Vietnamese “boat people” escaped their homeland by sea in a desperate attempt to find refuge. Hundreds of thousands were eventually accepted into the United S...
Seadrift

A documentary portrait of a man, with ascetic origins, who has been radically transformed by city life.
Sadhu in Bombay

Human Helper is a sci-fi comedy short about a doctor's mission to make artificially intelligent human-like helpers not ableist.
Human Helper

Grand Jury Prize for Unstoppable.
A father struggles to connect with his son, who grows to love a language not native to his tongue.
The Bin

Known as the Slam Collective, seven Slamdance filmmakers from different continents come together to make "I Want to be an American," Slamdance's first documentary feature. In the spirit of the surrea...
I Want To Be An American

Two middle-aged Japanese men, a hubristic musician and his stoic companion, travel aboard a wheeled canoe on abandoned train tracks along the Southern coast of Korea. They fall into an ambush set by a...
The Troubled Troubadour

“Walls of Sand,” directed by Erica Jordan, is notable for being the first contemporary feature film to be available in its entirety on the internet. The story follows a unique friendship between a...
Walls of Sand
Narrative Features
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On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. Cat Sticks weaves their stories into a chiaroscuro, traverses with...
Cat Sticks

Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award for Narrative Feature + Acting Award for Tender Huang
A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei, Taiwan forms a fleeting friendship over the course o...
Taipei Suicide Story

“Walls of Sand,” directed by Erica Jordan, is notable for being the first contemporary feature film to be available in its entirety on the internet. The story follows a unique friendship between a...
Walls of Sand

In a split-second between life and death, teenager Myeisha Jackson crosses over into a hip-hop musical dreamscape and witnesses her life, what it was and what might have been.
My Name is Myeisha

Seventeen-year-old Iva is in the process of coming to terms with the death of her mother. Influenced by this deep personal loss and by the discovery that she didn’t know everything about her mom, th...
History of Love

Fiona lives on the coastal islands surrounding a small city on the north-western coast of Norway, where she takes care of her intellectually disabled brother Tom. Over a few life-changing summer month...
Hurry Slowly

Donna has recently been convicted of “Driving While Impaired” and is ordered to perform community service at the local animal shelter. When an elderly dog is scheduled to be euthanized, Donna deci...
Murmur

Hell goes animated as apocalyptic graphic novel artwork and eerie Victorian toy theater converge in this subversively satiric update of a literary classic. Reinterpreted with the use of intricately ha...
Dante's Inferno
Documentary Features
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Blending autobiographical monologues, intimate conversations, and staged performances, Lynne Sachs’ Your Day Is My Night documents the lives of Chinese immigrants sharing a “shift-bed” apartment...
Your Day Is My Night

After the fall of Saigon, millions of Vietnamese “boat people” escaped their homeland by sea in a desperate attempt to find refuge. Hundreds of thousands were eventually accepted into the United S...
Seadrift

A 7-foot-tall fundamentalist Baptist minister, Markie Wenzel made the decision at age 46 to come out as a transgender woman and start living as female. It was a decision that ended her 20-year marriag...
Markie in Milwaukee

Desolation Center is the previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have inspired Burning Man, Lollap...
Desolation Center

You Never Had It - An Evening with Bukowski is a documentary from director Matteo Borgardt that transports you back to January 1981 for an intimate evening conversation with legendary writer and poet ...
You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski

Emily Hagins has been watching and making movies since she was a small child. Now, a bit older at age 12, she recruits the aid of her supportive parents to produce, direct, shoot and edit her first fe...
Zombie Girl: The Movie

Known as the Slam Collective, seven Slamdance filmmakers from different continents come together to make "I Want to be an American," Slamdance's first documentary feature. In the spirit of the surrea...
I Want To Be An American

When punk rock exploded in D.C. in the late 1970s, it was a mighty convergence of powerful music, inter-generational friendships, and clear minds. Punk the Capital captures that transformative period,...
Punk The Capital
The War at Home tells the story of the 1960s resistance to the U.S. war in Vietnam and how it transformed one American city into a battleground where U.S. foreign policy abroad and American values at ...
The War At Home

The halny wind, blowing several times a year in the Podhale region, is one of the most unpredictable elements in the Polish Tatra mountains. You never know if, and when it will turn into a destructive...
The Wind: A Documentary Thriller

In June of 1969, the fourth Memphis Country Blues Festival took place at the city’s famed Overton Park Band Shell. Fueled by the rediscovery of blues artists like Furry Lewis and Mississippi Fred Mc...
Memphis '69: The 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival
Unstoppable All Year
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After moving across the country, a young girl gets more than a best friend when her parents let her adopt a dog.
Best Friend

A$$ Level is a comedic music video that celebrates life with a disability while paying homage to 90s dance videos.
A$$ Level

Human Helper is a sci-fi comedy short about a doctor's mission to make artificially intelligent human-like helpers not ableist.
Human Helper

Grand Jury Prize for Unstoppable.
A father struggles to connect with his son, who grows to love a language not native to his tongue.
The Bin
Animation
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Hell goes animated as apocalyptic graphic novel artwork and eerie Victorian toy theater converge in this subversively satiric update of a literary classic. Reinterpreted with the use of intricately ha...
Dante's Inferno

Utilizing archival footage and stop-motion animation, Black Dog is set during the US and USSR space race of the 1960's amidst a time of heated social and political tension. Two brothers must deal with...
Black Dog

While traveling on an intergalactic highway, an alien picks up an earthling sci-fi movie trailer featuring a CGI alien who looks just like him. Believing this is his true calling, the alien travels t...
Zorg II

In this stop-motion horror short, a couple enlists the aid of a mysterious figure to help them with their seemingly insurmountable laundry problem.
Washed

"The well-springs were deeper and less detectable, deeper and shallower both, look at billboards and matchbooks, trademarks on products, birthmarks on bodies, look at the behavior of your pets." Don D...
Now 2
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Beatriz is a teenager from Argentina that, after her mother’s death, finds herself moving to Brazil to an absent father. In a concert, she meets Rogério, a musician in his late 30’s, struggling u...
Boni Bonita

Hell goes animated as apocalyptic graphic novel artwork and eerie Victorian toy theater converge in this subversively satiric update of a literary classic. Reinterpreted with the use of intricately ha...
Dante's Inferno

Desolation Center is the previously untold story of a series of early 80s guerrilla music and art performance happenings in Southern California that are recognized to have inspired Burning Man, Lollap...
Desolation Center

Seventeen-year-old Iva is in the process of coming to terms with the death of her mother. Influenced by this deep personal loss and by the discovery that she didn’t know everything about her mom, th...
History of Love

Fiona lives on the coastal islands surrounding a small city on the north-western coast of Norway, where she takes care of her intellectually disabled brother Tom. Over a few life-changing summer month...
Hurry Slowly

Known as the Slam Collective, seven Slamdance filmmakers from different continents come together to make "I Want to be an American," Slamdance's first documentary feature. In the spirit of the surrea...
I Want To Be An American

A 7-foot-tall fundamentalist Baptist minister, Markie Wenzel made the decision at age 46 to come out as a transgender woman and start living as female. It was a decision that ended her 20-year marriag...
Markie in Milwaukee

In June of 1969, the fourth Memphis Country Blues Festival took place at the city’s famed Overton Park Band Shell. Fueled by the rediscovery of blues artists like Furry Lewis and Mississippi Fred Mc...
Memphis '69: The 1969 Memphis Country Blues Festival

Donna has recently been convicted of “Driving While Impaired” and is ordered to perform community service at the local animal shelter. When an elderly dog is scheduled to be euthanized, Donna deci...
Murmur

In a split-second between life and death, teenager Myeisha Jackson crosses over into a hip-hop musical dreamscape and witnesses her life, what it was and what might have been.
My Name is Myeisha

When punk rock exploded in D.C. in the late 1970s, it was a mighty convergence of powerful music, inter-generational friendships, and clear minds. Punk the Capital captures that transformative period,...
Punk The Capital

After the fall of Saigon, millions of Vietnamese “boat people” escaped their homeland by sea in a desperate attempt to find refuge. Hundreds of thousands were eventually accepted into the United S...
Seadrift

The halny wind, blowing several times a year in the Podhale region, is one of the most unpredictable elements in the Polish Tatra mountains. You never know if, and when it will turn into a destructive...
The Wind: A Documentary Thriller
The War at Home tells the story of the 1960s resistance to the U.S. war in Vietnam and how it transformed one American city into a battleground where U.S. foreign policy abroad and American values at ...
The War At Home

You Never Had It - An Evening with Bukowski is a documentary from director Matteo Borgardt that transports you back to January 1981 for an intimate evening conversation with legendary writer and poet ...
You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski

Emily Hagins has been watching and making movies since she was a small child. Now, a bit older at age 12, she recruits the aid of her supportive parents to produce, direct, shoot and edit her first fe...
Zombie Girl: The Movie

Blending autobiographical monologues, intimate conversations, and staged performances, Lynne Sachs’ Your Day Is My Night documents the lives of Chinese immigrants sharing a “shift-bed” apartment...
Your Day Is My Night

Grand Jury Prize & Audience Award for Narrative Feature + Acting Award for Tender Huang
A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei, Taiwan forms a fleeting friendship over the course o...
Taipei Suicide Story

On a rainy night in Calcutta a group of desperate addicts chase brown sugar, but the permanent intoxication they seek proves elusive. Cat Sticks weaves their stories into a chiaroscuro, traverses with...
Cat Sticks
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A$$ Level is a comedic music video that celebrates life with a disability while paying homage to 90s dance videos.
A$$ Level

May 2017. The city of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, is the theatre of the mythic Crawfish Festival. It’s just another day in America.
Acadiana

Set during the decline and fall of the consumerist empire, a filthy garbage-picker is retained as a personal slave by a wealthy ultra-consumer still worshipping at the temple of a life he once knew.
Ape Sodom

During the 1990’s in ex-Yugoslavia a war rages. A husband and wife try to escape their besieged town but there’s an improvised barricade blocking the road. In attempt to get past it, they make up ...
Autumn Waltz

While sitting on the toilet one November morning, Ben Boyer receives a Jungian lesson on archetypal marketing.
Ben Boyer and the Phenomenology of Automobile Branding

After moving across the country, a young girl gets more than a best friend when her parents let her adopt a dog.
Best Friend

Grand Jury Prize for Unstoppable.
A father struggles to connect with his son, who grows to love a language not native to his tongue.
The Bin

Utilizing archival footage and stop-motion animation, Black Dog is set during the US and USSR space race of the 1960's amidst a time of heated social and political tension. Two brothers must deal with...
Black Dog

Concerning three groups of children from disparate upbringings, A Black Hole is a Black Hole in the Ground intimately depicts the strange, ephemeral realities that arise on evenings of play, when dime...
A Black Hole is a Black Hole in the Ground

Struggling with New York living, Dana Schapiro decides to move, saying goodbye to a neighborhood that can barely remember who she is....
Goodbye, Brooklyn

Human Helper is a sci-fi comedy short about a doctor's mission to make artificially intelligent human-like helpers not ableist.
Human Helper

"The well-springs were deeper and less detectable, deeper and shallower both, look at billboards and matchbooks, trademarks on products, birthmarks on bodies, look at the behavior of your pets." Don D...
Now 2

92 year old Ruth Young, clad in newspaper shin guards and a paisley headscarf, begins to contemplate her inevitable death, but she has no intention of slowing down. Accompanied by her jolly 53 year ol...
Old Young

One Nation Under is an investigation into what it means to be an American, questioning idyllic notions of freedom and power by observing the structures around us and hearing from the people overshadow...
One Nation Under

A boy playing in his backyard begins to exhibit signs of a disturbing physical ability. His parents invite the neighbors over to enact a peculiar rite-of-passage ceremony that will assimilate the boy ...
Our Boy

Ready for Love covers a decade of a woman's life, as told only through her own video submissions to be a contestant on The Bachelor.
Ready For Love

A documentary portrait of a man, with ascetic origins, who has been radically transformed by city life.
Sadhu in Bombay

Tabby is taken by surprise when her date Patrick abruptly reveals his odd bedroom quirk. She's initially put off, but soon finds herself feeling a little ambivalent, even intrigued.
That Thing

Two middle-aged Japanese men, a hubristic musician and his stoic companion, travel aboard a wheeled canoe on abandoned train tracks along the Southern coast of Korea. They fall into an ambush set by a...
The Troubled Troubadour

‘A WALK DOWN TO WATER’ follows an immigrant employee working at a rural motel after he discovers that a guest has passed away in one of the rooms. While he waits for an ambulance to arrive and lif...
A Walk Down To Water

In this stop-motion horror short, a couple enlists the aid of a mysterious figure to help them with their seemingly insurmountable laundry problem.
Washed

While traveling on an intergalactic highway, an alien picks up an earthling sci-fi movie trailer featuring a CGI alien who looks just like him. Believing this is his true calling, the alien travels t...