Love, exciting and new! Friday night at the 2024 Cindependent Film Festival is all about the nervousness of asking someone out, unrequited love, trying to get back with an ex, and what happens when your second wife falls in love with your first. Total runtime: 97 minutes.
Date Night
What I Can’t Have
Saving Escape performs in the music video "What I Can't Have." The music video begins in an event center. The band performs their single in front of a group of people. As they play the song, light filters illuminate in different colors around Kala as she is pushed around the room in a wheelchair; balloons are attached to the handlebars.
Rerun
Struggling after a breakup, a young woman crafts elaborate fantasies of running into her ex, which her best friend helpfully shatters with doses of reality, derailing her attempts to find closure.
Therapist Crush
Soul-searching transmasculine Frankie has a crush on his hot, new therapist, until one day things get too real.
Get You Better
Based on true events; When an in-denial alcoholic is turned away from a treatment center for not being drunk enough, his estranged girlfriend must find a way to get him drunk to get him into rehab.
Physical Matters
A pair of married, marine scientists get the job of a lifetime; to dissect a freshly deceased blue whale. The issues that exist in their marriage seep into the project. And the gift this whale has to offer may not just be to science, but also matters of the heart.
For Giving
Jackie Minton’s original song with the same name, For Giving, tells a story of love chased after and love freely given.
Sisak
Set in the fast paced environs of a bustling Mumbai train, Sisak details a wordless romance that develops slowly and intoxicatingly. The story unfolds in the silences and quiet comforts of the train journeys between two men. Sisak is the result of the belief that if love knows no bounds, it need not be bound with words, either.
Sister Wives
Sister Wives is a multi-layered love story that tells the tale of young women living in a strict, fundamentalist, polygamous society in 2003 Utah, USA. Kaidence and Galilee find themselves bound to one another, under the same roof, in the same marriage, as they develop scary, new, exciting feelings for each other. In a harsh, regressive, watchful community where being queer is considered a cardinal sin, they begin having thoughts of leaving the only life they have ever known behind. Sister Wives will offer a vital perspective to the canon of coming-out films; at its core, it is a story of female friendship, of allyship, a story of exploration, both physical and psychological, as together they find the courage to dream in tandem, of a world beyond the walls.