Butt Cut Shorts: Comedy
Directors: Various
Magnolia :: Shorts Blocks
Crackers Director: Bo Webb / 3:20 Two strangers at a coffee shop share a table and more. Ask Ed Director: Wesley Brown / 1:33 When a real estate broker hires...
Nov. 15-19, 2023Downtown Wilmington, NC
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Buzz Repeat
Director: Who? Knows!
Documentary Features :: Magnolia
Who Knows?! Our annual buzz repeat goes to an audience favorite.
Cornrow Shorts: Docs 1
Directors: Various
Magnolia :: Shorts Blocks
Dear, Dreamer Director: Kristian Melom / 10:31 A lyrical portrait of the life and work of rising literary star Jason Reynolds. Enforcement Hours Director: Paloma Martinez / 13:04 In a...
Don’t Get Trouble In Your Mind
John Whitehead
Documentary Features :: Magnolia
A documentary portrait of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a string band from Raleigh, North Carolina, and their mentor, fiddler Joe Thompson (1919—2012). The film captures how three musicians from the...
Dr. Brinks & Dr. Brinks
Josh Crockett
Magnolia :: Narrative Features
After husband and wife aid workers, Dr. Brinks and Dr. Brinks, die in a plane crash, their grown children are reunited for the first time in years. It takes days...
Forbidden Games: The Justin Fashanu Story
Jon Carey, Adam Darke
Documentary Features :: Magnolia
In 1980, Justin Fashanu overcame tremendous obstacles, and began a meteoric rise to fame by becoming the best soccer player in the UK, leading a generation of black footballers through...
Frances Ferguson
Director: Bob Byington
Magnolia :: Narrative Features
Frances Ferguson, the eponymously named character at the center of Bob Byington’s new film, is discontent. Like a lot of us, she does a bit of “acting out” and pays...
High & Tight Shorts: Excellent
Directors: Various
Magnolia :: Shorts Blocks
"Out of Touch" by Slow Dance Director: Justin Lacy / 4:20 Drift through the woods and into the attic in this dream-like sequence inspired by the installation artwork of Sarah...
Hope Frozen
Director: Pailin Wedel
Documentary Features :: Magnolia
A two-year-old girl from Bangkok — nicknamed “Einz” — became the youngest person in the world to undergo cryo-preservation. After her death from brain cancer, her family stores her remains...
In Reality
Ann Lupo
Magnolia :: Narrative Features
Ann is consumed by the fantasy of finding true love. Just when she thinks she’s found it, she is friend-zoned. The disappointment of rejection sends her into an obsessive downward...