2023 Day 3 – Block 2

Bowery Film Festival is proud to screen the following selections:

• Dave & Alice Want to Have Sex

  Directed by Kyle Sauer
  

  Engaged couple, Dave and Alice, stumble home from a late night out determined to break their five month dry spell.

• Beach Day

  Directed by Robin Johnson
  

  A newlywed unwinds with a solo day at the beach full of peculiar activities.

• Hot Mess!

  Directed by Andrew Kallimani, Olivia Benedict
  

  Hot Mess! is a comedy about a couple, Tonya and Chase, who are amidst a heat wave in New York City while having a heated conversation. Tonya longs for the intimate moments they once had, all while Chase is looking for intimacy in other places and not in the way you think. After Tonya attempts to spice up the relationship, she discovers her man-child boyfriend Chase is cuddling strangers through an app called "Cuddle Buddies NYC."

• Perfectly Good Moment

  Directed by Lauren Greenhall
  

  This psychosexual thriller asks the question: what happens when the things that make your relationship passionate and exciting are the same things that make it toxic? Ruby and David have been together on-and-off for 8 years, since she was 19 and he 34. Six months after Ruby last ran out on him, she has returned. Once the initial bliss of the reunion wears off, old toxic patterns re-emerge. Is David too demanding and controlling or is Ruby just too sensitive? Is Ruby as delicate and demure as she appears to be…or is there something more sinister behind the surface? Why did Ruby really come back? Perfectly Good Moment is Lauren Greenhall's narrative directorial debut. It features Broadway star Stephen Carlile in his cinematic debut and Amanda Jane Stern (1 Angry Black Man, Lifetime's Amish Witches). It marks Stern's first feature screenwriting credit, and boasts an original score by Mdou Moctar's Mikey Coltun.