Sex, Lies & Audiotape

Bowery Film Festival is proud to screen the following selections:

• A Little Sister

  Directed by Julie Deffet
  

  In Trump's America, a young woman meets her father, brother and their friends in a bar to celebrate her birthday. Among these four familiar men, she struggles to find her place.

• Be My Rebel

  Directed by Virgil Widrich
  

  Children dream of what they will be as adults and adults dream about their childhood. But sometimes, when orderly life becomes paralyzed in routine, adults need the inner child to bring about change: 'Be my rebel', the first collaboration of the two music legends Nena and Dave Stewart, premiered at Nenas 40th anniversary on stage. The accompanying video by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Virgil Widrich transfers the story into a dreamlike, glass mirror world that is powered by Dave Stewart at the controls of his classic modular synthesizers. At the typewriter: Nena as an annoyed bookkeeper, who threatens to disappear soon with her flower dress in her flower wallpaper. But the inner dialogue works in both directions and soon takes effect: rebellion changes the past – and thus also the future.

• Blackbetty

  Directed by Marco North
  

  BLACKBETTY is a miniature epic that examines a city under quarantine with a set of stories marked by their redemptive beauty and frank, gritty reality.

• Brian

  Directed by Logan J. Freeman
  

  A chance encounter with a former lover forces a broken man to confront his past.

• Brown Fish

  Directed by Troy Deutsch
  

  It all starts with a missing goldfish and a strange smell. Now a young woman's world spins out of control, as she goes to meet her friend in the park. BROWN FISH is a weird, dark, absurdist comedy about how easily we 'swallow' some truly crazy things.

• Can You Hear Me?

  Directed by Altagracia Diamond Abreu
  

  A girl unleashes a malevolent entity when she plays a cursed tape.

• Forgotten Country

  Directed by Eric Unverzagt
  

  Two grieving siblings break into the house of the doctor they believe didn't provide enough care for their recently deceased brother. Things go wrong when the doctor comes home unexpectedly.

• Occupied

  Directed by Ella May Sahlman
  

  A glimpse into the drama that takes place in the stalls of a GENDER NEUTRAL restroom. You never know what will go down in a bathroom.

• Open

  Directed by DT Sheridan
  

  Open takes a momentarily look at two relationships that are undoubtedly entwined. Francesca is the lover of Ken, a man married in an open relationship. Krystal, his wife, invites Francesca out for a drink for a 'casual' chat. Their encounter will reveal the truth that lies behind this idyllic triangle. It's a tale of love, possession and obsession.

• Sex Crystals (by Lord Fascinator)

  Directed by Brendan Burke and Johnny MacKay
  

  Sex Crystals happens in a world of savoury landscapes, where dinosaurs disco and paradigms shift under the guidance of Lord Fascinator and his fellow travelers. An alternate creation story from The Church of Fascintology.

• Subverse

  Directed by Joseph White
  

  SUBVERSE is a sci-fi web-series about the dark side of the Internet. Addiction. Dating. Privacy. Public shaming.

• Twice at Once

  Directed by Amos Efrat
  

  A dysfunctional married couple begin to explore unorthodox methods of intimacy with unusual results.