Speyer Hall – Block One

Bowery Film Festival is proud to screen the following selections:

• Geraldine

  Directed by Eduardo Lytton
  

  After seeing a dog will itself across the road to survive after a car crash, Goth teenager Geraldine has to answer the question for herself: Will she get up and fight to live or lay her head down and die?

• I Mustache You

  Directed by Shara Ashley Zeiger
  

  I Mustache You is a silent physical comedy about Abby, an agoraphobic who receives an invitation to love, self acceptance, and the outside world.

• SOLD

  Directed by Chris Thompson
  

  A Downtown Artist struggles with his newly found sobriety.

• Breakfast at the Bodega

  Directed by Marina Elise
  

  A talented young Brooklynite/Palestinian-American attempts to live out his dreams of becoming a French pastry chef despite his first-generation father's wishes. Struggling to fill his first big order for a gig, tensions arise when the father forbids him from using their family bodega to cook.

• HomeBound

  Directed by Usher Morgan
  

  Agoraphobia: "extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult." ​HomeBound is the story of Jamie Rockwell, a woman burdened by severe agoraphobia. After losing her therapy dog, she must muster the courage within, not only to find her dog, but ultimately, to find herself.

• The Essex Market – A Day in the Life

  Directed by Lisa Pharoah & Roger Ingraham
  

  This short documentary is about my relationship with the Essex Market on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I moved to New York in 2019 and this was my local food market, but I began to appreciate it was so much more than that. Relationships slowly developed with the vendors during the pandemic and they gradually turned into friendships. The Market is a vibrant and diverse community that, as an English immigrant woman, began to feel like home. I felt compelled to celebrate the community I found there.