Eleanore Pienta

Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.

After eight-year-old Josephine accidentally witnesses a brutal assault, she begins acting out violently to protect herself. This emotional trauma leads to conflicts between her parents as they search for justice and a way to feel safe again.

Three seemingly disconnected stories unfold across New York City.

A young married couple tries to make a home out of a two room apartment. She's a dancer and needs a lot of space. He's a comedian and needs a lot of therapy. These things don't always fit so well. Behold love, despair, and fantasies of burning the place to the ground.

Taking place in real time, elementary school teacher Emily organizes a mixer of like-minded women, but an altercation between a woman from Emily’s past and the group leads to a volatile chain of events.

Eight-year-old Cal desperately craves attention from her childish father, and is prone to running away. John is a lonely widower whose life is filled with fear. When they meet one weekend in the shining woods of New England, their lives change forever.

In a quietly apocalyptic world a lonely woman discovers a small wooden door on the side of her body and must decide whether or not to open it.

Two would-be thieves forge a surprising relationship with an unexpected housesitter when they accidentally trap themselves in a house they just broke into.

A lonely American faces unrequited love on a farm commune in the south of France.

After breaking down in a stuck elevator, a new mom has a transformative experience.

A stop-motion documentary that asks men one of the crucial questions of our era: “What compels you to send pictures of your penis to non-consenting others?”

Madeline is an eccentric composer in the 1950's living a solitary life in the deep south. Her passion is creating a grand opus in which her music students have been assigned performance parts in. Madeline's world unravels when she is given a magical instrument that distorts her perception of reality and relationships.

A young lesbian kidnaps the child she nannies to try to satisfy her girlfriend's desire for domesticity.

Jackie Kimball is a normal 17-year-old girl - except that for as long as she can remember, she's been in love with her older brother Matthew. The two siblings rely on each other for friendship and support, but Matthew doesn't share his sister's feelings. When Matthew departs for college, Jackie sets out to meet other boys, and for the first time, must contend with life on her own.

An odd pregnant girl disrupts the lives of her campy recovering alcoholic mother and vulgar lesbian sister during a nervous breakdown.

A perpetual third wheel and awkward outsider, Joanna increasingly inserts herself into the relationship of her more charismatic roommate Isabel. The two women test each other's sexual and emotional boundaries in this surreal manifestation of jealous rivalry.

During a night at the strangest club on earth, DJ Douggpound learns the very real dangers of texting while DJing.

Dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance lounges about, passes gas, and bursts into bizarre dance routines while navigating outer space interludes, doctor boners, and a '90s-style girl group meltdown.

A guy basically can’t even right now with this breakup… and she literally has no idea…

The staff of a black hair salon fend off a strange new monster: white women intent on sucking the lifeblood from black culture.

Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?

A beautiful actress struggles to connect with her disfigured co-star on the set of a European auteur's English-language debut.

After their break-up, Mia has to return to her ex-girlfriend's apartment. This is going to be their very last moment together, before they say goodbye.

Doug and Valerie have made a mistake. Their hate-fueled obsession with the jerks downstairs — who always seem to be singing karaoke in a brownstone, who even does that? — recently led them to flee the city for Doug’s parents’ place upstate, giving up a great deal on a rent-stabilized apartment. Their friends are horrified, and regret is setting in. They start plotting their revenge— and before they know it, they’re staging an off-Broadway play starring their nemesis.

After years of being broken up, Adam and Meg meet once again to share a peculiar intimacy.

A dark comedy about David, a closeted preacher in the 1980s Deep South. After losing his lover and church, he inherits a Miami nightclub and faces his dangerous stepmother in a world that could be his ruin or rebirth.

A young man disappears amid talk of violence and demagoguery, leaving behind an obscure cache of letters, postcards, and notebooks.

A short film by Tori Pope.

A group of police cadets are mercilessly hazed as they suffer through the worst day of their training, their hell day.

A woman arrives at the hospital to visit the man she's dating, but in navigating her way to his bedside she begins to question whether she really belongs there.

A dark comedy about the only female employee in the warehouse of a sausage company who forms an unlikely bond with a stranger that throws both their lives into disarray, leaving them forever changed.

A metropolitan nightmare unfurls as a nervous cellist (Eleanore Pienta) cracks under pressure at an audition—and again, and again, and ... (courtesy of Film Society of Lincoln Center).

Felicia, a woman who is feeling uninspired by her filmmaking career and spiraling into a comedic depression, starts seeing a therapist, at her best friend Max’s recommendation. Soon, she becomes enamored with this new woman in her life, but when things eventually start to feel off, she wonders who this woman really is

A run in at a roadside bar between a repressed boy and a curious girl leads to an exploration of their darker impulses.

Ada is an unlikeable competitive walker who makes a dress out of toilet paper and has an unfortunate run-in with a hose.

A group of mismatched friends spend a weekend together in Maine.