Programs

Ann

Ciaran Creagh1h 41mIrelandEnglish Narrative Feature
Based on a true story. It's January 31st, 1984, and 15-year-old Ann is about to have a baby she's kept secret from her Irish-Catholic family and community. This is the story of the last day of her life, a girl alone and abandoned by society, by its prejudices, taboos, and traditions.

Benji's Hour

Gabriel Kahane1h 39mEnglish Narrative Feature
Benji is sentenced to three months of court-ordered community service, to be completed at a wig shop for cancer patients. Benji’s interest is piqued by his coworker Laura, the intensely private, cagey woman he works alongside daily. Benji and Laura discover they share a kindred spirit, and when Laura’s cancer becomes too violent to fight, Benji is faced with the most difficult question of them all: What now? It's a film that gives an honest peek into the often bleak (albeit exceedingly human) Upstate existence of Benji, his drug-addicted, alcoholic mother, absentee father, and the others in his orbit.

Black Barbie: A Documentary

Lagueria Davis1h 40mEnglish Documentary Feature
Love her or hate her, almost everyone has a Barbie story. Even if they don't have a story, there's a story as to why they don't have a story. In this film, we tell the story behind the first Black Barbie, because yes, she has a story too. It started with the filmmaker's 83-year-old aunt, Beulah Mae Mitchell, and a seemingly simple question, "Why not make a Barbie that looks like me?"

Cerebrum

Sébastien Blanc1h 37mEnglish Narrative Feature
After waking up from a year-long coma, an insecure young man must fight his controlling father in order to discover what really happened to his seemingly absent mother, as the true consequences of his past actions unravel before him.

Chasing Chasing Amy

Sav Rodgers1h 35mEnglish Documentary Feature
A documentary that examines the complex legacy of Kevin Smith's Chasing Amy (1997) on LGBTQ+ people and its life-saving impact on director Sav Rodgers.

Everybody Wants to be Loved (Alle wollen geliebt werden)

Katharina Woll2hGermanyGerman Narrative Feature
A blisteringly hot summer day. Psychotherapist Ina notices something is wrong with her. But she doesn't have time to worry about it: patients are waiting at the practice, her daughter is threatening to move in with her father, her boyfriend wants to emigrate to Finland, and her self-centered mother is celebrating her 70th birthday. Ina wants to please everyone. But then everything changes.

Fuzzy Head

Wendy McColm1h 29mEnglish Narrative Feature
Insomnia-ridden Marla is on the run after the murder of her mother. Now, Marla must confront her everlasting void to find out the truth of what really happened and at last, undo all that's been done.

Hayseed

Travis Burgess1h 47mEnglish Narrative Feature
After the shocking death of a small-town reverend, insurance investigator Leo Hobbins (Bill Sage) arrives at Emmaus Holy to interview the faithful congregation members. Sifting through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies over the next 24 hours, he attempts to solve the case with the help of the church secretary, Darlene Halsey (Ismenia Mendes).

Hundreds of Beavers

Mike Cheslik1h 48mEnglish Narrative Feature
In this 19th century, slapstick winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America's greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.

Join or Die

Rebecca Davis, Pete Davis1h 39mEnglish Documentary Feature
Join or Die is a film about why you should join a club—and why the fate of America depends on it. Follow the story of America's civic unraveling through the journey of Robert Putnam, whose legendary "Bowling Alone" research into American community decline may hold the answers to our democracy's present crisis.

Kindling

Connor O'Hara1h 33mEnglish Narrative Feature
Kindling follows a group of young men who return to their hometown in order to turn their friend's final days into a celebration of life and friendship.

Late Bloomers

Lisa Steen1h 32mEnglish Narrative Feature
An aimless 28-year-old Brooklynite lands in the hospital after drunkenly breaking her hip being stupid. An encounter with a cranky elderly Polish woman who speaks no English leads to a job caring for her. Neither likes it, but it's time to grow up.

Love Dump

Jason Avezzano52mEnglish Narrative Feature
The quirky owner of a refurbished trash shop, Jessica Dump, serendipitously meets a forlorn dog lawyer, Todd Barkley, and the two fall deeply in love... However, their love is put to the test when Jessica's quest to find her missing father forces her to look inward in this 'not-quite-Hallmark' romantic comedy.

Mad Cats

Reiki Tsuno1h 28mJapanJapanese (English Subtitles)Narrative Feature
Taka, a shiftless young man, sets off on a quest to find his brother Mune. Teaming up with a quirky new friend and an edgy, mysterious young girl along the way, Taka finds himself taking on a pack of vicious monster cats determined to execute unscrupulous pet shop owners.

Movie Theater Massacre

Ian Courtney1h 12mEnglish Narrative Feature
Jake, Wily, Rachel, Val, & Dan are employees at a movie theater. They enjoy working somewhere where they have the opportunity to discuss their favorite subject: movies. But the building’s owner, Harold, plans to sell off the property since moviegoing is dwindling and doesn't seem profitable anymore. Then, random people start disappearing, while simultaneously, strange, and unexplainable things begin happening. Will they live to see another movie?

Objects

Vincent Liota1h 4mEnglish Documentary Feature
'Objects' follows three unique people who have held onto things which have gained incredible meaning for them over decades. These objects are not things they flaunt. They are things that touch them secretly…a fifty-year-old clump of grass, a sweater that once belonged to French actress, and a forty-year old sugar egg.

PEACOCK (POU)

Jaco Minnaar1h 29mSouth AfricaEnglish Narrative Feature
POU (PEACOCK) is a South African gothic horror following the psychosexual journey of a young woman into the dark recesses of the Afrikaner psyche and its compromised past.

Peak Season

Steven Kanter, Henry Loevner1h 22mEnglish Narrative Feature
An emotionally adrift young woman forges an unexpected friendship with a wilderness guide when she and her fiancé take a summer holiday in Jackson Hole, WY.

Peggy

Brandon Guiles1h 10mEnglish Narrative Feature
After years of torment, Peggy finally gets revenge on all those who wronged her in the past. *This horror film is straight out of Midland, MI. Don't miss it's WORLD PREMIER at HHM!!!* **Director:** Brandon Guiles **Writers:** Brandon Guiles, Mark Ginter **Cinematographer:** Brandon Guiles **Producers:** Brandon Guiles, Mark Ginter, Bruce Falcon, Kevin Walter **Cast:** Tiffani Van Dorn, Brandon Guiles, Brian Williams, Katie Ososki, Bruce Falcon, Nathan Niinisto, Jeramey Mosher **Filmmakers scheduled to be in attendance.**

Starring Jerry As Himself

Law Chen1h 15mEnglish Documentary Feature
A family documents how their immigrant father Jerry, a recently retired Florida man, was recruited by the Chinese police to be an undercover agent, only to discover a darker truth.

Waiting For The Light To Change

Linh Tran1h 29mEnglish Narrative Feature
Over the course of a week-long wintertime beachside getaway, Amy, having recently undergone dramatic weight loss, finds herself wrestling between loyalty to her best friend Kim and her attraction to Kim’s new boyfriend. This film was shot in Michigan's Thumb Region around Port Austin. A nuanced film with cinematography as crisp as the cold air from Lake Huron in the winter.
Waiting For The Light To Change

Over the course of a week-long wintertime beachside getaway, Amy, having recently undergone dramatic weight loss, finds herself wrestling between loyalty to her best friend Kim and her attraction to Kim’s new boyfriend. This film was shot in Michigan's Thumb Region around Port Austin. A nuanced film with cinematography as crisp as the cold air from Lake Huron in the winter.

Youtopia

Scout Durwood1h 30mEnglish Narrative Feature
After a devastating breakup, an elder millennial inadvertently forms a hipster cult. When members start to disappear, the leader is confronted with the knowledge that her journey of self-discovery may trigger the end of civilization as we know it, forcing her to face her most challenging enemy yet: herself.