Neurotypical looks at autism from within, as its own culture to be accepted and appreciated, and ultimately broadens the concept of what it means to be human.
Rooftop Films, indieWIRE, and Snag Films celebrate our 15 year anniversaries with a special sneak preview of this apocalyptic love story for the Mad Max generation. ...
A dynamic documentary about indie wrestling and a live demo of the daring escapades.
With colorful strokes, Franco “The Great” Gastin has been painting murals on the storefront roll-down gates in Harlem’s 125th St. for 40 years. Now rezoning...
Meet Magick Balay, who runs a midtown Manhattan magic shop by day, and at night performs his own legerdemain at clubs and private parties. A close-up portrait of a...
On the last days of the summer holidays, a grandfather and his grandson try to reach an understanding of each other, surrounded by the wild nature of the Bieszczady...
A Short film about War is a narrative documentary artwork made entirely from information found on the worldwide web. In ten minutes viewers are taken around the...
Bushwick hip-hoppers Nine 11 Thesaurus draw a crowd that becomes a spontaneous parade when they break out the music, while crossing the Brooklyn Bridge.
An evil signal appears in the form of a Dutch TV show to bewitch and possess young girls and boys making them think they can shape-shift into other people and...
In this wry comedy starring actual ex-roommates (and Office cast members), when Zach decides to move out, Andy tries to set up a new life without his best friend....
The film is a story of a mother and her son Lubos who lives in a world turned upside-down, or, arsy-versy. Lubos broke free from the world as generally conceived by...
One of the Russian army's last existing outposts, seen through the young eyes of a 19-year-old rookie. In the midst of the vast and frozen nothingness, and more than...
A nuanced, visually inventive vista of young life in Albuquerque, Bad Posture follows Flo as he seeks to make amends—and make a connection—with Marisa, a...
A group of people in Rooftop’s beloved Brooklyn come together to fight the Atlantic Yards Project—a massive real estate development that threatens to destroy...
(NY Premiere) Bayou Black takes us through a day in the life of Willy Jones, a single father in southern Louisiana struggling to make a living. He traps Nutria,...
An 8 bit bear and an 8 bit hunter were once deeply in love…but not anymore. Winner of the Youtube Play Festival.
Before there was Jackass...before there was Tom Green...there was Ralph Zavadil.
Rooftop Films, indieWIRE, and Snag Films celebrate our 15 year anniversaries with a special sneak preview of this apocalyptic love story for the Mad Max generation. ...
"My graduation film at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design.A debt to my childhood and other lives I hope I lived. Inspired by words of songs that I admire."
This ingenious animation uses the city as its canvas in a short unscientific story about evolution and its possible consequences.
Sometimes an iPhone makes your life that little bit harder...
Over the course of four seasons, nuances of everyday activity are examined along one narrow stretch of public shoreline on New York City's Broad Channel Island....
A tender and detailed portrait of a young, homeless couple in their first year on the streets of Hollywood as they attempt to find a better life. g
A post-moral tale of self-obsession, finery and the ephemeral nature of oppression, set in the steamy belly of a creaking ancient galleon. When the libertines crack...
"I need a baby gonna shut the fuck up when mama gets up to get down." How many people does it take?
A tongue in cheek music video sung by a crack whore with a gold tooth. unraval.com
Deaths. In old games. Set to a MIDI homage to Mad World.
A story of temptation and pursuit in a public pool, where for the newest lifeguard, the mundane quickly becomes mysterious, leading us into a fable of impossible...
Premiering on Gay Pride weekend, this playful send-up of 1950's sci-fi follows a group of lesbian extraterrestrials banished to Earth because their feelings of love...
Starring filmmakers and comedy duo Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal, this docu-comedy series follows the pair as they travel across America, developing and producing...
A short note about Earth and a gentleman of our times.
Two rambunctious mutts upset the order of a robot-run metropolis in this ultra-kinetic future fantasy.
Returning to the New Jersey projects with a crew of his friends, Markees, an African-American twenty-something, finds his stepfather passed out drunk in his building...
"Crooked Beauty is that rare breed of film that is both a socially relevant documentary while at the same time a work of artistic beauty. The combination is...
After serving 3 years in prison, Andre returns to the home of his ex-girlfriend, Sheila. Hoping to rekindle their relationship and re-connect with the 5 year-old...
An epic quest through the streets of New York City in the style of videogames from the 1980s.
Ben is meeting his girlfriend, Sophie, in an airport hotel room. He can't stay long, and he can't let his hands touch her.
The player is drawn into the world of Dead Island on the brink of a mysterious epidemic that suddenly, and without warning, breaks out on the fictional island of...
Piotr “Mad” Korczak is a legendary mountain climber who revolutionized the art of mountain and rock climbing and figured out how to scale some of the most...
The life dance of a mother and son, above and under water.
Between inner-city Detroit and Arab America, Sami works behind the bulletproof glass of a twenty-four-hour gas station. When the beautiful Najlah walks in, Sami’s...
A young woman is given cryptic warnings and photographed from afar. zacharyvolker.com
A fight between an 8-bit superhero and a high-def boss, in a retro-gaming world
One surly kid with a sling shot accidentally unleashes a cataclysmic chain reaction in this mordant imagining of a whoops apocalypse. houseofchai.net
Erica Wexler's Facebook is a work of art. There is a constant influx of wall posts from her Facebook friends asking questions—and Erica's great about responding,...
A dynamic documentary about indie wrestling and a live demo of the daring escapades.
Luridly fascinating and darkly comic, Family Instinct is unlike any film you have seen before: a verite pseudo-documentary comedy about an isolated town in rural...
This dizzy trip through the mid-1990s is a crumpled letter from a filmmaker to his family: a shattered kaleidoscope of the destructive patterns that have trapped and...
While looking at pictures from a time when he was rather miserable, the filmmaker remarks how nice it all looked, and lets the old home movies convince him that...
While skiing in Prospect Park – after THE blizzard - Todd Bieber found a lost roll of film in the snow, and made it his mission to find the owner. His wry...
Todd Bieber’s quest to find the owner of a lost roll of film becomes a global cause, as thousands who’ve viewed his YouTube video (aka Part 1) connect with him...
Todd Bieber’s search for the owner of the famous lost film roll leads to a European road trip that culminates in Paris – and an (almost) Hollywood ending.
It’s not easy being heart-broken, down on your luck, and out on your own in New York City—particularly when you’re a Grade A jerk. Rooftop presents the World...
Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink...
A meditation on a shopping mall in decline, evoking our individual experiences in these seemingly soulless collective spaces and exploring the social changes of a...
On a train ride through book, a developing industrial region springs to life in a dazzling re-animation.
"It's strange to have an intimate artifact from someone you didn't really know and weren't that close to. Such a thing happened to me when I came to possess my...
75 different artists combined their talents (and styles) for this crazy-quilt remake of an Oscar-nominated short. plymptoons.com
Hundreds of workers descend on Guañape Sur off the coast of Peru to harvest the excrement of the island birds, hardened over the course of 11 many years by the...
In a dynamic bit of spontaneous street art, a crazed doomsayer ranting underneath a Brooklyn subway track brings to life his worst nightmares—and the crowd loves...
HELIOTROPES documents the parallel goals of man and nature, through the most primitive and sophisticated means, to simply stay in the light. Based on the poem by...
The worst day in the worst life of the worst guidance counselor in America.
What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-by-nine-foot cell for over thirty years dream of?
Two of China’s first and most daring citizen reporters challenge the status quo by reporting on censored news and pushing the boundaries of free speech.
Matt and Harry receive an invitation to see a fellow employees band. To escape the awkward coffee shop performance, Matt comes up with a somewhat decent excuse.
Visitors from a distant place appear in the misty swamps of Northern Finland. Their foreign presence unwittingly disrupts the pace of local habits. They have come to...
Signs of life for this man may very well exist on the Moon.
Indie Game: The Movie is a feature documentary about video games, their creators and the craft. It examines independent game developers as a way to understand the...
Helmut celebrates his 60th birthday on the day he is actually turning 57 (his wife miscalculated) as a façade of petit-bourgeois domesticity peels away.
JESUS WAS A COMMIE presents modern society with questions and leads the audience on a dialectical journey. The film challenges the viewer to seek their own answers...
John sells things online, cheats off dollar stores, needs friends but settles for strangers, has roaches. John is punch drunk, not with love but with something far...
A haunted meteorologist dreams of storms that are both closer and further away than he thought. His unshakable bravado is undone through fast winds and high pressure...
For one eventful year, Emily James was allowed unprecedented access to film the secretive world of environmental direct action. Two years later, Just Do It – a...
During the Rwandan genocide, when neighbors killed neighbors and friends betrayed friends, some crossed lines of hatred to protect each other.
Enzo returns from prison to reunite with his faithful Mary, but all is not as it seems in this one of a kind love story of two outsiders in the underworld of Genoa.
A middle-aged lady on a holiday in the sun tries to make new friends and have a good time. The role is played by a one-year-old girl (Johannes’ daughter); the rest...
The third in a series of films about two adventurers in an old-school fantasy video game. Ledo, the tiny 8-bit heroine, has been obsessively upgrading her weapons...
The third in a series of films about two adventurers in an old-school fantasy video game. Ledo, the tiny 8-bit heroine, has been obsessively upgrading her weapons...
By his early 20s, gifted musician Greg Garing had played with all the greats on the Nashville Opry scene. They all called him The Kid. Now he’s 43, and battling a...
Shot on location in Chernobyl, Let Them Believe follows three artists plotting to steal a carnival ride from the radioactive zone. The film uses footage documenting...
Adrift at sea in this Liars music video, a man finds land . . . and can’t get rid of it.
For thousands of years, humanity has watched the sun with a mixture of fear and awe, believing without knowing why, that our lives depend on its mysterious...
The story of a man experiencing his life—and his love—in reverse. Living in the past can be painful. worldofarthurcox.com
The driving pulse of transformation reveals moments of terror and beauty amidst images familiar and domestic.
Again, birds and people don't make the best mates. But the sight is delightful.
Love Lockdown is a short documentary inspired by the impassioned phone calls and shout-outs made to prisoners on Lockdown Love, a popular late-night radio show in...
There are moments that have the potential to change a life's course—that look on the subway, that flicker of attraction at the café, the one that got away. This...
An examination of the mythologies found in fan culture, from longing and obsession to psychic connections and Celine Dion covers.
A man spends his time lying on his bed. His only company is a spider that dangles from the ceiling and a rat that watches him from a hole in the wall. Based on David...
The last of the particles. Divisible, indivisible...
Following a bitter break-up, Leo's best friend takes him out to meet a new woman and 'get over' his ex.
Minecraft is an independent videogame about placing blocks to build anything you can imagine. Brett Sanders, a college student in Florida, created a beautiful 9-mile...
Over the past year, the computer game Minecraft has become a cultural phenomenon, drawing millions of players into the unique, low-res world created solely by...
Another man, another bathroom, another epic, hairy battle. Courtesy of Autour De Minuit.
One dog-eat-dog world is just a speck on the surface of another – which in turn exists inside another. And so on, in a riot of color and ordered chaos.
A short story about my mother reminiscing over her prized childhood possession: a big red purse in the shape of a triangle.
A black comedy that explores obsession, self-righteousness, and the perverse allure of victimhood in New Haven, Connecticut.
Rory Lepine gives a personal account of his fateful and infamous encounter with The Guess Who's legendary lead singer, Burton Cummings, in a Winnipeg 7-Eleven in...
Neptune, in a true display of his personality, prank calls the other planets.
Neurotypical looks at autism from within, as its own culture to be accepted and appreciated, and ultimately broadens the concept of what it means to be human.
The story of Nick and Joey, two best friends living in the crumbling landscape of rural Florida, whose lives and friendship are changed by the journey to find Joey's...
A little robot born on Mars. The introverted scientist who created it. A meta-fictional re-telling of NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission, discovering a story about...
Framed against a bleak and unforgiving winter, three families live paycheck to paycheck in the northwoods of Michigan. Debts loom, children grow, marriages endure.
It’s just a man and his dog, walking through woods and farmland – but starkly beautiful images make this a visual event.
Ola Salo, front man for Swedish glam rock band The Ark is used to strutting his stuff in gold lamé, so taking a year off to lead the Malmö Opera’s revival of...
Part disaster film, part Freudian animation, Once It Started… bears witness to a series of absurd and horrible disasters that strike an American high school,...
On May 12, 2008, the biggest earthquake in Chinese history occurred in the filmmaker's hometown of Wenchuan. In a beautifully austere hybrid of documentary footage,...
An all-white town. Its black native son. Worlds collide. Witness the melodrama and hijinks fueling the annual Oscar Micheaux Film Festival in Gregory, South Dakota.
A real estate agent encounters a slump late in his career. Exhibiting questionable behaviour, he struggles to find balance between his professional obligations and...
In this neo-noir western thriller, Peter may outrun his killer, over and over and over, but can he escape from nowhere?
Lloyd Gills, a lonely Peeping Tom, falls in love with the woman of his dreams. Too bad he’s been hired to kill her.
Young Peter lies in bed, pretending to be asleep. His parents are worried that he’s become too attached.
The video on the left consists of a loop of actual war footage taken from cameras mounted on American military aircraft. The footage on the right is from the popular...
Prom night is ritual, disco balls, expectation, corsages, dresses, holding, sweating, status, entering in twos, balloons, school gyms, dancing slow and fast.
The experiment was (almost) a success: protomatter exists! But… chemagarcia.com
A triptych for the age of austerity, as mournful and mysterious as deep space itself. Meant to be screened by 1 projector, 3, 9, 33, or (ideally) 99 projectors at...
For Emmy Award-winning documentarian Carlos Puga (True Life, MTV), three months' access to The Hell's Satans (Richmond, Virginia's premier moped gang) produced...
The most beautiful planet deconstructed, played with, put back together again.
Full breath ahead into the final sleep. A lullaby for a silent decline.
In a post-industrial world, nature creeps back into control, as a former waste-water canal running through a former mining area is transformed into a green river....
A fierce Swedish comedy about a group of guerrilla musicians who break into banks, hospitals, and power plants, performing anarchistic concerts with instruments made...
The absurd glitz and glamour of the Las Vegas skyline is morphed into an artificial, slick and poetic vision, reminiscent of science fiction, with jewelry-like...
Bert's scantily dressed neighbour, Klaasje, comes by to borrow a cup of sugar. Then things get steadily, comically, worse.
When both their children are diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder, a Navajo couple uncovers a hidden link between their disease and American colonialism.
Real in-game footage from the SNES release of Academy-Award winning motion picture 'There Will Be Blood', starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano. Crafted by...
Buildings from the Soviet era get a life of their own in a dream-like fashion.
Rocky Salemmo makes his living as a bowling alley hustler. It’s not for the money. It’s about the feeling of winning. Or so he says in this colorfully candid...
Two musicians on the verge of abandoning hope drive across the country armed with a guitar, a broken heart and an arsenal of children’s instruments.
Rooftop alum Rohal’s madcap story about Father William Smoortser, who drops his bible into a toilet at a rest stop just before embarking on a day-long canoe trip,...
For thousands of years, the night sky was a crucial part of human experience, but due to light pollution, the stars are disappearing from our vision and...
Indie starlet Greta Gerwig and newcomer Olly Alexander put on alternately fierce and delicate performances in this enchanting romance about an alienated teen and a...
Peter’s life has been spent in both fascination and fear of his quickening perception of time with age. As he nears the end of his days, his interest turns to...
Jose Gonzalez will perform live on the roof prior to the New York premiere of this lovely, lyrical, thoughtful look at the day to day life and creative processes of...
It sucks to be big and different, as one whatsit discovers when it tries to befriend a child - and ends up getting treated like Godzilla.
A young couple is spending the day in bed. He asks her to marry him. She says no...at first.
The last man in his world creates new life that quickly spins out of his control – despite his efforts to play God. An allegory for the ages. nobrain.fr
In a journey across a mountain lake, a fable is recounted by one of the 14 remaining Kawesqar people of Patagonia.
Trevor drops his camera from Edmonton's High Level Bridge in memory of those who have jumped.
A giant, two-headed chicken is the ultimate false god, in this jaw-droppingly surreal fantasy. theholychicken.com
A mythical romance forged in fantasy comes apart under the scrutiny of a Brooklyn dinner party.
A documentary about an inspiring female Qur’an teacher giving women and girls the tools to challenge cultural traditions in Damascus, Syria.
Evelyn Hamilton joins The Lost Children cult, where she comes to believe in her own mystical powers, and becomes convinced that her death alone can save the world.
The drudgery of the stock clerk’s day is perfectly encapsulated, in this cheerfully wan vignette.
Adrien is a young piano prodigy. He now works as a piano tuner. He pretends to be blind in order to infiltrate his clients' intimacy. Since he sees things he should...
Joshua Milton Blahyi is a Liberian warlord turned evangelical minister in this stirring verité documentary about the nature of justice and absolution.
Old-school flipbook filmmaking - with an angst-rock soundtrack. Courtesy of Autour De Minuit.
A man and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. But an unseen tension begins to mount, exposing a complicated,...
Pug, a young boy growing up in the West Baltimore hood, seeks out the notorious, law-evading dirt bike group called the Twelve O’Clock Boyz.
In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space. Together and alone, they will travel until the end of the...
If David Lynch and David Cronenberg took LSD, then collaborated, it might look something like this.
A special sneak preview screening of THUNDER SOUL, a powerful and powerfully entertaining new documentary that is coming to theaters September 23rd!
Rooftop brings the power of poetry to the streets of New York with this documentary about lives and language on the edge: three teens from the Bronx tell their...
Tord accidentally walks into the apartment next to his and discovers that another person named Tord lives there.
A curious taxidermist mounts a Freudian inquiry into the interpretation of squirrels in dreams.
An exploration of the impulses that prompt hunting and the resiliency of people and animals in times of battle during 300 years of American history. [Sundance]
A New York love story, threatened by economic downturn. And cohabitation. A tale of romance and rent control. gloamingpictures.com
Acrobatic burlesque duo Trixie and Monkey aren’t satisfied as underground superstars; they perform relentlessly, trying to make their way from weirdly subversive...
An elderly woman shuffles around the neighborhood grocery store where she works, attending to the mundane tasks of shopkeeping. Her face is obscured to protect the...
A melancholy animation about prank calls gone awry in the lonely anonymous night.
A requiem for the passing of a fallen nuisance, a pest, who is recast as a beloved protagonist, paying reverence to the smallest and seemingly most insignificant....
Upon fathering triplets, filmmaker Avi Zev Weider explores the nature of technology, revealing that all its discussions are about what it means to be human.
A solitary former drug dealer returns to his past, confronts mortality, and seeks freedom in the unknown in this blend of meditative reality and fiction.
Imagine your hometown never changed. Part book, part film, part family photo album, Welcome to Pine Point unearths a place frozen in time and discovers what happens...
In the northern Haitian city of Cap-Haïtien resides the country’s oldest and most beloved band, Orchestre Septentrional. Founded in 1948 by Ulrick Pierre Louis,...
On July 4th weekend, Rooftop presents a journey from a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, following childhood friends...
"Whisker Wars" profiles a group of men as they travel the country in search of top honors in a host of competitions, from the National Beard and Mustache...
At Kinshasa’s central post office, an ossified remnant of the Congo’s colonial past, employees sit idle in vast rooms built for more bustling times. Sixty years...
DJ Junebug was considered the greatest DJ of all, back at the dawn of hip-hop. But he had a sideline dealing cocaine that led to a tragic end. Those who knew him...
The new Willis Avenue Bridge is 350 feet long and weighs 4.8 million pounds. It is currently 136 miles north of New York City. 125th Street is where it will end up.
Charlie Ochs, playing the wild older brother, provides much of the humor in the film, in a performance that could provide a breakout for the emerging actor. Ochs...
“(Indecipherable.) (Indecipherable.) Check his left pocket.” Two career criminals debate the merits of letting an associate bleed to death in a motel bathroom....
"My father was a wrestler before me. You never stop being a wrestler." charlesfairbanks.info
After his landing on Jupiter moon Alpha 46, cosmonaut Yuri Lennon will be confronted with an extraordinary paradox.
Since comets have been recorded, they’ve augured catastrophe, messiahs, upheaval and end times. This will be a little film about these meteoric ice-cored...
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