The Hollowing – Steve Weinzierl (New York, New York)A couple reeling from tragedy join a drug trial in a desperate effort to get a handle on their lives, but violence ensues after the treatment produces unforeseen, psychopathic side effects and pulls the duo into the darkest of places. 2024; 13 min.

The Hollowing

A couple reeling from tragedy join a drug trial in a desperate effort to get a handle on their lives, but violence ensues after the treatment produces unforeseen, psychopathic side effects and pulls the duo into the darkest of places.

Phantom Limb – Alice Jokela (New York, New York)A young woman faces the world after the amputation of her arm. 2024; 14 min.

Phantom Limb

A young woman faces the world after the amputation of her arm.

Brooklyn – Timur Guseynov (West Hollywood, California) After saving an abused pit bull, a troubled Brighton Beach teenager who makes ends meet through crime while raising his little brother, must protect the dog from its nefarious owners. 2024; 20 min.

Brooklyn

After saving an abused pit bull, a troubled Brighton Beach teenager who makes ends meet through crime while raising his little brother, must protect the dog from its nefarious owners.

Dinner at Manny’s – Stephen Joseph Craig (Huntington Beach, California)A six-year-old boy’s dinner turns into a living nightmare while he endures the trauma of neglectful parents. 2024; 5 min.

Dinner at Manny’s

A six-year-old boy’s dinner turns into a living nightmare while he endures the trauma of neglectful parents.

Disoriented – Maura Garnett (New York, New York)A phone call they cannot help but answer changes the lives of three individuals forever. The news of a death, illness, and a breakup, leaves them each feeling disoriented. Now they must face the struggle of returning back to reality after receiving the tragic news. 2024; 6 min.

Disoriented

A phone call they cannot help but answer changes the lives of three individuals forever.

Help Yourself – Hedvig Trollop (United Kingdom)Andie, a desperate writer, abandons her family to finish a script in a flat she borrows from her colleague Diane. But Andie keeps getting interrupted by bizarre and hostile strangers who all have unfinished business with Diane. Andie’s quiet evening turns into a surreal vortex of emotional experiences and revelations. 2024; 14 min.

Help Yourself

Andie, a desperate writer, abandons her family to finish a script in a flat she borrows from her colleague Diane.

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The 43rd Bi-Annual Spring 2025 New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between January 24-February 23, 2025. The Festival will be a hybrid one as we will be presenting it online as well as doing in-person screenings at Rutgers University. All the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. VOD start times are at 12 Midnight Eastern USA. Each General Admission Ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the virtual and the in-person screenings which will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at 5PM or 7PM on their show date.  General Admission Ticket=$15 Per Program; Festival All Access Pass=$100; In-Person Only Student Ticket=$10 Per Program. Full Program Schedule will be announced soon!

Welcome to the Spring 2025 New Jersey Film Festival! The 43rd Annual Festival will be taking place on the Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between January 24 - February 16, 2025. The Festival will be presenting the Festival online VOD as well as doing in-person screenings. 

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