A Spot for Frog – Evan Bode (Syracuse, New York)Locked out of the school art room, a creative nonbinary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination blurs with reality in this hybrid work of live action and animation about an artist's search for identity, belonging, and expression on the margins. 2022; 16 min.

A Spot for Frog

Locked out of the school art room, a creative nonbinary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch.

Falls Cry – Joshua Wann (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)A story about one boy, living on one block, in one world. 2023; 6 min

Falls Cry

Bowling for Eva – Aelfie Oudghiri (Brooklyn, New York)A troubled teen girl spends her time trolling men online and bowling with her grandfather while becoming increasingly medicated by her psychiatrist. 2023; 12 min.

Bowling for Eva

A troubled teen girl spends her time trolling men online and bowling with her grandfather while becoming increasingly medicated by her psychiatrist.

Resettlement: Chicago Story - Reina Higashitani (Chicago, Illinois)Several years after the U.S. government’s forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, the Yamamoto family runs a struggling dry-cleaning business in Chicago. After getting into a physical altercation with another student at school, Mary is suspended and her chance of going to the upcoming dance contest now depends on getting back into her mother’s good graces. In order to win her mother’s favor, she helps out around the family business during her suspension. When a customer’s clothes go missing, Mary must come up with a plan to save face for the family. As a cinematic digital history project, Resettlement: Chicago Story is an original short narrative film that brings learners into a curated website and curriculum tool that maintains the world of the film while introducing primary and secondary sources that explain important concepts from the historical period. In English, Japanese, subtitled. 2022; 16 min.

Resettlement: Chicago Story

everal years after the U.S. government’s forced incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, the Yamamoto family runs a struggling dry-cleaning business in Chicago.

Separation Anxiety – Corey Maloney (Brooklyn, New York)When her life falls apart, a Brooklyn woman tries to find solace in the company of her younger sister. 2023; 11 min.

Separation Anxiety

When her life falls apart, a Brooklyn woman tries to find solace in the company of her younger sister.

Boxed – Alam Virk (Roselle Park, New Jersey)Boxed is a journey of man who relies on consumerism to fill his inner void as he descends into madness when his latest purchase - the ClapMaster - a tiny device to power lights with a simple clap, does not arrive on time. Things turn dark when a box larger than him shows up at his door. 2023; 8 min

Boxed

Boxed is a journey of man who relies on consumerism to fill his inner void as he descends into madness when his latest purchase - the ClapMaster - a tiny device to power lights with a simple clap, does not arrive on time.

The Chosen One – Elazar Fine (Los Angeles, California)After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, Eli Eisenstein is violently thrown out of his Hasidic family home. He finds refuge with his estranged, ex-religious aunt Shifra, but inner turmoil forces him to flee her apartment in the middle of the night. Stumbling through the streets in a fragile state of mind, Eli experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to where he started. Over the course of this one painful night, Eli will come to realize that it’s much easier to shave your beard than to shed who you are. In Yiddish, subtitled. 2022; 19 min.

The Chosen One

After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, Eli Eisenstein is violently thrown out of his Hasidic family home.

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Welcome to the Spring 2022 New Jersey Film Festival! Our 40th Anniversary Festival will be taking place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between January 28 and February 20, 2022. As a result of COVID our Festival will be a virtual one again this Spring. All the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. Tickets: $15=Per Program; Festival All Access Pass=$100. To buy tickets for individual programs click on the photos below and click on the pre-order buttons.

The New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2022 will be taking place on select Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays between January 28 – February 20. The 40 films we will be screening were selected from over 633 works submitted by filmmakers from around the world.

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