A Return to Eden – Broderick Rule (Canada)A young woman falls victim to a local psychopathic murderer. Upon her death, she awakens in a surreal forest, a 'limbo' with an identity of its own, that helps her make it back to the land of the living, so that she can take revenge against her killer. 2024; 14 min.

A Return to Eden

A young woman falls victim to a local psychopathic murderer.

The Itch – Emma Hamel (USA)The desire to create overshadowed by a desperate desire to be good. A frantic state of wanting and the paralysis that accompanies it.&nbsp;2024; 3 min.

The Itch

The desire to create overshadowed by a desperate desire to be good.

Launching Lagrange – William Pierce (USA)The physics of skateboarding is going to outer space. 2024; 3 min.

Launching Lagrange

The physics of skateboarding is going to outer space.

Lavinia – Sarah Dutton (United Kingdom)Lavinia is inspired by a character from Shakespeare’s Titus Andronichus. Despite undergoing a huge transformation within the play, Sarah felt that there was a key moment in Lavinia’s character arc that was not featured in the text. 2024; 3 min.

Lavinia

Lavinia is inspired by a character from Shakespeare’s Titus Andronichus.

Fed up – Annabelle Vine (United Kingdom)Seymour, a gentleman of the road, is hungry and fed up. He is overjoyed when a secret benefactor leaves him daily treats, but maybe it would have been wise to look this gift horse in the mouth. 2024; 3 min.

Fed up

Seymour, a gentleman of the road, is hungry and fed up.

Haunted Cursed Anxious Hateful – Brandon Scullion (USA)Two men, haunted by the realities of their lives, confined by their bodies and surroundings, engage in a hateful battle of wills with dreadful consequences. 2024; 4 min.

Haunted Cursed Anxious Hateful

Two men, haunted by the realities of their lives, confined by their bodies and surroundings, engage in a hateful battle of wills with dreadful consequences.

garboface – Zona Gilreath (USA)garboface is an experimental, sort-of-narrative film about, as Roland Barthes puts it, face-as-object and, as Plato definitely didn't put it, identity as pharmakon—simultaneously cure and toxin.&nbsp;Shot on Super 8 and edited digitally. 2024; 6 min.

garboface

garboface is an experimental, sort-of-narrative film about, as Roland Barthes puts it, face-as-object and, as Plato definitely didn't put it, identity as pharmakon—simultaneously cure and toxin.

Rain – Vasilios Papaioannu (USA)Rain, as circular shapes of memory imprinted on the fast-paced celluloid or as liquid moving sculptures of the present in digital form, documents a verbal interaction between two people. 2024; 6 min.

Rain

Rain, as circular shapes of memory imprinted on the fast-paced celluloid or as liquid moving sculptures of the present in digital form, documents a verbal interaction between two people.

Who the F**k is Jacky Bumpers? – Alan Halls (USA)In a dark, grimy corner of a bar somewhere in LA, three old Barflies get to bickering about one salty, charming, two-faced swindler from the past... So, pull up a barstool, get a drink and find out just "who the F**k is Jacky Bumpers?" in this candy colored Super 8mm film. 2024; 6 min.

Who the F**k is Jacky Bumpers?

In a dark, grimy corner of a bar somewhere in LA, three old Barflies get to bickering about one salty, charming, two-faced swindler from the past...

Sometimes I Hear the Light Leak in Through the Corners of My Room – Jeremiah Carter (USA)Heartbroken, Madeline goes out on the town ruminating on the cyclical nature of love. She passes from one thrill to another looking for answers. Relationships come and go but memories are forever. 2024; 9 min.

Sometimes I Hear the Light Leak in Through the Corners of My Room

Heartbroken, Madeline goes out on the town ruminating on the cyclical nature of love.

Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, Had a Good Time – James P Gannon and Matt Ferrin (USA)In America, the things we create we also find a way to destroy. We follow four people who have never met but will smash each other to smithereens in a Demolition Derby. 2024; 12 min.

Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, Had a Good Time

In America, the things we create we also find a way to destroy. We follow four people who have never met but will smash each other to smithereens in a Demolition Derby.

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The 43rd Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place on select Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays between January 24-February 21, 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. Plus, we are very proud to announce that acclaimed singer-songwriter Renee Maskin will be doing an audio-visual concert on Friday, February 21 at 7PM! The in-person screenings and the Renee Maskin concert 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.

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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