Amy Seimetz

From the moment Zia (in his late 20s) cuts his wrists and enters a bizarre afterlife reserved for suicides, this film becomes a strangely uplifting, comic tale about a journey through the hereafter. It is a world where everyone still bears the scars earned from the manner in which they "offed," and the everyday reality is a twisted mirror image of our own mortal world. (Halcyon Pictures)

Focusing on the varied attractions that a married actress and her sister harbor, director Joe Swanberg crafts a film that illuminates the difficulties of remaining monogamous when creative and sexual temptations abound. What emerges is a finely wrought portrait of a still-tender marriage in this indie drama.

About a recent college grad who returns home while she tries to figure out what to do with her life. (imdb)

A blend of reality and fiction, "Open Five" follows the story of Jake, a struggling musician and his sidekick, Kentucker, a maker of "poor" films and what happens when two girls (Lucy and Rose) venture down to Memphis for a long weekend. (imdb)

An ambitious painter on the verge of a big break confronts his moral decay when his idealist, hell-raising, younger sister comes to stay with him in New York City for the summer. (imdb)

Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.

Reeling from her husband's affair, Rose collides with a marooned teenager in a boarded-up Delaware beach town. (imdb)

An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town. (imdb)

A waitress working the night shift at a roadside diner in a small, industrial town becomes intrigued by a charming truck driver, while the diner's owner struggles to keep his dwindling business afloat. (imdb)

A family reunion spirals into a night of terror when mysterious assailants wearing animal masks lay siege against the clan. (mubi.com)

Follow four interconnected Chicago couples as they explore the boundaries of self-pleasure and sexual exploration. (imdb)

A celebrity chef exacts revenge on a food blogger who torpedoes his career. (imdb)

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives. (sundance.org)

The idea and screenplay are by James Benning: a day in the life of a young woman (a beautiful role by Amy Seimetz). We see her successively survey her surroundings in a coffee house, become emotional at a tram stop, deep in thought on the tram and attentive in a museum. She looks and listens and takes in the world. (anonymous)

A young actress is cast as the lead in a werewolf film which leads to many unexpected consequences in her life. (imdb)

A powerful, brooding love story about the seemingly implausible relationship of two radically different personalities somehow always meant for each other. Set against the hipster music scene of Southern California with a remarkable performance from Amy Seimetz. (siff.net)

The latest film from indie genre icon Ti West (The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers) sends frequent collaborators AJ Bowen, Amy Seimetz, Joe Swanberg and Kentucker Audley on a harrowing journey into madness and messianic bloodshed. (tiff.net)

A rock journalist (Toni Collette) is given the impossible assignment to hunt down a long-unseen revered local musician, and is joined on the road by a music-hating, aspiring documentarian (Thomas Haden Church), in director Megan Griffith's edgy comedy. (tiff.net)

A couple have an argument.

Unicorns tells the story of an awkward teenage girl who escapes to a fantasy world when her first romantic relationship turns increasingly violent. (imdb)

A comedic satirical sci-fi pop-musical based on the theories of Ray Kurzweil and other futurists. It's the story of two Miami girls and how they deal with the technological singularity, as told through as series of cinematic tweets. (Jillian Mayer)

Recovering from an ill-fated affair with a married man, Gabe finds solace in the relationship he maintains with his ex-wife and daughter. On the other side of town, Ernesto evades life at home with his current live-in ex-boyfriend by spending much of his spare time in the hospital with an ailing past love. Impervious to the monotony of their blue-collar world, they maintain an unwavering yearning for romance. (imdb)

When Joey's mom suddenly vanishes, he and his best friend Nick hit the road to find her. The teenage boys from poor, rural Florida embark on a life-changing quest.

En route to meet his estranged daughter and attempting to revive his dwindling career, a broken, aging comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave desert. (imdb)

A geneticist wakes up from an accident with only fragments of his memory is forced to relearn who he is via his twin brother. But as he digs deeper, he discovers he might not be who he thought at all. (imdb)

A police investigation, the saga of a grieving family, and a Seattle mayoral campaign all interlock after the body of 17-year-old Rosie Larsen is found in the trunk of a submerged car. (imdb)

TV series based on Steven Soderbergh's "The Girlfriend Experience", which centered on the life of a New York call girl. (imdb)

In this self-proclaimed anti-romantic comedy, yet offbeat love story of sorts, couple June and October are breaking up. Manipulative June feels her moral superiority justifies the breakup. A "confucked" October learns from seasoned waitress Billy-Jean, that revenge is a dish best served with pie. A sweet as pie short to be enjoyed by all. (imdb)

The relationship between two friends deepens during an impromptu road trip. (imdb)

Ma is a present day silent film that tells the story of a virgin mother's on a pilgrimage to Las Vegas to give birth to our savior. It is a myth, a metaphor and a moving painting. (imdb)

The 'Last Supper' is a direct prequel to Alien: Covenant. Set aboard the Covenant, a colonization ship on its way to a remote planet to form a new human settlement, the main crew (all couples) and their android, Walter, enjoy their final meal together before cryosleep.

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape (imdb)

The daughter of a man on death row falls in love with a woman on the opposing side of her family's political cause. (imdb)

The film follows fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson. He wants a home, food on the table and a high school he can attend for more than part of the year. As the son of a single father working in warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, stability is hard to find. Hoping for a new start they move to Portland, Oregon where Charley takes a summer job, with a washed-up horse trainer, and befriends a failing racehorse named Lean on Pete. (imdb)

Louis Creed, his wife Rachel, and their two children Gage and Ellie move to a rural home where they are welcomed and enlightened about the eerie 'Pet Sematary' located nearby. After the tragedy of their cat being killed by a truck, Louis resorts to burying it in the mysterious pet cemetery, which is definitely not as it seems, as it proves to the Creeds that sometimes, dead is better.

Dramatisation of the little known side of the writer Emily Dickinson's life, in particular her relationship with another woman.

Filmed during Hurricane Isaac, WHEN WE LIVED IN MIAMI is a hypnotic short about the lengths one woman will go to keep her family from falling apart. (criterionchannel.com)

In post-WWII America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.

Jeff Daniels and Brendan Gleeson star as former FBI Dir. James Comey and President Donald J. Trump in this limited series of the story of two powerful men, whose strikingly different ethics and loyalties put them on a collision course.

Max Fist claims to be a hero from another dimension who fell through time and space to earth, where he has no powers. No one believes his stories except for a local teen named Hamster.

A group of criminals that are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways. (imdb)

In 1909, Willie Boy and his love Carlota go on the run after he accidentally shoots her father in a confrontation gone terribly wrong. With President Taft coming to the area, the local sheriff leads two Native American trackers seeking justice for their “murdered” tribal leader.

Teenage rebel Logan finds out that 'coming of age' is a lot harder than she thought. (imdb)