SHORTS: FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD

Break bread with us at our annual Brooklyn Brunch as we share stories of how food — messy or magical — shapes our lives. From unexpected dinner guests to home-cooked comfort, absurd family shenanigans, mysterious meal pals, and more, this nourishing, chaotic collection proves we are what we eat. And this time, we’re really cooking.

In The Flesh
Dir. Emily Frances Kaplan, 16 min, USA
The perfect housewife has a secret: She’s obsessed with expensive meat, and the local butcher who knows how to handle it. When her dream of a chance encounter with the butcher comes true, the cracks in her home life are exposed.

The Eating Of An Orange
Dir. May Kindred-Boothby, 7 min, UK
A juicy and surreal exploration of convention and sexuality told through slugs, rituals and the eating of an orange.

home
Dir. Donja R. Love, 14 min, USA
home follows T, a homeless queer teen, on the night he makes a life-changing decision in hopes of finding shelter.

Coney Island Baby
Dir. Fernando Lopez, 7 min, USA
A recently released, formerly incarcerated father tries to reconnect with his daughter & take her to Coney Island, fumbling to connect along the way—only to find Luna Park is closed.

Carrotica
Dir. Daniel Sterlin-Altman, 13 min, Germany
A teenage boy is writing an explicit gay erotica in secret in his bedroom and his mother is falling in love with a carrot. They’re doing okay… CW: Explicit sexual situations

Meal Pal
Dir. Chen Xie, 11 min, China/USA
In an empty motel after midnight, two lonely souls have a magical encounter.

Long Pork
Dir. Iris Dukatt, 14 min, USA
In a Post-Roe America where theocracy reigns, a renowned butcher meets the political predator responsible for the killing of her daughter and exacts bloody revenge, setting the stage for a revolution. CW: Transphobic language

Sunday Sauce
Dir. Matt Campanella, 14 min, USA
A repressed Italian-American father is thrust into his worst nightmare when his secret online crush shows up to his family’s Sunday dinner.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A