Insufficient Funds

Set at the dawn of Covid, Family Portrait follows a sprawling family on a morning when they have planned a group picture. After the mother disappears and one of the daughters becomes increasingly anxious to find her and take the picture, the rest of the family appears to resist any attempt to gather. Initially presenting itself as a realistic portrayal of a family on an idle but hectic summer day, the film progressively descends into a realm where time and space lose their grip, transforming the family portrait into a solemn and enigmatic ritual of transition.

Anna is an awkward, deeply inquisitive young woman living in Berkeley, who is riddled by questions of existence. When her old high school crush connects with her on a dating app, she quickly rekindles her infatuation with him. She seizes the opportunity to follow him back to Marin, under the guise of coming home to see her terminally ill Aunt. Anna's ulterior motive becomes apparent as she lies her way deeper into every situation. Confronted with the consequences of her actions, Anna is forced to face the underlying emptiness she's been avoiding all along.

On the day before her 35th birthday and having never made a "significant" work of art, an artist is poised to lose her Artistic License forever. In a desperate bid to remain an artist, and avoid a soul-sucking job as an “unspecified creative” at Poogle, she makes her 62nd-and-a-half film. Inspired by Fellini's “8 ½”, “62 ½” is a satirical and whimsical fantasy about creativity in late-stage capitalism.

A conservative Texas state senator reconsiders his anti-abortion views after being forcibly surgically connected to a woman whom he must keep alive with his own body for nine months.