D(E)AD

Nov 18 & 19
Tue and Wed 4:30, 8:30pm
Dir. Claudia Lonow - 2025 - 82m
Tillie (Isabella Roland), a floundering young woman and her charismatic, alcoholic father (Craig Bierko), struggle to resolve their fractured relationship in the weirdest possible way: after he dies, his ghost appears in mirrors to haunt everyone in the family but Tillie. Tillie’s sister, Violet (Vic Michaelis), mother (Claudia Lonow), grandparents (Mark Lonow and Joanne Astrow), stepfather (Jonathan Schmock), and even Violet’s free-spirited baby daddy (Nick Marini), must do everything they can to make Tillie see her father… even employing a very reform rabbi (Eddie Peppitone) to exorcize him… or else they will be plagued by this ghost forever.
"Clever, in more ways than just its title. It is a touching, thoughtful look at a family’s collective grief over the loss of a crucial yet complicated relative, deftly using humor to soften the emotional gut-punches throughout."Jules Caldeira, Film Inquiry
"It's so refreshing to see a truly independent film made outside of the usual systems find success by playing on its own terms and not relying on any of the traditional pathways or gatekeepers for permission." - BJ Colangelo, Slashfilm