Rooftop Film Festival: What’s Playing This Weekend —

Open Road Rooftop, Photo by Sarah Palmer, courtesy of Rooftop Films

Here’s what playing at the Rooftop Film Festival this weekend!  Outdoor summer films are the best!  Remember, ASIFA-East members get $3 of tickets to any show.  Look for the discount code in our next email newsletter.  Enter the code when buying tickets.

From our friends at Rooftop – One of our favorite shorts programs returns this Friday, May 24 at Open Road Rooftop at New Design High School with ‘Love Hurts’- a selection of romantic short films that express the beauty and anguish of love, with animation, drama, and dark sexy comedy.

On Saturday, May 25, Rooftop is hosting a special New York screening of The Kings of Summer. Starring Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, and Moises Arias, this witty, refreshing, and intelligent comedy screens in the Lower East Side with the director Jordan Vogt-Roberts in attendance.

Following each screening there will be an after-party sponsored by Red Stripe .

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Friday, May 24
Love Hurts (Short Films)
Love is hard to find, whether you’re a lonely little fish or the Chancellor of world power. Love is hard to keep, battered as it may be by hurricanes and politics. But worst of all, lost love may haunt and torture you, with bad dreams and cheap trinkets, till you want to forget and move on but hold out hope for some final passionate reconnection. The short films in this program run the gamut from romantic to heartbreaking, from disturbing to hilarious, but they all hit hard right in the heart.
Venue: On the roof of New Design High School, 350 Grand St. @ Essex (Lower East Side, Manhattan)
More info: www.rooftopfilms.com/2013/schedule/love-hurts-short-films
8:00PM: Doors open
8:30PM: Live music
9:00PM: Films begin
11:30PM-1:00AM: After-party sponsored by Red Stripe at Fontana’s (105 Eldridge St. @ Grand)

The Films:
Sonntag 3 (Jochen Kuhn | 14’)
The Wedding (Simon Cottee | 5’)
When We Lived In Miami (Amy Seimetz | 13’)
Contents of C______’s Box, in no particular order (Ian Berry | 3’)
Sounds Good (Kerri Lendon | 4’)
Plug & Play (Michael Frei | 5’)
On Suffocation (Jennifer Malmqvist | 7’)
Tired of Swimming (Anna Eijsbouts | 6’)
RPG OKC (Emily Carmichael | 9’)
Head over Heels (Timothy Reckhart | 11’)

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Saturday, May 25
The Kings of Summer (Dir. Jordan Vogt-Roberts | 93min)
The Kings of Summer is a unique coming-of-age comedy about three teenage friends – Joe, Patrick and the eccentric and unpredictable Biaggio – who, in the ultimate act of independence, decide to spend their summer building a house in the woods and living off the land.
Venue: On the roof of New Design High School, 350 Grand St. @ Essex (Lower East Side, Manhattan)
More info: www.rooftopfilms.com/2013/schedule/the-kings-of-summer
8:00PM: Doors open
8:30PM: Live music
9:00PM: Film begins
10:30PM: Q&A with director Jordan Vogt-Roberts
11:30PM-1:00AM: After-party sponsored by Red Stripe at Fontana’s (105 Eldridge St. @ Grand)