Movies: Nathan Silver

A grief-stricken cantor in a crisis of faith finds his world turned upside down when his grade school music teacher re-enters his life as his new adult Bat Mitzvah student. The two forlorn souls develop a special connection....

In Philadelphia for the weekend, Tessa and Ben, a couple on the rocks, rent a room in the apartment of Adam, a reclusive stranger who quickly becomes an unwilling voyeur to the most private parts of the couple’s life. Tensions rise as the three enter...

Gina, an American flight attendant, falls in with a Parisian bartender on a layover only to find herself tangled in a web of deception, delusion and unrequited amour fou....

While preparing for the role of her life in Rome, opera diva Livia Angelli needs to deal with the unexpected return of her daughter Mimi, who wants to be her understudy. But when she’s met by her mother’s callous dismissal, Mimi snaps and starts a pe...

Needing a sudden escape from the city, Robbie leaves Brooklyn to stay in the Hudson Valley with his aunt, who runs a home for pregnant teens. As the only man in the house, Robbie captures the attention of many of the girls, and when he strikes up a f...

A black as tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in '90s suburban New Jersey....

The lives of a French theater director, her ex-boyfriend, and the two actors playing them intersect dramatically....

Anne hasn't been the same since the jump. While skydiving for her best friend Sarah's bachelorette party, the 27-year-old felt focused, free, above it all. Back on the ground, the pressures of her daily life threaten to overwhelm her....

A live-in aide adjusts to life with the family who employ her....

When director Nathan Silver cuts his mother's scenes from one of his movies, her disappointment goes beyond creative differences. In this new documentary series, they try to repair their relationship....

Kicked out of her apartment, Natalia wanders New York City, crashing a family’s holiday meal, staying at a men's shelter, and dragging everyone down with her. An ode to anxiety and New York....

Filmmaker Silver directed his first film during his ninth birthday party in 1992. Together with friends, he re-enacted the riots that were underway in Los Angeles at the time. Images from both events were retained and edited together by Silver. The p...

Marcus and Kate moved to a residential neighborhood in New England. He is a frustrated architect, she is a young housewife who has discontinued her studies. The daily newspaper of a crisis is strictly narrated among the immutable spaces of the bourge...

Dreaming of fame and fortune, a local Denver performer hires two indie filmmakers to come to town and make a film with him as the star....

Michael Caine teaches the art of movie acting to five young actors, who perform scenes from Alfie (1966), Deathtrap (1982) and Educating Rita (1983)...

After failing the Bar exam, Kate realizes that law is not for her. With no sense of a life-plan, Kate takes a job house cleaning and at first finds comfort in the repetition and routine of the work, but repetition and routine only go so far... A trag...

Interview with filmmaker Nathan Silver. Recorded September 2013....