non-professional acting
10 movies and shows
The Florida Project
Fri, 06 Oct 2017
The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
The Worst Ones
Wed, 07 Dec 2022
The story centres on a group of teenagers street cast in their neighbourhood and selected to play in a feature film during the summer. The film tells the story of this film shoot and of the connections that will be formed during it.
I'm Not Ashamed
Fri, 21 Oct 2016
Based on the journal entries of Rachel Joy Scott, the first student killed in the Columbine High School shooting in 1999.
"BLOW THE NIGHT!" Let's Spend the Night Together
Sat, 19 Mar 1983
"BLOW THE NIGHT!" Let's Spend the Night Together is a 1983 Japanese docu-drama shot on 16mm film starring actual Yanki gang members as many of the main characters.
Easy Love
Tue, 13 Aug 2019
easy love is the experimental fiction debut of Tamer Jandali. His way of working shifted between documentary and fiction when he followed seven men and women from Cologne on their search for a balance between emotional security and sensual fulfillment. In four months of shooting those protagonists acted as braver versions of themselves. The camera opened the possibility to pursue their unlived dreams, fears and fantasies and ultimately experiencing them in reality. By shooting in a small team, always on the edge between documentary and fiction, Tamer Jandali created space for intimacy and a new form of cinematic authenticity.
Isaiah vs. The Hodag
Mon, 14 Dec 2020
A young man living with his parents in Wisconsin comes face to face with a terrifying monster while searching for the elusive cryptic known as the Hodag.
DIABLO
Mon, 11 Dec 2023
DIABLO is a 2021 short film about a masked stalker who hunts down his victims like prey and ends up driving them into a state of paranoia and insanity.
Barbara
Fri, 11 Mar 2022
A lone, crisis-hotline operator receives a distressing call during her graveyard shift.
Don't Cry
Tue, 01 Jan 2002
The story of a Chinese-trained opera singer living in a remote Kazakh village with her grandmother and her ailing young niece. The bulk of the action consists of the steadfast heroine trying to make enough money to get the rare and costly medicine that may save her niece's life. What makes the film so thrilling is that this elemental situation allows the director and his cast of non-actors to illuminate the details of everyday life: reality and fiction dissolve into each other, and the audience achieves a heightened awareness of simple activities like the cooking of a meal, teaching a child to count in Chinese and English, visits to the doctor or the marketplace. Entirely improvised by the filmmaker and his actors.
Evil Postal Service Guy
Thu, 04 Dec 2025
Two friends have their hangout disrupted when a mysterious postal service worker knocks on their door.