Movies: Matt Hatleberg

Every other weekend, Imani (Krystel McNeil) returns to her family’s Illinois farm to help her widowed dad Leonard (Anthony Irons) keep the animals fed, house clean, and crops alive. However, once their livestock start disappearing, prompting fears of...

Two 16 year old carefree confidantes, Bella and Bernie, tentatively explore independence and sexuality while trying to dodge the ever watchful eye of Mrs. Judge, Bella's mother. The evangelical Mrs. Judge has concerns over Bella's friendship with the...

A kid's identity crisis and lifelong sinus problems are transformed by his relationship with a disabled boy....

Transposing Mark Twain's immortal anti-racist novel to 2017, "Huckleberry Finn: A Close Place" depicts the friendship that develops between a poor Missouri boy and an undocumented African immigrant as they drift down the Mississippi River on a makesh...

An A.I. therapy tool helps a lonely and depressed man confront the darkest parts of himself....

On the night before a pivotal decision, an obsessive poet reconnects with her past loves in order to discover the pattern behind her failed relationships....

An unhoused Missouri teenager and an undocumented Mauritanian migrant drift down the Mississippi River together on a makeshift raft in pursuit of freedom in this contemporary retelling of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."...

Nate plans an unconventional birthday present for his boyfriend....

A woman and her ex-boyfriend reconnect at the vet after their dog gets sick, as a new boyfriend experiences jealousy. “WILK,” directed by Peg, is an experimental comedy with its own absurd cinematic language and esoteric scene-building. Joseph watche...

A couple takes a chance on an odd, beautiful restaurant, only to learn looks are deceiving....

Amidst strange encounters in her life and work, Helena, a Brazilian filmmaker living in Chicago, is struck by a compelling obvious question: Where’s south?...