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Must see Elisa in Wonderland opens the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival on Friday, May 30!
by Evelyn Reese
published 2025-05-26

Striking, compelling, and wickedly, yet beautifully tormented– words cannot describe the deep layers of intrinsic whimsy found in Elisa in Wonderland, another masterful film by Cléa van der Grijn. From set design to exceptional performances by the brilliant actors, not a single shot is lacking importance nor intrigue.




 

New Release Review - "The Surrender"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-05-25

So many horror movies have tackled grief that it's become something of a cliché in the genre. But unlike many horror movies, in which a death has occurred some time in the past and is still being processed by the protagonist at a later point, writer/director Julia Max's debut The Surrender is set in the immediate aftermath of the death of a loved one.



Important and timely documentary Freeing Juanita screens at the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival on Sunday, June 1!

by Al Nigrin
published 2025-05-25

I had planned to do an interview with Freeing Juanita Director Sebastián Lasaosa Rogers in early May, but he tragically died while surfing off Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York on Saturday, April 12. So, I reached out to Sebastian’s dad Paul Rogers and he connected me with Tristan Philip Call, who is one of the producers of Freeing Juanita. Here is the interview I did with him:



"The Sandy Mack Experience" to Screen at New Jersey International Film Festival

by Gary Wien
published 2025-05-24

One of the things that makes Asbury Park so special is its music scene and one of the guys who helps make that scene so special is Sandy Mack. His story and the weekly jams he organizes are the subject of The Sandy Mack Experience, a documentary film created by his daughter Sarah Ann McCuiston and Henry Donohue Frost.



Touching Documentary Our Borderlands premieres at the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival on Sunday, June 1!

by Emma Hackbarth
published 2025-05-24

Viktor Witkowski’s Our Borderlands has an authentic beauty. It centers on three people living near the Poland-Germany border; the late Mr. Adamczyk, a local farmer, and two of whom are Witkowski’s family: his grandmother, Janina, and his aunt, Dana.





New Release Review - "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2025-05-23

Anyone who has binged classic TV shows from the 1960s to the '80s will be familiar with the concept of recapping the first part of a two-parter at the beginning of part two. Such recaps often ran for as long as 10 minutes, eating into the running time and thus keeping the budget down. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning has no such budgetary concerns, and yet it spends an inordinate amount of time recapping not only its immediate predecessor, Dead Reckoning: Part One, but previous entries, as far back as the first movie from 1996. There are so many "Previously on Mission: Impossible" flashbacks that at times it resembles one of those dreaded "clips" episodes we used to get in TV shows, where a main character would fall into a coma and think about all the fun adventures they had over the course of the show's run.



2025 New Jersey International Film Festival Video Overview

by Vic Fern
published 2025-05-23

The New Jersey International Film Festival returns to Rutgers University May 30 - June 13, 2025, and Al Nigrin, Executive Director and Curator, provides an overview of the films being showcased.



Terrific short Wrestle-Off screens at the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival on May 31

by Morgan Kalmbach
published 2025-05-22

Achieving our goals that we hold so dearly requires a long road with complicated obstacles and opponents that we come into contact with. These hurdles shape us and guide our decisions and actions in the long term. Sabatino Ciatti Jr.’s Wrestle-Off acknowledges these facts and creates a powerful and poignant representation of them through its main character, Alex.



Cléa van der Grijn’s surreal feature Elisa in Wonderland has its USA Premiere at the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival

by Morgan Kalmbach
published 2025-05-21

In 2024, Cléa van der Grijn released her first feature film, The Disembodied Adventures of Alice, a new take on the classic story surrounding Wonderland. A year later, van der Grijn is now releasing another feature that carries heavy references to historical works, Elisa in Wonderland. The film surrounds Elisa, who, upon returning to her ancestral home, grapples with anxiety and other mental health conditions. As the film progresses, her state of health worsens alongside her sense of reality. The film itself is carefully crafted by van der Grijn to deliver this narrative, offering references to historical works of art and poetry to showcase Elisa’s state and her isolation from the world around her.



2025 New Jersey International Film Festival Animation Panel

by Vic Fern
published 2025-05-20

Here is the 2025 New Jersey International Film Festival Animation Film Panel featuring filmmakers Elizabeth Schneider, Michael Covello, Maureen Zent and Nick Zweig as well as NJIFF Assistant Director Morgan Kalmbach, and NJIFF Director Al Nigrin. Their films will be screening on Friday, June 6, 2025 – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM as part of the NJIFF Shorts Program.


 

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" I WILL REVENGE THIS WORLD WITH LOVE" S.PARADJANOV – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 5PM!

 Sunday, September 14, 2025 @ 5:00pm
NJ Film Festival
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901



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La Bamba in 35mm

 Thursday, September 18, 2025 @ 7:00pm
Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) - Main Stage
1601 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ 07065



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The Muscle – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM

 Friday, September 19, 2025 @ 7:00pm
NJ Film Festival
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901



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Tokyo Nights & Pierre West – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 7PM

 Sunday, September 21, 2025 @ 7:00pm
NJ Film Festival
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901



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Elisa in Wonderland & Becoming an Oyster – Online for 24 Hours

 Saturday, September 27, 2025 @ 12:00am
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