Movies: Josh Safdie

The Safdie brothers repurpose reality television’s vocabulary of confrontation and cramped cinematography for a miniature study of urban maladies....

When autistic teen Ricky is scolded for skipping class, he escapes into the subway for a days-long odyssey among the subway’s disparate denizens. Meanwhile, his mother wages an escalating search effort above ground. Based on a true story and set in F...

A behind the scenes look at Uncut Gems (2019) by the Safdie Brothers with interviews from the cast and more....

Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the skittering pulse of New York’s city streets. An original documentary featuring footage from the making of their new thriller, Good Time, along with several of the brothers’ early features and sho...

Frictions develop when Yisroel "Izzy" Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish-born Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area art-world iconoclast named Harry Kierk s...

Trophy Hunter, a short, fake documentary about illegal wildlife trade that Josh and Benny made for the Turtle Conservancy in 2012. It features the late great New York icon Glenn O’Brien visiting an eccentric Chinese collector....

A maddeningly oblivious, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman tries her best to negotiate two toxic friendships....

Ernie Goldberg goes on an adventure days before his Bar Mitzvah....

A series of short films following the interconnected lives on Crosby street, New York City....

In 2001, Lenny Cooke was the most hyped high school basketball player in the country, ranked above future greats LeBron James, Amar’e Stoudemire, and Carmelo Anthony. A decade later, Lenny has never played a minute in the NBA. In this quintessentiall...

A short film by JoshSafdie....

Alongside filmmaker Josh Safdie, composer Daniel Lopatin sat down with us to detail the creative discoveries behind his synth packed score for Uncut Gems. In this exclusive documentary, Lopatin highlights the soundtrack's extensive use of Moog One an...

The Safdie brothers go undercover to record an interview with Adam Sandler, the star of their film UNCUT GEMS....

A post-modern dark-comedy about a lazy teenage male who struggles to find his element. He is helped along the way by an animal therapist and a store clerk....

A horror film inspired by cults and Los Angeles in the late 1970s....

A short film by Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, & Alex Kalman....

Benny Safdie’s deadpan spoof of stand-up comedy and staged cinéma verité verges on performance art. His Ralph Handel is a humorless white-collar worker who unaccountably spends his nights working the open mic circuit. Safdie bravely committed himself...

A film by Ben Safdie....

Jacques Cousteau's investigation on fighting sea elephants and the losers who roam an island....

This is a story about a real life brother and sister and their journey to the zoo. On their way, they accidentally pick up a hitchhiker....