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Nathan Silver

Nathan Silver

Directing

Biography

Nathan Silver has written and directed nine feature films. His work has played festivals around the world, including NYFF, Venice, Tribeca, Mar del Plata, AFI, Locarno, Rotterdam and Viennale. The New Yorker recently called Silver “a modernistic master of melodrama,” and said that “he proves himself to be one of the most original American independent filmmakers working today.”

Known For

Mother Mary
5.7

Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary reunites with her estranged best friend and former costume designer Sam Anselm on the eve of her comeback performance.

Mother Mary

2026
Between the Temples
5.6

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.

Between the Temples

2024
Magic Farm
5.8

A misguided American documentary crew working for an edgy media company travels to rural Argentina to profile a local musician, but their ineptitude leads them into the wrong small town. As they collaborate with locals to attempt to fabricate a viral trend, unexpected connections blossom, while a pervasive crisis looms unacknowledged in the background.

Magic Farm

2025
This Closeness
5.8

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 an intimate battle to gain and reclaim territory.

This Closeness

2024
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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 perverse competition for the limelight.

The Prima Donna

Carol & Joy
7.0

98-year-old Joy Kane, a music teacher and ex-dancer, shares stories and plays piano with her daughter Carol. Their afternoon together reveals artistic lives, family bonds, and their paths across two centuries.

Carol & Joy

2025
Thirst Street
4.3

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.

Thirst Street

2017
Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment
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Michael Caine teaches the art of movie acting to five young actors, who perform scenes from Alfie (1966), Deathtrap (1982) and Educating Rita (1983)

Michael Caine on Acting in Film, Arts and Entertainment

1987
Cutting My Mother
6.0

Nathan Silver has been casting his mother, Cindy, in his independent feature films since 2012. And though Cindy always insists she’s “not an actress—I’m just your mother,” when Nathan cuts almost all her scenes from one of his movies, Cindy’s disappointment goes beyond a matter of simple creative differences. In this new documentary series, we follow Nathan and Cindy as they try to repair their relationship over the dinner table, at the synagogue, and, finally, on the set of a film where Nathan cedes the director’s chair to a promising new talent: his own mother.

Cutting My Mother

2019
Wobble Palace
5.5

A couple on the verge of a nervous break-up decide to split their home over the weekend and test the waters of independence.

Wobble Palace

2018
Stinking Heaven
4.6

A black-as-tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in suburban 1990s New Jersey.

Stinking Heaven

2015
The Great Pretender
5.0

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

The Great Pretender

2018
The Blind
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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 bourgeois suburbs: houses, gardens, shopping centers.

The Blind

2009
Actor Martinez
4.4

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.

Actor Martinez

2016
Uncertain Terms
6.2

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 friendship with Nina, who is dealing with her own relationship troubles, tensions run high in the house.

Uncertain Terms

2014
Anne at 13,000 Ft.
5.9

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.

Anne at 13,000 Ft.

2021
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English-language remake of the 2025 film A Poet. Said to be taking place in upstate New York.

A Poet

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4.4

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 party and the riots share a characteristic element - chaos.

Riot

2015
Soft in the Head
5.8

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.

Soft in the Head

2013
Exit Elena
5.9

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

Exit Elena

2012