Josh Safdie Movies

When autistic teen Ricky is scolded for skipping class, he escapes into the subway for a days-long odyssey among the subway’s disparate...

A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she's...

While escorting a group of children through New York City, a harried man loses hold of a bouquet of one hundred balloons. Among them, a single black...

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

Get to know the siblings whose films have captured the skittering pulse of New York’s city streets. An original documentary featuring footage...

An early high-school short by Josh Safdie and David Gelb, Lethargy follows a drifting New York teenager—shot in black-and-white with color...

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

A love story about two music-obsessed twenty-somethings navigating the messy realities of ambition, belonging and adulthood over the course of an...

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

Trophy Hunter (2012) is a short mock-documentary created by Josh and Benny Safdie for the Turtle Conservancy. It explores the illegal wildlife trade...

A man lives in a bathtub. He goes out for the day, then returns.

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

A group of isolated neighbors in their small and secluded town in the northern Canadian territories during a snowstorm.

Frictions develop when Yisroel "Izzy" Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish-born Catholic friend...

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

Alongside filmmaker Josh Safdie, composer Daniel Lopatin sat down with us to detail the creative discoveries behind his synth packed score for Uncut...

In 2001, Lenny Cooke was the most hyped high school basketball player in the country, ranked above future greats LeBron James, Amar’e...

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.

Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough...

Co-directed by Benny and Josh Safdie, this deadpan mock-documentary follows Ralph Handel, a buttoned-down office worker who spends his nights bombing...