After graduating from film school, Aura returns to New York to live with her photographer mother, Siri, and her sister, Nadine, who has just finished high school. Aura is directionless and wonders where to go next in her career and her life. She takes a job in a restaurant and tries unsuccessfully to develop relationships with men, including Keith, a chef where she works, and cult Internet star Jed.
Direction
Dunham shoots her own family home with zero budget and maximum audacity.
Writing
Dialogue so cringe-authentic you'll need to pause from secondhand embarrassment.
Director
Lena Dunham
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dunham cast her real mother and sister as her on-screen family, filming in their actual Tribeca loft.
This micro-budget indie won SXSW and directly led to Dunham's HBO deal for Girls—basically the same movie with a bigger clothes budget.
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