Tiny Furniture

About the movie

22-year-old Aura returns home to her artist mother’s TriBeCa loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page, a boyfriend who’s left her to find himself at Burning Man, a dying hamster, and her tail between her legs. Luckily, her trainwreck childhood best friend never left home, and ill-advised romantic possibilities lurk around every corner. Aura quickly throws away her liberal-arts clogs and careens into her old/new life: a dead-end hostess job, pathetic Brooklyn “art shows, competing with her prodigious teenage sister, and desperate sex in a giant metal pipe. Surrounded on all sides by what she could become, Aura just wants someone to tell her who she is.
Tiny Furniture is written and directed by Lena Dunham (creator of the TV hit series Girls) who also plays Aura; Laurie Simmons and Grace Dunham are her mother and sister in real life as well as in the film. Winner of the Best Narrative Feature award and the Emergent Narrative Director award at the South by Southwest Film Festival and the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards.
“A knockout” – Entertainment Weekly
“Funny and very touching” – The Guardian
“Gets under your skin” – Rolling Stone

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