“Hal Hartley’s cinema of inquiry flirts with existentialism by questioning aloud his characters and their aphoristic faiths.”
—Screen Slate

Clocking in at just under 60 minutes, SURVIVING DESIRE is the story of Sophie and Jude, student and professor, in love, until: THE END. A perfect distillation of 20-something ponderings, Russian lit, and romance, presented here with two shorts: THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (18 min) and AMBITION (9 min). Featuring Hal Hartley regulars Martin Donovan, Bill Sage, and Elina Löwensohn.