WHY I AM AN ANARCHIST

44° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
SHORT FILMS COMPETITION

WHY I AM AN ANARCHIST

WHY I AM AN ANARCHIST
by Sara Crow
Country: USA
Year: 2026
Duration: 16'


In the wealthy suburbs of the American Southwest, an animal-rights extremist has her ideology thrown into a tailspin when she meets an unhoused teenager in the desert behind her school.

Biography

film director

Sara Crow

(Usa) is a director and screenwriter who makes films about misfits, subcultures, and those on the fringes of society. Her characters – funny, hard-headed young women – challenge society’s expectations and the institutions that uphold them. She earned her MFA from NYU’s Graduate Film program as a Martin Scorsese Scholar and received production awards for her thesis film, Why I Am an Anarchist. As a documentarian, Sara has produced and directed award-winning work for HBO, Disney+, and Showtime, including the feature documentary Public Access (2026).

FILMOGRAFIA

Never Get Tired (2015), Bluebird (2023), Howl (2025), Public Access (doc, 2026), Why I Am an Anarchist (2026).

Declaration

film director

“The film is a darkly comic exploration of the American desire to see oneself as exceptional: the outsider who sees through the system, even as that self-image obscures the harm one causes. Angela is so determined to get everyone else to open their eyes that she fails to recognize her own blind spots, casting herself as the hero of a story that isn’t really about her.”

Cast

& Credits

DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Sara Crow. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Theo Gray. EDITING: Sara Crow. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Charlotte Abbott. MUSIC: Jeff Rosenstock. SOUND: Lily Cunningham (sound mixer), Graham Carpenter (sound designer). CAST: Matilda Lawler, Izaac Wang, Aubyn Philabaum, Matthew Lawler, Brooke Markham, Addison Fay, Stevie Ray Dallimore, Olive Arellano, Adam Stein. PRODUCTION: Sara Crow, Adam Kinyon, Anton Vicente Kliot, Sam Millstein for Best Dressed Films. CONTACT: Sara Crow sara@nofuturefilms.com
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