Kristenswig Award for Best Original Screenplay
20th Century Women - Mike Mills
My mom will meet Jim in 1983. Theyâll be a couple until she dies. Â On her birthday each year, he will buy her a trip on a biplane. Â Years after sheâs gone Iâll finally get married and have a son. Â Iâll try to explain to him what his grandmother was like--but it will be impossible.Â
Aquarius - Kleber Mendonça Filho
Itâs impressive what people say about lack of education, and they always refer to poor people, but lack of manners isnât in poor people, itâs in rich, well educated people like you, the elite, who think theyâre elite, who think theyâre privileged, who donât stand in line.  People like you who took a âbusinessâ course, but lack basic human decency, who have no character.  No character, no I mean you do have a character; your character is money, all youâve got is your shit-eating smile; thatâs what you got.Â
The Edge of Seventeen - Kelly Fremon Craig
Nick, Iâm just gonna say it. Â I like you. Â Iâve liked you for months. Â I think about you every second. Â I donât know maybe I even love you. Â Youâre so complicated but simple and I just feel this connection between us. Â I feel like I already know you and I just wanna be with you. Â I wanna give you head. Â I want you to put your mouth on my tits. Â I wanna feel you inside me. Â We can do it in the Pet Land stockroom.
From Afar - Lorenzo Vigas
-Is your dad dead?
-No. But I wish he were.
The Invitation - Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi
I am different. Â Iâm free. Â All that useless pain, itâs gone. Â itâs something anyone can have, Will. Â And I want you to have it too.Â
You say you pray every night to die, that your children have no use for you, that you wish only to be with your husband. Â And yet--Iâm not burying you today. Â There comes a time in manâs search for meaning when one realizes--there are no answers. Â When you come to that horrible unavoidable realization--you accept it. Â Or you kill yourself. Â Or you simply stop searching. Â I have lived a blessed life, and yet every night when I climb into bed, turn off the lights and stare into the dark, I wonder...is this all there is? Â And then, when morning comes, we all wake up and make a pot of coffee. Â You did this morning, and you will again tomorrow. Â God, in his infinite wisdom, has made sure...it is just enough for us.Â