Joy Jorgensen

Producer, Founder at Killjoy Films

We Strangers is an addictive and haunting study of race, class and assimilation, centering around Ray, a charming and self-determined woman living in Gary, Indiana.

We Strangers (2024)

Killjoy was founded in New York in 2014 and moved to Berlin in 2016. We produce short and feature narrative projects with a focus on new voices and emerging directors from around the globe.

Killjoy Films

An 18-year-old girl dealing with the sudden death of her father and whose life takes an unexpected turn when she carries out his last wish to be buried in his home town along the Mississippi.

Runner

A little boy sends his spirit into his babysitter's body.

Homebody

On Christmas Eve, 1968, in a Scottish coastal town, a debt collector goes to work to avoid confronting his wife's worsening psychosis at home.

Blue Christmas

When 8 year old Kati from Afghanistan stows away in her father's truck, Faruk must juggle his responsibilities as a single dad while holding down his first job in a new country.

Bambirak

On a routine morning, a woman on a crowded New York City subway is sexually assaulted in plain sight.

Laps

A pregnant man communicates psychically with his unborn fetus.

Pregnant

Destete

A queer supernatural break-up album about a woman who falls in love with an angel.

Low Tide

Following the death of her parents, 15-year-old Ida attempts to commit suicide to join her family in heaven.

Heaven, Here I Come

Teenagers play truth or dare in the basement of a funeral reception.

Ookie Cookie

The paths of two travelers cross in the woods.

Round Right

After giving birth to a briefcase, a woman kidnaps her neighbor's baby.

Briefcase

Good girl Ana learns a lesson in selfishness when her generous nature is put to the test by an old friend.

Ana Takes a Stand

A woman in her early 30's retreats to the countryside to try and escape her anxiety and depression. But a casual encounter with a much younger man leaves her in even more distress, causing her to take a drastic action

In Defense of Wonder

Modern Love

Secrets and truths unfold through the lives of female friends in one suburban neighborhood after the mysterious suicide of a neighbor.