Tiny Furniture is a 2010 American independent comedy film written, directed by, and starring Lena Dunham.
It premiered at South by Southwest, where it won best narrative feature, and was released theatrically in the United States on November 12, 2010.
Aura returns home from her Midwest liberal arts college to her artist family’s TriBeCa loft with nothing to show but a film studies degree, a failed relationship, and a lack of direction. She takes...
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Tiny Furniture is a 2010 American independent comedy film written, directed by, and starring Lena Dunham.
It premiered at South by Southwest, where it won best narrative feature, and was released theatrically in the United States on November 12, 2010.
Aura returns home from her Midwest liberal arts college to her artist family’s TriBeCa loft with nothing to show but a film studies degree, a failed relationship, and a lack of direction. She takes a job as a hostess at a restaurant and falls into relationships with two self-centered men while struggling to define herself.
Filming took place in TriBeCa and Lower Manhattan. The film was shot in November of 2009. Tiny Furniture shares many aspects of the mumblecore movement—loosely defined as an indie, low-budget, mostly digital video movement of dialogue-heavy films about the personal experiences of young adult characters utilizing amateur actors and improvised dialogue. However, director Lena Dunham does not consider the film to be...
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