A West Coast premiere at the recent Dances With Films Fest, the documentary 120 Days throws an affecting spotlight on the personal side of immigration, telling the story of a man who counts down the final four months with his family while weighing his options facing a federal “voluntary” self-deportation order.

A recent presentation at the Julien International Film Festival and a competition title at the Dances With Films Fest in Los Angeles, well-meaning indie effort Being Awesome cycles through well-worn clichés of stuck-in-a-rut, cusp-of-thirtysomething frustration, but adds nothing much new or of interest to the emotionally-adrift-guys subgenre.

A world premiere and Grand Jury honorable mention selection at the recently concluded 17th annual Dances With Films Fest, writer-director Jesse Rosen’s The Jazz Funeral is a relaxed, shrewdly observed portrait of the sort of crucible that a lot of young men must pass through in entering into a functional, adult, peer relationship with their father.