"Daniel Patrick Carbone's haunting debut feature offers a dark vision of boyhood adventure in a great outdoors fraught with peril." New York Times

Berlin International Film Festival
Tribeca Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival

Hide Your Smiling Faces vividly depicts the young lives of two brothers as they abruptly come of age through the experience of a friend’s mysterious death. The boys’ need to reflect leads them back to the wild surroundings of their friend’s death, gently invoking both the romantic beauty and brutal reality of nature. In his feature debut, Director Daniel Patrick Carbone creates an atmosphere that perfectly captures the fragmentary nature of childhood memory, offering a singular take on the coming-of-age tale that is at once genuinely poetic and devoid of sentiment.

USA - 2013 - 1h 20m
Directed By: Daniel Patrick Carbone
Written By: Daniel Patrick Carbone
Starring: Ryan Jones, Nathan Varnson