22-year-old Aura returns home to her artist mother’s New York City loft with a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page and a boyfriend who’s left her to find himself at Burning Man. Surrounded on all sides by what she could become, Aura just wants someone to tell her who she is.

A charming and sober expression of self-doubt, Tiny Furniture saw writer-director-star Lena Dunham follow her TV success with a marvel of no-budget ingenuity. Darker and more formally rigorous than her hit series Girls, it’s one of the key films of modern American indie cinema.