Opening Night Film - Morris from America
Directed by: Chad Hartigan
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Cast: Markees Christmas and Craig Robinson
Synopsis:
A heartwarming and crowd-pleasing coming-of-age comedy with a unique spin, Morris from America centers on Morris Gentry (Markees Christmas, in an incredible breakout performance) a 13-year-old who has just relocated with his single father, Curtis (Craig Robinson) to Heidelberg, Germany. Morris, who fancies himself the next Notorious B.I.G., is a complete fish-out-of-water—a budding hip-hop star in an EDM world. To complicate matters further, Morris quickly falls hard for his cool, rebellious, 15-year-old classmate Katrin. Morris sets out against all odds to take the hip-hop world by storm and win the girl of his dreams.
Written and directed by acclaimed up-and-coming filmmaker Chad Hartigan (This is Martin Bonner), Morris from America won two prizes at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the Waldo Salt Screening Award and a Special Jury Award for Robinson, who has been receiving tremendous praise for his touching and nuanced performance in his first serious role. Poignant and funny in equal measure, Morris from America is a delightfully original take on growing up, following your dreams, and finding your voice.
Yoani’s Trip
Runtime: 80 minutes
Directed by: Peppe Siffredi, Raphael Bottino
Cast: Yoani Sánchez
Synopsis:
The Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez built her first computer on her own, created a blog without home internet access and today she has millions of monthly views. Writing about her daily life in Cuba and criticizing socialism, Yoani became well known and won international prizes. Because of her polemic posts, some say she is a CIA agent, others say she is a fighter for freedom of speech. After many years trying to obtain a permission to fly out of her country, the Castro brothers came to Brazil, and she ran into a lot of trouble.
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The History of Time Travel
Directed by: Ricky Kennedy
Run Time: 75 min
Cast: Krista Ales, Garland Buffalo and Trey Cartwright
Synopsis: A fictional documentary about the creation of the worlds first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.
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Sunday April, 10 at 4:15pmWorld Cinema Shorts
Runtime: 87 minutes
Foot in Mouth
Directed by: Ella Jones
Synopsis: When two pampered girls ignorantly abuse and offend a Chinese pedicurist, she cleverly plots a fitting revenge.
Rumble
Directed by: Matthew Hopper
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Synopsis: A deaf boxer must decide whether to give up the sport he loves in favor of an operation that could allow him to hear for the first time.
Violet
Directed by: Maurice Joyce
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Synopsis: Violet is the dark, cautionary tale of a young girl who despises her reflection. Tired of the abuse, Violet’s reflection decides she’s not going to take it anymore.
Dreaming of Peggy Lee
Directed by: James Everett
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Synopsis: Sometimes the barrier is the bridge to your dream.
Colours
Directed by: Peter Lee Scott
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Synopsis: In the aggressive and hostile world of youth grass roots football Adam faces an ultimatum from the team captain, when they discover Adam’s best friend Tom is gay.
Run, Ran, Run
Directed by: Sanna Ekman
Synopsis: Jennifer is out for a morning jog, spots a robber hiding a bag full of money. She steals it, but gets stopped by the police.
A Visita- The Visit
Directed by: Leandro Corinto
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Synopsis: Matthew is nine years old and was raised by Theo, his uncle. Today, he will finally rediscover his true father, who came from abroad to visit him.
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Sunday April, 9 at 4:10pm
Wednesday April, 13 at 10:20am
No Greater Love
Directed by: Justin Roberts
Run Time: 94 minutes
Synopsis: No Greater Love explores a combat deployment through the eyes of an Army chaplain, first as he and his men fight their way through a hellish tour in one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan, and then as they struggle to reintegrate home.
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Saturday, April 9 at 5:45pm
Sunday, April 10 at 11:50am
Jessica
Directed by: Scott K. Foley
Run Time: 85 minutes
Cast: Maya Boudreau , Kelly O'Sullivan
Synopsis:
Adrift in a sea of anxiety and confusion, Jessica must reconcile the legacy of her long dysfunctional family or risk losing the people she cares about most.
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Saturday, April 9th at 7:30pm
Sunday, April 10th at 12:20pm
Horror Shorts A
Running Time: 90 minutes
Gotcher
Directed by: Bruce Branit
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Synopsis: A secret support group meets to take back something stolen from them as children.
Ideal
Directed by: Kevan Tucker
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Synopsis: A young model must decide whether to acquiesce to a photographer's increasingly horrific demands in this pitch black satire of today's beauty standards.
Blight
Directed by: Brian Deane
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Synopsis: A young priest is sent to battle dark supernatural forces threatening a remote Island community.
The Man Who Loved Flowers
Directed by: Justin Zimmerman
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Synopsis: THE MAN WHO LOVED FLOWERS is Stephen King's romantic and visceral short story brought to colorful and horrific life!
A Way Out
Directed by: Jason Tostevin
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Synopsis: When aging gangster Vick risks it all to quit the life, he discovers his young protégé has been keeping a secret of his own -- one that plunges them both into a deadly cat and mouse game over the course of one car ride.
The Smiling Man
Directed by: A.J. Briones
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Synopsis: A little girl home alone finds herself face-to-face with pure evil.
Deathly
Directed by: Mike Williamson
Synopsis: Following the tragic death of his wife, a man is unsettled by chilling events in their house.
Yummy Meat: A Halloween Carol
Directed by: John Fitzpatrick
Synopsis: Amber is a snarky dentist who hands out toothbrushes to the neighborhood kids, only to discover that one of them may soon be brushing bits of her from his teeth.
Welcome to the Party
Directed by: Michael A. Livingston
Synopsis: A group of hipster serial killers commit a brutal murder in honor of their friend's 30th birthday.
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Saturday April, 9 at 10:25pm
Monday April, 11 at 5:10pm
Animated Shorts
Run Time: 79 minutes
Bear Me
Directed by: Kasia Wilk
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Synopsis: One day I found a bear. Or he found me. And he stayed.
Hooked
Directed by: Sofia Moreira
Synopsis: Captain C is a kind but lonely old man looking for a friend, but his pirate attributes scare people away. Saddened and defeated, Captain C finds companionship in a stray balloon.
Tiny Town
Directed by: Howard Cook, Stephen Baker
Synopsis: When a small train town is besieged by cataclysmic events, it's up to a simple ice-cream man to rise against the challenges and defend his home.
Taichi Mice: Entrance Exam
Directed by: Boqing Tang
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Synopsis: Three little mice struggle to get through the entrance exam of a Taoism martial art school.
Burnt
Directed by: Devin Bell
Synopsis: In a scorched desert forest, three plant-like creatures try to cope with being physically and mentally burned. They encounter something green for the first time, and it challenges them to view life differently.
Bottomless
Directed by: Veronique Vanblaere
Synopsis: A Belgian woman seeks citizenship in the United States, and finds that her experiences are bottomless.
Olilo
Directed by: Ao Li
Synopsis: Olilo is a 2D animation about an introverted girl held captive by her own semi-transparent personal space. Using traditional frame-by-frame, digital drawing, and key frame animation, the film shows that love can transform all things.
The Loneliest Stoplight
Directed by: Bill Plympton
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Synopsis: The life and times of a neglected stoplight.
Golden Shot
Directed by: Gökalp Gönen
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Synopsis: Rusty machines imagine that the sun will come and take them to the sky someday. A small light keeps them alive and dreaming, but one machine wants to see the sun itself.
Borrowed Time
Directed by: Andrew Coats, Lou Hamou-Lhadj
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Synopsis: Keep Moving Forward.
The Apple Tree
Directed by: Scott Storm
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Synopsis: A destitute young boy discovers that the natural world near his home is in jeopardy, and acts to put things right at all costs.
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Sunday April, 10 at 12:00pm
Tuesday, April 12 at 2:50pm
Coming Through the Rye
Directed by: James Sadwith
Run Time: 95 minutes
Cast: Alex Wolff, Stefania Owen, Chris Cooper
Synopsis: Inspired by the filmmaker's own true story, Coming Through the Rye follows a 16 year- old boy in 1969 who is desperate to be worldly. After stumbling through disastrous relationships at boarding school, he travels with a local town girl to the mountains of New Hampshire in search of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.
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Saturday April, 9 at 6:00pm
Sunday April, 10 at 4:05pm
Victor Young Perez
Directed by: Jacques Ouaniche
Runtime: 103 minutes
Cast: Brahim Asloum, Steve Suissa, Isabella Orisin
Synopsis: Victor “Young” Perez, tells the astonishing, harrowing and incredible moving story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. Because of his Jewish background he was deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis and had to fight there for the entertainment of the camp commander.
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Monday April 11th 7:10 PM
Jackie Boy
Runtime: 87 minutes
Directed by: Cody Campanale
Cast: Alino Giraldi, Shannon Coulter, Edward Charette, Andrew Di Rosa, Chloe Van Landschoot, Christina Bryson
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Synopsis: A self-destructive womanizer falls for a girl hell bent on making him suffer for past mistakes.
Documentary Shorts
Run Time: 85 minutes
High Signs
Directed by: Damien Patrik
Synopsis: Hard working street performers, slackers, or simply human puppets on a string?
Binkley’s
Directed by: Andrew Gooi
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Synopsis: Founded in Cave Creek in 2004, Binkley's Restaurant defied the odds to become one of the best restaurants in the Southwest.
Native Evolution
Directed by: Kyle Bell
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Synopsis: Native American street artist Steven Grounds has been painting his kind of creativity on walls of buildings and anything else he can get his hands onto. Motivated from the hardships of his life, he continues to find the strength to persevere through art.
Keep It Grand
Directed by: Daniel Ferrara
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Synopsis: A developer has plans to build a gigantic tourist settlement at the Grand Canyon, while Native Americans are fighting to protect land they view as sacred, and environmentalists are up in arms about the impact on the environment that the construction project and its aftermath would bring.
In Memory
Directed by: 72 U
Synopsis: The story of a community's digital journey through the life, death and remembering of PlainWhite Tom, a Chicago street performer who tragically took his own life.
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Saturday, April 9th at 11:15am
Thursday, April 14th at 10:20am
Sci-Fi Shorts B
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Tomorrow's Dream
Directed by: David Gould
Synopsis: A young man develops a machine to travel back in time to save his girlfriend and unborn child.
Ozone
Directed by: Branko Sujic
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Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic near future devastated by global nuclear war, Dastagir, one of the few survivors, fights to regain his lost love and rediscover his humanity.
Legacy
Directed by: Josh Mawer
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Synopsis: To save his father's brilliant mind a young man is coerced into time sharing his consciousness. With two minds in one body, boundaries and relationships start to blur.
Populace
Directed by: Aaron Bevan Bailey
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Synopsis: We follow a day in the life of John, a clone, who works for the sinister Orwellian Populace Corporation. His world is turned upside down when he is forced to choose between the reason he was created and the woman he loves.
The Grid
Directed by: Andi Osho
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Synopsis: Tina Marvine is forced to return to extreme game show, The Grid, to save her son but, psychologically ravaged by her last experience on the fear-based global phenomenon, she must confront her own demons before she can save her son from his.
Helio
Directed by: Teddy Cecil
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Synopsis: A sci-fi noir set in a dystopian underground city on the eve of a revolution.
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Saturday, April 9th at 10:20pm
Monday, April 11th at 2:50pm
Rwanda & Juliet
Directed by: Ben Proudfoot
Run Time: 87 minutes
Synopsis: Rwanda & Juliet is a documentary that follows eccentric Ivy League professor emeritus Andrew Garrod to Kigali, Rwanda, where he mounts Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with Rwandan college students from Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Twenty years have passed since the 1994 Genocide that left 1,000,000 Tutsis dead. Predominantly orphans, the cast of young Rwandans, led by a stunning, strong-headed Juliet, tackles their country's past and their own futures as hopes, pasts, personalities and cultures collide and opening night approaches.
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Saturday April, 9 at 3:15pm
Sunday April, 10 at 9:45am
Children of the Arctic
Runtime: 93 minutes
Directed by: Nick Brandestini
Synopsis: Children of the Arctic, is a portrait of Native Alaskan teenagers coming of age at America's northernmost edge. As their climate and culture undergo profound changes, they strive to be both modern American kids and the inheritors of an ancient whaling culture.
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Student Shorts
Runtime: 85 minutes
The Fantastic Love of Beeboy & Flowergirl
Directed by: Clemens Roth
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Synopsis: Peter is being followed by Killerbees, Elsa collects exotic flowers. To be together, they have to overcome their fantasies.
Girl in the Chair
Directed by: M. Louis Gordon
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Synopsis: Clutching onto life with the help of her childhood imagination, an abducted teenage girl escapes from the house of her kidnapper. Once in the outside world she searches for home, but must come to terms with reality when the home she longs for is as unfamiliar as her new found freedom.
The Bench
Directed by: Cameron Burnett
Synopsis: There is more than meets the eye, in this random encounter on a park bench.
Small Displays of Chaos
Directed by: Nick Meunier
Synopsis: During a family supper, a young girl is caught between the opposing forces of her parents and her eating disorder.
Man Under the Moon
Directed by: Maria Sevilla
Synopsis: When two strangers enter an old Japanese village disrupting an old man in his sleep, an idea comes to mind for the old man to untangle his red string.
The Life and Times of Thomas Thumb Jr.
Directed by: Ryan Fox
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Synopsis: Thomas Thumb Jr. is unlike any other man. He has a giant thumb for a head and he'll do whatever it takes to achieve the American Dream.
Miracle Polish
Directed by: Eduardo Cohn
Synopsis: When a door to door salesman gives Steve the Miracle Polish, he rediscovers his younger self in the mirrors of his home.
Isa and the Frog Prince
Directed by: Yingxiang Huang
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Synopsis: Believing her frog will turn into an enchanted prince, Isa goes on an adventure with a bully and his gang who challenge her.
Live Action Shorts A
Running Time: 90 min
Ronnie BoDean
Directed by: Steven Paul Judd
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Synopsis: Ronnie BoDean is a larger-than-life outlaw with a short fuse and probably some loose screws. Uncouth and suffering from a mean hangover, he struggles to babysit his jailed neighbor's precocious kids. Ronnie BoDean has seen better days…and today's not one of them.
Fragile Storm
Directed by: Dawn Fields
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Synopsis: A scared young woman goes to extreme measures to escape the clutches of a terrifying older man, only to realize the shocking and heartbreaking truth about why she's really there. Here is a film about one of the deadliest issues of our time.
A Way Out
Directed by: Jason Tostevin
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Synopsis: When aging gangster Vick risks it all to quit the life, he discovers his young protégé has been keeping a secret of his own -- one that plunges them both into a deadly cat and mouse game over the course of one car ride.
Big Boy
Directed by: Bryan Campbell
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Synopsis: A dark comedy about a nine-year-old boy's first solo excursion into a highway rest stop bathroom.
American Dancer
Directed by: Steven Espinosa
Synopsis: A struggling dancer supports his dream as a small time criminal.
A King's Betrayal
Directed by: David A Bornstein
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Synopsis: The final 24 hours in the life of a piñata, as told from the piñata's perspective.
BURNED
Directed by: Jaime Valdueza
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Synopsis: Jason (Beau Knapp; 'The Signal', 'Southpaw') hides in a motel room afraid of coming out. The only person he trusts is his girlfriend Lila (Maika Monroe; 'The Guest', 'It Follows'), who takes him to meet a friend in a remote house in the desert. At their arrival, an unexpected guest asks too many questions. Jason's trust for Lila begins to fade.
My Luchador
Directed by: Shea Sizemore
Synopsis: Lose the match lose your mask, lose your mask lose your identity.
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Sunday April, 10 at 9:55am
Monday April, 11 at 10:20am
The Dark Tapes
Run Time:105 minutes
Director: Vincent J. Guastini, Michael McQuown
Cast: Cortney Palm, David Hull, Brittany Underwood
Synopsis:
Radical Found-Footage Horror Anthology of Five Original Intelligent Stories.
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Directed by: Neel Upadhye
Run Time: 89 minutes
Cast: Sascha Alexander, Brennan Kelleher, Erica Dasher, Sara Amini, Diane Robin
Synopsis: Dating Daisy is a romantic comedy about the honest and crazy truth of dating in your twenties! The story follows Michael and Daisy, two exes who decide to road trip home together for the holidays and get caught up in their crazy past.
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Saturday, April 9th at 8:10pm
Sunday, April 10th at 9:50am
Since: The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
Directed by: Phil Furey
Run Time: 84 minutes
Synopsis:
The 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland killed 270 innocent people and ushered in a frightful new age of terrorism. Bound together in tragedy, the relatives of the victims fought tooth and nail for justice, only to watch it unravel for Libyan oil.
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Runtime: 81 minutes
Directed by: Ben Cura
Cast: Christian McKay, Andrea Deck, Ben Cura, Tom Bateman, Simon Callow
Synopsis: A love triangle is unraveled when a young painter is approached by an admirer who eases him into making sense of his relationship with his wife. Based on August Strindberg's 1888 play, "Creditors" is a modern re-telling of Strindberg's story of love, betrayal, revenge and psychological manipulation, which he considered to be his one true masterpiece.
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The Seeker
Directed by: Jeff D. Johnson
Run Time: 60 minutes
Cast: Josh Radnor, Alex McKenna and Amanda Day
Synopsis: A daughter's idyllic life is turned upside-down by immense tragedy. As she grows older, her cynicism and apathy towards her new reality is challenged by a reminder from the past that sets her on a pilgrimage that will define her.
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Sunday, April 10th at 6:10pm
Monday, April 11 • 12:30pm
Live Action Shorts B
Running Time: 95 Minutes
What If My Wife Died In Yoga Class?
Directed by: Jeffrey Williams
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Synopsis: Everybody has those weird questions that flicker through their minds from time to time. This outrageously dark comedy sets out to find an answer. During a mundane laundry day, Randy lets his train of thought run out of control. Once he wonders that fateful 'what if,' he becomes determined to find an answer. His stream of consciousness becomes an epic journey of self-discovery, leading to highs and lows, with some unthinkable surprises along the way.
The Walk
Directed by: Alonso Alvarez Barreda
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Synopsis: In the harshness of the Arizona desert, a Mexican man and his son are faced with a major crisis of conscience as they try to cross the border illegally.
BRIX AND THE BITCH
Directed by: Nico Raineau
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Synopsis: Trapped in a seedy and illegal fight club, one woman's only chance for escape is a gruesome brawl against the one person she refuses to harm.
Last Winter
Directed by: Daniel Wyland
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Synopsis: Early 1900's. One's love or One's honor. Who is to decide what's right?
Wild West Fan Co.
Directed by: Matt Thompson
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Synopsis: In Scorchville, the hottest town in the Wild West, a Chinese fan peddler tries to cool down a family of hot-headed, notorious vigilantes who are caught in a 3-way draw.
The Decision
Directed by: Mike Scalisi
Synopsis: If you could change one decision you’ve made in your life and things would be as if you had taken a different path, what decision would you change?
The Mountain King
Directed by: Peter Brambl
Synopsis: A counterfeit artist helps his boss with a vanity film project, getting tangled up with a free-spirited actress and some unpredictable criminals in the process.
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Saturday, April 9th at 9:20am
Monday, April 11th at 12:35pm
Parallel
Directors: John Turk, Keith Nickoson
Run Time: 01:30:00
Cast: Richard Portnow, Liz DuChez, Terence Cranendonk
Synopsis: A brilliant mathematician travels through time and space in search of the knowledge that would allow him to control his life and alter the events of his past. What he discovers is that he must let go of his obsession in order to live his life.
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Saturday April, 9 at 9:10am
Beyond Glory
Directed by: Larry Brand
Run Time: 78 minutes
Cast: Stephen Lang, Gary Sinise
Synopsis:
A mixed media presentation implementing aspects of documentary, solo & live performance, and computer generated spaces, acclaimed actor Stephen Lang tells the true stories of eight Medal of Honor recipients both on the battlefield and beyond.
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Directed by: Logan Kibens
Run Time: 87 minutes
Cast: Martin Starr, Mae Whitman, Nat Faxon, Christine Lahti, Retta Sirleaf
Synopsis: Joe, a programmer and obsessive self-quantifier, risks losing his marriage when he models the personality for a digital voice on his wife, Emily.
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Freedom or Death
Runtime: 73 minutes
Directed by: Damian Kolodiy
Synopsis: “Freedom or Death” focuses on the revolutionary events in Kyiv, Ukraine in 2014. The film is told from the point of view of Ukrainian-American filmmaker Damian Kolodiy. The film focuses on events in Kyiv, starting with the peaceful demonstrations in support of Ukraine signing a free trade agreement with the European Union. The film examines how those peaceful demonstrations escalate into a violent conflict between Ukrainian activists and the Ukrainian government headed by corrupt President Victor Yanukovych. Through on the ground footage and Kolodiy’s voiceover, the film is a chronological and forensic portrait of how a civil uprising in Kyiv has become a hybrid war with Russia that has had global ramifications.
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Sunday, April 10 at 11:45am
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I Am What I Play
Directed by: Roger King
Runtime: 105 minutes
Cast: Meg Griffin, David Marsden, Charles Laquidara, Pat O’Day
Synopsis: From the 1960s to the 1980s, the rock radio DJ played an unprecedented creative role in the rock music world. I Am What I Play profiles four DJs in major markets during this period: their programming, their politics, and their deep connections with musicians and fans in the heyday of rock radio. Where are they now- and how did they reinvent themselves as the medium changed?
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Tuesday April 12th, 5:00 PM
The Man Who Knew Infinity
Directed by: Matt Brown
Run Time: 110 minutes
Cast: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Stephen Fry and Toby Jones
Synopsis: Based on the untold story of one of the greatest minds of his generation, The Man Who Knew Infinity charts the incredible life of Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose genius for mathematics takes him from the slums of India to Trinity College, Cambridge University in the early 20th-century. Spurred on by his mentor G. H. Hardy, Ramanujan overcomes racism and the rigidity of academia to revolutionize the field with his startlingly original theorems, which he attributes to divine inspiration. Driven by the engaging rapport between Patel and Irons as two vastly different men who find common ground in the world of numbers, “The Man Who Knew Infinity” is a fascinating look at how an unlikely, cross-cultural friendship changed the world.
Based on the book The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel.
Starz Present’s The Girlfriend Experience
Runtime: 60 Minutes
Directed by: Amy Seimetz
Cast: Riley Keough, Paul Sparks, Marky Lynn Rajskub
Synopsis: Second year law student, Christine Reade, falls into the excitement of engaging in something secret and taboo. Struggling to juggle her internship and the GFE world, Christine finds herself losing control.
Welcome to Happiness
Directed by: Oliver Thompson
Run Time: 108 minutes
Cast: Kyle Gallner, Olivia Thirlby, Nick Offerman, Keegan-Michael Key, Brendan Sexton III, Josh Brener
Synopsis: A children’s book author, Woody Ward, is the gatekeeper to a mysterious door in his closet that only allows certain people to enter. One such person, a suicidal artist, is led down a rabbit hole of bizarre coincidences that ultimately bring him to Woody’s doorstep. Though he has no idea where the door leads, Woody happily shepherds people through until he finds out the truth and his life is forever changed.
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Saturday April, 9 at 1:25pm
Sunday April, 10 at 10:00am
Under the Shadow
Directed by: Babak Anvari
Run Time: 85 minutes
Cast: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi, Ray Haratian, Hamidreza Djavdan and Soussan Farrokhnia
Synopsis: As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war torn Tehran of the 80s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
A Light Beneath Their Feet
Directed by: Valerie Weiss
Run Time: 90 minutes
Cast: Taryn Manning, Madison Davenport, Maddie Hasson, Kurt Fuller, Carter Jenkins
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A Light Beneath Their Feet is an honest and poignant coming of age story about a high school senior struggling with the decision whether to remain the stable rock for her bipolar mother or go to her dream college across the country.
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Kollwein’s Day of Truth
Runtime: 88 minutes
Directed by: Anna Justice
Cast: Vicky Krieps, Florian Lukas, Benjamin Sadler, Peter Benedict, Jean-Christophe Nigon, Georges Claisse, Laurent Stocker, Ercan Durmaz, Daniel Rohr
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Synopsis: German district attorney Marie Hofmann and French police inspector Jean-Luc Laboetie are working on a case involving the murder of an employee at the nuclear plant Haut-Rhin, when an unknown man seizes control over the plant. David Kollwein, former head of security at Haut-Rhin, threatens to create a meltdown, should the French Minister of Energy fail to tell the inhabitants of bordering countries France, Germany and Switzerland the truth about the nuclear plant’s ailing condition. While the whole region is being held captive in this situation, Marie uncovers a conspiracy reaching to the very top of French politics, one that shakes French nuclear policy to the very foundations.
Dead Body
Director: Bobbin Ramsey
Run Time: 01:18:23
Cast: Cooper Hopkins, Nathan Pringle, Leah Pfenning
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Nine high school kids celebrate graduation at a secluded home in the wilderness. They fight, philander, and feel nostalgic as they embark on a life away from home, in college. Once the party dies down they play a game: Dead Body. But when one party-goer takes the game too far, actually murdering the other guests one by one, it's up to the group to set aside their tensions, and ferret out the murderer before it's too late.
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Saturday, April 9 • 9:45pm
Sci-fi Shorts A
Running Time: 86 minutes
PROJECT: Horizon
Directed by: Kirill Kripak
Synopsis: On a desolate moon in a faraway star system, a lone spaceman walks the barren landscape on a tedious journey with his robotic companion.
Clones
Directed by: Rafael Bolliger
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Synopsis: In the far future, a dying professor undergoes a special kind of surgery.
BACK TO THE GAIA
Directed by: Chen Xiaoneng
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Synopsis: An action to save the world, a clinging mourning of her father, this is the metamorphosis of a girl fighting with her loneliness and fear.
Iris
Directed by: Richard Karpala
Synopsis: A hitman uses his smart phone to aid in burying a dead body.
JAKOB
Directed by: Eymeric JORAT
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Synopsis: Jakob, a humanoid robot, has just committed the first crime on a human. Intended to be destroyed, a lawyer will try to save him. Together they have 12 hours to explain the murder, 12 hours before judgement.
Younglings
Directed by: Stuart Baker
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Synopsis: Blade Runner meets Blazing Saddles in a dark, sci-fi comedy about a poker night pop-culture smack down between geriatric nerds of the future.
Avant
Directed by: Arthur Tabuteau
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Synopsis: In a world turned to ashes by war between humans and machines, a boy tries to survive. Even if the robot menace is everywhere, he goes on a quest for food. Despite his effort to stay hidden, he gets caught. While everything seems to be lost, the reaction of the robot is not going to be what he expected…
As They Continue To Fall
Directed by: Nikhil Bhagat
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Synopsis: An aging drifter hunts fallen angels in a city collapsing into ruins. Society may have turned its back on him, but that doesn't stop him from moving forward in his endless search.
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Saturday April, 9 at 1:05pm
Thursday April, 14 at 5:10pm
Night of Something Strange
Director: Jonathan Straiton
Run Time: 1:34:00
Cast: Trey Harrison,Rebecca C Kasek,Michael Merchant,Wes Reid,Wayne W Johnson,Toni Anne Gamble,Brinke Stevens,Nicola Fiore,Billy Garberina
Synopsis: Teenage friends out for Spring Break get unexpectedly detoured to an isolated motel where a deadly STD virus now runs rampant, turning those infected into the living dead.
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Saturday April, 9 at 3:10pm
Last Girl Standing
Directed by: Benjamin R MoodyRun Time: 90 minutes
Cast: Akasha Villalobos, Danielle Evon Ploeger and Brian Villalobos
Synopsis: Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn the lone survivor, has struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, Camryn leads a depressingly lonely existence until Nick, a new co-worker, befriends Camryn and attempts to integrate her into his group of friends. Just when she might be ready to start a new life, Camryn’s past comes back to haunt her. Can Camryn ever have a life again, or is she destined to be alone?
Horror Shorts B
Running Time: 90 Minutes
A Tricky Treat
Directed by: Patricia Chica
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Synopsis: A man is kidnapped by a very strange family, and his fate is held in the hands of two kids. 'A Tricky Treat' presents a shocking tale of the unexpected with a twist.
Night of the Slasher
Directed by: Shant Hamassian
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Synopsis: A 'shot-in-one-take' slasher film about a teenage girl who must commit horror movie sins by drinking alcohol, doing drugs, and having sex in order to lure a masked killer and exact revenge.
Miriam
Directed by: Emiliano Ranzani
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Synopsis: A nightly encounter between a petty criminal, a woman in danger and a darkly-clothed man. One of them is not what it seems.
The Voodoo Dick
Directed by: Daniel McDonald
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Synopsis: Based on a viral joke. A husband buys his wife a magical toy, but things go horribly wrong.
Larry Gone Demon
Directed by: Matthew John Lawrence
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Synopsis: When three twenty-somethings must deal with the incorrigible and incredibly demonic Larry, they risk life and limb in an attempt to save the soul of their once-kind-and-unassuming friend while also procuring his five-hundred dollars in back rent.
Flush
Directed by: Matt Cooper
Synopsis: Be careful who you piss off.
Bad Blood
Directed by: Aleksandra Lagkueva
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Synopsis: An invincible serial killer finds his preys at night, until one night somebody finds him...
Little Old Cat Lady from Rancho Cucamonga
Directed by: Stephen James Thomas
Synopsis: Granny Jefferson makes a wish for her cat, Georgie Pie, to take revenge upon four high school thugs who have stolen money and have brutally attacked her at home.
20 Matches
Directed by: Mark Tapio Kines
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Synopsis: A young woman, her face illuminated only by match light, tells the story of an Austrian serial killer who murdered 20 immigrant women - one per year.
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Sunday, April 10th at 2:15pm
Thursday, April 14 • 2:50pm
Creditors
Runtime: 81 minutes
Directed by: Ben Cura
Cast: Christian McKay, Andrea Deck, Ben Cura, Tom Bateman, Simon Callow
Synopsis: A love triangle is unraveled when a young painter is approached by an admirer who eases him into making sense of his relationship with his wife. Based on August Strindberg's 1888 play, "Creditors" is a modern re-telling of Strindberg's story of love, betrayal, revenge and psychological manipulation, which he considered to be his one true masterpiece.
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The Arizona Student Film Festival returns to the Phoenix Film Festival. The Arizona Student Film Festival is an annual showcase of films from Arizona grade school and high school students. Join us for this special screening and awards presentation.
Runtime: 105 minutes
Hope & Jackson by Alyssa Bartlett from Wigwam Creek Middle School
Seriously by Casey Likes from Willis Junior High
The Gymnast by Jourdyn Dinbokow from Wigwam Creek Middle School
Band Together by Max Lerner from Phoenix Country Day School
Maybe a Monster by Natasha Loving from Millennium High School
Graham by Grant Roberts from Notre Dame Preparatory High School
The Devil's Odds by Addison Gilbard from Chaparral High School
A Different Kind of Always by Roger Groleau from Metropolitan Arts Institute
Cat Eyes by Holly Milosevich from Arizona Virtual Academy
Just Another High School Fight by Angela Houston from Boulder Creek High School
The Banjo Man by Troy Lucia from Basha High School
An IDEA for Tomorrow by Alexis Rainery from Metropolitan Arts Institute
Birthday Static by Holly Milosevich from Arizona Virtual Academy
Fuera De La Sombra by Martha Pacheco from Metropolitan Arts Institute
Beautiful Words by Holly Milosevich from Arizona Virtual Academy
Homegrown Shorts
Runtime: 82 minutes
Reading Out Loud
Directed by: Bud Bennett
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Synopsis: A self-conscious guy is reading to his impatient classmates. But the harder he tries, the more hostile things become.
Little Donkeys
Directed by: Chris Vena
Synopsis: An exploration into the history and folklore of the burrito, a popular dish with obscure and surprising origins that defy borders, transcend nationalities and define the Southwest.
Reality
Directed by: Chris Wilembrecht
Synopsis: A young married couple who distrust one another learn the eccentric reality of their relationship.
In The Blink
Directed by: Damien Patrik
Synopsis: Time flies...faster than you can ever imagine.
A Proper Pint
Directed by: Keven Siegert
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Synopsis: A film that celebrates pub culture in Ireland and the role of the pub as an essential part of a rural community.
The Composer
Directed by: Gwynth Christoffell, Darien Marion
Synopsis: Tom is launched into the magical world of a musical score. He meets a quirky little eighth note who helps him find the inspiration he needs to move on.
The Simplicity of Chaos
Directed by: Miguel Gonzalez
Synopsis: A man with the power to do anything realizes the only thing more powerful than him, love.
Closing Doors
Directed by: Sam Santana
Synopsis: While at a party, a man runs into his ex-girlfriend. As they converse, they discuss what went wrong with their relationship.
Parallel
Directors: John Turk, Keith Nickoson
Run Time: 01:30:00
Cast: Richard Portnow, Liz DuChez, Terence Cranendonk
Synopsis: A brilliant mathematician travels through time and space in search of the knowledge that would allow him to control his life and alter the events of his past. What he discovers is that he must let go of his obsession in order to live his life.
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Since: The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
Directed by: Phil Furey
Run Time: 84 minutes
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The 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland killed 270 innocent people and ushered in a frightful new age of terrorism. Bound together in tragedy, the relatives of the victims fought tooth and nail for justice, only to watch it unravel for Libyan oil.
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Running Time: 95 Minutes
What If My Wife Died In Yoga Class?
Directed by: Jeffrey Williams
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Synopsis: Everybody has those weird questions that flicker through their minds from time to time. This outrageously dark comedy sets out to find an answer. During a mundane laundry day, Randy lets his train of thought run out of control. Once he wonders that fateful 'what if,' he becomes determined to find an answer. His stream of consciousness becomes an epic journey of self-discovery, leading to highs and lows, with some unthinkable surprises along the way.
The Walk
Directed by: Alonso Alvarez Barreda
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Synopsis: In the harshness of the Arizona desert, a Mexican man and his son are faced with a major crisis of conscience as they try to cross the border illegally.
BRIX AND THE BITCH
Directed by: Nico Raineau
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Synopsis: Trapped in a seedy and illegal fight club, one woman's only chance for escape is a gruesome brawl against the one person she refuses to harm.
Last Winter
Directed by: Daniel Wyland
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Synopsis: Early 1900's. One's love or One's honor. Who is to decide what's right?
Wild West Fan Co.
Directed by: Matt Thompson
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Synopsis: In Scorchville, the hottest town in the Wild West, a Chinese fan peddler tries to cool down a family of hot-headed, notorious vigilantes who are caught in a 3-way draw.
The Decision
Directed by: Mike Scalisi
Synopsis: If you could change one decision you’ve made in your life and things would be as if you had taken a different path, what decision would you change?
The Mountain King
Directed by: Peter Brambl
Synopsis: A counterfeit artist helps his boss with a vanity film project, getting tangled up with a free-spirited actress and some unpredictable criminals in the process.
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Friday, April 8th at 5:05pm
Monday, April 11th at 12:35pm
Carry On: Finding Hope in the Canyon
Run Time: 1:11:30
Directors: Jeremy Simmons, Carrie Whitten-Simmons
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Carry On: Finding Hope in the Canyon takes viewers on a journey through Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and into one of the most incredible natural wonders of the world. Fourteen year-old Anthony Castle has a dream: to hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. There's only one problem, his life-limiting illness has taken his ability to walk. Join him in his quest to do the unimaginable; make the 20-mile hike to the bottom of one of the largest canyons on earth in a wheel chair, something that has never been done before. As Anthony reminds us, it’s not about what you can’t do, it’s all about you CAN DO!
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Monday, April 11 • 9:20pm
Wednesday, April 13 • 7:10pm
The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man
Run Time: 1:39:57
Director: James Habacker
Key Cast: James Habacker,Jillian McManemin,Camille Habacker,Veronica Habacker,Lincoln Habacker,Julie Atlas Muz,Mat Fraser,Oakley Boycott,Joe Coleman,Stormy Leather,Cara Brennan,Arthur Aulisi,Ula Uberbusen,Todd Beers
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This dark, storybook fairy tale is a genre-defying mixture of comedy, horror, sex, fantasy, freak show, dream and cartoon. On top of that, it’s loaded with underground (and some mainstream) marquee names: Mat Fraser (from American Horror Story: Freak Show), his wife, the burlesque performer and choreographer Julie Atlas Muz, Slipper Room founder and Artistic Director James Habacker (who wrote and directed), Mistress of the New York School of Burlesque, Jo Weldon, and an impressive list of downtown New York performers, musicians, and artists such as Stormy Leather, Joe Coleman, and Bunny Love. The film is an ensemble piece that showcases much of the talent that lives and works within the orbit of The Slipper Room, the New York City Variety theatre that is the birthplace of neo-burlesque. The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man has the delirious and free attitude that has been the linchpin in New York underground film since the sixties - sophisticated, daring, dirty, heroic, playful, defying category and the expectations of the “market,” essentially giving the finger to anyone who thinks it’s “weird,”Âť even as it entertains the hell out of those willing to go along for the ride.
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Sunday, April 10 • 9:20am
Yoani’s Trip
Runtime: 80 minutes
Directed by: Peppe Siffredi, Raphael Bottino
Cast: Yoani Sánchez
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Documentary Shorts
Run Time: 85 minutes
High Signs
Directed by: Damien Patrik
Synopsis: Hard working street performers, slackers, or simply human puppets on a string?
Binkley’s
Directed by: Andrew Gooi
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Synopsis: Founded in Cave Creek in 2004, Binkley's Restaurant defied the odds to become one of the best restaurants in the Southwest.
Native Evolution
Directed by: Kyle Bell
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Synopsis: Native American street artist Steven Grounds has been painting his kind of creativity on walls of buildings and anything else he can get his hands onto. Motivated from the hardships of his life, he continues to find the strength to persevere through art.
Keep It Grand
Directed by: Daniel Ferrara
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Synopsis: A developer has plans to build a gigantic tourist settlement at the Grand Canyon, while Native Americans are fighting to protect land they view as sacred, and environmentalists are up in arms about the impact on the environment that the construction project and its aftermath would bring.
In Memory
Directed by: 72 U
Synopsis: The story of a community's digital journey through the life, death and remembering of PlainWhite Tom, a Chicago street performer who tragically took his own life.
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Friday, April 8th at 1:00pm
Thursday, April 14th at 10:20am
Operator
Directed by: Logan Kibens
Run Time: 87 minutes
Cast: Martin Starr, Mae Whitman, Nat Faxon, Christine Lahti, Retta Sirleaf
Synopsis: Joe, a programmer and obsessive self-quantifier, risks losing his marriage when he models the personality for a digital voice on his wife, Emily.
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Stereotypically You
Runtime: 85 minutes
Directed by: Benjamin Cox
Cast: Aaron Tveit, Jason Ralph, Kal Penn
Synopsis: An NYC dating comedy that follows one man’s hallucination-fueled, post-breakup quest to find new love… and himself.
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Sunday, April 10 at 4:00 PM
Lucky U Ranch
Run Time: 1:33:00
Director: Steve Anderson
Key Cast: Trevor Robins, Donovan Droege
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It's 1953, and 11-year-old Junior McCaully is ready to call it quits. Chubby, bullied, and stuck at an Arizona trailer court with his hardworking mom. Nothing prepares him for the arrival of Melissa, a sophisticated Hollywood girl who changes everything.
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Monday, April 11 • 2:45pm
Wednesday, April 13 • 9:20pm
Sci-fi Shorts A
Running Time: 86 minutes
PROJECT: Horizon
Directed by: Kirill Kripak
Synopsis: On a desolate moon in a faraway star system, a lone spaceman walks the barren landscape on a tedious journey with his robotic companion.
Clones
Directed by: Rafael Bolliger
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Synopsis: In the far future, a dying professor undergoes a special kind of surgery.
BACK TO THE GAIA
Directed by: Chen Xiaoneng
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Synopsis: An action to save the world, a clinging mourning of her father, this is the metamorphosis of a girl fighting with her loneliness and fear.
Iris
Directed by: Richard Karpala
Synopsis: A hitman uses his smart phone to aid in burying a dead body.
JAKOB
Directed by: Eymeric JORAT
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Synopsis: Jakob, a humanoid robot, has just committed the first crime on a human. Intended to be destroyed, a lawyer will try to save him. Together they have 12 hours to explain the murder, 12 hours before judgement.
Younglings
Directed by: Stuart Baker
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Synopsis: Blade Runner meets Blazing Saddles in a dark, sci-fi comedy about a poker night pop-culture smack down between geriatric nerds of the future.
Avant
Directed by: Arthur Tabuteau
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Synopsis: In a world turned to ashes by war between humans and machines, a boy tries to survive. Even if the robot menace is everywhere, he goes on a quest for food. Despite his effort to stay hidden, he gets caught. While everything seems to be lost, the reaction of the robot is not going to be what he expected…
As They Continue To Fall
Directed by: Nikhil Bhagat
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Synopsis: An aging drifter hunts fallen angels in a city collapsing into ruins. Society may have turned its back on him, but that doesn't stop him from moving forward in his endless search.
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Friday April, 8 at 9:35pm
Thursday April, 14 at 5:10pm
Student Shorts
Runtime: 85 minutes
The Fantastic Love of Beeboy & Flowergirl
Directed by: Clemens Roth
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Synopsis: Peter is being followed by Killerbees, Elsa collects exotic flowers. To be together, they have to overcome their fantasies.
Girl in the Chair
Directed by: M. Louis Gordon
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Synopsis: Clutching onto life with the help of her childhood imagination, an abducted teenage girl escapes from the house of her kidnapper. Once in the outside world she searches for home, but must come to terms with reality when the home she longs for is as unfamiliar as her new found freedom.
The Bench
Directed by: Cameron Burnett
Synopsis: There is more than meets the eye, in this random encounter on a park bench.
Small Displays of Chaos
Directed by: Nick Meunier
Synopsis: During a family supper, a young girl is caught between the opposing forces of her parents and her eating disorder.
Man Under the Moon
Directed by: Maria Sevilla
Synopsis: When two strangers enter an old Japanese village disrupting an old man in his sleep, an idea comes to mind for the old man to untangle his red string.
The Life and Times of Thomas Thumb Jr.
Directed by: Ryan Fox
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Synopsis: Thomas Thumb Jr. is unlike any other man. He has a giant thumb for a head and he'll do whatever it takes to achieve the American Dream.
Miracle Polish
Directed by: Eduardo Cohn
Synopsis: When a door to door salesman gives Steve the Miracle Polish, he rediscovers his younger self in the mirrors of his home.
Isa and the Frog Prince
Directed by: Yingxiang Huang
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Synopsis: Believing her frog will turn into an enchanted prince, Isa goes on an adventure with a bully and his gang who challenge her.
We Will Be The World Champions
Runtime: 126 minutes
Directed by: Darko Bajic
Cast: Strahinja Blazic, Aleksandar Radoicic, Marko Janketic, Milos Bikovic
Synopsis: The story about the founders of the famous "Yugoslav Basketball School" and the first gold medal at the Championships in Ljubljana in 1970.
Welcome to Happiness
Directed by: Oliver Thompson
Run Time: 108 minutes
Cast: Kyle Gallner, Olivia Thirlby, Nick Offerman, Keegan-Michael Key, Brendan Sexton III, Josh Brener
Synopsis: A children’s book author, Woody Ward, is the gatekeeper to a mysterious door in his closet that only allows certain people to enter. One such person, a suicidal artist, is led down a rabbit hole of bizarre coincidences that ultimately bring him to Woody’s doorstep. Though he has no idea where the door leads, Woody happily shepherds people through until he finds out the truth and his life is forever changed.
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Friday April, 8 at 7:30pm
Sunday April, 10 at 10:00am
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Directed by: Mark Burton and Richard StarzakSynopsis:
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
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Run Time: 90 minutes
Best Day Ever
Directed by: Angel Ruiz
Synopsis: A young woman experiences the worst day ever only to then deal with a tragic life changing event. But with some careful planning, she might turn her tragedy into a blessing in disguise.
Fathers
Directed by: Jamie Rivera
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Synopsis: A psychiatrist and his new patient confront their inner demons during a life altering session.
Dino Park
Directed by: Adolpho Navarro
Synopsis: A couple of kids make their own version of Jurassic Park on dad’s cell phone to upload online and become internet famous.
Malparido
Directed by: William Edgmon
Synopsis: A black man draped in red leads a white man, shackled in chains, through the desert. Along the way they encounter a goddess in white. Words are spoken in reserved reticence, depicting suffering, addiction, withdrawal and fear.
Have a Nice Flight
Directed by: Keenan Murray
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Synopsis: An old airport security guard teaches the new security guard the newest airport passenger screening technique, anal scans.
Up Route
Directed by: Jordan Wippell
Synopsis: An unnerving tale about a hitchhiker who is picked up by a strange man and his (even stranger) potted plant.
Blind Date
Directed by: Darren Rudy
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Synopsis: Dating is complicated enough, but while trying to meet people, this young couple confronts the silent film near-misses of modern times.
Reverie
Directed by: Dana Bruhn, Kayla Windsor
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Synopsis: This is the story of a first love. The kind of love, that once it invades you, it never goes away. It just transforms over time.
Saying Goodbye
Directed by: Laurie A. Bell
Synopsis: It’s never easy to let someone go.
Firework
Directed by: Steve Hubbs
Synopsis: The new head of HR is throwing a big meet and greet party for all her co-workers, but her evening doesn't go exactly as planned.
JFK’s Last Interview
Directed by: Bob Reynolds
Synopsis: An 8th grade girl wins a writing contest and gets to interview the President of the United States the day before he's assassinated.
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Sunday, April 10th at 6:40pm
Night of Something Strange
Director: Jonathan Straiton
Run Time: 1:34:00
Cast: Trey Harrison,Rebecca C Kasek,Michael Merchant,Wes Reid,Wayne W Johnson,Toni Anne Gamble,Brinke Stevens,Nicola Fiore,Billy Garberina
Synopsis: Teenage friends out for Spring Break get unexpectedly detoured to an isolated motel where a deadly STD virus now runs rampant, turning those infected into the living dead.
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Friday April, 8 at 9:45pm
Rwanda & Juliet
Directed by: Ben Proudfoot
Run Time: 87 minutes
Synopsis: Rwanda & Juliet is a documentary that follows eccentric Ivy League professor emeritus Andrew Garrod to Kigali, Rwanda, where he mounts Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with Rwandan college students from Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Twenty years have passed since the 1994 Genocide that left 1,000,000 Tutsis dead. Predominantly orphans, the cast of young Rwandans, led by a stunning, strong-headed Juliet, tackles their country's past and their own futures as hopes, pasts, personalities and cultures collide and opening night approaches.
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Friday April, 8 at 1:25pm
Sunday April, 10 at 9:45am
Beyond Glory
Directed by: Larry Brand
Run Time: 78 minutes
Cast: Stephen Lang, Gary Sinise
Synopsis:
A mixed media presentation implementing aspects of documentary, solo & live performance, and computer generated spaces, acclaimed actor Stephen Lang tells the true stories of eight Medal of Honor recipients both on the battlefield and beyond.
Official SiteA Light Beneath Their Feet
Directed by: Valerie Weiss
Run Time: 90 minutes
Cast: Taryn Manning, Madison Davenport, Maddie Hasson, Kurt Fuller, Carter Jenkins
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A Light Beneath Their Feet is an honest and poignant coming of age story about a high school senior struggling with the decision whether to remain the stable rock for her bipolar mother or go to her dream college across the country.
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Children of the Arctic
Runtime: 93 minutes
Directed by: Nick Brandestini
Synopsis: Children of the Arctic, is a portrait of Native Alaskan teenagers coming of age at America's northernmost edge. As their climate and culture undergo profound changes, they strive to be both modern American kids and the inheritors of an ancient whaling culture.
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Postmarked
Run Time: 88 minutes
Director: Gene Ganssle
Cast: Jeffrey Middleton, Chris Macarelli, Calion Maston, Ben Tyler, Lindsey Marlin and Tony Eckstat
Synopsis: Mail delivery turns deadly for carriers who may have seen too much. George took the day off, but now he’s in a warehouse being interrogated by thugs, soon joined by his quirky co-workers. Boss Jackie has no patience for bumbling agents or the hostages and wants them dead. But George has news that changes everything. As he bargains with killers, a double cross may be in the works. Will these unlikely heroes get out alive or end up “Postmarked?”
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Monday, April 11 at 5:10 PM
Tuesday, April 12 at 10:20 AM
The Dark Tapes
Run Time:105 minutes
Director: Vincent J. Guastini, Michael McQuown
Cast: Cortney Palm, David Hull, Brittany Underwood
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Radical Found-Footage Horror Anthology of Five Original Intelligent Stories.
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Runtime: 82 minutes
Gayrouth
Directed By Charbel Raad
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Synopsis: To be gay in Beirut, one of the most open minded capitals in the Middle East, which is sinking in the era of repressions, is not as easy as it looks.
Play the Documentary
Directed by Matty Steinkamp
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Synopsis: Play the documentary is a film to inspire more people to play music, featuring musicians from all over the world.
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Sunday, April 10 • 2:05pm - 3:35pm
Thursday, April 14 • 12:35pm - 2:05pm
No Greater Love
Directed by: Justin Roberts
Run Time: 94 minutes
Synopsis: No Greater Love explores a combat deployment through the eyes of an Army chaplain, first as he and his men fight their way through a hellish tour in one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan, and then as they struggle to reintegrate home.
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Friday April, 8 at 9:15am
Sunday April, 10 at 11:50am
Coming Through the Rye
Directed by: James Sadwith
Run Time: 95 minutes
Cast: Alex Wolff, Stefania Owen, Chris Cooper
Synopsis: Inspired by the filmmaker's own true story, Coming Through the Rye follows a 16 year- old boy in 1969 who is desperate to be worldly. After stumbling through disastrous relationships at boarding school, he travels with a local town girl to the mountains of New Hampshire in search of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.
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Friday April, 8 at 11:15am
Sunday April, 10 at 4:05pm
Home Care
Runtime: 92 minutes
Directed by: Slavek Horak
Cast: Alena Mihulova, Boleslav Polivka, Tatiana Vilhelmova
Synopsis: Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her capricious patients in the Czech wine country, and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, giving them more than they are asking for. Then, one day, things change and Vlasta is forced to step outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she might need some care, too.
The Meddler
Directed by: Lorene Scafaria
Run Time: 100 min
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, J.K. Simmons, Jerrod Carmichael, Cecily Strong
Synopsis: With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori, a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others – as well as her own – and find a new purpose in life.
Jessica
Directed by: Scott K. Foley
Run Time: 85 minutes
Cast: Maya Boudreau , Kelly O'Sullivan
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Adrift in a sea of anxiety and confusion, Jessica must reconcile the legacy of her long dysfunctional family or risk losing the people she cares about most.
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Friday, April 8th at 9:20am
Sunday, April 10th at 12:20pm
Patagonia Treasure Trail
Run Time: 01:25:10
Director: Michele Gisser
Cast: Isabella Schloss, Faye Jackson
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Patagonia Treasure Trail is a present day Western set in the environmentally delicate and politically volatile territory of southern Arizona. A young professional musician, Birdie, returns home to rest and contemplate her future, but finds she must negotiate old family conflicts and confront her own past first. She and her mother set out on horseback into the sensitive natural beauty of the high desert, expecting idyllic quality time while camping. The physical dangers and emotional surprises encountered in the mountains change their lives forever.
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Tuesday, April 12 • 9:20pm
Wednesday, April 13 • 12:30pm
Tab Hunter Confidential
Run Time: 90 min
Directed by: Jeffrey Scwarz
Synopsis: In the 1950s, Tab Hunter became number one at the box office and number one on the music charts. He was Hollywood’s most sought-after star and America’s boy next door. Natalie Wood, Debbie Reynolds and Sophia Loren are just a few of the actresses he was romantically linked to. Nothing, it seems, could damage his skyrocketing career. Nothing, that is, except for the fact that Tab Hunter was a closeted gay man. Now, Tab Hunter’s secret is out. In TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL he shares his story of a happy, healthy survivor of Hollywood’s golden age.
High-Rise
Directed by: Ben Wheatley
Run Time: 115 minutes
Cast: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss
Synopsis: HIGH-RISE stars Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, the newest resident of a luxurious apartment in a high-tech concrete skyscraper whose lofty location places him amongst the upper class. Laing quickly settles into high society life and meets the building’s eccentric tenants: Charlotte (Miller), his upstairs neighbor and bohemian single mother; Wilder (Evans), a charismatic documentarian who lives with his pregnant wife Helen (Moss); and Mr. Royal (Irons), the enigmatic architect who designed the building. Life seems like paradise to the solitude-seeking Laing. But as power outages become more frequent and building flaws emerge, particularly on the lower floors, the regimented social strata begins to crumble and the building becomes a battlefield in a literal class war.
Dating Daisy
Directed by: Neel Upadhye
Run Time: 89 minutes
Cast: Sascha Alexander, Brennan Kelleher, Erica Dasher, Sara Amini, Diane Robin
Synopsis: Dating Daisy is a romantic comedy about the honest and crazy truth of dating in your twenties! The story follows Michael and Daisy, two exes who decide to road trip home together for the holidays and get caught up in their crazy past.
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Friday, April 8th at 3:25pm
Sunday, April 10th at 9:50am
Jackie Boy
Runtime: 87 minutes
Directed by: Cody Campanale
Cast: Alino Giraldi, Shannon Coulter, Edward Charette, Andrew Di Rosa, Chloe Van Landschoot, Christina Bryson
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Synopsis: A self-destructive womanizer falls for a girl hell bent on making him suffer for past mistakes.
Displacement
Run Time: 125 minutes
Director: Kenneth Mader
Cast: Courtney Hope, Bruce Davison, Sarah Douglas, Susan Blakely, Christopher Backus, Karan Oberoi, Lou Richards
Synopsis: Method Fest Award Winner Courtney Hope ('The Divergent Series: Allegiant', 'Prowl') stars alongside Academy Award Nominee and Golden Globe Winner Bruce Davison, Golden Globe Winner Susan Blakely, and Superman I & II's Sarah Douglas in the theatrical feature film debut of award-winning writer-director Kenneth Mader, recently featured as one of the Top 100 Indie Filmmakers in the World in the book by Action On Film’s Del Weston. Grieving over the death of her mother to cancer, a young physics student must find a way to reverse a deadly quantum time anomaly and solve the apparent murder of her boyfriend, while battling short-term memory loss and time slips caused by the event.
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Director: Bobbin Ramsey
Run Time: 01:18:23
Cast: Cooper Hopkins, Nathan Pringle, Leah Pfenning
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Nine high school kids celebrate graduation at a secluded home in the wilderness. They fight, philander, and feel nostalgic as they embark on a life away from home, in college. Once the party dies down they play a game: Dead Body. But when one party-goer takes the game too far, actually murdering the other guests one by one, it's up to the group to set aside their tensions, and ferret out the murderer before it's too late.
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Friday, April 8 • 9:25pm
The Greasy Strangler
Directed by: Jim Hosking
Run Time: 95 minutes
Cast: Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo
Synopsis: The Los Angeles-set tale follows Ronnie, a man who runs a Disco Walking tour along with his browbeaten son, Brayden. When a sexy, alluring woman comes to take the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her attentions. It also signals the appearance of an oily, slimy inhuman maniac who stalks the streets at night and strangles the innocent, soon dubbed ‘The Greasy Strangler.’
Sci-Fi Shorts B
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Tomorrow's Dream
Directed by: David Gould
Synopsis: A young man develops a machine to travel back in time to save his girlfriend and unborn child.
Ozone
Directed by: Branko Sujic
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Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic near future devastated by global nuclear war, Dastagir, one of the few survivors, fights to regain his lost love and rediscover his humanity.
Legacy
Directed by: Josh Mawer
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Synopsis: To save his father's brilliant mind a young man is coerced into time sharing his consciousness. With two minds in one body, boundaries and relationships start to blur.
Populace
Directed by: Aaron Bevan Bailey
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Synopsis: We follow a day in the life of John, a clone, who works for the sinister Orwellian Populace Corporation. His world is turned upside down when he is forced to choose between the reason he was created and the woman he loves.
The Grid
Directed by: Andi Osho
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Synopsis: Tina Marvine is forced to return to extreme game show, The Grid, to save her son but, psychologically ravaged by her last experience on the fear-based global phenomenon, she must confront her own demons before she can save her son from his.
Helio
Directed by: Teddy Cecil
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Synopsis: A sci-fi noir set in a dystopian underground city on the eve of a revolution.
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Friday, April 8th at 1:05pm
Monday, April 11th at 2:50pm
Horror Shorts A
Running Time: 90 minutes
Gotcher
Directed by: Bruce Branit
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Synopsis: A secret support group meets to take back something stolen from them as children.
Ideal
Directed by: Kevan Tucker
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Synopsis: A young model must decide whether to acquiesce to a photographer's increasingly horrific demands in this pitch black satire of today's beauty standards.
Blight
Directed by: Brian Deane
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Synopsis: A young priest is sent to battle dark supernatural forces threatening a remote Island community.
The Man Who Loved Flowers
Directed by: Justin Zimmerman
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Synopsis: THE MAN WHO LOVED FLOWERS is Stephen King's romantic and visceral short story brought to colorful and horrific life!
A Way Out
Directed by: Jason Tostevin
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Synopsis: When aging gangster Vick risks it all to quit the life, he discovers his young protégé has been keeping a secret of his own -- one that plunges them both into a deadly cat and mouse game over the course of one car ride.
The Smiling Man
Directed by: A.J. Briones
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Synopsis: A little girl home alone finds herself face-to-face with pure evil.
Deathly
Directed by: Mike Williamson
Synopsis: Following the tragic death of his wife, a man is unsettled by chilling events in their house.
Yummy Meat: A Halloween Carol
Directed by: John Fitzpatrick
Synopsis: Amber is a snarky dentist who hands out toothbrushes to the neighborhood kids, only to discover that one of them may soon be brushing bits of her from his teeth.
Welcome to the Party
Directed by: Michael A. Livingston
Synopsis: A group of hipster serial killers commit a brutal murder in honor of their friend's 30th birthday.
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Friday April, 8 at 11:05am
Monday April, 11 at 5:10pm
The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man
Run Time: 1:39:57
Director: James Habacker
Key Cast: James Habacker,Jillian McManemin,Camille Habacker,Veronica Habacker,Lincoln Habacker,Julie Atlas Muz,Mat Fraser,Oakley Boycott,Joe Coleman,Stormy Leather,Cara Brennan,Arthur Aulisi,Ula Uberbusen,Todd Beers
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This dark, storybook fairy tale is a genre-defying mixture of comedy, horror, sex, fantasy, freak show, dream and cartoon. On top of that, it’s loaded with underground (and some mainstream) marquee names: Mat Fraser (from American Horror Story: Freak Show), his wife, the burlesque performer and choreographer Julie Atlas Muz, Slipper Room founder and Artistic Director James Habacker (who wrote and directed), Mistress of the New York School of Burlesque, Jo Weldon, and an impressive list of downtown New York performers, musicians, and artists such as Stormy Leather, Joe Coleman, and Bunny Love. The film is an ensemble piece that showcases much of the talent that lives and works within the orbit of The Slipper Room, the New York City Variety theatre that is the birthplace of neo-burlesque. The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man has the delirious and free attitude that has been the linchpin in New York underground film since the sixties - sophisticated, daring, dirty, heroic, playful, defying category and the expectations of the “market,” essentially giving the finger to anyone who thinks it’s “weird,”Âť even as it entertains the hell out of those willing to go along for the ride.
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Saturday, April 9 • 11:05am
Kollwein’s Day of Truth
Runtime: 88 minutes
Directed by: Anna Justice
Cast: Vicky Krieps, Florian Lukas, Benjamin Sadler, Peter Benedict, Jean-Christophe Nigon, Georges Claisse, Laurent Stocker, Ercan Durmaz, Daniel Rohr
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Synopsis: German district attorney Marie Hofmann and French police inspector Jean-Luc Laboetie are working on a case involving the murder of an employee at the nuclear plant Haut-Rhin, when an unknown man seizes control over the plant. David Kollwein, former head of security at Haut-Rhin, threatens to create a meltdown, should the French Minister of Energy fail to tell the inhabitants of bordering countries France, Germany and Switzerland the truth about the nuclear plant’s ailing condition. While the whole region is being held captive in this situation, Marie uncovers a conspiracy reaching to the very top of French politics, one that shakes French nuclear policy to the very foundations.
Rwanda & Juliet
Directed by: Ben Proudfoot
Run Time: 87 minutes
Synopsis: Rwanda & Juliet is a documentary that follows eccentric Ivy League professor emeritus Andrew Garrod to Kigali, Rwanda, where he mounts Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with Rwandan college students from Hutu and Tutsi backgrounds. Twenty years have passed since the 1994 Genocide that left 1,000,000 Tutsis dead. Predominantly orphans, the cast of young Rwandans, led by a stunning, strong-headed Juliet, tackles their country's past and their own futures as hopes, pasts, personalities and cultures collide and opening night approaches.
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Friday April, 8 at 1:25pm
Saturday April, 9 at 3:15pm
Dating Daisy
Directed by: Neel Upadhye
Run Time: 89 minutes
Cast: Sascha Alexander, Brennan Kelleher, Erica Dasher, Sara Amini, Diane Robin
Synopsis: Dating Daisy is a romantic comedy about the honest and crazy truth of dating in your twenties! The story follows Michael and Daisy, two exes who decide to road trip home together for the holidays and get caught up in their crazy past.
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Friday, April 8th at 3:25pm
Saturday, April 9th at 8:10pm
Live Action Shorts A
Running Time: 90 min
Ronnie BoDean
Directed by: Steven Paul Judd
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Synopsis: Ronnie BoDean is a larger-than-life outlaw with a short fuse and probably some loose screws. Uncouth and suffering from a mean hangover, he struggles to babysit his jailed neighbor's precocious kids. Ronnie BoDean has seen better days…and today's not one of them.
Fragile Storm
Directed by: Dawn Fields
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Synopsis: A scared young woman goes to extreme measures to escape the clutches of a terrifying older man, only to realize the shocking and heartbreaking truth about why she's really there. Here is a film about one of the deadliest issues of our time.
A Way Out
Directed by: Jason Tostevin
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Synopsis: When aging gangster Vick risks it all to quit the life, he discovers his young protégé has been keeping a secret of his own -- one that plunges them both into a deadly cat and mouse game over the course of one car ride.
Big Boy
Directed by: Bryan Campbell
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Synopsis: A dark comedy about a nine-year-old boy's first solo excursion into a highway rest stop bathroom.
American Dancer
Directed by: Steven Espinosa
Synopsis: A struggling dancer supports his dream as a small time criminal.
A King's Betrayal
Directed by: David A Bornstein
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Synopsis: The final 24 hours in the life of a piñata, as told from the piñata's perspective.
BURNED
Directed by: Jaime Valdueza
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Synopsis: Jason (Beau Knapp; 'The Signal', 'Southpaw') hides in a motel room afraid of coming out. The only person he trusts is his girlfriend Lila (Maika Monroe; 'The Guest', 'It Follows'), who takes him to meet a friend in a remote house in the desert. At their arrival, an unexpected guest asks too many questions. Jason's trust for Lila begins to fade.
My Luchador
Directed by: Shea Sizemore
Synopsis: Lose the match lose your mask, lose your mask lose your identity.
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Friday April, 8 at 3:00pm
Monday April, 11 at 10:20am
Welcome to Happiness
Directed by: Oliver Thompson
Run Time: 108 minutes
Cast: Kyle Gallner, Olivia Thirlby, Nick Offerman, Keegan-Michael Key, Brendan Sexton III, Josh Brener
Synopsis: A children’s book author, Woody Ward, is the gatekeeper to a mysterious door in his closet that only allows certain people to enter. One such person, a suicidal artist, is led down a rabbit hole of bizarre coincidences that ultimately bring him to Woody’s doorstep. Though he has no idea where the door leads, Woody happily shepherds people through until he finds out the truth and his life is forever changed.
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Friday April, 8 at 7:30pm
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Displacement
Run Time: 125 minutes
Director: Kenneth Mader
Cast: Courtney Hope, Bruce Davison, Sarah Douglas, Susan Blakely, Christopher Backus, Karan Oberoi, Lou Richards
Synopsis: Method Fest Award Winner Courtney Hope ('The Divergent Series: Allegiant', 'Prowl') stars alongside Academy Award Nominee and Golden Globe Winner Bruce Davison, Golden Globe Winner Susan Blakely, and Superman I & II's Sarah Douglas in the theatrical feature film debut of award-winning writer-director Kenneth Mader, recently featured as one of the Top 100 Indie Filmmakers in the World in the book by Action On Film’s Del Weston. Grieving over the death of her mother to cancer, a young physics student must find a way to reverse a deadly quantum time anomaly and solve the apparent murder of her boyfriend, while battling short-term memory loss and time slips caused by the event.
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Directed by: Justin Roberts
Run Time: 94 minutes
Synopsis: No Greater Love explores a combat deployment through the eyes of an Army chaplain, first as he and his men fight their way through a hellish tour in one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan, and then as they struggle to reintegrate home.
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Friday April, 8 at 9:15am
Saturday April, 9 at 5:45pm
A Light Beneath Their Feet
Directed by: Valerie Weiss
Run Time: 90 minutes
Cast: Taryn Manning, Madison Davenport, Maddie Hasson, Kurt Fuller, Carter Jenkins
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A Light Beneath Their Feet is an honest and poignant coming of age story about a high school senior struggling with the decision whether to remain the stable rock for her bipolar mother or go to her dream college across the country.
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Animated Shorts
Run Time: 79 minutes
Bear Me
Directed by: Kasia Wilk
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Synopsis: One day I found a bear. Or he found me. And he stayed.
Hooked
Directed by: Sofia Moreira
Synopsis: Captain C is a kind but lonely old man looking for a friend, but his pirate attributes scare people away. Saddened and defeated, Captain C finds companionship in a stray balloon.
Tiny Town
Directed by: Howard Cook, Stephen Baker
Synopsis: When a small train town is besieged by cataclysmic events, it's up to a simple ice-cream man to rise against the challenges and defend his home.
Taichi Mice: Entrance Exam
Directed by: Boqing Tang
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Synopsis: Three little mice struggle to get through the entrance exam of a Taoism martial art school.
Burnt
Directed by: Devin Bell
Synopsis: In a scorched desert forest, three plant-like creatures try to cope with being physically and mentally burned. They encounter something green for the first time, and it challenges them to view life differently.
Bottomless
Directed by: Veronique Vanblaere
Synopsis: A Belgian woman seeks citizenship in the United States, and finds that her experiences are bottomless.
Olilo
Directed by: Ao Li
Synopsis: Olilo is a 2D animation about an introverted girl held captive by her own semi-transparent personal space. Using traditional frame-by-frame, digital drawing, and key frame animation, the film shows that love can transform all things.
The Loneliest Stoplight
Directed by: Bill Plympton
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Synopsis: The life and times of a neglected stoplight.
Golden Shot
Directed by: Gökalp Gönen
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Synopsis: Rusty machines imagine that the sun will come and take them to the sky someday. A small light keeps them alive and dreaming, but one machine wants to see the sun itself.
Borrowed Time
Directed by: Andrew Coats, Lou Hamou-Lhadj
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Synopsis: Keep Moving Forward.
The Apple Tree
Directed by: Scott Storm
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Synopsis: A destitute young boy discovers that the natural world near his home is in jeopardy, and acts to put things right at all costs.
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Friday April, 8 at 11:10am
Tuesday, April 12 at 2:50pm
Jessica
Directed by: Scott K. Foley
Run Time: 85 minutes
Cast: Maya Boudreau , Kelly O'Sullivan
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Adrift in a sea of anxiety and confusion, Jessica must reconcile the legacy of her long dysfunctional family or risk losing the people she cares about most.
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Friday, April 8th at 9:20am
Saturday, April 9th at 7:30pm
Home Care
Runtime: 92 minutes
Directed by: Slavek Horak
Cast: Alena Mihulova, Boleslav Polivka, Tatiana Vilhelmova
Synopsis: Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her capricious patients in the Czech wine country, and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, giving them more than they are asking for. Then, one day, things change and Vlasta is forced to step outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor intertwine as Vlasta realizes, for the first time in her life, that she might need some care, too.
Remittance
Runtime: 87 minutes
Directed by: Patrick Daly, Joel Fendelman
Cast: Prem John, Paolo O’Hara, Olive Nieto
Synopsis: When Marie takes a job as a maid in Singapore to support her family in the Philippines, she trades one set of hardships for another. Betrayed by her husband, she begins to build a new life for herself. As she gets caught up in the new life she is building for herself in Singapore, she needs to choose between her personal aspirations and her family responsibilities.
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Thursday, April 14 at 2:45 PM
Operator
Directed by: Logan Kibens
Run Time: 87 minutes
Cast: Martin Starr, Mae Whitman, Nat Faxon, Christine Lahti, Retta Sirleaf
Synopsis: Joe, a programmer and obsessive self-quantifier, risks losing his marriage when he models the personality for a digital voice on his wife, Emily.
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Runtime: 82 minutes
Gayrouth
Directed By Charbel Raad
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Synopsis: To be gay in Beirut, one of the most open minded capitals in the Middle East, which is sinking in the era of repressions, is not as easy as it looks.
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Directed by Matty Steinkamp
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Synopsis: Play the documentary is a film to inspire more people to play music, featuring musicians from all over the world.
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Saturday, April 9 • 5:25pm - 6:55pm
Thursday, April 14 • 12:35pm - 2:05pm
Horror Shorts B
Running Time: 90 Minutes
A Tricky Treat
Directed by: Patricia Chica
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Synopsis: A man is kidnapped by a very strange family, and his fate is held in the hands of two kids. 'A Tricky Treat' presents a shocking tale of the unexpected with a twist.
Night of the Slasher
Directed by: Shant Hamassian
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Synopsis: A 'shot-in-one-take' slasher film about a teenage girl who must commit horror movie sins by drinking alcohol, doing drugs, and having sex in order to lure a masked killer and exact revenge.
Miriam
Directed by: Emiliano Ranzani
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Synopsis: A nightly encounter between a petty criminal, a woman in danger and a darkly-clothed man. One of them is not what it seems.
The Voodoo Dick
Directed by: Daniel McDonald
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Synopsis: Based on a viral joke. A husband buys his wife a magical toy, but things go horribly wrong.
Larry Gone Demon
Directed by: Matthew John Lawrence
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Synopsis: When three twenty-somethings must deal with the incorrigible and incredibly demonic Larry, they risk life and limb in an attempt to save the soul of their once-kind-and-unassuming friend while also procuring his five-hundred dollars in back rent.
Flush
Directed by: Matt Cooper
Synopsis: Be careful who you piss off.
Bad Blood
Directed by: Aleksandra Lagkueva
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Synopsis: An invincible serial killer finds his preys at night, until one night somebody finds him...
Little Old Cat Lady from Rancho Cucamonga
Directed by: Stephen James Thomas
Synopsis: Granny Jefferson makes a wish for her cat, Georgie Pie, to take revenge upon four high school thugs who have stolen money and have brutally attacked her at home.
20 Matches
Directed by: Mark Tapio Kines
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Synopsis: A young woman, her face illuminated only by match light, tells the story of an Austrian serial killer who murdered 20 immigrant women - one per year.
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Friday, April 8th at 9:55pm
Thursday, April 14 • 2:50pm
Beyond Glory
Directed by: Larry Brand
Run Time: 78 minutes
Cast: Stephen Lang, Gary Sinise
Synopsis:
A mixed media presentation implementing aspects of documentary, solo & live performance, and computer generated spaces, acclaimed actor Stephen Lang tells the true stories of eight Medal of Honor recipients both on the battlefield and beyond.
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Runtime: 126 minutes
Directed by: Darko Bajic
Cast: Strahinja Blazic, Aleksandar Radoicic, Marko Janketic, Milos Bikovic
Synopsis: The story about the founders of the famous "Yugoslav Basketball School" and the first gold medal at the Championships in Ljubljana in 1970.
Stereotypically You
Runtime: 85 minutes
Directed by: Benjamin Cox
Cast: Aaron Tveit, Jason Ralph, Kal Penn
Synopsis: An NYC dating comedy that follows one man’s hallucination-fueled, post-breakup quest to find new love… and himself.
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Saturday, April 9 at 11:25 AM
Coming Through the Rye
Directed by: James Sadwith
Run Time: 95 minutes
Cast: Alex Wolff, Stefania Owen, Chris Cooper
Synopsis: Inspired by the filmmaker's own true story, Coming Through the Rye follows a 16 year- old boy in 1969 who is desperate to be worldly. After stumbling through disastrous relationships at boarding school, he travels with a local town girl to the mountains of New Hampshire in search of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.
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Friday April, 8 at 11:15am
Saturday April, 9 at 6:00pm
World Cinema Shorts
Runtime: 87 minutes
Foot in Mouth
Directed by: Ella Jones
Synopsis: When two pampered girls ignorantly abuse and offend a Chinese pedicurist, she cleverly plots a fitting revenge.
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Rumble
Directed by: Matthew Hopper
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Synopsis: A deaf boxer must decide whether to give up the sport he loves in favor of an operation that could allow him to hear for the first time.
Violet
Directed by: Maurice Joyce
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Synopsis: Violet is the dark, cautionary tale of a young girl who despises her reflection. Tired of the abuse, Violet’s reflection decides she’s not going to take it anymore.
Dreaming of Peggy Lee
Directed by: James Everett
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Synopsis: Sometimes the barrier is the bridge to your dream.
Colours
Directed by: Peter Lee Scott
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Synopsis: In the aggressive and hostile world of youth grass roots football Adam faces an ultimatum from the team captain, when they discover Adam’s best friend Tom is gay.
Run, Ran, Run
Directed by: Sanna Ekman
Synopsis: Jennifer is out for a morning jog, spots a robber hiding a bag full of money. She steals it, but gets stopped by the police.
A Visita- The Visit
Directed by: Leandro Corinto
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Synopsis: Matthew is nine years old and was raised by Theo, his uncle. Today, he will finally rediscover his true father, who came from abroad to visit him.
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Friday April, 8 at 10:40am
Wednesday April, 13 at 10:20am
The History of Time Travel
Directed by: Ricky Kennedy
Run Time: 75 min
Cast: Krista Ales, Garland Buffalo and Trey Cartwright
Synopsis: A fictional documentary about the creation of the worlds first time machine, the men who created it, and the unintended ramifications it has on world events.
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Friday April, 8 at 9:05amSince: The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103
Directed by: Phil Furey
Run Time: 84 minutes
Synopsis:
The 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland killed 270 innocent people and ushered in a frightful new age of terrorism. Bound together in tragedy, the relatives of the victims fought tooth and nail for justice, only to watch it unravel for Libyan oil.
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Runtime: 95 Minutes
Directed by: Osgood Perkins
Cast: Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, James Remar, Lauren Holly
Synopsis: A deeply atmospheric and terrifying new horror film, The Blackcoat’s Daughter centers on Kat and Rose, two girls who are left alone at their prep school Bramford over winter break when their parents mysteriously fail to pick them up. While the girls experience increasingly strange and creepy occurrences at the isolated school, we cross cut to another story—that of Joan, a troubled young woman on the road, who, for unknown reasons, is determined to get to Bramford as fast as she can. As Joan gets closer to the school, Kat becomes plagued by progressively intense and horrifying visions, with Rose doing her best to help her new friend as she slips further and further into the grasp of an unseen evil force. The movie suspensefully builds to the moment when the two stories will finally intersect, setting the stage for a shocking and unforgettable climax.
Colin Hay: Waiting For My Real Life
Directed by: Aaron Faulls, Nate Gowtham
Run Time: 84 minutes
Cast: Colin Hay, Hugh Jackman, Mick Fleetwood and Guy Pearce
Synopsis: 'Colin Hay - Waiting For My Real Life' is the story of singer-songwriter Colin Hay, former front-man of Men At Work. We follow Hay from his earliest days in Scotland, through his family's emigration to Australia, to the massive, worldwide success of his band, to the depths of addiction and failure, to a slow climb back up the ladder seeking relevance, artistic freedom and ultimately, transcendence. Featuring interviews with Hugh Jackman, Mick Fleetwood, Sia Furler, Guy Pearce and many others, 'Colin Hay - Waiting For My Real Life' is the inspiring story of a true artist.
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Wednesday, April 13th at 2:50pm
Sing Street
Directed by: John Carney
Run Time: 110 minutes
Cast: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Aidan Gillen and Maria Doyle Kennedy
Synopsis: “Sing Street” takes us back to 1980s Dublin seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy named Conor who is looking for a break from a home strained by his parents’ relationship and money troubles, while trying to adjust to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and the teachers are rougher. He finds a glimmer of hope in the mysterious, über-cool and beautiful Raphina, and with the aim of winning her heart he invites her to star in his band’s music videos. There’s only one problem: he’s not part of a band…yet. She agrees, and now Conor must deliver what he’s promised - calling himself “Cosmo” and immersing himself in the vibrant rock music trends of the decade, he forms a band with a few lads, and the group pours their heart into writing lyrics and shooting videos.
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket
Runtime: 100 minutes
Directed By: Matt Cooper
Cast: Andrea Anders, Matt Passmore, Cloris Leachman, John Michael Higgins, Horatio Sanz, Lauren Bowles, and John Heard.
Synopsis: When a gun incident at a neighborhood school spurs one stay at home mom, Jenna, to rethink Rockford's obsessive gun culture, life in this idyllic town is turned upside-down. Much to the chagrin of her husband, (Matt Passmore), Jenna ignites a movement by recruiting the women to withhold sex from the men until every gun in Rockford is vanquished. A wild and hilarious showdown ensues between the sexes. As tensions and libidos rise, the men and women of Rockford must decide what's really important: keeping the peace or getting a piece.
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Monday, April 11 at 7:10 PM
Arizona Shorts
Run Time: 90 minutes
Best Day Ever
Directed by: Angel Ruiz
Synopsis: A young woman experiences the worst day ever only to then deal with a tragic life changing event. But with some careful planning, she might turn her tragedy into a blessing in disguise.
Fathers
Directed by: Jamie Rivera
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Synopsis: A psychiatrist and his new patient confront their inner demons during a life altering session.
Dino Park
Directed by: Adolpho Navarro
Synopsis: A couple of kids make their own version of Jurassic Park on dad’s cell phone to upload online and become internet famous.
Malparido
Directed by: William Edgmon
Synopsis: A black man draped in red leads a white man, shackled in chains, through the desert. Along the way they encounter a goddess in white. Words are spoken in reserved reticence, depicting suffering, addiction, withdrawal and fear.
Have a Nice Flight
Directed by: Keenan Murray
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Synopsis: An old airport security guard teaches the new security guard the newest airport passenger screening technique, anal scans.
Up Route
Directed by: Jordan Wippell
Synopsis: An unnerving tale about a hitchhiker who is picked up by a strange man and his (even stranger) potted plant.
Blind Date
Directed by: Darren Rudy
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Synopsis: Dating is complicated enough, but while trying to meet people, this young couple confronts the silent film near-misses of modern times.
Reverie
Directed by: Dana Bruhn, Kayla Windsor
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Synopsis: This is the story of a first love. The kind of love, that once it invades you, it never goes away. It just transforms over time.
Saying Goodbye
Directed by: Laurie A. Bell
Synopsis: It’s never easy to let someone go.
Firework
Directed by: Steve Hubbs
Synopsis: The new head of HR is throwing a big meet and greet party for all her co-workers, but her evening doesn't go exactly as planned.
JFK’s Last Interview
Directed by: Bob Reynolds
Synopsis: An 8th grade girl wins a writing contest and gets to interview the President of the United States the day before he's assassinated.
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Saturday, April 9th at 3:05pm
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Directed by Banksy
The documentary about how an eccentric French shop-keeper and amateur film-maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.
IHSFF Festival Director, Monte Yazzie says "What defines art? This is the question proposed in this "documentary". A sometimes aggravating, yet continuously insightful look into the creative process and the merits of authenticity."
Live Action Shorts A
Running Time: 90 min
Ronnie BoDean
Directed by: Steven Paul Judd
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Synopsis: Ronnie BoDean is a larger-than-life outlaw with a short fuse and probably some loose screws. Uncouth and suffering from a mean hangover, he struggles to babysit his jailed neighbor's precocious kids. Ronnie BoDean has seen better days…and today's not one of them.
Fragile Storm
Directed by: Dawn Fields
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Synopsis: A scared young woman goes to extreme measures to escape the clutches of a terrifying older man, only to realize the shocking and heartbreaking truth about why she's really there. Here is a film about one of the deadliest issues of our time.
A Way Out
Directed by: Jason Tostevin
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Synopsis: When aging gangster Vick risks it all to quit the life, he discovers his young protégé has been keeping a secret of his own -- one that plunges them both into a deadly cat and mouse game over the course of one car ride.
Big Boy
Directed by: Bryan Campbell
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Synopsis: A dark comedy about a nine-year-old boy's first solo excursion into a highway rest stop bathroom.
American Dancer
Directed by: Steven Espinosa
Synopsis: A struggling dancer supports his dream as a small time criminal.
A King's Betrayal
Directed by: David A Bornstein
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Synopsis: The final 24 hours in the life of a piñata, as told from the piñata's perspective.
BURNED
Directed by: Jaime Valdueza
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Synopsis: Jason (Beau Knapp; 'The Signal', 'Southpaw') hides in a motel room afraid of coming out. The only person he trusts is his girlfriend Lila (Maika Monroe; 'The Guest', 'It Follows'), who takes him to meet a friend in a remote house in the desert. At their arrival, an unexpected guest asks too many questions. Jason's trust for Lila begins to fade.
My Luchador
Directed by: Shea Sizemore
Synopsis: Lose the match lose your mask, lose your mask lose your identity.
Additional Screenings
Friday April, 8 ar 3:00pm
Sunday April, 10 at 9:55am
Live Action Shorts B
Running Time: 95 Minutes
What If My Wife Died In Yoga Class?
Directed by: Jeffrey Williams
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Synopsis: Everybody has those weird questions that flicker through their minds from time to time. This outrageously dark comedy sets out to find an answer. During a mundane laundry day, Randy lets his train of thought run out of control. Once he wonders that fateful 'what if,' he becomes determined to find an answer. His stream of consciousness becomes an epic journey of self-discovery, leading to highs and lows, with some unthinkable surprises along the way.
The Walk
Directed by: Alonso Alvarez Barreda
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Synopsis: In the harshness of the Arizona desert, a Mexican man and his son are faced with a major crisis of conscience as they try to cross the border illegally.
BRIX AND THE BITCH
Directed by: Nico Raineau
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Synopsis: Trapped in a seedy and illegal fight club, one woman's only chance for escape is a gruesome brawl against the one person she refuses to harm.
Last Winter
Directed by: Daniel Wyland
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Synopsis: Early 1900's. One's love or One's honor. Who is to decide what's right?
Wild West Fan Co.
Directed by: Matt Thompson
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Synopsis: In Scorchville, the hottest town in the Wild West, a Chinese fan peddler tries to cool down a family of hot-headed, notorious vigilantes who are caught in a 3-way draw.
The Decision
Directed by: Mike Scalisi
Synopsis: If you could change one decision you’ve made in your life and things would be as if you had taken a different path, what decision would you change?
The Mountain King
Directed by: Peter Brambl
Synopsis: A counterfeit artist helps his boss with a vanity film project, getting tangled up with a free-spirited actress and some unpredictable criminals in the process.
Additional Screenings:
Friday, April 8th at 5:05pm
Saturday, April 9th at 9:20am
Lucky U Ranch
Run Time: 1:33:00
Director: Steve Anderson
Key Cast: Trevor Robins, Donovan Droege
Synopsis:
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It's 1953, and 11-year-old Junior McCaully is ready to call it quits. Chubby, bullied, and stuck at an Arizona trailer court with his hardworking mom. Nothing prepares him for the arrival of Melissa, a sophisticated Hollywood girl who changes everything.
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Additional Screenings:
Saturday, April 9 • 12:55pm
Wednesday, April 13 • 9:20pm
Sci-Fi Shorts B
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Tomorrow's Dream
Directed by: David Gould
Synopsis: A young man develops a machine to travel back in time to save his girlfriend and unborn child.
Ozone
Directed by: Branko Sujic
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Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic near future devastated by global nuclear war, Dastagir, one of the few survivors, fights to regain his lost love and rediscover his humanity.
Legacy
Directed by: Josh Mawer
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Synopsis: To save his father's brilliant mind a young man is coerced into time sharing his consciousness. With two minds in one body, boundaries and relationships start to blur.
Populace
Directed by: Aaron Bevan Bailey
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Synopsis: We follow a day in the life of John, a clone, who works for the sinister Orwellian Populace Corporation. His world is turned upside down when he is forced to choose between the reason he was created and the woman he loves.
The Grid
Directed by: Andi Osho
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Synopsis: Tina Marvine is forced to return to extreme game show, The Grid, to save her son but, psychologically ravaged by her last experience on the fear-based global phenomenon, she must confront her own demons before she can save her son from his.
Helio
Directed by: Teddy Cecil
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Synopsis: A sci-fi noir set in a dystopian underground city on the eve of a revolution.
Additional Screenings:
Friday, April 8th at 1:05pm
Saturday, April 9th at 10:20pm
Viva
Directed by: Paddy Breathnach
Runtime: 100 min
Cast: Jorge Perugorría, Luis Alberto Garcia, Héctor Medina, Luis Manuel Álvarez, Renata (Maikel Machin Blanco), Laura Aleman.
Synopsis: VIVA stars Héctor Medina as Jesus, a young hairdresser working at a Havana nightclub that showcases drag performers, who dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama, Jesus finally gets his chance to take the stage. But when his estranged father Angel abruptly reenters his life, his world is quickly turned upside down. As father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, VIVA becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and reconcile as a family.
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Wednesday, April 13th 7:10 PM
Postmarked
Run Time: 88 minutes
Director: Gene Ganssle
Cast: Jeffrey Middleton, Chris Macarelli, Calion Maston, Ben Tyler, Lindsey Marlin and Tony Eckstat
Synopsis: Mail delivery turns deadly for carriers who may have seen too much. George took the day off, but now he’s in a warehouse being interrogated by thugs, soon joined by his quirky co-workers. Boss Jackie has no patience for bumbling agents or the hostages and wants them dead. But George has news that changes everything. As he bargains with killers, a double cross may be in the works. Will these unlikely heroes get out alive or end up “Postmarked?”
Additional Screenings:
Saturday, April 9 at 5:10 PM
Tuesday, April 12 at 10:20 AM
Horror Shorts A
Running Time: 90 minutes
Gotcher
Directed by: Bruce Branit
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Synopsis: A secret support group meets to take back something stolen from them as children.
Ideal
Directed by: Kevan Tucker
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Synopsis: A young model must decide whether to acquiesce to a photographer's increasingly horrific demands in this pitch black satire of today's beauty standards.
Blight
Directed by: Brian Deane
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Synopsis: A young priest is sent to battle dark supernatural forces threatening a remote Island community.
The Man Who Loved Flowers
Directed by: Justin Zimmerman
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Synopsis: THE MAN WHO LOVED FLOWERS is Stephen King's romantic and visceral short story brought to colorful and horrific life!
A Way Out
Directed by: Jason Tostevin
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Synopsis: When aging gangster Vick risks it all to quit the life, he discovers his young protégé has been keeping a secret of his own -- one that plunges them both into a deadly cat and mouse game over the course of one car ride.
The Smiling Man
Directed by: A.J. Briones
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Synopsis: A little girl home alone finds herself face-to-face with pure evil.
Deathly
Directed by: Mike Williamson
Synopsis: Following the tragic death of his wife, a man is unsettled by chilling events in their house.
Yummy Meat: A Halloween Carol
Directed by: John Fitzpatrick
Synopsis: Amber is a snarky dentist who hands out toothbrushes to the neighborhood kids, only to discover that one of them may soon be brushing bits of her from his teeth.
Welcome to the Party
Directed by: Michael A. Livingston
Synopsis: A group of hipster serial killers commit a brutal murder in honor of their friend's 30th birthday.
Additional Screenings
Friday April, 8 at 11:05am
Saturday April, 9 at 10:25pm
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket
Runtime: 100 minutes
Directed By: Matt Cooper
Cast: Andrea Anders, Matt Passmore, Cloris Leachman, John Michael Higgins, Horatio Sanz, Lauren Bowles, and John Heard.
Synopsis: When a gun incident at a neighborhood school spurs one stay at home mom, Jenna, to rethink Rockford's obsessive gun culture, life in this idyllic town is turned upside-down. Much to the chagrin of her husband, (Matt Passmore), Jenna ignites a movement by recruiting the women to withhold sex from the men until every gun in Rockford is vanquished. A wild and hilarious showdown ensues between the sexes. As tensions and libidos rise, the men and women of Rockford must decide what's really important: keeping the peace or getting a piece.
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Sunday, April 10 at 6:35 PM
Victor Young Perez
Directed by: Jacques Ouaniche
Runtime: 103 minutes
Cast: Brahim Asloum, Steve Suissa, Isabella Orisin
Synopsis: Victor “Young” Perez, tells the astonishing, harrowing and incredible moving story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. Because of his Jewish background he was deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis and had to fight there for the entertainment of the camp commander.
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Friday April 8th, 11:20 AM
Little Men
Directed by: Ira Sachs
Run Time: 85 minutes
Synopsis: Jake (Theo Taplitz) is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony (Michael Barbieri) at his grandfather's funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake's father, Brian (Greg Kinnear), and Tony's mother, Leonor (Paulina Garcia), threatens to become contentious.
Little Men is a critical yet empathetic look at the dangers of gentrification. Ira Sachs, director of Love Is Strange and the Sundance Grand Jury Prize WinnerForty Shades of Blue, accentuates the natural vibrancy of Brooklyn and brings out the best in his actors. Taplitz and Barbieri have a natural rapport and earnestness that belies their young age. Kinnear and Garcia bring weight to their roles as the feuding parents, and Jennifer Ehle, Talia Balsam, and Alfred Molina round out the cast with wonderful supporting turns. It's a triumphant return to the Festival for Sachs, who has made a film that never lets its abundant kindness interfere with its honest portrayal of a rapidly changing neighborhood.
The Sublet
Directed by: John Ainslie
Run Time: 85 minutes
Cast: Tianna Nori, Mark Matechuk and Krista Madison
Synopsis: The Sublet is a suspense driven psychological thriller about Joanna, a new mom coping with her baby alone in an odd sublet apartment. As her husband neglects her to focus on his career, Joanna questions her sanity as she discovers a violent past to the apartment and suspects that the building may be haunted.
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Carry On: Finding Hope in the Canyon
Run Time: 1:11:30
Directors: Jeremy Simmons, Carrie Whitten-Simmons
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Carry On: Finding Hope in the Canyon takes viewers on a journey through Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and into one of the most incredible natural wonders of the world. Fourteen year-old Anthony Castle has a dream: to hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. There's only one problem, his life-limiting illness has taken his ability to walk. Join him in his quest to do the unimaginable; make the 20-mile hike to the bottom of one of the largest canyons on earth in a wheel chair, something that has never been done before. As Anthony reminds us, it’s not about what you can’t do, it’s all about you CAN DO!
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Additional Screenings:
Saturday, April 9 • 11:05am
Wednesday, April 13 • 7:10pm
Last Girl Standing
Directed by: Benjamin R MoodyRun Time: 90 minutes
Cast: Akasha Villalobos, Danielle Evon Ploeger and Brian Villalobos
Synopsis: Five years ago, a masked killer brutally murdered a group of friends. Since then, Camryn the lone survivor, has struggled to reclaim her shattered life. Wracked with guilt and paranoia, Camryn leads a depressingly lonely existence until Nick, a new co-worker, befriends Camryn and attempts to integrate her into his group of friends. Just when she might be ready to start a new life, Camryn’s past comes back to haunt her. Can Camryn ever have a life again, or is she destined to be alone?
The Dark Horse
Runtime: 124 minutes
Directed by: James Napier Robertson
Cast: Cliff Curtis, James Rolleston, Kirk Torrance
Synopsis: After years in and out of mental institutions, Genesis is released into the care of his estranged brother Ariki and thrust into his volatile gang lifestyle. Genesis finds solace by volunteering at the Eastern Knights chess club and sharing his gift with the disadvantaged Maori children of his community. Gen encourages the group to train for the upcoming National Chess Championships. But his teaching puts him at odds with his brother when Ariki’s son Mana shows an interest in the game. Genesis’s conflict with his brother and the violent gang, along with his ongoing battle with his illness, threaten to ruin the hopeful progress Gen has made for himself and the young Eastern Knights.
Postmarked
Run Time: 88 minutes
Director: Gene Ganssle
Cast: Jeffrey Middleton, Chris Macarelli, Calion Maston, Ben Tyler, Lindsey Marlin and Tony Eckstat
Synopsis: Mail delivery turns deadly for carriers who may have seen too much. George took the day off, but now he’s in a warehouse being interrogated by thugs, soon joined by his quirky co-workers. Boss Jackie has no patience for bumbling agents or the hostages and wants them dead. But George has news that changes everything. As he bargains with killers, a double cross may be in the works. Will these unlikely heroes get out alive or end up “Postmarked?”
Additional Screenings:
Saturday, April 9 at 5:10 PM
Monday, April 11 at 5:10 PM
City of God (2002)
Directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund
Cast: Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele and Leandro Firmino
Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
PFF Development Director, Leigh Ann Dolan says “Sure, City of God is not your typical first-date kind of movie, but it was mine and my husband Bob’s. But the beautiful cinematography and masterful storytelling can make anyone who appreciates film fall in love.”
Here Come the Videofreex
Directed by: Jenny Raskin, Jon Nealon
Run Time: 79 minutes
Synopsis: This film opens in 1969 in an America experiencing seismic cultural and political shifts, but not on television. When a CBS executive decides to start a pilot program to tell the stories of the counterculture, the Videofreex are born. This collective of men and women takes their then brand-new portable video cameras out into the streets and across the country. They document anti-war, black power, and women’s rights protests, and interview activists like Abbie Hoffman and Fred Hampton. In Here Come the Videofreex we see what happens when CBS executives watch the pilot, and how the radical Videofreex forge their own path, as if taking advice from Hoffman's Steal This Book.
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Additional Screenings:
Wednesday, April 13th 5:00 PM
The Final Resolution
Directed by: Brian Ronalds
Run Time: 65 minutes
Synopsis: Chance? Coincidence? Prophecy? “The Final Resolution” is an in-depth examination of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 666 and how it parallels Revelation 13: 16-18. Instead of visiting with famous politicians, reality stars, athletes and scientists, we focused on the most important population, you! It doesn't matter who you are or where you came from, it's your voice that matters most.
Animated Shorts
Run Time: 79 minutes
Bear Me
Directed by: Kasia Wilk
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Synopsis: One day I found a bear. Or he found me. And he stayed.
Hooked
Directed by: Sofia Moreira
Synopsis: Captain C is a kind but lonely old man looking for a friend, but his pirate attributes scare people away. Saddened and defeated, Captain C finds companionship in a stray balloon.
Tiny Town
Directed by: Howard Cook, Stephen Baker
Synopsis: When a small train town is besieged by cataclysmic events, it's up to a simple ice-cream man to rise against the challenges and defend his home.
Taichi Mice: Entrance Exam
Directed by: Boqing Tang
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Synopsis: Three little mice struggle to get through the entrance exam of a Taoism martial art school.
Burnt
Directed by: Devin Bell
Synopsis: In a scorched desert forest, three plant-like creatures try to cope with being physically and mentally burned. They encounter something green for the first time, and it challenges them to view life differently.
Bottomless
Directed by: Veronique Vanblaere
Synopsis: A Belgian woman seeks citizenship in the United States, and finds that her experiences are bottomless.
Olilo
Directed by: Ao Li
Synopsis: Olilo is a 2D animation about an introverted girl held captive by her own semi-transparent personal space. Using traditional frame-by-frame, digital drawing, and key frame animation, the film shows that love can transform all things.
The Loneliest Stoplight
Directed by: Bill Plympton
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Synopsis: The life and times of a neglected stoplight.
Golden Shot
Directed by: Gökalp Gönen
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Synopsis: Rusty machines imagine that the sun will come and take them to the sky someday. A small light keeps them alive and dreaming, but one machine wants to see the sun itself.
Borrowed Time
Directed by: Andrew Coats, Lou Hamou-Lhadj
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Synopsis: Keep Moving Forward.
The Apple Tree
Directed by: Scott Storm
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Synopsis: A destitute young boy discovers that the natural world near his home is in jeopardy, and acts to put things right at all costs.
Additional Screening
Friday April, 8 at 11:10am
Sunday April, 10 at 12:00pm
I Am What I Play
Directed by: Roger King
Runtime: 105 minutes
Cast: Meg Griffin, David Marsden, Charles Laquidara, Pat O’Day
Synopsis: From the 1960s to the 1980s, the rock radio DJ played an unprecedented creative role in the rock music world. I Am What I Play profiles four DJs in major markets during this period: their programming, their politics, and their deep connections with musicians and fans in the heyday of rock radio. Where are they now- and how did they reinvent themselves as the medium changed?
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Friday April 8th, 6:50 PM
A Monster with a Thousand Heads
Directed By: Rodrigo Plá
Run Time: 74min
Cast: Jana Raluy, Sebastián Aguirre Boëda, Hugo Albores, Nora Huerta, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Emilio Echeverría, Ilys Cazés, Noé Hernández, Verónica Falcón
Synopsis:
When Sonia receives the news that her husband’s cancer has progressed to a terminal stage, she races to secure the insurance company approval for the care that can help him. Met with indifference and negligence at every turn, Sonia’s desperation triggers a primal survival instinct as a series of increasingly violent confrontations unfold. A sharp, urgent tale of a distraught woman intent on protecting her family at all costs, Rodrigo Plá’s latest film is an engrossing combination of thriller, drama and timely socio-political commentary.
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Thursday, April 14 at 5:00pm
Presenting Princess Shaw
Directed by: Ido Haar
Runtime: 80 minutes
Cast: Samantha Montgomery, Ophir Kutiel
Synopsis: A rousing documentary crowd-pleaser about a star-crossed singer-songwriter and her craft secret admirer, Thru You Princess examines loneliness, anonymity and connectivity in the Internet age, where showbiz dreams remain but a mouse-click away for even the most hardscrabble striver.
Official SiteLove and Friendship
Runtime: 92 minutes
Directed by: Whit Stillman
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel
Synopsis: Set in the opulent drawing rooms of eighteenth-century English society, Love & Friendship focuses on the machinations of a beautiful widow, Lady Susan Vernon, who, while waiting for social chatter about a personal indiscretion to pass, takes up temporary residence at her in-laws’ estate. While there, the intelligent, flirtatious, and amusingly egotistical Lady Vernon is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica—and herself too, naturally. She enlists the assistance of her old friend Alicia, but two particularly handsome suitors complicate her orchestrations.
Antibirth
Directed by: Danny Perez
Run Time: 95 minutes
Cast: Natasha Lyonne, Chloë Sevigny, Meg Tilly, Mark Webber
Synopsis: In a desolate community full of drug-addled marines and rumors of kidnapping, a wild-eyed stoner named Lou wakes up after a crazy night of partying with symptoms of a strange illness and recurring visions. Without being able to remember anything from the night before, she struggles to get a grip on the reality of her situation as unusual conspiracy theories begin to arise.
Patagonia Treasure Trail
Run Time: 01:25:10
Director: Michele Gisser
Cast: Isabella Schloss, Faye Jackson
Synopsis:
Patagonia Treasure Trail is a present day Western set in the environmentally delicate and politically volatile territory of southern Arizona. A young professional musician, Birdie, returns home to rest and contemplate her future, but finds she must negotiate old family conflicts and confront her own past first. She and her mother set out on horseback into the sensitive natural beauty of the high desert, expecting idyllic quality time while camping. The physical dangers and emotional surprises encountered in the mountains change their lives forever.
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Additional Screenings:
Saturday, April 9 • 7:35pm
Wednesday, April 13 • 12:30pm
Dead Body replacing cancelled Badoet
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
Directed by Colin Trevorrow
Cast: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass and Jake Johnson
In this comedy-drama, three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview a guy who placed a classified advertisement seeking a companion for time travel.
PFF staffer Deb Hildebrandt says: “You are drawn in by the chemistry among this talented cast making it easy to invest in their characters. A clever script brings it all together for an original movie that's heartfelt, hilarious and unpredictable.”
World Cinema Shorts
Runtime: 87 minutes
Foot in Mouth
Directed by: Ella Jones
Synopsis: When two pampered girls ignorantly abuse and offend a Chinese pedicurist, she cleverly plots a fitting revenge.
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Rumble
Directed by: Matthew Hopper
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Synopsis: A deaf boxer must decide whether to give up the sport he loves in favor of an operation that could allow him to hear for the first time.
Violet
Directed by: Maurice Joyce
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TwitterSynopsis: Violet is the dark, cautionary tale of a young girl who despises her reflection. Tired of the abuse, Violet’s reflection decides she’s not going to take it anymore.
Dreaming of Peggy Lee
Directed by: James Everett
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Synopsis: Sometimes the barrier is the bridge to your dream.
Colours
Directed by: Peter Lee Scott
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Synopsis: In the aggressive and hostile world of youth grass roots football Adam faces an ultimatum from the team captain, when they discover Adam’s best friend Tom is gay.
Run, Ran, Run
Directed by: Sanna Ekman
Synopsis: Jennifer is out for a morning jog, spots a robber hiding a bag full of money. She steals it, but gets stopped by the police.
A Visita- The Visit
Directed by: Leandro Corinto
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Synopsis: Matthew is nine years old and was raised by Theo, his uncle. Today, he will finally rediscover his true father, who came from abroad to visit him.
Additional Screenings
Friday April, 8 at 10:40am
Sunday April, 9 at 4:10pm
Patagonia Treasure Trail
Run Time: 01:25:10
Director: Michele Gisser
Cast: Isabella Schloss, Faye Jackson
Synopsis:
Patagonia Treasure Trail is a present day Western set in the environmentally delicate and politically volatile territory of southern Arizona. A young professional musician, Birdie, returns home to rest and contemplate her future, but finds she must negotiate old family conflicts and confront her own past first. She and her mother set out on horseback into the sensitive natural beauty of the high desert, expecting idyllic quality time while camping. The physical dangers and emotional surprises encountered in the mountains change their lives forever.
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Additional Screenings:
Tuesday, April 12 • 9:20pm
Saturday, April 9 • 7:35pm
Cut to the Chase
Directed by: Blayne Weaver
Run Time: 90 minutes
Cast: Blayne Weaver, Lyndie Greenwood and Erin Cahill
Synopsis: An ex-con sets out in search of his kidnapped sister through the criminal underbelly of Shreveport, Louisiana.
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Additonal Screenings:
Friday, April 8th at 1:30pm
Sunday, April 10th at 6:15pm
Here Come the Videofreex
Directed by: Jenny Raskin, Jon Nealon
Run Time: 79 minutes
Synopsis: This film opens in 1969 in an America experiencing seismic cultural and political shifts, but not on television. When a CBS executive decides to start a pilot program to tell the stories of the counterculture, the Videofreex are born. This collective of men and women takes their then brand-new portable video cameras out into the streets and across the country. They document anti-war, black power, and women’s rights protests, and interview activists like Abbie Hoffman and Fred Hampton. In Here Come the Videofreex we see what happens when CBS executives watch the pilot, and how the radical Videofreex forge their own path, as if taking advice from Hoffman's Steal This Book.
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Presenting Princess Shaw
Directed by: Ido Haar
Runtime: 80 minutes
Cast: Samantha Montgomery, Ophir Kutiel
Synopsis: A rousing documentary crowd-pleaser about a star-crossed singer-songwriter and her craft secret admirer, Thru You Princess examines loneliness, anonymity and connectivity in the Internet age, where showbiz dreams remain but a mouse-click away for even the most hardscrabble striver.
Official SiteCarry On: Finding Hope in the Canyon
Run Time: 1:11:30
Directors: Jeremy Simmons, Carrie Whitten-Simmons
Synopsis:
Carry On: Finding Hope in the Canyon takes viewers on a journey through Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and into one of the most incredible natural wonders of the world. Fourteen year-old Anthony Castle has a dream: to hike to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. There's only one problem, his life-limiting illness has taken his ability to walk. Join him in his quest to do the unimaginable; make the 20-mile hike to the bottom of one of the largest canyons on earth in a wheel chair, something that has never been done before. As Anthony reminds us, it’s not about what you can’t do, it’s all about you CAN DO!
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Additional Screenings:
Saturday, April 9 • 11:05am
Monday, April 11 • 9:20pm
Viva
Directed by: Paddy Breathnach
Runtime: 100 min
Cast: Jorge Perugorría, Luis Alberto Garcia, Héctor Medina, Luis Manuel Álvarez, Renata (Maikel Machin Blanco), Laura Aleman.
Synopsis: VIVA stars Héctor Medina as Jesus, a young hairdresser working at a Havana nightclub that showcases drag performers, who dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama, Jesus finally gets his chance to take the stage. But when his estranged father Angel abruptly reenters his life, his world is quickly turned upside down. As father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, VIVA becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and reconcile as a family.
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Additional Screenings:
Monday, April 11th 5:00 PM
The Eyes of My Mother
Directed by: Nicolas Pesce
Run Time: 80 minutes
Cast: Kika Magalhaes, Will Brill, Paul Nazak, Flora Diaz, Clara Wong and Diana Agostini
Synopsis: In their secluded farmhouse, a mother, formerly a surgeon in Portugal, teaches her daughter, Francisca, to understand anatomy and be unfazed by death. One afternoon, a mysterious visitor horrifyingly shatters the idyll of Francisca’s family life, deeply traumatizing the young girl, but also awakening some unique curiosities. Though she clings to her increasingly reticent father, Francisca’s loneliness and scarred nature converge years later when her longing to connect with the world around her takes on a distinctly dark form.
Lucky U Ranch
Run Time: 1:33:00
Director: Steve Anderson
Key Cast: Trevor Robins, Donovan Droege
Synopsis:
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It's 1953, and 11-year-old Junior McCaully is ready to call it quits. Chubby, bullied, and stuck at an Arizona trailer court with his hardworking mom. Nothing prepares him for the arrival of Melissa, a sophisticated Hollywood girl who changes everything.
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Additional Screenings:
Saturday, April 9 • 12:55pm
Monday, April 11 • 2:45pm
The Sublet
Directed by: John Ainslie
Run Time: 85 minutes
Cast: Tianna Nori, Mark Matechuk and Krista Madison
Synopsis: The Sublet is a suspense driven psychological thriller about Joanna, a new mom coping with her baby alone in an odd sublet apartment. As her husband neglects her to focus on his career, Joanna questions her sanity as she discovers a violent past to the apartment and suspects that the building may be haunted.
Documentary Shorts
Run Time: 85 minutes
High Signs
Directed by: Damien Patrik
Synopsis: Hard working street performers, slackers, or simply human puppets on a string?
Binkley’s
Directed by: Andrew Gooi
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Synopsis: Founded in Cave Creek in 2004, Binkley's Restaurant defied the odds to become one of the best restaurants in the Southwest.
Native Evolution
Directed by: Kyle Bell
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Synopsis: Native American street artist Steven Grounds has been painting his kind of creativity on walls of buildings and anything else he can get his hands onto. Motivated from the hardships of his life, he continues to find the strength to persevere through art.
Keep It Grand
Directed by: Daniel Ferrara
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Synopsis: A developer has plans to build a gigantic tourist settlement at the Grand Canyon, while Native Americans are fighting to protect land they view as sacred, and environmentalists are up in arms about the impact on the environment that the construction project and its aftermath would bring.
In Memory
Directed by: 72 U
Synopsis: The story of a community's digital journey through the life, death and remembering of PlainWhite Tom, a Chicago street performer who tragically took his own life.
Additional Screenings:
Friday, April 8th at 1:00pm
Saturday, April 9th at 11:15am
Medium Length Documentaries
Runtime: 82 minutes
Gayrouth
Directed By Charbel Raad
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Synopsis: To be gay in Beirut, one of the most open minded capitals in the Middle East, which is sinking in the era of repressions, is not as easy as it looks.
Play the Documentary
Directed by Matty Steinkamp
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Synopsis: Play the documentary is a film to inspire more people to play music, featuring musicians from all over the world.
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Saturday, April 9 • 5:25pm - 6:55pm
Sunday, April 10 • 2:05pm - 3:35pm
Remittance
Runtime: 87 minutes
Directed by: Patrick Daly, Joel Fendelman
Cast: Prem John, Paolo O’Hara, Olive Nieto
Synopsis: When Marie takes a job as a maid in Singapore to support her family in the Philippines, she trades one set of hardships for another. Betrayed by her husband, she begins to build a new life for herself. As she gets caught up in the new life she is building for herself in Singapore, she needs to choose between her personal aspirations and her family responsibilities.
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Sunday, April 10 at 1:50 PM
Horror Shorts B
Running Time: 90 Minutes
A Tricky Treat
Directed by: Patricia Chica
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Synopsis: A man is kidnapped by a very strange family, and his fate is held in the hands of two kids. 'A Tricky Treat' presents a shocking tale of the unexpected with a twist.
Night of the Slasher
Directed by: Shant Hamassian
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Synopsis: A 'shot-in-one-take' slasher film about a teenage girl who must commit horror movie sins by drinking alcohol, doing drugs, and having sex in order to lure a masked killer and exact revenge.
Miriam
Directed by: Emiliano Ranzani
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Synopsis: A nightly encounter between a petty criminal, a woman in danger and a darkly-clothed man. One of them is not what it seems.
The Voodoo Dick
Directed by: Daniel McDonald
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Synopsis: Based on a viral joke. A husband buys his wife a magical toy, but things go horribly wrong.
Larry Gone Demon
Directed by: Matthew John Lawrence
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Synopsis: When three twenty-somethings must deal with the incorrigible and incredibly demonic Larry, they risk life and limb in an attempt to save the soul of their once-kind-and-unassuming friend while also procuring his five-hundred dollars in back rent.
Flush
Directed by: Matt Cooper
Synopsis: Be careful who you piss off.
Bad Blood
Directed by: Aleksandra Lagkueva
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Synopsis: An invincible serial killer finds his preys at night, until one night somebody finds him...
Little Old Cat Lady from Rancho Cucamonga
Directed by: Stephen James Thomas
Synopsis: Granny Jefferson makes a wish for her cat, Georgie Pie, to take revenge upon four high school thugs who have stolen money and have brutally attacked her at home.
20 Matches
Directed by: Mark Tapio Kines
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Synopsis: A young woman, her face illuminated only by match light, tells the story of an Austrian serial killer who murdered 20 immigrant women - one per year.
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Friday, April 8 • 9:55pm
Sunday, April 10 • 2:15pm
A Monster with a Thousand Heads
Directed By: Rodrigo Plá
Run Time: 74min
Cast: Jana Raluy, Sebastián Aguirre Boëda, Hugo Albores, Nora Huerta, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Emilio Echeverría, Ilys Cazés, Noé Hernández, Verónica Falcón
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When Sonia receives the news that her husband’s cancer has progressed to a terminal stage, she races to secure the insurance company approval for the care that can help him. Met with indifference and negligence at every turn, Sonia’s desperation triggers a primal survival instinct as a series of increasingly violent confrontations unfold. A sharp, urgent tale of a distraught woman intent on protecting her family at all costs, Rodrigo Plá’s latest film is an engrossing combination of thriller, drama and timely socio-political commentary.
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Additional Screenings:
Tuesday, April 12 at 7:10pm
Sci-fi Shorts A
Running Time: 86 minutes
PROJECT: Horizon
Directed by: Kirill Kripak
Synopsis: On a desolate moon in a faraway star system, a lone spaceman walks the barren landscape on a tedious journey with his robotic companion.
Clones
Directed by: Rafael Bolliger
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Synopsis: In the far future, a dying professor undergoes a special kind of surgery.
BACK TO THE GAIA
Directed by: Chen Xiaoneng
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Synopsis: An action to save the world, a clinging mourning of her father, this is the metamorphosis of a girl fighting with her loneliness and fear.
Iris
Directed by: Richard Karpala
Synopsis: A hitman uses his smart phone to aid in burying a dead body.
JAKOB
Directed by: Eymeric JORAT
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Synopsis: Jakob, a humanoid robot, has just committed the first crime on a human. Intended to be destroyed, a lawyer will try to save him. Together they have 12 hours to explain the murder, 12 hours before judgement.
Younglings
Directed by: Stuart Baker
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Synopsis: Blade Runner meets Blazing Saddles in a dark, sci-fi comedy about a poker night pop-culture smack down between geriatric nerds of the future.
Avant
Directed by: Arthur Tabuteau
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Synopsis: In a world turned to ashes by war between humans and machines, a boy tries to survive. Even if the robot menace is everywhere, he goes on a quest for food. Despite his effort to stay hidden, he gets caught. While everything seems to be lost, the reaction of the robot is not going to be what he expected…
As They Continue To Fall
Directed by: Nikhil Bhagat
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Synopsis: An aging drifter hunts fallen angels in a city collapsing into ruins. Society may have turned its back on him, but that doesn't stop him from moving forward in his endless search.
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Friday April, 8 at 9:35pm
Saturday April, 9 at 1:05pm
Closing Night Film - Five Nights in Maine
Directed by: Maris Curran
Run Time: 85 min
Cast: David Oyelowo, Dianne Wiest, Rosie Perez, Teyonah Parris
Synopsis:
Sherwin considers himself a good man, though flawed like any other. He is deeply in love with his wife, Fiona. After returning from a visit with her estranged and ill mother she begins acting distant. Soon, their conversations lead to fights. He learns that she can no longer imagine herself as a mother, leaving him confused and angry and their marriage in splinters. Before there can be resolution, Fiona dies in an auto accident after driving distractedly on the freeway. Sherwin is devastated. In the middle of his grief, Sherwin receives a phone call from Fiona’s mother. She invites him to visit her in rural Maine, saying: “It might do us both some good.” Sherwin decides to go to Maine, and embarks on an unlikely journey of healing, compassion and empathy.
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