Program Schedule
Block 1
Friday, September 23 — 5:30-11:30 p.m.
“Hitomi”
Narrative — Belgium, 20 minutes
) Tom is a young man who has a strong connection with the Japanese culture. Samurai, Jiu Jitsu, calligraphy; not a day goes by without it. When a young Asian lady enters his life he sees his knowledge of the culture as the perfect way to attract her. Directed by Manu De Smet.
“No Existe El Adiós”
(Narrative — Spain, 16 minutes
) The same love in three different moments. Directed by Pablo Bullejos.
The Forest Prince and the Pig Man
(Documentary — United States, 70 minutes
) Whatever happened to the free ride and the wide open road? By interweaving a coast-to-coast hitchhiking trip with the never-before-told history of bumming rides, “The Forest Prince and the Pig Man (Hitchhiking in America)” tells the whole quirky, sordid tale. The film exposes a secret stash of archive materials, including a long-suppressed government study on the safety of hitchhiking. It explodes myths and reveals surprising facts: for example, large numbers of women happily hitchhiked during the 1920s and 1940s. And it introduces an amazing cross-section of road-going Americans: from an acclaimed sculptor to a cop blasting ABBA, from teenage thrill-seekers to an Oscar-winning filmmaker. “Forest Prince” uses a subversive means of transportation and an anarchic history to take the pulse of America. Directed by Craig Constantine.
“A Mind Beside Itself”
(Narrative — United States, 19 minutes)
Love that lasts the longest is love that is never returned. Tristan Ashling knows this all too well. Love is just beyond his reach. Soon he’s faced with an important decision. Stay with Maya no matter the cost or take a different path and lose her forever. Directed by P. J. Starks.
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
(Documentary — United States, 107 minutes
) From the shifting faultlines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Reagan’s America, Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk they demolished the walls of genre and challenged the racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the nation. Telling it like it is, the iconic Laurence Fishburne narrates EVERYDAY SUNSHINE, a story about music, history, fear, courage and funking on the one. Directed by Chris Metzler.
Block 2
Friday, September 24 — 12:30-5:30 p.m.
“Atroz”
(Narrative — Spain, 10 minutes) Atroz is a curmudgeon teddy bear who will tell us the misfortunes that he will live through to flee from his owner, Luna, a girl that harasses him every moment. Directed by Francisco Álverez.
“Challenging Impossibility”
(Documentary — United States, 28 minutes) CHALLENGING IMPOSSIBILITY chronicles the weightlifting odyssey of the late spiritual teacher and peace advocate Sri Chinmoy. Surprisingly, at the age of 53, this Indian-born mystic took up weightlifting. Already an advocate of the necessity of physical fitness in the spiritual life, this New York City-based Guru was inspired to demonstrate the tangible power of inner peace by performing incredible, but real feats of strength. Sri Chinmoy’s lifts were featured on hundreds of newscasts globally, including on CNN, Fox, ESPN and NBC affiliates. CHALLENGING IMPOSSIBILITY focuses on an exhibition he held on 13 November 2004 where he lifted a total of 200,408 pounds. He was 73 years old. Featuring: Bill Pearl, Frank Zane, Carl Lewis and Hugo Girard. Appearances by Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela. Directed by Sanjay Rawal.
The Conquest of High Passes
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Documentary — Netherlands, 55 minutes
) How to act when you are in top shape mentally but the body doesn’t respond that way? Bas, Roelof and Evert are physically handicapped. Nevertheless they embark on a 1000 km bike trip across the Himalayas. From Lhasa to Kathmandu conquering mountain passes over 5000 meters high. The documentary explores the fraction in their lives and the battle between the mind and the disobedient body in quest for new balance. Directed by Wout Conijn.
“Land Lost, Culture Lost”
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Documentary — Cambodia, 31 minutes)
”Land Lost, Culture Lost” is a documentary film directed collaboratively by Daniel Lanctot and Kong Yuk village, a Jarai indigenous village in northeastern Cambodia. The film documents Kong Yuk’s land loss story and how they were tricked and coerced into losing ancestral farmland to a rubber company. The issues of land grabs and “economic development” in Cambodia serve as the subtext in this documentary which shows how this small indigenous village courageously filmed a role play video of their land loss story. They wanted to educate their indigenous neighbors so that they would not “make the same mistake” that they did. The original role play footage features heavily in this documentary, a film whose aim, as the villagers would say, is to tell “the true story.” Directed by Daniel Lanctot.
“Green Bangles”
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Narrative — United States, 11 minutes)
When the efforts of a young girl to save her mother from her abusive father fail, she grows up with that guilt but as a grown woman, she can get rid of the burden by standing up for herself against a bullying husband. Directed by Archana Shinde.
“Mr. Atse in Pursuit of an Ascending Career”
(Narrative — Netherlands, 6 minutes
) No synopsis given. Directed by M. Chendler.
“Interview”
(Narrative — South Korea, 5 minutes)
The artist can’t focus on drawing as usual. He manages to calm himself down by venting his spleen on oil paints which are delivered today. Increasingly, he sees his appearance drawing and that bothers him. The more an appointment is getting closer, the more his nerves are on edge. What would he really want to draw ? Directed by Hyun-won Kim.
“Enterrats”
(Narrative — Spain, 11 minutes) In a city… year 2010… There’s no choice to find a flat on the entirely town. Three characters will try to find an alternative place to rest in peace… A close dystopia, a stressful quest; an impossible interaction towards a poetic escape… Directed by Álex Lora Cercós
“British India — March into the Ocean”
(Music Video — Australia, 3 minutes
) The official film clip for British India’s: March Into The Ocean. Made by Careful Strangers Productions: see the lads from British India immersed in a all or nothing game of scrabble. Directed by Nic Wilson.
Indians Like Us
(Documentary — France, 55 minutes
) A group of French people share a passion for everything Native American: every week-end they dress up as Native Americans to entertain at small village fairs in France. But their big dream is to travel to the United States and meet some real Native Americans. When they finally manage to go for a 2 week-drive across the Midwest, they discover the reality of contemporary Native Americans is quite different from their idealized vision: poverty, continued loss of land, and worse, a disturbingly active discrimination by the white descendants of the settlers. Directed by Sylvie Jacquemin.
Block 3
Friday, September 24 — 6:30-11:30 p.m.
“Erinnerungen”
(Narrative — Germany, 15 minutes)
They have just fallen in love, yet know little about each other. During a romantic walk through the forest, they try to connect. Answering her questions about important episodes from his life, he reveals himself to her. But his questions don’t elicit the answers he’d hoped to find. She does not reveal her own memories, since “that’s not what this is about…” Directed by Dennis Knickel.
“Bathing and the Single Girl”
(Narrative — United States, 11 minutes
) Single, in her thirties and experiencing an extended romantic drought this lady decides she needs to broaden her ideas of who might make a suitable boyfriend. Once offended by her grandmother’s advice to “overlook a little,” she feels desperate times call for desperate measures. But – just how desperate is she? Bathing and the Single Girl is an irreverent & raw comedic look at some of the pitfalls of dating men you can talk yourself into rather than waiting for one you cannot talk yourself out of. Directed by Christine Elise McCarthy.
Revolting
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Narrative — United States, 81 minutes) REVOLTING is a feature film comedy about a prolific playwright struggling to write a sequel to his one and only hit, but his characters revolt and won’t let him. Jeff is a playwright who made his name years ago with the smash comedy “The Madcap Murderesses.” Since then, he has channeled his efforts into more serious theater, producing a steady stream of critically-acclaimed flops. Now the theater that premiered “Madcap Murderesses” is in financial straits, and asks Jeff to write a sequel to his original hit. Jeff reluctantly agrees, not knowing that the characters he created will soon take on a life of their own… Directed by Mike Boedicker.
“Winter Rose”
(Narrative — United States, 6 minutes) In the winter of 1944, Rose gives Ana the strength to say goodbye. Directed by Anita George.
“Bein Hashurot”
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Narrative — Israel, 18 minutes) Ella, a theater actor, meets Eyal at a local pub and the two form a stirring and exciting connection. However, what begins as a promising romance taken from a french movie suddenly turn into a nightmare… An experimental musical drama about love, sexual assault and everything in between. Directed by Smadar Zamir
A Lonely Place for Dying
( Narrative — United States, 96 minutes) It is 1972. An abandoned Mexican prison sits alone in the dusty Chihuahua desert. KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. Dzerzhinsky holds explosive evidence against the CIA; information he will trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper must obtain this evidence and kill Dzerzhinsky or risk the end of his CIA career. As the two men hunt each other they discover that the sins from their past destined them for this deadly confrontation. Directed by Justin Evans.
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