Friday, September 27th
Carry My Heart to the Yellow River
Taking her hospitalized friend's place on a bike tour to the Yellow River, a high school graduate travels to faraway Gannan and races the clock to share pictures of the journey.
Alexis Van Hurkman
Directed by:
Narrative/China/2019/21 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 1
Date
9/27/2019
Time
5:00 PM
Dre
A young man's attempt to rob a local grocery store, results in the birth of an unusual friendship.
Victor Okoye
Directed by:
Narrative/Nigeria/2019/13 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 1
Date
9/27/2019
Time
5:00 PM
Hope
Based on a true story.When a widow with mental illness attempts suicide, she survives only to find herself homeless and unable to reconnect with her son.After a year of living in a shelter with no hope of overcoming her situation, she has a chance encounter that changes her life.
Katie Damien
Directed by:
Narrative/USA/2018/15 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 1
Date
9/27/2019
Time
5:00 PM
My Grandson, Charlotte
A transgender teen and his immigrant granddad; a Sapeur from the Congo, bond over their shared understanding of the importance of identity and of always being true to one's self.
Tyler Pierreson
Directed by:
Narrative/United Kingdom/2019/14 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 1
Date
9/27/2019
Time
5:00 PM
Refuge
Logline: A Jewish American woman and an Ethiopian refugee reconcile Austria's past with its present.Brief Synopsis: After her recent move to Vienna, Rachel is overcome by the inherited trauma of her family's Holocaust past when her life intersects with a homeless Syrian refugee family. With the philosophical guidance of a former Ethiopian refugee, she learns that true healing can begin with a single act of compassion.
Sara Logan Hofstein
Directed by:
Narrative/Austria/2019/19 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 1
Date
9/27/2019
Time
5:00 PM
Rehearsal
A film crew for an upcoming feature film pushes the boundaries of consent during a courtesy rehearsal for its female lead.
Courtney Hope Therond
Directed by:
Narrative/USA/2018/9 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 1
Date
9/27/2019
Time
5:00 PM
What If Black Boys Were Butterflies?
While other boys can enjoy a childhood of freedoms, for many reasons, Black boyhood is a brief, complicated existence. What If Black Boys Were Butterflies, is a non-linear experimental short film displaying what Black Boyhood is and what it ultimately could be.
DaeQuan Collier
Directed by:
Narrative/USA/2019/4 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 1
Date
9/27/2019
Time
5:00 PM
Trumphobia: what both sides fear
Donald J. Trump’s fervent supporters and scared opponents were affected by Trump's rhetoric and the media's interpretation, increasing a dangerous political division. Now, It's time for them to stop and listen to each other or push harder until they crash America's democracy. "Trumphobia: what both sides fear" is a feature-length documentary that shines a light on the political division in the United States during the Donald Trump era. Through carefully selected footage of political debates, marches, and protests across multiple states and compelling on-screen interviews with U.S. politicians, college professors, hate crime victims, and Trump supporters and opponents, the film provides a balanced assessment of the political tension in America, categorizing Trump’s controversial rhetoric and the media’s often unbalanced mischaracterization of the facts as its root cause while compelling viewers to unite the country through empathy and compassion for those with disparate political opinions.
Carolina Sosa
Directed by:
Documentary/USA/2019/70 min
Screening
Documentary Feature
Date
9/27/2019
Time
5:15 PM
Among Mountain Crags
A young woman flees her oppressive small town with a handsome stranger, but as they travel deeper into the untamed beauty of the Appalachian mountains, her hope for a new future begins to unravel.
Kyle Frederick
Directed by:
Narrative/USA/2019/70 min
Screening
Narrative Feature
Date
9/27/2019
Time
7:10 PM
Stuffed
An inside look into the world of taxidermy and the passionate artists from all over the world who work on the animals.
Erin Derham
Directed by:
Documentary/USA|Canada/2019/84 min
Screening
Special Presentation
Date
9/27/2019
Time
7:25 PM
America
Frederik's attempts at creating the safest place possible, where he is protected by his lovely walls in a room filled with guns. A story of uNRAveling.
George ve Ganaeaard, Horia Cucuta
Directed by:
Short, Dark Comedy/Romania|USA/2019/2 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 5
Date
9/27/2019
Time
9:00 PM
Big Mouth Billy Bass
A woman is visited by a talking fish toy from the future with a warning of her impending doom.
Chris Dean
Directed by:
Narrative/USA/2018/11 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 5
Date
9/27/2019
Time
9:00 PM
Department 666
A recently deceased man discovers that the afterlife isn't quite what he was expecting.
Adam York
Directed by:
Narrative/USA/2019/10 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 5
Date
9/27/2019
Time
9:00 PM
Our Troll
A dinner goes awry when a Troll with an agenda of his own arrives.
D.J. Walker
Directed by:
Narrative/USA/2019/12 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 5
Date
9/27/2019
Time
9:00 PM
Random Knowledge
The final round at a pub trivia game puts the random knowledge of six oddly-matched teammates to the test. ...but knowing is only half the battle.
Michael Charron
Directed by:
Narrative/USA/2018/17 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 5
Date
9/27/2019
Time
9:00 PM
Sanguine Addiction
Detective Frank Sullivan losses his sense of reality while on the hunt for a serial killer in the early 1970s.
Paul Streiner
Directed by:
Narrative/USA/2019/31 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 5
Date
9/27/2019
Time
9:00 PM
The Playground at Night
Mr. Gomez is a preschool teacher who just wants to clean up the playground and go home. But something sinister is very opposed to that idea.
Jonathan Pickett
Directed by:
Narrative/USA/2018/6 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 5
Date
9/27/2019
Time
9:00 PM
The Procedure 2
A man is forced to endure another strange experiment.
Calvin Lee Reeder
Directed by:
Narrative/USA/2019/3 min
Screening
Narrative Shorts Block 5
Date
9/27/2019
Time
9:00 PM
First Love
A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
Takashi Miike
Directed by:
Crime, Action, Romance/Japan/2019/108 min
Screening
Special Presentation
Date
9/27/2019
Time
9:20 PM