Rhode Island International Film Festival 2014 Program Guide by George T Marshall

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Welcome to the Festival The 18th Annual Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF), welcomes stellar filmmaking talents from all over the world to beautiful Providence, Rhode Island—one of America’s oldest and most beloved cities. For nearly two decades, RIIFF has embraced its visitors with the sort of warm-hearted, independent spirit that fosters long-lasting friendships, sparks exciting creative projects, and inspires guests to return again and again. It’s little wonder that Chris Gore’s Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide praises RIIFF as “the kind of intimate festival experience that will change your life.” Last year, RIIFF presented 210 films from 52 countries and welcomed more than 300 filmmakers, producers, cast, and crew. Now it’s gearing up to be even bigger and better than ever, maintaining its reputation as the largest and most visible film festival in New England. With a slew of unique offerings—including the Rhode Island Film Forum, ScriptBiz, The Future Filmmaking Symposium, Extended Filmmaking and Animation workshops for kids featuring accepted filmmakers, and a closing night block party —RIIFF ensures each of its participating visitors is treated to an enriching, inspiring, and unpredictable festival experience. RIIFF is proud to be one of 19 Festivals in the world that is an Academy Award qualifier in both the Live-Action Short Film and Short Subject Documentary categories. With vanguard programming that seeks to showcase new voices in independent filmmaking from across the globe, RIIFF serves as an exceptional platform from which to launch exciting careers. Seven films that have premiered at RIIFF have won Academy Awards, and another 32 have been nominated, while many have gained distribution with the likes of HBO, Showtime, and IFC. A wide range of competitive categories—including Horror, Children’s, Gay & Lesbian, Documentary, Science Fiction, and Animated films—offers entrants and audience members a veritable buffet of great stories, surprises, and narrative formats. There’s even a screenplay and teleplay competition, designed to give talented screen scribes some well-deserved industry credibility. At RIIFF, there’s no shortage of ways to get noticed! MISSION AND OBJECTIVE RIIFF is dedicated to the creation of opportunities for artistic exchange among independent filmmakers, directors, producers, and the film-going public. The festival’s mission is to discover fresh and talented voices in the world of independent film. MORE ABOUT THE FESTIVAL RIIFF encourages exhibiting filmmakers—and all entrants-- to attend the Festival, and offers all-access passes, plus reduced rates on area hotels, inns and B&B’s, and the option to stay free of charge with community hosts. RIIFF grants over $50,000 USD worth in prizes to winning filmmakers, including software, scholarships, consulting, and production services. The festival hosts a series of educational events, master classes and symposia on filmmaking, drawing leaders in the field to present. Nightly after-parties throughout the city of Providence are designed to provide a networking platform for visiting filmmakers and industry professionals. RIIFF offers a variety of prestigious awards to some of the most talented artists in (and soon to be in) the business. The festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award has been bestowed upon Oscar-nominated actors Seymour Cassel and Cicely Tyson, Academy Award-winning actor Ernest Borgnine, and acclaimed actor of stage and screen, Paul Sorvino. The festival’s Crystal Image Award for Excellence, introduced to honor emerging artists with powerful voices, has been awarded to talents including Zach Braff, Danny Trejo, Ioan Gruffudd, Michael Showalter, composer Klaus Badelt, and children’s book author Sandra Boynton. More than simply a film festival, RIIFF champions artistic vision in any form and is dedicated to sharing that vision with a and enthusiastic audience that hungers for great storytelling.

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Dear Rhode Island International Film Festival Filmmakers,

From the many diverse locations to our outstanding restaurants and cultural attractions, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m certain you will find that Rhode Island is a fun, film-friendly neighborhood. This compact state is merely forty-eight miles long and about forty-miles wide, so please see as much of it as you can. Each area is diverse, rich with history and visually unique. One twenty minute road trip can take you from a vibrant cityscape to a scenic ocean drive and, if you keep going, you may wind up at one of our magnificent mansions. Believe me, you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be disappointed. Please do not hesitate to call our office if you have any questions or needs. We stand ready to assist you any way we can and the Rhode Island Film & TV Office is always here to help you make some movie magic! Congratulations to George T. Marshall and the RIIFF volunteers/sponsors! Enjoy the show! Steven Feinberg Executive Director Rhode Island Film & Television Office One Capitol Hill 3rd Floor Providence, RI 02908 Phone: 401-222-3456 (222-FILM) Fax: 401-222-3018 E MAIL: steven.feinberg@arts.ri.gov WEB SITE:www.film.ri.gov

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Greetings from the beautiful Ocean State! On behalf of the Film & Television Office, I welcome you to discover Rhode Island.

Dedication: Ron Tippe It is with heavy hearts that the Rhode Island International Film Festival learns of the passing of our former Producing Director, Ron Tippe. Ron was a huge part to the development and growth of this festival and our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.

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He was able to touch so many lives both through his extensive and impressive career, and in his personal life.

Ron Tippe has worked in the entertainment business for the last 36 years. In that period, he has directed 52 stage plays, 100 commercials and dozens of education and business related films. In addition he has spent the last 15 years as a Feature Animation Producer for DreamWorks Animation (SHREK – Pre-Production), WB Feature Animation (SPACE JAM), George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic (FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN – Pre-Production), Walt Disney Feature Animation (RUNAWAY BRAIN – Oscar nominated short), IDT Feature Animation (EVERYONE’S HERO) and most recently, Imagi Entertainment’s (GATCHAMAN – Pre-Production). In addition, he managed the Paris, France Animation studio for Walt Disney Animation. Ron has also produced record albums in addition to being an accomplished musician and the owner of QT Music (ASCAP) and Barn Boy Music (ASCAP) publishing companies. In 2008, Ron branched out and became a Certified Creative Empowerment Coach specializing in creativity and personal biography. An alumnus of Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI, (BA Theatre) and the University of Illinois (MA Theatre), he was a Visiting Professor of Communications in 2008 where he helped co-produce and create the Roving Eye Film Festival with George Marshall. Ron recently taught at Emerson College in Boston. He was married to Hollywood Costume Designer, Molly Maginnis. They have two children, Annie and Sam Tippe. On behalf of RIIFF, we will all miss Ron dearly, but will never forget him.

Flickers held the state’s first International Film Festival in Newport in 1983, which laid the foundation for today’s Rhode Island International Film Festival. During its first five years exhibiting film, Flickers screened more than 475 titles, of which many were state and regional premieres. Some examples that demonstrate the breadth of films exhibited include “Amadeus,” “Flight of the Eagle,” “The Man from Snowy River,” “Parting Glances,” Truffaut’s “Confidentially Yours,” Bergman’s “Fanny & Alexander,” Fassbinder’s “Querelle,” Franco Zeffirelli’s lush “La Traviata,” Bertolucci’s uncut “1900,” the premiere of the independent film “Coaster,” the restored print of Gloria Swanson’s epic “Queen Kelly,” Fellini’s “And the Ship Sails On,” and “My Beautiful Laundrette.” The society sponsored specialized film series, lectures, and forums including one at the screening of “Man of Iron,” which featured Cheslaw Kyanka, founder of the Polish Solidarity Union. The Society also presented lectures for colleges and organizations on topics from Italian Neo-Realism to film programming. It even organized travel programs to study international media centers in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, and Athens. Over the past 33 years, Flickers has changed directions, taken detours, and charted new routes. The organization has been impacted by the hard work, vision, and commitment of so many people that it would be wrong to personally take credit for where we are today. No one person is responsible for the success of what was originally envisioned as a way to meet people, make friends, and share a common love of film. Some of these people have actually been with us for this quarter century. Others have drifted in and out, some have moved on, but all have been touched in some way by this organization. Today, programming efforts cover a broad range of areas -from arts to humanities to social services to production to educational outreach -multiple linkages and numerous collaborations have been established. Flickers has evolved with the changes, needs, and demands of the community it serves. It has never lost sight of its mission, and continues its quest to create inventive and cutting-edge programming. It has been an amazing adventure and one that was completely unforeseen at its beginning. This year’s dedication is to all the people who created Flickers and sustained it over the past 33 years. It’s a long, long list of wonderful people. All are linked by a passion and commitment you cannot find anywhere else: the love of film that served as Flickers’ founding inspiration. My sincere thanks!

George T. Marshall Executive Director

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Letter from the Director

It was around 1979 that I started thinking about creating a small film society whose sole purpose was to discover and screen classic, foreign, and cutting edge film. I had picked up a book entitled “How to Organize and Run a Film Society,” and I played with the idea over the next several years. In 1981, I formalized my ideas and created “Flickers—The Newport Film Society.” It was very much a “Field of Dreams” experience: I built it and people came. Our first screening took place at the then-named Van Alen Casino Theatre in Newport. The screening was in January 1983. The film was Fellini’s “Amarcord.” One hundred seventy five people showed up and from there, Flickers was launched.

July 18, 2014 Theodore Bikel

Dear Theo, I am very pleased to inform you that upon the recommendation of the Board of the Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF), you have both been nominated to receive our Lifetime Achievement Award. As the Festival’s most prestigious award, the Lifetime Achievement Award is given to an individual who, throughout his or her career, has demonstrated an outstanding devotion to the cinematic arts. We would love to include you in this year’s festivities, that includes the North American Premier of "Journey 4 Artists." The Rhode Island International Film Festival discovers and empowers maverick filmmakers and screenwriters from across the globe. Held in Providence and locations throughout the state of Rhode Island, the Academy Awardqualifying RIIFF has risen to the top ranks among film festivals and prides itself on being New England’s largest, most prestigious film festival. RIIFF is an extravaganza of special events, film screenings, VIP guests, industry seminars, celebrations, and an awards ceremony. The festival's stellar programming, industry ties, and loyal audiences have made RIIFF a strategic and desirable platform for film premieres. Hundreds of independent filmmakers from around the world converge on the state's capital city making for an exciting and dynamic event. This summer’s festival is scheduled for August 5-10th. Every year, we recognize outstanding directors, actors, producers, and film talent for their contributions to the art of filmmaking. Previous award winners and celebrities in attendance include actor Julie Andrews, actor Patricia Neal, director Blake Edwards, actor Kim Chan, actor Cicely Tyson, director Rosa Von Praunheim, director Michael Corrente, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival Elaine Lorillard, actor Steve Buscemi, director Peter Farrelly, actor Seymour Cassell, actor Richard Jenkins, and actor Ernest Borgnine. Throughout your respective career as an actor, folk singer, musician, composer and activist, you have left an incredible mark on the world. Your diverse and countless cinematic roles have left an iconic footprint in American film history. From your debut performance in "The African Queen" (1951) to your Oscar Nominating performance as the Southern Sheriff in "The Defiant Ones" (1958), your great talent has brought to life timeless characters and music that will stay with us for generations to come. With the creation of the role Baron Von Trapp in the original Broadway Production of "The Sound of Music" (1959), you captured the imaginations of millions. Your rendition of Tevye in the Broadway Production of "Fiddler on the Roof" will always be remembered and emulated in the year's to come. Your great talent was again manifested with helping to create the Newport Folk Festival, one the longest running and most prestigious music festivals in the world. The significance of your career in the arts has left a profound impact on the worlds of film, music and theater, and we recognize all that you have done to advocate and discover new and talented artists. The Rhode Island International Film Festival upholds a similar mission of discovering the new voices of independent film, and because of our affinity to you, we would be delighted and honored if you could be in attendance as we celebrate our 18th festival to accept our bestowment of the Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival's (RIIFF) Lifetime Achievement Award. We congratulate you on your remarkable career and we fully understand that you will not be able to receive this award on Sunday, August 10 in person. Your presence via video will be highly appreciated and we know you will be with us in spirit. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at the office (401) 861-4445 or via email quirk@film-festival.org. Congratulations, and I look forward to hearing from you! Most Cordially,

Shawn Quirk Program Director Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival

Table of Contents 11. Sponsors 14. Ticket Information

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16. Spotlight: “Journey 4 Artists” with Michele Noble

20. Spotlight: “Muted” with Rachel Goldberg 21. Spotlight: “Sandrine” with Nicolas Greinacher 24. RIIFF Around the World 25. Film guide 68. RIIFF Team

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Spotlight: “Journey 4 Artists”Michele Noble

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RIIFF: How did you get started in film? What sparked your interest in it? Michele Noble: I always wanted to direct. i think the first time was when I saw Gone With the Wind when I was seven or eight in a movie theater with my dad. I went to USC Film School, and then while I was there I directed and produced documentaries for ABC on teenage alcoholism and aging and all these different things. I figured, to be a director I wanted to work as an assistant director first so I would know how to run everything, all the shots that you need and also how to put it all together.

RIIFF: How did you first meet with Theo Bikel? MN: I met Theo on a movie where he was an actor and I was assistant director. One of my jobs was greeting him, signing him in, and telling him what his day would be. We had a lot in common and we both loved reading and things so we started talking. And he asked me, “What do you believe in?” And I said “Well, a film.” And he said “No what do you really believe in?” And then he took part in my first protest for anti-apartheid. It got me arrested and he got arrested and that became our bonding moment of how we could be these artist-activists. He sort of taught me that. And he encouraged me to write and direct and produce and to look at the world and to be a part of it, to be active in politics and reform. RIIFF: So, you met Theo years ago and then decided to do this documentary based on the ideas you just mentioned? MN: I met Theo many many years ago and we’ve done several things together and then I was throwing a birthday party for him and he loves to always play music at the end of the evening; that’s his tradition. So for this birthday party, Tamara Brooks decided to surprise him with Merima and Shura to play with him at the end of this party. So the four of them were playing in my living room and I was looking at it and saying “This is my movie!” So that’s where I got the idea for the movie.

RIIFF: Theo will be honored at our Festival. How does that make you feel to see your friend being honored? MN: That was a really beautiful thing. I love Theo. I am inspired by him everyday and I think he’s given the world a great contribution in terms of art and peace. As an artist, as an activist, and as a human being he has given the world a great contribution in regards to art and peace. The fact that the Festival is honoring him is incredible and it’s great because I think when you have a mentor where you receive so much from them and to have a project where that mentor is also recognized is incredible. I feel that in some way I got to give back to him because the festival is recognizing both of us. RIIFF: Do you have anything else to add? MN: I think what I’d like people to know the courage of the four artists to be so vulnerable and intimate with their artistry both as musicians and people because they are also telling their personal stories. I thank them for their courage and honesty and I think that’s what makes the documentary so unique.

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RIIFF: What do you hope people will take away from the film after seeing it? MN: My hope is that they will be entertained by the music and appreciate the artists and their stories. I think the takeaway for me is that they will understand through art, peace and understanding can happen. And that art and music in particular are powerful tools to educate people and to wipe away the stereotypes that we have in terms of cultures and other religions and the possibility of a tomorrow where we can be united and not divided.

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Spotlight: “Muted”- Rachel Goldberg

Missing. We all know the feeling of losing something important to us. The car keys when we’re running late. The cellphone we can’t live without. That matching diamond earring that always seems to escape us. We’ve all felt the frustration of searching. We’ve checked and doubled checked every room, turning the couch inside-out with hopes that it could be found between the cracks. We know the relief of finding these things, and the disappointment of losing them for good. But the thing about lost objects is that no matter how sentimental they seem, they’re still just objects. The short film “Muted,” directed by Rachel Goldberg, tells the story of a missing person, and the heartbreak of losing someone that cannot be replaced: a daughter, a sister and a friend. “Muted” puts viewers in the living room of a mother doing everything she can to find her daughter, and gives a poignant look at the discrimination that still exists in news coverage today. Missing white woman syndrome (MWWS) is a list of factors that make a missing child more newsworthy than others. These characteristics include white skin color, female, derived from a middle upper class family, and blonde features. RACHEL (Director): When I first read the log line, I asked if it was based on a true story, and they said, unfortunately it’s based on lots of true stories. I thought this can’t be true anymore though, this must be from 10-15 years ago. I had no idea that this phenomenon still existed. I was shocked that there was any sort of media discrepancy. What I found out is that unfortunately it’s happening right now. I made the decision that we absolutely have to tell this story. RACHEL: It is such an honor to be at the Rhode Island International Film Festival. It’s one of the best fests I have ever attended. Everyone involved is amazing. We are so honored to be a part of it. And just being at a fest like this is a great way to get the message out there. “Muted” will be shown on August 8th at 7:00pm at The Vets.

Spotlight: “Sandrine”Nicolas Greinacher

His LGBT short film, SANDRINE, takes the audience inside the mind of a young woman, who after being kissed by another woman, struggles with her feelings and thoughts about the situation. The film attests to the feelings of confusion and isolation that every young adult experiences at some point, and gives hope to those young people that they are, in fact, far from being alone. NICOLAS (Director): With SANDRINE, the thing is, I’ve always wanted to do an LGBT film, because I am gay myself and I’ve always had lots of ideas and I’ve watched a lot of films. RIIFF: Is your recent film, Sandrine, rooted in personal experience at all? NICOLAS: I guess subconsciously there are certain factors that made me write the story. The thing behind SANDRINE is that when you are a teenager in that kind of situation you often feel alone with your thoughts and that nobody else understands how you really feel and that’s common when people have their coming out phase. That’s basically Sandrine’s reaction after the initial kiss. She can’t handle it and walks out into the city. RIIFF: What else is in the works for you? What’s next? NICOLAS: My feeling is that SANDRINE will get pretty far in the festival circuit because there are a lot of LGBT film festivals around the world. I think it’s all just starting and I think there is a lot more to come. One point in the future is to focus on the marketing of SANDRINE and I hope that I can attend as many of the festivals as possible. And my new project is actually doing a short documentary because I know a girl in Switzerland, when she was about 25 years she decided to open an orphanage in Burkina Faso, Africa. She left her whole life behind her because she felt it was right. Production is still in its baby shoes but I think that’s going to be my next film. “Sandrine” will have its World Premiere at the Opening Night Ceremony on August 5th at 7:00pm, at the Providence Performing Arts Center.

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Nicolas Greinacher, a filmmaker from Switzerland, is no stranger to the Rhode Island International Film Festival. Nicolas first attended the Festival last year after his short film, FORGIVEN IS NOT FORGOTTEN, was accepted for screening. Now, with a new film to be featured in the LGBT film category, Nicolas is ecstatic about coming back to the Festival and enjoying the warm family atmosphere that he had been surrounded by last year.

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Film Guide “The Original Food Truck”

Feature

USA|75min|History

Shorts

12th of Never

Director: Jeff Toste

Netherlands|17min|Drama Director: Fadi Hindash

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Aug. 10 | 4:45 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 6 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

The story of ‘the original food truck,’ Haven Brothers Diner--the oldest operating diner on wheels.

Stan is an out-of-work writer. His wife treats him like dirt. In his stories, she runs after him, begging for attention. But who’s really calling the shots?

‘A Iucata (The Bet)

Switzerland|38min|Doc.

17 anni Switzerland|22min|Drama, LGBTQ (Age 17)

Director: Michele Pennetta Producer: Bertossa Joelle

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Aug. 7 | 4:00 PM | The Vets Catania, Sicily. In the heart of the working class neighborhood lies a vast and lawless territory where makeshift stables can be found.

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Director: Filippo Demarchi Producer: Lionel Baier Starring: Fabio Foiada, Ignazio Oliva, Laura Minazzi, Kevin Martinetti

Aug. 7 | 8:15 PM | PAFF Theatre Aug. 7 | 8:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel Matteo is a 17-year-old boy who comes to the realization that he is in love with Don Massimo, a young priest of the village that leads the marching band in which Matteo plays the drum.

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Documentary

2 Temps, Canada|85min|Drama 3 Mouvements Director: Christophe Cousin Starring: Zacharie Chasseriaud, Aure Atika, Antoine L’Écuyer, Philomène Bilodeau, Anne-Marie Cadieux

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A Long Walk

Director: Chinonye Chukwu Starring: Colman Domingo

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Aug. 9 | 4:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 7 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Victor (15) is dragged by his mother from Paris to Quebec City, to build a new life for themselves, following the death of his father. While skipping class one afternoon, he sees another a student on the ledge.

When a child is publicly ridiculed by his father, a neighborhood onlooker laments over what he could have done to prevent the incident and the irreversible consequences that it causes.

50 Kisses

UK|86min|LGBTQ, Romance

A Piece of Dogu

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Japan|25min|Drama Director: Yukinori Makabe Starring: Ayaka Ohnishi

Director: Chris Jones

USA|15min|Drama

Aug. 10 | 5:15 PM | The Vets

Aug. 6 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

In 2012, the London Screenwriters Festival launched a competition to find 50 amazing two page scripts set on Valentine’s day and featuring a kiss.

Asami attends her grade school reunion and discovers that Kento, her former classmate, is missing and no one knows where he is. She digs up the time capsule buried at her graduation and finds a clay doll with its right hand missing.

A Global Village

India, USA|8min|Doc.

Adjust a Dream USA|6min|Comedy, LGBTQ

Director: Ezra Millstein

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Director: Jonathan Wysocki Starring: Tom DeTrinis, Doug Tempos, Victor Dante

Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 9 | 6:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Families from India and the United States work together to help build a new home, and in the process learn about each other’s lives and cultures.

On the verge of moving in together, a gay male couple’s anxieties escalate as they shop for their first mattress.

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USA|17min|Drama Director: Marie-Emmanuelle Hartness Starring: Maria Rondeau, Jonathan Hadley, David B. Houston, Traci Thoresen, Erin Cunningham, Marie Strasser, Stella Guest...

All-American Boy

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USA|5min|LGBTQ Director: Jason Knade Writer: Steve Grand Starring: Ashley Lobo

Aug. 9 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 9| 12:00 PM | The Vets

Hope is a successful photographer. Introverted and quiet, she appears in contrast with the glamorous environment she evolves in. When Hope learns that her sister Ella has passed away, reality hits her until she receives a text message from her...

Award-winning filmmaker Jason Knade directs the debut music video for Steve Grand, a hot new artist to hit the country scene.

Alejandrito y el Cuco

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Cuba|15min|Comedy Director: Alex Medina Starring: Carlos Manuel Banzo, Ysmerci Salomon, Jorge Molina

Andrew & Wendy

USA|30min|Doc. Director: Josh Aronson

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Aug. 7 | 6:00 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Alejandrito is a 9 years old boy with great imagination. As any kid at this age Alejandrito and his friends, exchanges some adult magazines. The life of Alejandrito changes when his primary school teacher catch him with one of this “dirty pictures”.

Andrew, a 55-year-old musician, is in a coma when his loving wife, Wendy, knowing his deep connection to music, plays Bach’s St Mathew Passion for him in a last ditch effort to bring him back.

All God’s Creatures Australia|19min|LGBTQ

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Director: Brendon McDonall Producer: Taylor LittonStrain Writer: Brendon McDonall & Jessica Paine Starring: Di Adams, Ed Oxenbould...

Animal Serenade France|38min|Drama

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Director: Béryl Peillard Producer: Elisabeth Perez Starring: Marie Denarnaud, Kevin Azaïs, Léa Poinsot, Lise Lamétrie, Walid Ben Mabrouk, Fabrice Adde

Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 7 |4:45 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Having just lost their father, brothers Asher and Charlie’s already fragile relationship undergoes a test of almost mythic proportions when one of them commits an act of mindless cruelty.

At 25, Nina adopts a dog. Between work, family life, and her desire to party, drink shots and hang out with her friends, Nina is struggling to reconcile everything. She is sure: with her dog Jojo, she will be doing better ...

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After Ella

Anna

USA|16min|Doc.

August Heat

USA|11min|Drama, Thriller

Director: Eric Latek Starring: Anna Cesaro

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Aug. 8 | 3:15 PM | PAFF Theatre Aug. 10 | 12:30 PM | The Vets ‘I am Anna’ is an intimate portrait through the eyes of Anna who is a wife, mother, grandmother and Native American activist and now suffers from Alzheimer’s.

Another World Israel|96min|Horror, Sci-Fi

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Director: Eitan Reuven Writer: Michael Birinbaum Starring: Carl McCrystal, Zach Cohen, Susan Gschwendtner, Davina Kevelson, David Lavenski

Director: Matthew James Thompson Producer: Matthew James Thompson & Lizzy Mazer Starring: Mark Sullivan, Jarlath Conroy

Aug. 5 | 7:00 PM | Providence Performing Arts Center In a sweltering Manhattan heatwave, James is drawn from his un-air-conditioned apartment by a mysterious noise. His search leads him to a mason carving a tombstone with his name on it.

Awkward Expressions of Love

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USA|11min|Comedy Director: Trilby Glover Producer: Jeff Lamb Starring: Trilby Glover, Ian Brennan, Jayma Mays, Amelia Champion, Elizabeth Gilbert, Luke Baines, Bunny Levine, Jordan Bates

Aug. 8 | 11:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 8 | 9:00 PM | The Vets

In a post-apocalyptic future, a biological warfare program gone wrong leaves only four survivors defending themselves from “the infected” - mindless killers.

Based on surprisingly real events, this film explores how normal people become crazy in their quest for love. Sometimes, honesty is NOT the best policy.

Après les cours (After School)

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France|18min|Drama Director: Guillaume Renusson Producer: Benjamin Bonnet Writer: Guillaume Renusson & Clément Peny Starring: Alice Isaaz, Bastien Ughetto, Ernst Umhauer...

Ballkoni

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Kosovo|20min|Drama Director: Lendita Zeqiraj Producer: Bujar Kabashi Writer: James Ball Starring: Arben Bajraktaraj, Sevdai Radogoshi, Osman Ahmeti, Edona Reshitaj, Avni Dalipi, Burhan Sejdiu...

Aug. 6 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 8 | 6:00 PM | PAFF Theatre

A boarding school student, Gerald is a shy and asthmatic teenager. One night, he decides to follow his roommate Theo and his gang to try the game they secretly play at night.

Jeton, a 10-year-old boy is sitting on the edge of a balcony on the 4th floor. Neighbors and passers-by, terrified by this situation, call the police and firefighters for help. But the situation quickly becomes unmanageable.

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USA|8min|LGBTQ Director: Dennis Shinners Starring: Dennis Garcia, Dan Leonard, Andrew Flores, Peter Olivera

Between Us Australia|15min| Drama, LGBTQ

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Director: Blake Curtis Starring: Ashley Ricardo, Kyrie Capri, Kevin Summers

Aug. 6 | 8:00 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 8 | 8:45 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

A Latino barber secretly falls in love with a handsome Irish stranger over the course of a haircut

Juliet, a beautiful but straight-laced psychologist, is forced to return to her small hometown after her girlfriend, Lydia, discovers a wedding invitation. As soon as they arrive in Port Fairy Lydia, a carefree artist, realises Juliet wants nothing more than to keep her past hidden.

Ben’s At Home Canada|70min|Comedy

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Director: Mars Horodyski Producer: Anneli Ekborn Writer: Mars Horodyski & Dan Abramovici Starring: Dan Abramovici, Jessica Embro, David Reale, Rob Baker, Jim Annan...

Aug. 9 | 9:00 PM | The Vets Following a terrible breakup Ben decides he is never leaving the house again. Even if it means missing his best friend’s upcoming wedding and sabotaging a promising new relationship.

Bernard Le Grand

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Canada|10min|Comedy Director: Philippe Lupien & Marie-Hélène Viens Producer: Fanny-Laure Malo Starring: Eliott Miville-Deschesnes

Aug. 7 | 6:00 PM | PAFF Theatre Aug. 7 | 7:15 PM | Museum of Work and Culture Today Bernard proudly wears his anti-growing suit, ready to face the world. Today is Bernard’s birthday. But there is no way he will turn 10.

Blank: A Vinylma- USA|38min|Animation tion Love Story

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Director: Mike Ambs, Paul Foyder, Regino Roy III, Whitfield Scheidegger & Greg Shewchuk Producer: Kelly Hirano

Aug. 7 | 2:00 PM | Rochambeau Library Aug. 8 | 2:00 PM | Rochambeau Library Blank is an epic adventure in miniature scale, a completely original, heartwarming love story filmed entirely in practical stop motion.

Blinder Passagier Switzerland|20min|Family

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Director: Maria Brendle Starring: Silke Geertz, Mandana Schulz-Rinne

Aug. 9 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium After running away from a children’s home, a little girl believes she has found a hiding place in a blind woman’s apartment. Yet it doesn’t take long for the woman to become aware of the girl’s presence. A game of hide and seek begins.

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Barrio Boy

Bradford Halifax Lon- UK|9min|Comedy don

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Director: Francis Carson Lee Producer: Grace Welch Starring: Katy Cavanagh, Paul Barnhill, Kirsty Armstrong, Martin Preston, Josh Hall Brown

Bunion

Director: Jessica Sanders

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Aug. 6| 6:30 PM | The Vets

Aug. 10 | 5:15 PM | The Vets

Bradford Halifax London is a 9 minute comedy drama about a family catching the train from Yorkshire to London.

This is the story of a man, his foot, and finding happiness.

Bronx Obama

Usa|92min|Family

BĂ¤r (Bear)

Director: Ryan Murdock

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Germany|9min|Doc. Director: Pascal Floerks

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USA|8min|Comedy

Aug. 10 | 5:00 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 8 | 7:00 PM | Jamestown Arts Center

What if one day you looked in the mirror and saw the most powerful man in the world?

A grandchild recounts his grandfatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult past and the burden of his own inheritance.

Bully

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USA|25min|Drama Director: Robert Weiermair Producer: Brenda Weiermair Writer: Amy Whittenberger Starring: Richard Meehan, Shaw Jones, Royana Black, Noland Ammon...

Aug. 7 | 6:00 PM | PAFF Theatre A shy and sensitive 14-year-old kid is pushed to the limits, with unexpected results.

Camchat

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USA|12min|LGBTQ Director: Blake Pruitt Starring: Antonio Barrera, Michael Burbach, Julian Fleisher, Vardaan Arora, Averil Kelkar, Nicolas Cadena, Stanley Gambucci...

Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel Aug. 8 | 9:15 PM | The Dark Lady Alec encounters various men in online chat rooms, his experiences ranging from purely sexual to purely emotional and the confusing space in between.

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Chasing The Past USA|18min|Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: James McTeigue Producer: Gabriele Oricchio Writer: James McTeigue & Bruce Gooch Starring: Kasia Smutniak, Richard Dreyfuss...

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Director: Jonathan Salemi Producer: Alyssa Swanzey Starring: Adam Marcinowski, Alycia Grant, Ceri Bethan, Joberde Metellus, Eliana Saenz

Aug. 5 | 7:00 PM | Providence Performance Arts Center

Aug. 9 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

The greatest dream of a unique woman, Maria, future Queen of Spain and wife of Charles King of Naples and Sicily and of a special man, the greatest architect of his time, Luigi Vanvitelli.

A man, coping with the tragic loss of his fiance, meets a self-proclaimed time-traveler that he must now protect.

Celluloid Dreams USA|11min|Drama, Sci-Fi

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Christine

Director: Jonathan Dillon Starring: Stephen Coletti, Greg Lucey, Crystal Mantecon

Lebanon|15min|LGBTQ

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Director: Mounia Akl Producer: Cyril Aris Starring: Christine Choueiry, Wafaa Halaoui

Aug. 8 | 8:15 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 9 | 7:00 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

When an old man fixes a busted projector, he is able to relive home movies of the past, and starts to believe he can change them.

In an isolated Lebanese convent, Sister Christine struggles to keep her beloved disciple, Lilya, from a permanent departure, only to discover that her feelings are beyond maternal.

Change Of Plans Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Way

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USA|93min|Drama Director: Orlando Santos Starring: Christian Estremera, Elgar Santana, Carlos Rivera, Nora Lawrence, Orlando Santos, Manuel Soto

Cicada

Japan|100min|Drama

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Director: Dean Yamada Producer: Rachel Van Der Merwe Writer: Yu Shibuya Starring: Yugo Saso, Hiroko Wada, Masayuki Yui, Sakae Kimura, Jumpei Yasui...

Aug. 10 | 6:30 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 7 | 9:00 PM | The Vets

This is a story of three young adults who come from broken homes.

Cicada is the story of Jumpei-- a man who loses sight of his progeny when he finds out he is infertile, but then is given the gift of clairvoyance and begins to see glimpses of the future.

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Caserta Palace Italy|21min|Drama, History Dream

Cigano

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Portugal|19min|Drama Director: David Bonneville Producer: Fernando Vendrell Starring: Jaime Freitas, Tiago Aldeia

Complicit

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Aug. 8| 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Sebastian is a wealthy young man. He finds out he has a flat tire and ends up accepting help from a Gypsy passer-by.

Complicit explores the controversial topic of Franklin D Roosevelt and the US State Department’s response to the Holocaust.

Australia|7min|Doc, LGBTQ

Confusion Through USA|12min|Animation Sand

Director: Larissa Behrendt Starring: James Saunders

Director: Danny Madden

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Director: Michael Ivan Schwartz Producer: Ruth Ann Kalish Writer: Robert Krakow

Aug. 7 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Clan

USA|61min| History

Aug. 6 | 8:00 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 7 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

James Saunders is an Australian Aboriginal man who was told at boarding school he was not clever enough to go to University. James overcame doubts about coming out. ‘Clan’ details the journey of James’ remarkable life in his own words.

A nineteen year old finds himself alone in a hostile desert, scared as hell and trained to react.

South Africa|13min|Doc.

Con Quien Sueña Berta ?

Producer: Esther de Rothschild

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Aug. 7 | 2:00 PM | Rochambeau Library Aug. 8 | 2:00 PM | Rochambeau Library Close follows the triumphs and tribulations of Keegan Agulhas, a budding chess prodigy, and his unusual parents, cousin, and sister, in a South African community deeply marked by the legacy of apartheid.

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Spain|25min|Drama Director: Francisco Javier Gomez Pinteño Starring: Pablo Vega, Alberto Ferreiro, Mia Orellana

Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | The Vets Jonas and Alfredo have been friends since childhood. Alfredo trusts Jonas and Jonas knowsAlfredo well. Alfredo is certain he has something that Jonas does not. Jonas wants everythingAlfredo has. Alfredo knows how to love. Jonas does, too...

Cotton

Iraq|15min|Drama

Der Kreislauf

Producer: Iuay Fadhil Abbas

Director: Katrin Vermeire

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Aug. 9 | 7:00 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 8 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

The film tells the story of 13-year-old girl living in the holy city of Najaf in Iraq.

Der Kreislauf depicts a unique game that is played on Belgium’s beaches in the summer months. When the weather is good, one can find colorful flowers for sale in small, impromptu-build shops. But these flowers hate being watered or rained on, as they are made of paper.

Crooked Candy

USA|7min|Doc.

Desert Cathedral USA|85min|Doc, Thriller

Director: Andrew Rodgers

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Director: Travis Gutierrez Senger Starring: Lee Tergesen, Chaske Spencer, Petra Wright

Aug. 7 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 8| 8:15 PM | PAFF Theatre

Kinder eggs are hugely popular all around the world but (oddly) illegal in the United States thanks to a quirk in FDA regulations.

An innovative hybrid film about a real estate developer who mysteriously disappears into the Southwestern desert in 1992, leaving behind a series of VHS tapes.

Crush

South Africa|5min|Animation

Dinner at 40

Director: Brent Dawes Producer: Matthew Brown

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USA|19min|Comedy, LGBTQ Director: Carl Byrd Producer: Gigi Dement Writer: Peter Macklin Starring: Sean Dugan, Rich Ceraulo, Peter Macklin, Joanna P. Adler, Marcus Callender, Craig Baldwin...

Aug. 7 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 6 | 8:00 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

An Elephant is walking along one day when he accidentally steps on a flower. The elephant is very distraught that he squashed this poor innocent thing. He does all he can to revive the flower, but things get worse before they get better.

Loosely based on the director’s own 41st birthday party, Dinner at 40 touches on the feelings of a gay man turning 40: the panic, the doubt, and the supposed loss of his youth as he spends a ‘quiet’ evening at a restaurant with a small group of his closest friends.

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Belgium|29min| Doc, Family

Do You Believe In Israel|50min|Social Issue Love ?

Dreamers

Director: Dan Wasserman Producer: Barak Heymann

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Aug. 9 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

Her body is paralyzed and she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe in love, but Tova, the Matchmaker, tirelessly strives to find love for everybody else...

A sci-fi short about two kids who dream of becoming astronauts and flying in space, but face setbacks and reality as adults.

USA|18min|Drama, Horror

Dustland

Director: Brian Crano

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Director: Joseph Dwyer Producer: Jim DanDee Starring: Vasilios Asimakos, Kate Jurdi, Adam Mayerson, Silvan Friedman, Kyla Geyer, Munjeet Geyer, Jamaal Eversley, Jan Waldman...

Aug. 6 | 6:00 PM | Brown/RISD Hillel

Dog Food

USA|12min|Fantasy, Sci-Fi

USA|17min|Fantasy, Sci-Fi Director: Jacob Lundgaard Andersen Producer: Erica Land Writer: Jacob Lundgaard Andersen, Liska Ostojic & Justin Partdridge Starring: Erin Way...

Aug. 6 | 9:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 7 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

When Declan loses his dog and best friend Ralphie, his life starts to unravel.

After a dust storm engulfs an itinerant circus, a high wire walker is haunted by a melody hidden in the wind. She leaves the circus and finds the tune revealed in the shape of fiddler waiting at the crossroads. The stranger presents her with an hourglass that can stop the wind, but only until the sand runs out.

Dogs On the In- USA|67min|Social Issue side

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Director: Brean Cunningham & Douglas Seirup Producer; Brean Cunningham, Douglas Seirup and Cindy Meehl

Eine Gute Ge- Germany|20min|Drama schichte

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Director: Martin-Christopher Bode Producer: Alexandra Prochazka Writer: Michael Seidel Starring: Petra Kelling, Michael Tregor...

Aug. 8 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 6 | 6:00 PM | Brown/RISD Hillel

Filmed in a Massachusetts prison, Dogs on the inside follows the birth of a relationship between neglected and abused dogs and prison inmates as they work together toward a second chance at a better life.

When Helga Landowsky discovers the broken jug in an antiques store near the German/Polish border, she wants to have it at any cost. But the old lady has reckoned without Jakub Lato.

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Spain|23min|Doc. Director: Roger Gomez Producer: Cristina Sanchez Writer: Roger Gomez, Dani Resines & Enric Alvarez Starring: Josep Maria Domenech

En Las Nubes Argentine|21min| Comedy Director: Marcelo Mitnik Starring: Martin Piroyansky, Jeremy Glazer, Valeria Blanc, Javier Drolas, Veronica Hassan, Maria Canale, Luciano Cazaux, Alan Sabbagh, Luz Palazon

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Aug. 9| 12:15 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 9 | 7:00 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

In the pond in Franciscu’s garden there are still colourful fish swimming about, but there is one which nearly always stays at the bottom. She doesn’t come up to the surface like she used to. Anyone who says that fish have no memory has obviously never met Juanita the carp.

The difference between how we think romance should work and how it actually does is at the comedic heart of En las nubes, an exploration of cultural disagreements about intimacy, love, and marriage proposals in the age of YouTube.

Electric Indigo Belgium|24min|Comedy, LGBTQ

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Director: Jean-Julien Collette Producer: Laurent Denis Starring: Céline Peret, Christelle Cornil, Jean Collette, Margot, Ruben Tomas, Tony Denman

End Of A Summer Storm

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USA|4min|Children Director: Keith Boynton Producer: Mike Lavoie Writer: Keith Boynton & Mike Lavoie Starring: Emily Trask, Jack Herold

Aug. 10 | 12:00 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 8 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

Sometimes it’s complicated for a young girl to face peer pressure while learning of her own identity - especially when she never knew her mother, and the only reference is the love of two heterosexual fathers united by the bonds of a non-carnal marriage.

This haunting music video tells the story of a lost plush rabbit who has to make a long journey home.

Emo

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Australia|16min|Comedy Director: Neil Triffett Producer: Lee Matthews Starring: Harry Borland, Charlotte Nicdao, Zak Marrinan, Robert Tripolino, Will Weatheritt, Stephen Wainrib, Kristen Cunningham...

Entre Chien et Loup

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Canada|17min|Drama Director: Daniel Isaiah Schacter Producer: Yanick Létourneau Starring: Alexis Lefebvre, Monia Chokri

Aug. 7 | 6:00 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 8 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

When Ethan, an Emo kid who hates almost everything, falls in love with Trinity, a good Christian girl with a passion for life and her Lord Jesus Christ, will they be able to live happily ever after?

Sophie and Dave, old college friends, run into each other downtown. It’s their first time seeing one another in over a decade.

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El Domador de Peixos

Ett Sista Farväl Sweden|13min|Drama, LGBTQ

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Director: Casper Andreas Producer: David Färdmar Starring: Tomas Von Brömssen, Iwar Wiklander, Liv Mjönes

Fight Church

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Aug. 8 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

An alternative family drama about life and death.

Fight Church is a feature-length documentary about the confluence of Christianity and mixed martial arts, including ministries which train fighters.

Figures

Director: Vivian Kleiman

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Director: Daniel Junge Producer: Joseph McKelheer & Eben Kostbar

Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Families Are Forever USA|20min|Doc, LGBTQ

USA|84min|Religion

Belgium|20min|Drama Director: Miklos Keleti Producer: Alain Berliner Starring: Alice Haugness, Bénédicte Chabot

Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 7 | 9:00 PM | The Vets

Tom and Wendy were devout Mormon parents living in a conservative community: attending church every Sunday, actively serving in their ward, raising five children and knocking on doors to promote support for California’s Proposition 8 to prevent same-sex marriage. Then one day...

Hannah is a deaf-mute little girl. However she hears a strange noise in a park one day. Her mother does not believe her but Hannah is becoming more and more obsessed with that experience

Fiddlers Cross

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Ireland|19min|Drama Director: Michael McMahon Producer: Helen McMahon Starring: Gerry O’Brien, Stewart Roche, Shane Connery

First Prize

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USA|10min|Comedy, Sci-Fi Director: Kevin McMullin Producer: Benjamin Rubin Starring: Dylan Clark Marshall

Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | The Vets

Aug. 9 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

There is a new banker in town, making his name, scorching the earth under distressed borrowers. While unwinding in a local pub, he discovers a further business opportunity...

A boy finds a dinosaur in the woods, but no one believes him.

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USA|26min|Doc. Director: Tim O’Donnell Producer: Heather Gould & Jonathan Gould Writer: Tim O’Donnell, Heather Gould & Jonathan Gould

From The Sky

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USA|17min| Social Issue Director: Ian Ebright Producer: Jess Grant Starring: Georges Chalhoub, Maz Siam, Mohamad Tamimi, Steven Soro

Aug. 7 | 6:00 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 8| 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

An inspiring, heart-warming story told through the eyes of Cory: a brilliant and talented 11 year-old boy with Asperger”s Syndrome.

A humble father and son struggle to cope with the effect of drones in the Middle East.

Foreign Relations USA|26min|Comedy, LGBTQ

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Director: Reid Waterer Starring: Anthem Moss, Kevin Grant Spencer, Orel De La Mota, Adam Huss, Danny Lopes, Alexis Radzvilowicz

Future Hero

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USA|7min|Comedy, Sci-Fi Director: Ramin Serry Producer: Shauna Lyon Starring: Ryan Widdle, Lucas Kavner, Kathy Searle

Aug. 6 | 8:00 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 9 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

On a Mediterranean group tour, shy Tom is randomly assigned an intriguing Greek roommate who provokes the age old question: Gay or European?

A short film about a dad, a son, and a timetraveling killer android.

Foundry

UK, France|11min|Doc.

Ghost Train

Director: Oliver Cheetham Producer: James Rogan

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Australia|15min|Doc. Producer: James Fleming

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Aug. 7 | 7:00 PM | Jamestown Arts Center

Aug. 9 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

On March 23rd 2013, the sound of 36 tonnes of newly cast bells rang out from the bell towers of Notre-Dame de Paris.

An elderly man struggling to cope with his wife’s dementia frequents a macabre cabaret-theatre restaurant and becomes enchanted by the lead actress in the show.

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Girl Power

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UK|20min|Comedy Director: Benjamin Bee Producer: Graeme Cox Writer: Kefi Chadwick Starring: Jason Flemyng, Dakota Richards, Alice Lowe, Laura Patch

Aug. 5 | 7:00 PM | Providence Performing Arts center Aug. 8 | 9:00 PM | The Vets 1997. Tony Blair is on the road to power, Britpop is at its height and spin is the order of the day. Into the dizzy world of glamour and false promises comes Cass, a recent graduate, keen to get to the heart of the excitement.

Glinda

USA|10min|Comedy

He Took His Skin Off For me

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Director: Ben Aston Producer: Fiona Lamptey Writer: Maria Hummer Starring: Sebastian Armesto, Anna Maguire

Aug. 7 | 8:15 PM | PAFF Theatre A simple, domestic love story about a man who takes his skin off for his girlfriend, and why it probably wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the best idea...

Hollygrove

Director: Nicole Cosgrove Producer: Mariela Comitini

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UK|10min|Sci-Fi, Horror

USA|8min|Doc. Director: Carlos Hurtado Producer: Brandon Stevenson Starring: Danielle Breen

Aug. 9 | 6:30 PM | The Vets

Aug. 9 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Glinda endures the life-shattering loss of her husband by shutting out her emotions and the external world. Her insular bubble of safety soon deteriorates as the truth comes crashing in and Glinda must re-write the autumn of her life.

This short revolves around Hollygrove, which was founded in 1880 as the Los Angeles Orphans Home Society. Hollygrove provides help and hope to children in crisis including movie icon Marilyn Monroe when she was a nineyear-old with no family to take care of her.

Go Fish

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Australia|13min|Family Director: Kristin Skye Sargent Starring: Shane Jacobson, Flynn Curry, Grace Rose, Ben Palma, Jesse Creighton, Etienne Goessens, Lea Rose, Kala Rosebirch...

Homophonia

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USA|3min|LGBTQ Director: James Jermanok Producer: Mary Niederkorn Starring: Albert M. Chan, Mary Niederkorn, James Jermanok

Aug. 9 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 6 | 8:00 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Sam a 9 year old introvert struggles to deal with the guilt of his fathers death, his obsession with fishing and his school bullies.

A man, late for a hearing on gay marriage, tries to get directions from his smart phone and discovers she is part of the opposition.

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Director: Jonathan Pope Evans Producer: Jonathan Pope Evans & Jodi Julian Starring: Chase Cargill, Brandon Burtis, Scott Welsh

I Love You So Much

USA|4min| Comedy Director: Leah Shore Writer: Jarret Kerr

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Aug. 8 | 8:45 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 9| 6:30 PM | The Vets

Mark, a young gay man, wants to move out of Alabama, but can he leave his lover, Saul, and Saulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quirky father behind?

A man and woman express their affection for each other in increasingly bizarre and animated ways.

Hotline

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USA|82min|Culture Director: Tony Shaff Producer: Tony Shaff, Bryce Renninger & Lauren Belfer

In Der Stille Der Nacht

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Austria|14min|Drama Director: Erich Steiner Producer: Roman Sorger Starring: Johannes Silberschneider, Martina Stilp, Stella Butz, Margit Jautz, Luisa Bozorov, Niklas Steinbach

Aug. 8 | 6:00 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 6 | 6:00 PM | Brown/RISD Hillel

Hotline is a feature length documentary about the intense connections made between strangers over the telephone, and explores these anonymous conversations people are often too hesitant to have with the people closest to them.

On a rainy autumn night, a storm approaches. Three children are waiting for their father, again late from work. When he finally arrives and even brings gifts, the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eyes shine. Only the eldest daughter is suspicious, feeling that their parents are hiding something...

Hsu Ji Behind The Screen

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France|23min|Fantasy Director: Thomas Rio Producer: Jessica Rousselet, Marc-Benoit Creancier Starring: Kadelina Fang, Longmon Wang

In Passing

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Canada|5min|Comedy Director: Alan Miller Producer: Alan Miller & Emily Ferenbach Starring: David Trice, Dana Lyn Baron

Aug. 9 | 6:30 PM | The Vets

Aug. 7 | 7:15 PM | Museum Of Work and Culture

Hsu Ji, a 6-year-old girl, is locked in an old house where she is introduced to silent movies. She finds comfort when 3 slapstick characters appear with no ID, just like her.

A short film about two lonely people who jump off a building to end their lives, but fall in love on the way down. A very brief romance.

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Hoover Road USA|16min|Drama, LGBTQ

Interstate

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USA|50min|Social Issue Director: Susan Hagerdon

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Aug. 9 | 12:15 PM | Providence Public Library

Joaquin is a driving instructor who teaches illegal immigrants how to drive. All is well until one day, after a lesson with an ambitious new student, a HSI agent shows up at his door.

In this portrait of what it means to care, viewers follow Mary Donnelly who has been the state nurse of Block Island, RI for over 55 years.

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Director: Camille Stochitch Producer: Bret Myer Starring: Benny Nieves, Gina Rodriguez, Laura Patalano, Max Arciniega, Roberto Montesinos

Island Nurse

Aug. 10 | 2:45 PM | The Vets

Into The Silent Sea

USA|19min|Drama

Sweden, USA|25min|Drama Director: Andrej Landin Producer: Heather McBride Starring: Alexander Khachatryan, Peter Arpesella, Roman Varshavsky, Tatiana Dekhtyar, Zack Sayenko

Jamais Jamais

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France|29min|Comedy Director: Erwan Le Duc Producer: SĂŠbastien Haguenaueur Starring: Julie-Anne Roth, Maud Wyler

Aug. 7 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 7 | 4:45 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Under desperate circumstances, and across vast distances, an intense connection is made.

An Easter weekend in a country town. On duty at the police precinct, lieutenants Francoise Ruiz and Clementine Arpinon are dealing with day-to-day matters.

Invisible

USA|98min|LGBTQ

Je Suis Une Actrice

Director: Dionisio Traverso Producer: Gavin Myers

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France|8min|Comedy Director: Benoit Lach Producer: Benoit Lach & Vincent Lafortune Starring: Sophie Faucher, Mariuka Jade Robitaille

Aug. 9 | 4:15 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 5 | 7:00 PM | Providence Performing Arts Center

Invisible documents the population of male prostitutes in Providence, Rhode Island. The film uncovers the secret lives of both former and current male prostitutes - hustlers to those in the know - who sell themselves to support drug habits.

A young actress is willing to do whatever it takes to get a part in the film of a famous director.

USA|7min|LGBTQ

Justine

USA|7min| LGBTQ

Director: Anna Stypko

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Director: Eric Shahinian Writer: Eric Shahinian & Michael Castelaz Starring: Aljoscha Horvat, Tim Eliot

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Aug. 6 | 8:00 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 9| 12:00 PM | The Vets

Set in the run-down Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, a local artist talks about her shoes, her haircut, and why she changed her name.

A transgender teenager navigates a romantic encounter, confronting her fears of discrimination in an effort to assert her gender identity.

Josephine

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Singapore, USA|20min|Drama Director: Susan Chau Producer: Marlene Greenfield Starring: Elise Luthman, Nancy Henriksen, Greg Lucey, Cynthia Jump, Devorah Dishington

Kharisma

Australia|13min|Family

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Director: Shannon Murphy Producer: Sabrina Organo Starring: Morgana Davies, Laura Bunting, David Whitney, Caroline Brazier

Aug. 9 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 7 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

A coming of age tale about a young girl left to her own devices, confronted by strangers in a remote American desert town.

A young and darkly funny story of a girl desperate for the limelight and the magical discovery she makes that could secure her fame and fortune should she choose to use it...

Journey 4 Artists USA|99min|Music, Jewish

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Director: Michele Noble Starring: Theodore Bikel, Merima Kljuco, Shura Lipovsky, Tamara Brooks

King High Remembers

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USA|39min|Doc. Director: Michelle Opitz & Brandon Krajewski Producer: Michelle Opitz Starring: John Corrona

Aug. 10 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 6 | 6:30 PM | The Vets

Journey 4 Artists is a unique documentary feature that demonstrates how the power of music has the ability to elevate both the performer and audience beyond divergent religious, political, and ideological boundaries.

Putting a face on history, one story at a time.

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Kite

Australia|10min|Drama

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Director: Josh Soskin Producer: Grace Jackson & Ivan Diaz Robledo Starring: Angel Soto, JR, Carlos Valencia, Peter Reinert, Carla Short, Angelica Gonzalez

Aug. 7 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

When a matured, young girl is not allowed to go to her grandpa’s funeral, she is forced to find another way to say goodbye.

The film follows a 13 year old boy (Manny) from Tijuana as he embarks on his first drug smuggle across the ‘Devil’s Highway’, a notoriously fatal stretch of desert on the Arizona/ Mexico border.

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USA|17min|Social Issue

Aug. 7 | 10:00 AM | Metcal Auditorium

Kumu Hina

Director: Natasha Bassett Producer: Alex White Starring: Charlie Hancock, Dee Smart, Kathryn Beck

La Carnada

USA|75min|LGBTQ Director: Joe Wilson Writer: Joe Wilson & Dean Hamer Starring: Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Haemaccelo Kalu, Ho’onani Kamai

La Gran Desilusion

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Spain|11min|Doc, Drama Director: Pedro Gonzalez Kuhn Starring: Angel Manuel Fernandez Corral

Aug. 9 | 12:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 9 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

In mainland America as in most of the world, gender nonconforming people face constant prejudice, discrimination and violence. But in Hawaiian culture, mahu – those who embrace both the masculine and feminine traits that are embodied in each one of us – are valued and respected.

The first September 2012, the spanish government increased the culture taxes from 8% to 21% which caused the closing of many theatres and many employers.

La Alfombra Roja

Spain|12min|Doc.

La Maison de France|12min|Animation Poussière

Director: Manuel Fernandez Producer: Iosu Lopez

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Director: Jean-Claude Rozec Producer: Mathieu Courtois & Jean-François Le Corre

Aug. 9 | 6:30 PM | The Vets

Aug. 9 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

Rubina’s, a 12-year old girl lives in the Garib Nagar slum, in Bandra district (Bombay, India) but wants to become an actress and change the slum into a more clean and habitable place”.

Slowly, the steel jaws devour the old tower. An ancient owner rushes into the rubble, chasing children unwary. Then began a strange journey into the heart of this ‘house’ which shelters so many memories...

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Director: Julien Meynet Producer: Pierre-François Cimino Starring: Elise Lhomeau, Jean-Emmanuel Pagni

Late Shift

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USA|5min| Drama Director: William Smyth Producer: William Smyth & Skip Shea Writer: Mark Cutler Starring: Derek McLaurin, Tiff Roma

Aug. 10 | 12:00 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 9| 7:15 PM | PAFF Theatre

By the end of the 18 Th century in the Corsica’s mountain, french troops hunt down the last nationalist’s insurrections. A young washerwoman, living with his parents in a isolated house, try to help a wounded man.

A blending of music video and narrative time, Late Shift explores a brief moment shared by two lonely people looking for a connection.

La Vie Sans Truc France|26min|Animation

Le Gouffre

Director: Leo Marchand & Anne-Laure Daffi s

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Canada|11min|Animation Director: Carl Beauchemin, David Forest & Thomas Chrétien Starring: Charles-André Gaudreau, Nicolas Charbonneaux, Elisabeth Forest

Aug. 6 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 8 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Popolo, the world greatest ex-magician! You bet! He just lost the legs of Amabile, his beautiful assistant, during the Halved Girl Show! He promised to offer her vacations at the sea to comfort her. It’s all well, but now that he’s jobless, he’s gonna have to mug for the employment agency, like everybody!

Two travelers undertake the construction of a gigantic bridge in order to cross a gulf blocking their way, inspiring with their courage and determination a rural community living nearby.

Las Cieni

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Poland|14min|Drama

Le Grand Bain France|6min|LGBTQ, Fantasy

Director: Andrzej Cichocki Starring: Pawel Tchorzelski, Michal Bonin

Director: Alexandre Spieser Producer: Vincent Pellerin Starring: Agathe Borasci

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Aug. 6 | 6:00 PM | Brown/RISD Hillel

Aug. 8 | 4:45 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

A man, while hunting a wolf in a primordial forest, is startled by the sound of guns firing. Suddenly, in an explosion of movement there are people running, one of whom, a small boy, gets lost in the sinister forest. Even the wolves are overwhelmed by a sense of the impending danger.

It is in her. Inside.She knows she is different, and that a great power deeply sleep in her. Her fragility and her fear are her own barriers.

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La Terre Brûlée France|25min|Adventure

Le Devoir

Canada|14min|LGBTQ Director: Justin Wu Producer: David McDonald & Lauren Cooper Writer: Justin Wu & Alessandra Ferreri Starring: Noemie Merlant, Nicolas Berthery...

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Director: Caroline Färber Producer: Oliver Boy Starring: Mirco Kreibich, Pegah Ferydoni, Anna Böger

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Aug. 9 | 9:00 PM | The Vets

A mother’s illness sees two siblings returning home in the French countryside to face the closeted circumstances that drove them apart.

A young man suffering from an obsessivecompulsive disorder spends one day way outside his comfort zone to get his life back on track.

France|20min|Drama, LGBTQ

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Germany|19min|Drama

Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Le Retour

Leben!

Director: Yohann Kouam Producer: Mathieu Bompoint Starring: Amada Procida, Yann-Gaël Elleouet

Life After Manson

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USA|25min|Doc. Director: Olivia Klaus Producer: Olivia Klaus & Kristen Irving

Aug. 6 | 8:00 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 9 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

It’s been a year since his big brother left, and Willy, 15, can’t wait for him to return. Willy thought he knew everything about Theo, but when he arrives back in the block, Willy discovers a secret about him...

Life After Manson is a timely, intimate portrait of one of the worlds most infamous crimes and notorious killers.

Learning To Float

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USA|20min|Doc. Director: Brendan Calder Starring: Giovanni Douresseau

Lily In The Grinder

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USA|14min|Drama, LGBTQ Director: Michael Morgenstern Producer: Stefanie Coimbra Starring: David A. Gregory, Dan Amboyer, Kesav Wable

Aug. 9 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 9 | 5:15 PM | PAFF Theatre

At the age of 12, Giovanni Douresseau weighed 280 pounds when he was taken on a surf trip. He fell in love with the feeling of riding a wave and met a mentor figure who helped him move past his tough, fatherless upbringing to completely change his life around.

Ryan looks for a job. Kaleidoscopic, operatic, and layered, Lily in the Grinder explores meaning through sex, death, and time. We already are everything we will ever be.

Israel|9min|Animation, Drama

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Director: Niv Shpigel & Robert Moreno Producer: Niv Shpigel

Aug. 6 | 6:00 PM | Brown/RISD Hillel Aug. 8 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium A man is sinking under the weight of his own memories. To survive, he must confront the question: Is our past more important than life? What would we give up in order to keep on going?

M Cream

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India|114min|Drama Director: Agneya Singh Producer: Vindhya Singh Starring: Imaad Shah, Ira Dubey, Auritra Ghosh, Raaghav Chanana, Barry John, Tom Alter, Lushin Dubey, Beatrice Ordeix...

Me + Her

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USA|10min| Animation Director: Joseph Oxford Producer: Bradley Stonesifer, Emily Bloom & Marco Perego Saldana Starring: Keiko Agena, Patricia Je Lee, T.G. Levin

Aug. 7| 8:15 PM | PAFF Theatre When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are separated by Jillâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s torrid illness, Jack must think outside the box to assure they will be together again.

Me Reencontraras Argentina|16min|Drama Dentro De Ti

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Director: Eitan Pitigliani Producer: Susanna Ruedeberg Starring: AndrĂ¨s Gil

Aug. 10 | 7:00 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 7 | 7:00 PM | Jamestown Arts Center

A motley crew of university students set out on a journey in pursuit of a mythical form of hash, confronting a series of encounters that begin to unravel the myriad realities of rebellion.

Pablo, a guy from Argentina, travels from Buenos Aires to Rome to find his grandfather, of whom he only has a poem and a painting.

Market Hours

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USA|15min|Comedy Director: Jon Goldman Producer: Joey Horvitz & Marc Longberg Starring: Leonard Howze, Hong Chau, Gary Cole, Ashlynn Yennie, Trevor Fraker, Ajay Mehta...

Mecs Meufs

France|14min|Comedy, LGBTQ Producer: Liam Engle Producer: Vladimir Feral

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Aug. 5 | 7:00 PM | Providence Performing Arts Center

Aug. 10 | 5:15 PM | The Vets

Randall spends his days imagining the vibrant inner lives of various vendors at the multicultural urban market where he works; none more so than Angela, an angel with her own pastry shop.

Bob knows it: when it comes to seduction, men are the weaker sex.But what if things were switched around...?

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Load

Mein Letztes Konzert

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Germany|13min|Drama Director: Selcuk Zvi Cara Producer: Nils A. Witt Starring: Dagmar Von Kurmin, Anne Von Keller, Susann Rose, Hubertus Regout, Timo HĂźbsch

Mirage

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Aug. 8 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

My last concert is the town I was born. My last concert is the town where a part of me died. My last concert is the town where I am hoping to find my inner peace.

A young Inuit boy finds the rear entry to the Bermuda Triangle while trying to fish in the Arctic wilderness.

Belgium|9min|Animation

Modify To Fit

Director: Wouter Bongaerts

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Director: Dana Terrace & Iker Maidagan Starring: Jack Schram, Marc Diraison, Veronica Taylor

Aug. 10 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Mia

USA|9min|Animation

USA|5min|Doc. Director: Patrick Murphy Producer: Patrick Murphy & Sara Olsen Starring: Kendra Bailey

Aug. 7 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 9 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

7-year-old Mia tries to liberate her overworked mother from the clutches of an overpopulated metropolis. In her quest, she unlocks the hidden secrets that make the world turn.

Kendra Bailey, a below the elbow amputee, describes the modifications she makes to succeed in both the sport world and everyday life.

Mille-pattes et France|10min|Animation Crapaud

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Director: Anna Khmelevskaya Producer: Sophie Fallot Writer: Anna Khmelevskaya & Fabrice Luang-Vija Starring: Christine Gendre

Moonlight Bait And Ammo

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USA|11min|Animation Director: Alfred Thomas Catalfo Producer: Karlina Lyons

Aug. 9 | 2:15 PM | The Vets

In a faraway forest, the gracious, lissome Centipede is admired by all the other creatures. Except for an old Toad, haughty and jealous, who hates him. One day, he decides to get rid of the Centipede...

An animated graphic novel in which an arrogant insurance exec travels to rural Maine to investigate a hunterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outrageous claim that aliens destroyed his barn.

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UK|15min|Fantasy, Sci-Fi Director: Justin Tagg Producer: Joanne Tagg Starring: Julian Lee

Muted

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USA|19min| Social Issue Director: Rachel Goldberg Producer: Brandi Ford & Tara Tomicevic Writer: Brandi Ford Starring: Brandi Ford, Chandra Wilson, Daniele Watts, Jorge-Luis Pallo...

Aug. 8 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 8| 7:00 PM | The Vets

Anderson, trapped in a building with a thousand clones of himself, must outwit his other selves to escape whilst overcoming the realisation he is not the only Anderson.

The Gladwells struggle to get the support of media and law enforcement when their teenage daughter disappears.

Mr McBob

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USA|7min|Animation Director: Pierre Schantz Producer: Lisa Schantz Starring: Mel Schantz

My Light In Darkness

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Norway|14min|Children Director: Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken Starring: Kingsford Siayor, Melinada Bokeli, Elin Lindberg, Benjamin Helstad, Jo Adrian Haavind

Aug. 7 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 10 | 2:45 PM | PAFF Theatre

Based on a true story, the director of Mr. McBob reveals how he was first inspired by his 4th grade teacher to begin making films.

A sudden encounter between a lonely tramp and a young girl leads to an unexpected friendship.

Mr Plastimime

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UK|10min|Animation Director: Daniel Greaves Producer: Daniel Greaves & Emma Burch Starring: Lesley Evans

My Stuffed Granny UK|10min|Animation

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Director: Effie Pappa Producer: Miranda Ballesteros

Aug. 9 | 2:15 PM | The Vets

An under appreciated mime artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s routine blurs in to reality with a series of near misses that result in a fateful encounter for Mr. Plastimime.

Times are hard for little Sofia, as the Greek recession is taking its toll. With her Father out of work, they rely solely on Greedy Grumpy Grannyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pension. Desperate times call for desperate measures; to what extremes will they go, when Granny is no more?

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Mouse-X

Ni-Ni

USA|19min|Social Issue

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Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | The Vets

In a Mexican border town, a lonely street thug yearns for a better life after he bumps into a girl from his past and remembers the boy he used to be.

We are all leaning beings... That is our way of standing tall. Buffalo Bill’s son does not shoot as well as his father, but he is training. Maybe Paul cuts hair just as well as his father does, but to do so, his dad would have to give him his a chance, or, at least, see him.

Argentina|6min|Animation, Drama

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Director: Simon Lelouch Producer: Simon Lelouch & Xavier Francisci Wrtier: Simon Lelouch & Lilian Lloyd Starring: Swann Arlaud, Annabelle Hettmann...

Aug. 7 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Nieta

Director: Melissa Hickey Producer: Carlos Garza Starring: Brian Gomez, Chelsea Rendon, J. Eddie Martinez, Alejandro Patiño, Jonathan Caballero, Vivis Colombetti, Erika Flores...

Nous Sommes Tous France|28min|Dramedy Des Êtres Penchés

Director: Nicolas Villarreal Producer: Nicolas Villarreal & Alessandro Squitti

Oil & Water

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USA|77min|Social Issue Director: Laurel Spellman Smith & Francine Strickwerda

Aug. 9 | 2:15 PM | The Vets

Aug. 7 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

An incoming storm helps to transform a young girl’s perspective of the world.

Oil & Water is the story of two boys coming of age in the middle of one of the world’s worst toxic disasters. Hugo fights for the survival of his Amazonian tribe, while David attempts to revolutionize the oil industry.

Nocebo Germany|38min|Thriller, Fantasy

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Director: Lennart Ruff Writer: Maggie Peren Starring: Vincent Redetzki, Picco Von Groote, Odine Johne, Daniel Friedrich

On/Off

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France|14min|Fantasy, Sci-Fi Director: Thierry Lorenzi Producer: Thierry Lorenzi & Julien Renaud Starring: Carole Brana, Arben Bajraktaraj

Aug. 10 | 2:45 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 8 | 4:45 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Christian Lukas, 22, is on the run. He took part in a drug study and together with his girlfriend Anna discovered the death of a fellow participant. However instead of investigating, the doctors covered up the incident.

Obsessed by a mysterious voice message, astronaut Meredith will face its paradoxical condition in order to stay connected to his humanity.

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Director: Sophia Turkiewicz Producer: Rod Freedman Starring: Jen Vuletic

Only Gilt

Australia|11min| Comedy Director: Lara Del Arte Producer: Susan Schmidt Starring: Toby Ayres, Giselle Del Arte, Heath Wilder, Mary Haire, Lisa Amadio, Ezekiel Weedon, Linus Ryan, Jonathan Borg

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Aug. 9 | 12:15 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 7| 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates the reasons why her Polish mother abandoned her in an orphanage as a child and uncovers the truth behind her mother’s wartime escape from a Siberian gulag.

Before the giddying pleasures of teenage love comes the simpler joy of the tweenage crush.

One Armed Man

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USA|27min|Drama Director: Tim Guinee Producer: Bruno Michels & Hallie Foote Writer: Horton Foote Starring: Carson Kinney, Charles Haid, John Magaro, Josh Trudell, Mike Merenda..

Operation Barn Owl

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USA|14min|Comedy Director: Satsuki Okawa Producer: Joey Horvitz & Marc Longberg Writer: Satsuki Okawa, Ken Ochiai & Christopher Browne Starring: Nick Ballard...

Aug. 8 | 9:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 5 | 7:00 PM | Providence Performing Arts Center

A wealthy cotton gin executive is confronted by a disgruntled former employee demanding the return of an arm lost in the gin’s machinery.

Ellen’s best friend Jonah wants to create a unique and picturesque proposal to his girlfriend. Banding together with a group of friends, Ellen works diligently to ensure that the meticulously planned show of affection goes off without a hitch, but issues arise along the way.

One Child

China|40min|Social Issue

Out To Kill

Director: Zijian Mu

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USA|83min|Drama, LGBTQ Director: Rob Williams Producer: Rob Williams & Rodney Johnson Starring: Scott Sell, Rob Moretti, Mark Strano, Tom Goss, Karleigh Chase, Joey Panek, Aaron Nelson...

Aug. 9 | 6:30 PM | The Vets

Aug. 8 | 8:45 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake killed 90,000 people, including thousands of children. For the majority of families in China, losing one child means losing their only child. One Child follows the journey of three families, as they struggle to move past their loss and long for normalcy.

When private investigator Jim Noble moves into a beautiful loft complex in Tampa, he never expects to find his first case literally right outside his door.

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Once My Mother Australia|75min|Drama

Paper Kite

China|25min|Drama, Family

Passing Ellenville USA|16min|Doc, LGBTQ

Director: Qinshu Zuo Starring: Shuyi Wang

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Aug. 9 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 6 | 8:00 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

A Chinese girl, Mina Mo, questions her future in America while her goals and friendships are challenged as sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s torn between two different countries.

Passing Ellenville follows two transgender youths in a small, economically-depressed town in the Catskills mountains of New York and their struggles during the gender transition process.

Paper Wrap Fire USA|12min|Drama, LGBTQ

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Director: Gene Fischer

Director: Raymond Yeung Producer: Jie Chen Starring: Alestair Shu, Rachel Lu, Shing Ka

Payada paâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Satan Argentina|8min|Animation

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Director: Carlos Balseiro Producer: Lula Meliche Writer: Carlos Balseiro & Antonio Balseiro Starring: Agustin Arol, Eugenia Luppino, Santiago Pomeranz-McGarrell...

Aug. 7 | 6:00 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 10 | 2:45 PM | PAFF Theatre

A Chinese teenager is left alone in a Community Center where he encounters a handsome man which leads to a discovery that shatters his innocence.

A Gaucho lives peacefully in the countryside with his wife until one day they hear explosions and the earth starts to shake. Bewildered, the gaucho decides to go out and see what was happening, and finds out that there is a huge hole in the middle of the mountains.

Paratiisin Avaimet Finland|28min|History

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Director: Hamy Ramezan Producer: Cilla Werning Starring: Salar Saeedi Ashtiyani, Yazdan Akhoondi

Aug. 7 | 4:45 PM | Metcalf Auditorium Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | The Vets 1984. Homeless brothers Majid (15) and Adel (11) try to survive their daily lives in a war-torn country. They attend school and work in their spare time, but life gets harder day by day.

Pitahaya

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Spain|15min|Drama Director: Albert Espinosa Producer: Adria Coll Starring: Francesc Garrido, Ruben Sanchez

Aug. 8 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium A boy comes to Mercabarna, the largest market in Barcelona, on a school trip. And there he will have an adventure that will mark him forever.

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India|19min|Drama Director: Anya Leta Producer: Erin Galey Starring: Ankur Vikal, Tessa Thompson, Auroshikha Dey, Denzil Smith

Qanis

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France|22min| Drama Director: Reda Mustafa Producer: Franck Bazille & Frederic Lecamus Starring: Sofia Manousha

Aug. 10 | 2:45 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 10| 12:00 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Will the relationship between an American radio host and his wife survive the ethical dilemmas of outsourced pregnancy in India?

Driven out by his own 11years ago Mokhtar lives with his dog Qanis. He receives a letter from his daughter Kahina, who asks him to join her in Paris. Scared, he finally agrees to see her and tries to rebuild a relationship despite what he did to her.

Pony Place

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Netherlands|10min|Comedy Director: Joost Reijmers Producer: Arnold Heslenfeld & Frans Van Gestel Writer: Thomas Van Der Ree Starring: Joop Wittermans, Leny Breederveld, Yenthe Bos

Quebekoisie

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Canada|80min|History Director: Melanie Carrier Starring: Serge Bouchard, Pier-Philippe Chevigny, Francine Lemay, Isabelle Kanapé, Marco Bacon,

Aug. 7 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 7 | 7:15 PM | Museum of Work and Culture

When young Emma is banned from taking her iPad on holiday, she asks her grandma to look after her online horse farm, a task that proves more difficult than expected.

The complex relations between Quebec’s aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples.

Power Erotic

USA|82min|LGBTQ

Rabbit & Deer Hungary|16min|Animation

Director: Lawrence Ferrara

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Director: Peter Vacz Producer: Jozsef Fulop Starring: Adrienn Morocz

Aug. 8 | 9:15 PM | The Dark Lady

Aug. 8 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

This documentary explores how power, dominance and masculinity influence human sexuality.

The friendship of Rabbit and Deer is put to the test by Deer’s new obsession to find the formula for the 3rd dimension...

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Points of Origin

Reaching Home

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USA|14min|Thriller, Western Director: Kevin Artigue Producer: Joe Egender Writer: Joe Egender Starring: Joe Egender

Aug. 8 | 4:45 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Janet’s plan for a peaceful holiday dinner is blown out of the water when her adult sons face off over what should be done about Dad”s ashes. Can she take back the tiller and chart her own course to recovery?

Gun-toting loner William Berry lives in an old railroad car in the middle of a beautiful canyon with his decrepit father.

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Director: Kenneth Murphy Producer: Rachel Brenna Starring: Ava Paloma, Debra Monk, Eric Miller, Maren Bush, Nick Coleman

Resistance

Aug. 7 | 8:15 PM | PAFF Theatre

ReConception

USA|17min|Drama

USA|12min|Comedy Director: Joe Petrilla Producer: Kit Bland Starring: Jonah Landow, Demetrius Constant, Ashton Woerz, Kyle Sutton, Brett Kaminsky, Kit Flanagan, Tom Morrissey

Restoring Smith Hill

USA|23min|Doc, Social Issue Director: J. Henry Smith

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Aug. 9 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 9 | 12:15 PM | Providence Public Library

A hell-bent bunch of boys break into an abandoned cargo trailer. Their conquest is interrupted by the owner of the vehicle’s unexpected return.

Restoring Smith Hill explores the model of neighborhood restoration in Providence, Rhode Island through the Smith Hill Community Development Corporation.

Remembering France|15min|Drama, History The Fallen

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Director: Julien Grincajgier Starring: Laurent Delay, Jean-Pierre Dauphin, Anthony Vuignier, Marie Legault, Alexandre Triaca

Retrospective

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UK|20min|Drama, Thriller Director: Garrick Hamm Starring: Charles Dance, Omid Djalili

Aug. 6 | 6:30 PM | The Vets

Aug. 8 | 9:00 PM | The Vets

A french veteran of the second world war remembers a particular day. The day he met his old friend, Ludwig, a German soldier…

A wartime photographer takes the last photograph of his career in Palestine and later uses it to save his own life.

Robert Kelly: Live at the USA|120min|Comedy Village Underground

Sandra Boynton’s USA|5min| Animation When Pigs Fly

Director: Robert Kelly Producer: Jim Serpico

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Aug. 8 | 7:00 PM | Providence Performing Arts Center

Aug. 7| 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

Robert Kelly: Live at the Village Underground is a stand-up comedy film that captures the indomitable nightlife and comedy club scene of New York City through Robert Kelly’s raucous, savvy and hilarious one-man show.

This short film shows the gentle relationship between a parent and child (who both happen to be pigs.) The soundtrack is sung by the incomparable Ryan Adams, who also makes a cameo appearance.

Sandra Boynton’s Alligator Stroll

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USA|6min|Children Director: Sandra Boynton Producer: Micah Merrill & Russ Kendall Starring: Josh Turner

Sandrine

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Switzerland|11min|LGBTQ Director: Nicolas Greinacher Starring: Leoni Amandin, Anna Lerch

Aug. 8 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 5 | 7:00 PM | Providence Performing Arts Center

On a gorgeous summer day in the country, Josh Turner sings about the Alligator Stroll, backed up by a trio of oh-so-cool musicians.

One kiss can change everything.

Sandra Boynton’s Cows

USA|3min|Animation

Scarry Larry

Director: Sandra Boynton

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USA|13min|Horror Director: Greg Ivan Smith Producer: Greg Ivan Smith & Tom Ellison Kane

Aug. 5 | 7:00 PM | Providence Performing Arts Center

Aug. 6 | 9:00 PM | The Vets

The song ‘Cows’ was written by Boynton with Michael Ford, and is the bestselling track on the wildly popular platinum-selling Boynton/ Ford album Philadelphia Chickens. The song is performed by The Seldom Herd (an enthusiastic fictitious group.)

In 1952, four New England college students play a seemingly innocent card game which holds a terrible ulterior motive.

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Director: Sandra Boynton Starring: Ryan Adams

Scattered

USA|26min|Doc.

Showfolk

Director: Lindsay Lindenbaum

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Aug. 5 | 7:00 PM | Providence Performing Arts Center Aug. 8 | 3:15 PM | PAFF Theatre

Scattered takes an unflinching look at the filmmaker’s late father, obsessed with documenting his life on film, and unravels the story that he tried to create with his camera.

For seven Hollywood golden era veterans with a combined age of 662, all of whom reside at the Motion Picture & Television Fund home, the show goes on.

USA|14min|Doc, LGBTQ

Silent

Director: Keegon Schuett

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Director: Ned McNeilage Starring: Connie Sawyer, Monica Lewis, Milton Goldstein, Ruthie Tompson, Larry Kelem, Martin Seidman, Shirley Wieberg

Aug. 8 | 3:15 PM | PAFF Theatre Aug. 9 | 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Selfie

USA|24min|Doc.

Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel A documentary project that explores one gay man’s life and struggles from his childhood and onward.

Serpent’s Lullaby Canada|13min|Horror

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Director: Patricia Chica Producer: Richard Cardinal Writer: Charles Hall Starring: Jenimay Walker, Annabella Hart, Richard Cardinal, Samuel Nadeau

Aug. 7 | 7:15 PM | Museum of Work and Culture Aug. 9 | 4:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium It took Medusa a thousand lives to stare at what she couldn’t see. ‘Serpent’s Lullaby’ presents an unexpected and emotional twist on the myth of the gorgon.

USA|3min|Animation Writer: Limbert Fabian & Brandon Oldenburg Producer: Lampton Enochs

Aug. 7 | 2:00 PM | Rochambeau Library Aug. 8 | 2:00 PM | Rochambeau Library Two street performers dream of bringing their ‘Picture and Sound Show’ to life.

The Starfish Throwers

USA|83min|Social Issue Director: Jesse Roesler Producer: Melody Gilbert

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Aug. 7| 7:00 PM | Jamestown Arts Center Powerful, direct and heartrending, The Starfish Throwers explores how three of the world’s most fiercely compassionate individuals struggle to restore hope to the hopeless in unexpected and sometimes dangerous ways.

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Mexico|26min|Doc.

Special Delivery

Writer: Jason Jaacks & Steve Fisher Producer: Steve Fisher

USA|5min| Comedy Director: Trevor Mackinnon Starring: Paulo Araujo

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Aug. 9 | 2:45 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 9| 8:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Silent River follows a young woman and her family as they defy death threats to try and save one of the most polluted rivers in Mexico.

A lonely pizza delivery guy plays out his alter ego by calling in to a radio station. When his life takes a turn he opens up to the only people that will listen to him.

Sinners

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USA|18min|Thriller Director: Derek Dubois Starring: Robert Casey Jr, Michael LoCicero, Therese Lloyd, Aidan Pine

Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | The Vets In a blue-collar factory town, an alcoholic priest wrestles with his faith when young children start disappearing at the hands of a serial killer.

Slam Man

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USA|5min|Comedy Director: Alfred Thomas Catalfo Starring: Brian Eibert, Jaci Kjernander, Shawn Crapo, John Herman

Split

USA|28min|Animation, Chidren Director: Ellen Bruno

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Aug. 7| 2:00 PM | Rochambeau Library Aug. 8 | 2:00 PM | Rochambeau Library A candid, poignant, and often humorous film about kids and divorce . . . from the kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; perspective.

Steel Shoes

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USA|29min|Doc. Director: Alyssa Migliori Starring: Denise Robb, Paula Kelley, Azure Giroux, Sandy Ryan, Grace Romanick, Natalie Romanick, Ruth Premer

Aug. 8 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 7 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

A faux infomercial for Slam Man, a mechanical boxing robot. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a Hard-Hitting Machine with a Screw Loose.

Steel Shoes explores the revered and romanticized relationship between the horse and the rider, asking the viewer to rethink this ancient relationship in terms of its silent participant, the horse.

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Silent River

Steve’s Problem

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Iran|85min|Drama Director: Pourya Azarbayjani Starring: Mohammadreza Forootan, Mona Sartoveh

Aug. 8 | 7:10 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

A stranger offers Steve a little help with his pee shyness, only to cause much worse problems later on.

On the verge of her marriage, 25 years old girl, Arghavan, gang raped in a deserted area around tehran. With the virginity lost, surrounded by rumors , her life turning to a nightmare...

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Director: Mike Lars White Producer: T.E Marshall Starring: Matt Nelsen, Veronia Valencia, Raul Delarosa, Gregory Scott Bedford, Robert Miles, Denny Johnston

Everything Is Fine Here

Aug. 6 | 8:00 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Summarnätt

USA|15min|Comedy

Faroe Islands|17min|LGBTQ Director: Sakaris Stora Starring: Armgaro G. Mortensen, Renata Jensen, Gwenael Akira Helmsdal Carré, Jensina Olsen

Tango Underpants Argentina|14min|Comedy

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Director: Khrob Edmonds Producer: Miranda Edmonds Writer: Carolyn Swindell Starring: Emma Booth, Mirta Busnelli

Aug. 9 | 12:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 7 | 8:15 PM | PAFF Theatre

Set in the barren nature of Faroe Islands, Summer Night is a sensitive coming of age film on girls and their relationships, marking the possible end of a platonic relationship and the beginning of deep-felt love.

Carolyn, a young Australian backpacker, travels to Buenos Aires where she discovers not only the wonders of the tango but also the vital importance of the right underwear!

Taglia Corto !

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Switzerland|12min|Doc. Producer: Lionel Baier Writer: Filippo Demarchi Starring: Filippo Demarchi, Silverio Demarchi, Beatrice Demarchi

Tant Qu’il Nous Reste France|30min|Family Des Fusils à Pompe

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Producer: Lou Chicoteau, Anne Luthaud & Marcello Cavagna Starring: Lucas Doméjean, Nicolas Mias, Naël Malassagne

Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 8 | 4:45 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

A son returns to his parents’ home for a weekend to talk to them about his Inner self.

It’s hot. Streets are oddly empty. Palms are suffering and shot guns crying. Joshua wants to die but doesn’t want to leave his brother Mael alone. Meanwhile he meets with a gang : the Icebergs.

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Director: Gary Gill Producer: Susan Broe Starring: Frank Kelly

The Algerian

USA|99min| Thriller Director: Giovanni Zelko Starring: Ben Youcef, Harry Lennix, Candice Coke, Said Faraj, Josh Pence, Sharon Ferguson, Tara Holt, Zuhair Haddad, Giovanni Zelko

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Aug. 9| 2:15 PM | The Vets

Aug. 7| 6:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Frank is a gently unassuming embalmer from Ballyconneely in Ireland.

The Algerian is an international political thriller about the colliding worlds of the Middle East and America.

The 10 Year Plan USA|90min|Comedy, LGBTQ

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Director: JC Calciano Starring: Jack Turner, Michael Adam Hamilton, Teri Reeves, Moronia Kanekoa, Michael Rotthaar

The Apothecary

USA|18min|Doc. Director: Helen Hood Scheer

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Aug. 9 | 6:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 7| 4:00 PM | The Vets

The 10 Year Plan is the story of Myles and Brody. Two best friends who make a pact to be together in 10 years if neither finds love by then. Now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two months shy of their deadline and both friends set off to do whatever it takes to avoid ending up as each others last resort.

The Apothecary is a documentary short film about the beloved druggist in a rural Colorado outpost who operates the only pharmacy within 4,000 square miles and navigates a profound divide between his public personal and personal life.

The Age of Love

USA|79min|Comedy

The Assassin

Director: Steven Loring

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USA|9min|Comedy, LGBTQ Director: Jesse James Rice Producer: James Ball Starring: James Ball, David Tenenbaum

Aug. 10 | 12:15 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 9 | 6:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

The announcement of a first-of-its-kind Speed Dating event exclusively for 70- to 90-year-olds spurs a diverse group of seniors to take stock of aging bodies and still-hopeful hearts.

After carrying out a surprisingly emotional killing, James, an assassin with a mysterious physical ailment, comes home to unexpectedly find his long-lost boyfriend Dave, a straightarrow accountant, waiting in the living room.

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The Bravest, The Boldest

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Director: Moon Molson Producer: Pelin Uzay Writer: Moon Molson & Eric Fallen Starring: Carlo Alban, Dante Clark, Sameerah LuqmannHarris, Venida Evans

The Carriage or: Dracula & My Mother

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UK|15min|Sci-Fi Director: Ben Gordon Producer: Ben Gordon, David Naranjo, Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson Starring: Ben Gordon, Charlotte Gordon, Cloe Lee Gordon, Francisco Aguirre...

Aug. 6 | 6:30 PM | The Vets

Aug. 8| 11:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Two Army Casualty Notification Officers arrive at a Harlem housing project to deliver some news to a woman about her son serving in the war in the Middle East. But whatever it is they have to say, she ain’t trying to hear it.

Film director Ben Gordon spends a horrible Christmas with his family. When a sinister carriage mysteriously appears at the house, Ben is blinded to his family’s safety by the golden opportunity to film something momentous, terrible as it may be.

The Brothers USA|11min|Comedy, LGBTQ In Pursuit

The Dam Keeper USA|18min|Animation

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USA|17min|Drama

Director: William Torgerson Starring: Aaron Gallagher, Reginald Amedee, Mike Sutton, Mike McGuire

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Director: Robert Kondo Producer: Duncan Ramsey & Megan Bartel Starring: Lars Mikkelsen

Aug. 7 | 8:15 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 9 | 2:15 PM | The Vets

Dressed in matching boxer shorts and plastic helmets, the Brothers in Pursuit meet on Sunday nights to discuss their progress in pursuit of God, knowledge, compassion, and the company of a good woman.

The Dam Keeper, a short film by feature-animation artists Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi tells the tale of a young pig with an important job, and a new friend who changes everything.

The Brunchers

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UK|19min|Comedy Director: Matt Winn Producer: Peter Sullivan Starring: Natalie Dormer, Tom Burke, Rufus Sewell

The Fan

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Australia|18min|Comedy Director: Antony Webb Producer: Emilia Jolakoska Writer: Ben Sutton Starring: Ben Sutton, Tim Watts

Aug. 8 | 9:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 8 | 4:45 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

A thirty something couple, concerned that they’re out of touch and no longer fashionable, decide to rectify the situation by dragging themselves to the latest hip brunch eatery.

Daniel leads a lonely, mundane life. After the death of his mother, he discovers an unlikely new friend in the form of a pedestal fan that appears to come to life.

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Australia|8min|Animation Director: Graeme Base & Katrina Mathers Producer: Daryl Munton, Katrina Mathers, Merrin Jensen, Patrick Sarell

The Immaculate Reception

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USA|17min| Family Director: Charlotte Glynn Producer: Berkley Brady Starring: Deema Aitken, Jess Paul,

Aug. 8| 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 8| 2:30 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

A boy and his cat journey into unknown waters with a boat, a little boat and a vivid imagination.

It’s 1972 in the hard-working steel town of Pittsburgh, PA. Joey, 16, the middle of 3 boys, shy and still very much a kid, wants to grow up and be like his dad and brother, strong charismatic steelworkers.

The General

USA|64min|Sport

The Kiosk

Director: Grant Slater

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Switzerland|7min|Animation Director: Anete Melece Producer: Saskia Von Virag Starring: Anette Herbst, Hans Ruchti

Aug. 9 | 7:15 PM | PAFF Theatre

Aug. 9| 2:15 PM | The Vets

In 1990, the Colgate University men’s ice hockey team captured the attention of the Nation, when it’s men’s ice hockey team quietly rose from obscurity to challenge perennial powers for college hockey supremacy.

The story of a kiosk lady who is stuck.

The Hero Pose

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USA|12min|Children Director: Mischa Jakupcak Producer: Mischa Jakupcak, Gretchen Oyster & Robyn Miller Starring: Chaske Spencer, Nikki Hahn, Russell Hodgkinson

The Landing

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Australia|18min|Fantasy Director: Josh Tanner Producer: Kerry O’Rourke & Mat Petrenko Writer: Jade Van Der Lei & Josh Tanner Starring: David Roberts, Henry Nixon, Tom Usher

Aug. 7 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 8 | 4:45 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Mia, an eight year old girl and her father, Joe, try to sell a car.

A man returns to the Midwestern farm of his childhood on a desperate mission: To unearth the horrifying truth of what landed there in the summer of 1960.

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The Gallant Captain

The Last Night New Zealand|17min|Drama

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USA|10min|Sci-Fi Director: Michael Lukk Litwak Producer: Jean-Claude Billmaier Starring: Doc King, Valerie Brody, Robert Smith

Aug. 6 | 6:30 PM | The Vets

Aug. 8| 4:45 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

In the remote mountains of Afghanistan, Captain James Lesley, a United Nations peacekeeper, struggles to negotiate with the local warlord Azeem Asoud not to massacre a village in the morning.

The Life and Death of Tommy Chaos & Stacey Danger tells the tale of a romantic adventure. Think Blue Valentine meets Jurassic Park.

The Last USA|110min|Comedy, LGBTQ Straight Man

The Looking Planet USA|16min|Animation

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Director: David Strong Producer: Wanda Lepionka Starring: Cohen Holloway, Calvin Tuteao, John Landreth, Artemis Kavian Pour

The Life & Death of Tommy Chaos & Stacey Danger

Director: Mark Bessenger Producer: Mark Bessenger, Benjamin Lutz & Cliff Van Koppenhagen Starring: Scott Sell, Mark Cirillo, David Alanson Bradberry

Director: Eric Law Anderson Producer: Anne Uemura

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Aug. 8 | 6:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 9 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

Lewis, a closeted gay man, is secretly in love with his straight best friend, Cooper.

During the construction of the universe, a young member of the Cosmos Corps of Engineers dreams of doing something more than his menial job of planetary ring construction, so he sets out to break some fundamental laws in the name of self-expression.

Flying The Feathered Away

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USA|87min|History Director: Kim Furst Starring: Burt Rutan, Caroll Shelby, Clay Lacy, Dick Rutan, Dorothy Cochrane, Harrison Ford, Robert Hoover, Terry Lutz...

The Newport Effect

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USA|114min|Music Producer: Beverly Penninger & Alyson Young Writer: Beverly Penninger Starring: Joan Armatrading, Lucinda Williams, Angelique Kidjo, Mavis Staples, Michael Doucet...

Aug. 10 | 7:30 PM | The Vets

Aug. 9 | 2:00 PM | Jane Pickens Theatre

In Flying the feathered edge, Hoover tells his own story - joined by some of the best and brightest minds in aerospace today - and reveals hard earned wisdom from a life spent pushing the edge of the flight envelope while contributing to aviation’s many developments.

The Newport Effect covers the history of the legendary Newport Folk Festival and its profound impact on the world of folk music and social activism. Infamous as the place where Bob Dylan ‘went electric’ in 1965, the reach of the festival goes far beyond that iconic moment.

UK|21min|Drama Director: Mat Kirby Producer: James Lucas Starring: Sally Hawkins, Jim Broadbent

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The Showreel

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UK|17min| Comedy Director: Keir Burrows Producer: Yaiza Figueroa Starring: Yaiza Figueroa, Holly Joyce, Martin Cowan, Hamza Jeetooa, Malcolm Lauder, Wim Snape, Noor Lawson, Phoebe Phillips...

Aug. 8| 9:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 9| 4:00 PM | The Vets

Heather works in a helpline call centre. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man, she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever.

Nasreen is an immigrant office cleaner, who dreams of being a screen actor.

The Present

Germany|5min|Animation

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Director: Jacob Frey Producer: Anna Matacz Writer: Fabio Coala Starring: Quinn Nealy, Samantha Brown

The Vow

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Canada|7min|Fantasy Director: Lina Roessler Producer: Alyssa Swanzey Starring: Allyssa Bainbridge, Kayla Simmons, Marissa Sager

Aug. 5 | 7:00 PM | Providence Performing Arts Center

Aug. 8 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

Jake spends most of his time playing video games indoors until his mom decides to give him a present.

Under the waning light of a solar eclipse, two children hatch a magical master plan to defeat an enemy.

The Secret World of Foley

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UK|14min|Doc. Director: Daniel Jewel Starring: Peter Burgis, Susie Harding

The War Photographers

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USA|27min|Doc. Director: Steven Kochones Producer: Steven Kochones & Joe Russo

Aug. 5 | 7:00 PM | Providence Performing Arts Center

Aug. 9 | 2:00 PM | Jane Pickens Theatre

‘The Secret World of Foley’, takes us on a journey into the little known world of Foley Artists, who bring films to life by adding sound effects in post-production.

‘The War Photographers’ recounts the personal experiences of award-winning photojournalists who risk their lives covering conflict in the world’s most dangerous war zones.

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The Phone Call

The Way Home China, USA|17min|Family

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Director: Ting Song Starring: Qiang He, Wei Huang, Lu Jiang, Siyou Liu

Director: Santje Kramer Producer: Erica Reijmerink Writer: Marga Bosch

Aug. 8 | 7:00 PM | Jamestown Arts Center

Unable to care for his aging father, Li Min locks his father inside his house. But family troubles aren’t so easy to hide away.

Passion for Japanese art brings a famous German-Jewish art dealer all over the world. Two World Wars and a series of personal adversities later, the Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art shines on Mount Carmel in Haifa. The art dealer travels on, indefatigable.

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Netherlands|77min|History

Aug. 8 | 7:00 PM | The Vets

The Whistler USA|25min|Children, Fantasy

Tikotin

Director: Peter Ferris Rosati Starring: Janet Egbe, Ralph W. Cashen, Patricia Fitzgerald, Leonardo Casella, Bill Bruce, Nico Walsh, Chris Estes, Evelina Fitzgerald

Time Lapse

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USA|103min|Sci-Fi Director: Bradley Kings Producer: BP Cooper & Rick Montgomery Starring: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O’Leary, George Finn, Amin Joseph, Sharon Maughan, Jason Spisak...

Aug. 7 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 9 | 5:15 PM | PAFF Theatre

Shelly Prince and her Grandfather have kept a magical creature safely secluded in the backwoods of their small town.

A modern thriller with a sci-fi element about three friends who discover a machine that takes pictures 24hrs into the future. They conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

This Time Next Year

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USA|90min|Environment

Tom in America Brazil|17min|Fantasy, LGBTQ

Director: Farihah Zaman & Jeff Reichert Producer: Dan O’Meara, Farihah Zaman, Jeff Reichert, Jessica Rogers, Kate Patterson

Director: Flavio Alves Producer: Roy Gokay Wol & Greg Starr Starring: Burt Young, Sally Kirkland, Alex Kruz, Michael Cannon, Mitch Giannunzio, Wendy Callard-Booz...

Aug. 9| 2:45 PM | PAFF Theatre This Time Next Year tracks the resilience of the Long Beach Island, NJ community for one year as they rebuild after 2012’s Hurricane Sandy.

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Aug. 8| 3:15 PM | PAFF Theatre Aug. 9 | 9:00 PM | The Vets Aug. 10 | 7:00 PM | Metcalf Auditorium Everyone holds a secret about something.

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Director: François Jaros Producer: François Jaros & Fanny-Laure Malo Writer: Guillaume Lambert Starring: Guillaume Lambert, Marie-Eve Milot, Marie-Claude St Laurent

Aug. 7 | 7:15 PM | Museum of Work and Culture Aug. 7 | 8:15 PM | PAFF Theatre Love grief. Shock. Denial. Sex. Bubble bath. Pop tart. Pigeons. Hospital. Bye. Hair. Sports. Chicken. Kids. Rejection. Squirrels. Cries. Awkward. 95 scenes. 5 minutes. Life’s a bitch.

Tschüss Papa

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Germany|27min|Drama Director: Hendrik Maximilian Schmitt Starring: Valentin Teufel, Markus Knüfken, Nele Mueller-Stöfen, Maximilian Beck

Under The Same Sun

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Israel|75min| Drama Director: Sameh Zoabi Producer: Amir Harel Writer: Yossi Aviram Starring: Ali Suliman, Dirar Suleiman, Levana Finkelstein, Lucy Aharish, Yossi Marshek

Aug. 8| 7:00 PM | The Vets Shaul, an Israeli, and Nizar, a Palestinian, seem to have little in common, but for a shared spirit of entrepreneurship. They create a solar energy company with plans to bring renewable energy to communities in the Palestinian territories.

Verbatim

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USA|7min|Comedy Director: Brett Weiner Producer: Brett Weiner & Dana Wickens Starring: John Ennis, Michael McCafferty

Aug. 9 | 12:15 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 7 | 6:30 PM | The Vets

‘Goodbye Papa’ is a touching drama about a boy coping with the death of his father and the grief that comes with it.

A jaded lawyer wastes the better part of an afternoon trying to figure out if a dim-witted government employee has ever used a photocopier.

Twaaga

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France|30min|Drama Director: Cedric Ido Producer: Jérôme Bleitrach Starring: Sabourou Bamogo, Harouna Ouedradgo, Sidiki Diarra, Parfait Oubda

Vis A Vis

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UK|17min|Comedy, LGBTQ Director: Dan Connelly Starring: David Harrison, Belinda Misevski, Dan Connelly, Amy Lehpamer

Aug. 10| 12:00 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Aug. 9 | 4:15 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Burkina Faso in 1987 is a country in the throes of revolution. Manu, an eight-year-old who loves comics, tags along with Albert, his big brother. When Albert decides to undergo a magic ritual to become invincible, Manu realizes there are real powers to rival those of his comic-book superheroes.

An unlucky-in-love immigration officer assesses a peculiar visa application from a young gay couple harbouring a dirty little secret.

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Toutes des Connes Canada|6min|Comedy

Waiting In The Wings

USA|107min|Comedy, LGBTQ

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Director: Jenn Page Producer: Nancy Criss Writer: Jeffrey Johns Starring: Lee Meriwether, Adam Huss, Rena Strober, Shirley Jones, Sally Struthers, Christopher Atkins...

Aug. 7 | 8:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel Waiting in the Wings: The Musical is a story of mistaken identity that takes us into the lives of Anthony, a musical theatre performer, and Tony, a professional stripper.

We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

USA|90min|Thriller

What Cheer?

Aug. 8 | 3:15 PM | PAFF Theatre Aug. 8 | 7:00 PM | Providence Performing Arts Center A grief stricken man can not escape the What Cheer? Brigade, a 20-piece brass and percussion band.

Why Do I Study Physics?

USA|4min|Doc. Director: Xiangjun Shi

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Director: Michael Slavens Producer: Ethan Brosowsky & Jason Goldman Writer: Michael Slavens & Matthew Goldenberg Starring: Kelly Kirklyn, Lee Wilkoff, Norm Golden...

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Director: Simon Hawkins

USA|18min|Music

Aug. 6 | 9:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 7 | 10:00 AM | Metcalf Auditorium

Three teens are forced to pull off a heist for a brutal local cotton farmer.

I decided to study Physics in college because, since childhood I have been enchanted by the idea of perfection. However, while seeking a rational world, irrationality shadows every step of my journey. Is this a pursuit destined to end in a dilemma?

Welcome To The Building

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USA|21min|Thriller Director: Matt Tente Starring: Alex Weed, Claire Scott, Adam Hagenbuch, Paul Sarnoff

Wo Ist Klara?

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Switzerland|90min|Social Issue Director: Raphael Z端rcher Writer: Raphael Z端rcher & Micha Stuhlmann Starring: Johannes Dumelin, Boris Ackermann, Dagobert Jakob, Klara Keller, Cornelia Kunz, Astrid Scherer...

Aug. 9| 8:30 PM | The Bell Street Chapel

Aug. 10| 12:30 PM | The Vets

A contained thriller that explores the dangers of an innocent crush and online infatuation that takes an unexpected and dark turn, when Clare moves in next to an unassuming and unstable neighbor.

A group of people meets with the performance artist Micha Stuhlmann to develop a play that combines the characteristics of the participants with the signature of the artist.

Young Americans Canada|6min|Comedy

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Director: Kevin Lacy Producer: Alejandro Torroja Writer: Alejandro Torroja Starring: Matthew Van Oss, Michelle Bernard, Stevie Lynn Jones

Zinneke

Belgium|20min|Drama Director: Remi Allier Producer: Veronique Duys Starring: Nissim Renard, Sam Louwyck, Wim Willaert

Aug. 6 | 4:00 PM | The Vets

Aug. 10 | 12:00 PM | Metcalf Auditorium

Desperate for money, seventeen-year-old Mercedes Harper manipulates Denver Thomas, a former high school classmate with a massive crush on her, into helping her plan a bank robbery.

Nine year-old Thomas spends most of his days at the flea market closely observing the Wheeling’s and dealings of the market’s sellers.

America’s Forgotten Heroine: Ida Lewis

USA|45min|History

Aug. 7 | 3:00 PM | Providence Public Library America’s Forgotten Heroine tells the dramatic – and forgotten – story of this country’s most famous lighthouse keeper and one of the bravest women in American maritime history -- Ida Zoradia Lewis.

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Director: Marian Gagnon

Journey 4 Artists is a documentary which explores through song, interviews, personal histories and visual narrative the power of music to illuminate, transport and transcend the artists and audience beyond divergent religious, political and ideological boundaries towards tolerance, peace and acceptance. In this documentary, world music serves as a catalyst for four celebrated peace activist musicians: Oscar nominated actor/folksinger, Theodore Bikel, award winning conductor/pianist, Tamara Brooks, concert accordionist, Merima Ključo and Yiddish singer, Shura Lipovsky, who come from Jewish, Muslim,Bosnian, Dutch, French, Greek, Russian, and Austrian cultures to share their extraordinary lives, passion and purpose which is to make music that speaks through the discordance of the ordinary world. Michele Noble, a graduate of the prestigious USC film school, is a screenwriter, film director, producer and activist. Journey 4 Artists, a passion project for Ms. Noble, marks the third collaboration with her mentor, Theodore Bikel, who is RIIFF 2014’s Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. Ms. Noble won honors at the Deauville Film Festival in France for her directing debut, Runaway Dreams, an independent feature film written by John Hopkins (Smiley’s People). Ms. Noble directed and produced the experimental film, New York Summer Project with a stellar cast: Kathryn Erbe, Gale Harold, James Roday and Merritt Wever. New York Summer Project is based on Ms. Noble’s feature length screenplay, the Revolution, which she intends to direct and produce next year. Ms. Noble is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America and Director’s Guild of America.

Screening Sunday August 10 at 2:30 pm Metcalf Auditorium at RISD Museum www.Journey4Artists.com

The “RIIFFterns”

Fall/Winter 2013/2014: - Stefan Correia, University of Rhode Island: Public Relations and Development Associate - Xuan Nguyen, Roger Williams University: Financial Associate & Volunteer Coordinator - Nickolas Palermo, Roger Williams University: Assistant to the Executive Director

Winter/Spring 2014: - Noelle Buabbud, Lesley College: Traffic Associate - Jeff Buttel, Lesley College: Grants and Development Associate - Ross Fitzgerald, Roger Williams University: Graphic Design Associate

Summer 2014: - Nickolas Palermo, Roger Williams University: Assistant to the Executive Director - Michael Bizzaco, University of Rhode Island: - Chelsea Boulrisse, Roger Williams University: Public Relations Associate - Sélina Boye, Audencia Nantes École de Management (France): Graphic Design Associate - Noelle Buabbud, Lesley College: Traffic Associate - Andrew Burgess, Roger Williams University: - Julia Kelly, Brown University: Events Associate - Xenja Lindberg, Roger Williams University: Public Relations Associate - Mike Morrone, Quinnipiac University: - Jose Alfredo Garcia Muñoz, Universidad del Valle de Atemajac, Guadalajara (Mexico) - Marie-Anne Omnes, Université catholique de l’ouest (France): Public Relations and Marketing Associate - Meghan Petrell, Roger Williams University - Amber Ramundo, Roger Williams University

RIIFF Team EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO George T. Marshall Flickers Arts Collaborative ADVISORY BOARD PRESIDENT Michael F. Drywa, Jr., Esq. Legal Counsel EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH DIRECTOR Dr. J. Scott Oberacker Flickers Arts Collaborative / Johnson & Wales University PROGRAMMING DIRECTOR Shawn Quirk Flickers Arts Collaborative CREATIVE WRITING DIRECTOR William J. Torgerson St. John’s University ACADEMIC LIAISON Jonathan Friesem Harrington School of Communications & Media, University of Rhode Island TECHNICAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Timothy Haggerty Flickers Arts Collaborative 7DAYPSA CREATOR/DIRECTOR Duncan Putney Flickers Arts Collaborative

EXECUTIVE ADVISOR & HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR Lawrence J. Andrade Staffing, Events, Flickers Arts Collaborative FLICKERS CHAMBER MUSIC ENSEMBLE Eric R. Bronner Mary Beth Kim EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM DIRECTORS / KidsEye™ Keith Brown Jessica Wong Erin Liddell SHORTS PROGRAMMING DIRECTOR Jocelyn Donaghue Jamestown Art Center STUDENT JURY MANAGER / YOUTH JURY ASSOCIATION ASSISTANT TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Nickolas Palermo OFFICE MANAGER Xuan Nguyen, Roger Williams University HOSPITALITY DIRECTORS Richard Corso Don Laliberte Flickers Arts Collaborative

CELEBRITIES ATTENDING FLICKERS: RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: 1997 to 201 Allegra Houston Amber and Sam Jaeger Amy Redford Amy Stiller Andrew McCarthy Annabeth Gish Anne Meara Barbara Meek Ben Stiller Billy Gilman Blythe Danner Bobby Farrelly Brandon Rough Brett Favre Bryan Cranston Casper Andreas Chris Elliott Chris Sparling Cicely Tyson Dan Butler Daniel Gillies Danny Trejo Doris Roberts Elaine Lorillard Emily Brooke Hands Ernest Borgnine Ernest Thompson Federico Castellucio Fionnula Flanagan Frederick Wiseman Gabriel Romero Gerald McCullouch Harry Lloyd Heather Henson Jason Clark Jason Isaacs Jeffrey Tambor Jerry Stiller Jesus Nebot Joe Pantoliano John Fiore John Ratzenberger Jon Cryer Julie Andrews Juliet Mills Ken Howard Kevin Sheridan Kim Chan Klaus Badelt Lloyd Kaufman Mark Hefti

Mark Magolis, Mark Thompson Marlyn Mason. Mary Beth McDonough Matt Dillon Maxwell Caulfield Melissa Leo Michael Altman Michael Carroll Michael Corrente Michael Showalter Patricia Neal Paul Benedict Paul Marcarelli Paul Sorvino Peter Facinelli Peter Farrelly Peter Gerety Phillip Noyce Q. Alan Brocka Rachel Leigh Cook Richard Jenkins Richard Schenkman Rob Moran Robert Downey Sr. Ron Palillo Rupert Friend Seymour Cassell Stephen Collins Steve Buscemi Stu Pollard The Cowsills Todd Arnow Tom Hodges Tom Ohanian Ursula Burton Vinny Pastore William Forsythe Woody Harrelson Zach Braff

RIIFF CELEBRITIES â&#x20AC;˘ 4/201

RIIFF GOES TO THE OSCARS® Short Films that played at RIIFF and received Academy Nominations 1998 The Personals: Improvisations on Romance in the Golden Years – Director: Keiko Ibi 2001 The Accountant – Directors: Ray Mckinnon and Lisa Blount Gregor's Greatest Invention -- Director: Johannes Kiefer Speed for Thespians – Directors: Kalman Apple and Shameela Bakhsh 2003 Destino - Directors: Dominique Monfery and Roy Edward Disney 2004 Sister Rose’s Passion – Directors: Oren Jacoby and Steve Kalafer Gopher Broke - Directors: Jeff Fowler and Tim Miller 2005 The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation - Director: John Canemaker The Last Farm -- Directors: Rúnar Rúnarsson and Thor S. Sigurjónsson 2006 The Little Match Girl - Directors: Roger Allers and Don Hahn Recycled Life - Directors: Leslie Iwerks and Mike Glad; An Iwerks/Glad Production Binta and the Great Idea – Directors: Javier Fesser and Luis Manso The Saviour – Directors: Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn 2007 Tanghi Argentini – Directors: Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans Salim Baba – Directors: Tim Sternberg and Francisco Bello 2008 This Way Up – Directors: Adam Foulkes, Alan Smith, United Kingdom. New Boy – Director: Steph Green, Ireland. Spielzeugland (Toyland) – Director: Jochen Alexander Freydank, Germany 2009 Kavi - Director: Gregg Helvey 2010 The Gruffalo - Directors: Jakob Schuh and Max Lang, United Kingdom Killing in the Name - Director: Jed Rothstein 2011 The Shore – Director/Producer: Terry George with Oorlagh George(All Ashore Productions Limited) Time Freak – Director: Andrew Bowler, and Gigi Causey, producer (Team Toad) Raju - Director: Max Zähle, and Stefan Gieren, producer (Hamburg Media School/Filmwerkstatt) The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – Director: William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg (Moonbot Studios LA, LLC) Incident in New Baghdad – Director: James Spione (Morninglight Films) 2012 Asad - Director: Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura, producer (Hungry Man) Buzkashi Boys - Director: Sam French and Ariel Nasr, producer (Afghan Film Project) Henry - Director: Yan England (Yan England) Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) - Director: Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele producer (serendipity films) 2013 The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life - Directors: Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed (Reed Entertainment) The Voorman Problem - Director: Mark Gill and Baldwin Li, producer (Honlodge Productions) Feral – Director: Daniel Sousa (Daniel A Sousa Productions)

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