Film Selections & Descriptions AFTER YOU’RE GONE • Anna Matison
8th Annual
SAINT AUGUSTINE
FILM FESTIVAL
Russian Federation / 2016 / 120 min / Russian w/English sub-titles Saturday, 11:15 AM, LA • Sunday, Noon, GK Aleksey Temnikov is a renowned ballet dancer, and an acknowledged genius whose career was cut abruptly short after sustaining an injury back in the ’90s. Twenty years later, Aleksey discovers that his condition is degenerative, and that he will soon lose the ability to walk. For him, this means only one thing—death. Before this happens, Aleksey sets out to choreograph a ballet. “What will I leave behind after I am gone?” is a question Aleksey feels he must contend with.
AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL (Al Final Del Tunel) • Rodrigo Grande
Spain-Argentina / 2016 / 120 min / Spanish w/English sub-titles Sunday, 2:45 PM, GK • Sunday, 6:45 PM, LA Like Hitchcock with a nasty streak, Argentine director Rodrigo Grande crafts a tight, vicious crime thriller with At the End of the Tunnel. With a twisting, turning, rigidly constructed plot that shifts and evolves over the course of the movie, this is a dark, tension-heavy throwback of the kind we see woefully few of in modern times.
THE BIRD WAS NOT A BIRD • Ahmad Zia Arash Afghanistan / 2017 / 92 min / English Thursday, 3:45 PM, C1 • Saturday, 4:30 PM, GK Usef is a young bird selling, struggling to live alongside his secret love. He is offered a job that will pay far better and accepts it, without knowing that a terrorist organization is preparing him for a suicide attack.
Gregory von Hausch President & CEO, FLIFF and SAFF
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018 is the 8th time that the Saint Augustine Film Festival (SAFF) will be held. It has grown each year in the breadth of films and in attendance with a loyal following. What I love about this Festival is the intimate feel of it, which I hope won’t change. St. Augustine is not a huge city like Miami or New York and I believe the access to filmmakers; the short walking distance between screening rooms; and the size of the screening rooms themselves are all good things about this Festival. It provides a great atmosphere for movie buffs to chat with strangers, make new friends, and trade opinions on the films they’ve seen. I’m excited to have a wealth of great US talent here this year with filmmakers representing large independent (and likely to get wider distribution) films to shorts from 6 to 39 minutes. Many of these films are inspired by true events, lending credence to that saying that “truth is stranger than fiction”. All the films shown this year are my personal favorites or the ones that audience members of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival ranked highly or recognized with awards at our recent Festival there in November. Enjoy! Relax! Be Stimulated! Be Inspired!
Pass Pick Up Film Pass Pick Up Day is Sunday, Jan. 14 from 3 to 5 pm at Corazon Cinema and Cafe! If you’ve purchased an All Access; All Film or All Lewis Pass, this is where to come. There will be snacks provided by El Potro Mexican Restaurant and drinks available for purchase. Stay and chat awhile! If you haven’t bought a pass yet and think you’d better, there will be Square credit card processing on site. If Pass Holders can’t get here on this date; badges will be available for pickup at the Corazon on Thursday, Jan. 18th.
CRIES FROM SYRIA • Evgeny Afineevsky
Syria / 2017 / 111 min / English / Documentary Friday, 3:15 PM, C1 • Saturday, 10:30 AM, C2 Cries from Syria focuses on child protesters, revolution icons, activists and their relatives, and high-ranking Army generals who defected to join the fight of the people. It tells the story of the Syrian people who have never lost hope. This film will take the audience on a unique journey in time, from Syria to Turkey, through Jordan, Lebanon and Europe.
THE CUTLASS • Darisha J. Beresford
Trinidad & Tobago / 2017 / 97 min / English Saturday, 3:45 PM, C1 • Sunday, 4:45 PM, C1 Inspired by true events, a trip to a remote beach house turns to horror as a young woman finds herself in the grasp of an unpredictable and dangerous man. Taken from her friends at gunpoint and dragged deep into the island rainforest, she must quickly learn to navigate this unforgiving landscape and the tangled mind of her abductor.
DAD’S ARMY • Oliver Parker
UK / 2016 / 100 min / English Thursday, 4:30 PM, C2 • Saturday, 2:15 PM, GK It’s 1944 and a German invasion is very much on the cards. Captain Mainwaring and the platoon are on high alert and highly excited at the prospect of taking part in a major exercise and then they discover a German spy has infiltrated their patch. At the same time, glamorous journalist Rose Winters (Catherine Zeta-Jones) arrives in town to write a feature on the Home Guard, setting male hearts a-flutter and getting up the noses of the local ladies.
DEDE • Mariam Khatchvani
Georgia / 2017 / 96 min / Georgian w/English sub-titles Thursday, 1:00 PM, C1 • Saturday, 1:00 PM, C1 If there is an emblematic image in contemporary Georgian cinema, it might well be of khaki-clad men with rifles casually slung over their shoulders, clustered around a scuffed, scarred truck on a mountain road. But while just such an image greets us at the opening of “Dede” it’s misleading in two ways: The war it details is fought not between nations or political ideologies, but between women and men, and its frontline is a battle between tradition and progress.
THE DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN (El Ciudadano Ilustre) • Gaston Duprat, Mariano Cohn
Spain-Argentina / 2016 / 118 min / Spanish w/English sub-titles Friday, 8:00 PM, C1 • Sunday, 6:15 PM, C2 Daniel Mantovani is an Argentine writer who has lived in Europe for more than three decades. He is worldwide renowned for having been awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature. His novels are characterized by the fact that they portray with mastery and merciless harshness the life in Salas, a small village in Argentina where he was born and from where he has left never to come back since he was a young man with aspirations of becoming a writer. Among the abundant correspondence he receives daily, there is a letter from the municipality of Salas inviting him to receive the maximum
recognition awarded by the village: The Distinguished Citizen medal. Dark and hilarious…this film starts as a slow burn; the film takes off after landing in Argentina. The situations are preposterous, yet oh so vividly plausible.
DOG YEARS • Adam Rifkin
USA / 2017 / 94 min / English / Bittersweet Comedy Friday, 1:00 PM, C3 • Sunday, 3:45 PM, C2 The premise is a simple one. Vic Edwards (Burt Reynolds), a big, big star from days gone by, not exactly content, yet accepting of life in the slow lane, living in LA with his dog and occasional lunches with his one friend, Sonny (Chevy Chase). Things muddle along and life takes one of those dips. Vic doesn’t realize it, but he needs a deus exmachina to lift him. Bingo! An invitation arrives from the Nashville Film Festival. They want to award Vic with a Lifetime Achievement Award. At first, Vic rejects the idea…but Sonny encourages him to go for it. What happens next is the “Actor’s Nightmare” equivalent for film fest directors…and the stars that attend.
ECHOES: The Story • Michael McGlinn
Ireland / 2017 / 66 min / English Saturday, 6:30 PM, C1 • Sunday, 3:00 PM, C1 Experience an intimate concert filmed live before an audience as well as footage and interviews shot on location through Ireland as we travel with Irish duo, Neil Byrne and Ryan Kelly, to learn the stories and history behind their debut live concert documentary Byrne and Kelly, Echoes: The Story.
FALLING SOUTH • Lorraine Portman
USA / 2017 / 39 min / English Saturday, 6:45 PM, GK • Sunday, 11:00 AM, C3 *Filmmaker will attend Charlotte puts Rochester in the rear view as she runs away from the life she knows. She has never been on her own and doesn’t know if she’ll make it as her resources are stripped away. She meets diverse women who offer connection, insight, and laughter on the road to Florida and a possible new life.
THE FATHER AND THE BEAR • John Putch
USA / 2016 / 85 min / English / Dramatic Comedy Friday, 10:45 AM, C3 • Sunday, 5:00 PM, C3 A retired character actor with diagnosed dementia, longs to perform at his beloved summer theater one last time. Against his daughter’s wishes, he accepts a role from the newly installed artistic director who is unaware of the man’s condition.
FLAGLER STUDENT FILMS
Florida / 2017 / 80 min / English / FREE! Saturday, 8:15 PM, C3
GROOVE • Ryan McDonough
USA / 2017 / 87 min / English Thursday, 5:00 PM, C3 Saturday, 4:30 PM, C2 Inspired by numerous interviews with subway musicians around New York City, Groove tells the story of Melanie Matthews – a cellist from Queens who performs in the subway with aspirations for the big stage. After meeting the former guitarist of a hit band, she begins training for the underground New York music contest Groove – where the winner has the chance to open at the legendary Jones Beach Theatre. Featuring twelve original songs and a soundtrack of New York musicians.
HEAVEN’S FLOOR • Lori Stoll
USA-Canada / 2016 / 87 min / English, Inukitut w/English sub-titles / BioPic-Action/Adventure-Drama Sponsored by Caren & Richard Gorenberg Friday, 7:15 PM, LA • Saturday, 10:00 AM, GK *Filmmaker will attend A photographer chases adventure from Los Angeles to the Canadian Arctic and for the first time she finds herself on the line between life and death. Desperate for more meaning in her life, Julia, meets a fearless expedition leader Jack, who convinces her to join a photographic journey to the Canadian Arctic. Despite growing tension with her husband Ed, Julia chooses to go. The whimsical trip becomes a life-threatening disaster. Julia alone, ill equipped, finds herself stranded on sea ice. Alone in the frozen north, temperatures below minus 30, darkness falls.
IF & WHEN • Eran B.Y
Israel / 2015 / 75 min / Hebrew w/English sub-titles / Romance Friday, 1:30 PM, C2 • Sunday, 12:30 PM, C2 A young divorced father falls in love with a skeptical single woman. They decide to break up due to the father’s commitment to his daughter who is still adapting to her parents’ divorce. When they meet again, a year later, will their love be rekindled?
IN BED WITH VICTORIA • Justine Triet
France / 2016 / 99 min / French w/English sub-titles / Romantic Comedy Sunday, 11:30 AM, LA • Sunday, 7:15 PM, C3 Victoria is a beautiful Parisian criminal lawyer in her late 30’s. Sex-addict, workalcoholic, totally self-centered… But everything is about the change! A hilarious and tender comedy.
KING OF PEKING • Sam Voutas
China-Australia-USA / 2017 / 88 min / Chinese w/ English Subtitles Thursday, 2:00 PM, C3 •Sunday, 2:45 PM, C3 Big Wong and his young son Little Wong are part of a fading tradition: traveling film projectionists screening Hollywood movies for villagers who otherwise don’t have access to films. But when Big Wong’s ex-wife raises the spousal support payments, Big Wong faces the possibility of losing custody. In order to stay together, the two Wongs move to the basement of an old Beijing cinema, where Big Wong works as a janitor. With a twinkling of homage to Cinema Paradiso, King opf Peking is a sweet, often funny, frequently suspenseful ode to the relationship between a man and his son.
LARGER THAN LIFE: The Kevyn Aucoin Story • Tiffany Bartok
USA / 2017 / 96 min / English Friday, 5:35 PM, C3 • Saturday, 6:15 PM, C3 Legendary makeup artist, Kevyn Aucoin, arrived in New York City from the small town of Lafayette, Louisiana. His childhood was spent expressing himself through drawing, painting, and makeup, all in search of relief from confusion about his identity and constant bullying. Kevyn’s acceptance in the fashion world was instant and explosive. Due to his groundbreaking theories about contouring, his infectious personality and his mission to make everyone feel beautiful from the inside out, he shot to fame quickly doing makeup for every supermodel and celebrity through the 80’s and 90’s. At the height of his fame, Kevyn died mysteriously in 2002. Larger Than Life explores every corner of Kevyn’s rich, beautiful, and complicated life through the story of his untimely passing and the inspiring legacy he left behind.
LOVERS • Matteo Vicino
Italy / 2017 / 102 min / Italian w/English sub-titles / Comic Drama Friday, 3:30 PM, C3 • Sunday, Noon, C3 Lovers tells symmetrically four stories involving the same five protagonists in different roles, locked in a spiral. In this concentric circle of life that endures infinitely, “lovers”, a film in which love, comedy, doubt, suspicion and murder will represent the history’s constants. Lovers represents an interesting film for the originality of the plot.
THE MIDNIGHTERS • Julian Fort
USA / 2017 / 87 min / English / Suspense Thriller Thursday, 7:15 PM, C2 • Saturday, 7:00 PM, C2 The Midnighters tells the story of former expert safecracker Victor Lustig who has just been released from prison after a thirty-five-year stretch. Now an old man, with no idea how to live in the new world, all Vic wants to do is pick up some money long owed to him and live out his days in peace, quiet and comfort.
MOGLIE E MARITO • Simone Gadano
Italy / 2017 / 100 min / Italian w/English sub-titles / Comedy Saturday, 7:00 PM, LA • Sunday, 5:30 PM, GK Following an incredible experiment, Andrea, a brilliant neurosurgeon, and his wife Sofia, an ambitious TV host, suddenly find themselves in each other’s body, swapping their aspect and their whole lives. Forced to be in their partners’ shoes and everyday routine, they will be able to see their relationship from a completely different point of view and, among head scratching comic situations, eventually face the troubles causing their marriage distress, to fall in love again.
MY AMISH WORLD • Sam Wickey
USA / 2017 / 72 min / English, plus Amish w/English sub-titles Saturday, 2:00 PM, LA • Sunday, 10:00 AM, GK *Filmmaker will attend A film produced and directed by an Amish man, Samuel Wickey. In this incredible story based on true events, the mother and father are overwhelmed with emotion when their children are severely bullied in a public school, and the father wants his family to leave the Amish. In this story about an Amish family struggling with the upbringing of a boy born with an enigmatic mental disorder, they are gripped by fear and astonishment when they witness the boy has unusual artistic abilities. The mother and father are deeply concerned since their strict Amish religion, teaches that any form of artistic expression is forbidden. The boy and his siblings are raised by a mother who cannot embrace them, praise them or even say I love you. They must only pray that God heals them. In a family deeply ingrained in a religion where parents are forbidden to express love for their children, the father breaks the chains of fear and oppression to allow hope, the expression of love and freedom, to leave the Amish.
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PATIENT 001 • Katie Fleischer
USA / 2017 / 88 min / English / Sci Fi Horror Thursday, 8:30 PM, C1 • Saturday, 8:15 PM, C1 After overhearing doctors call her comatose husband “a lost cause”, a young wife overwhelmed with grief becomes desperate to have his child. She considers her only option; cloning. Giving birth to a son fulfills her dream of having a family. But the arrival of the baby awakens a supernatural presence unleashing dark and unexpected results. The family must make an impossible choice and live with a damaging, secret forever.
_______________________________________ PEACE OF HEART • Josh Hansbrough
USA / 2017 / 13 min / English Sunday, 2:30 PM, C2 Both films by Josh Hansbrough are shown together A non-verbal autistic girl hasn’t communicated with her family in 18 years, but technology and society’s new perspective on her condition may change the face of autism forever.
RIDING THE WAVE OF AUTISM
*Filmmaker will attend USA / 2010 / 6 min / English The therapeutic properties of the ocean enable autistic children to become free-spirited kids again while breaking down barriers of possibility and truly healing ‘disabilities.’
_______________________________________ PEAR SHAPED • Lauren Hill
Australia / 2017 / 6 min / English Saturday, 4:00 PM, LA Lauren Hill: “The whole idea was sparked by an Instagram post I did last year, asking people to share their most humiliating surf-related moment. Mostly, I was wondering, ‘Is it just me who has come in from a surf only to find I’d bled all over my white bikini bottoms? Am I the only one?’ Turns out, I’m not. It was hilarious. Each of the scenes in Pear Shaped is based on one, or a compilation of moments, from that post. The name, Pear Shaped, is Aussie slang basically for when ‘**** hits the fan.’”
RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World • Catherine Bainbridge & Alfonso Maiorana, co-director
Canada / 2017 / 103 min / English / Documentary Friday, 9:15 PM, LA • Saturday, 11:45 AM, GK This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Castillo, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World shows how these pioneering Native American musicians helped shape the soundtracks of our lives.
THE SENSE OF WONDER (Le Gout des Merveilles) • Eric Besnard
France / 2015 / 100 min / French w/English sub-titles / Dramatic Comedy Sponsored by Kathy & Mark Edwards Sunday, 4:30 PM, LA In Provence, Louise struggles to raise two kids and save her late husband’s fruit tree business. But times are tough and even Louise’s delicious pastries can’t keep the bank from trying to take her house, as what’s left of Louise’s life feels like it’s spinning out of control. So when she accidentally hits a stranger named Pierre with her car, it seems like the last straw. But Pierre is unlike anyone Louise has ever met. A withdrawn genius with a unique sense of wonder and logic, he is under scrutiny by the state, for possibly being a danger to himself. But when he meets Louise and her kids, Pierre suddenly feels like he’s found what he’s always been looking for- a home. Intrigued by his eccentric personality and candid innocence, Louise’s kids are drawn to Pierre, yet despite her attraction to this odd and brilliant man, Louise tries to keep him out of her already complicated life and broken heart. But oblivious to social codes, Pierre keeps being there for Louise, somehow bringing solutions to her problems, and laughter back into her home. And as she slowly opens up to him, Louise finds herself connecting with a sense of wonder, that might just rekindle her taste for life.
SERIOUS LAUNDRY • Ken Webb
USA / 2017 / 90 min / English / Comedy Friday, 3:45 PM, C2 • Sunday, 7:15 PM, C1 *Filmmaker will attend When a young man gets seduced into helping with the removal of a dead body, he must find out the truth behind the corpse before he loses his life or gains a fortune. It’s a madcap comic heist film with a lot of heart. Ken Webb wrote, directed, shot, edited and created the musical score. His multi-tasking earned him FLIFF’s 2017 Renaissance Award for his accomplishment in creating this fun, madcap, hysterical film. Kudos to his ensemble. They bought right in and their performances are the icing on the cake.
‘SHORT STUFF’ – 90 min
Friday, 10:30 AM, C2 12:58P • Kate Phelan USA / 2017 / 5 min / English Meg got locked out moving the car; her three-year-old is upstairs. THE PECULIAR QUALITIES OF MR. MAHLER • Paul Philipp Germany / 2017 / 29 min / German w/English sub-titles East Germany, 1987: The special investigator Mahler is said to have paranormal abilities. The police assigns him to solve the case of the 6-year-old Henry Kiefer, who is missing for weeks now, before this issue leads to political tensions with the West. But then he brings something to light that makes this family tragedy especially political... BRAINSTORM • Christophe Clin Belgium / 2017 / 6 min / French w/English sub-titles What happens in our heads when we are about to meet someone on the street? Anguish, prejudice, expectation, surprise, disappointment. These few very brief moments are the nest of a real brainstorm! SERVAL AND CHAUMIER: MASTERS OF THE SHADOWS • Arthur Goisset & Bastien Daret France / 2016 / 20 min / French w/English sub-titles 1896. In a small French village, Jules Chaumier, professional magician, runs into Marcel Serval, his former disciple who left 10 years ago with his wife Jacqueline. They get into a fight, which should lead them to know who actually is the true “Master of Shadows”. ASSET MANAGEMENT • Ewan Fletcher Scotland / 2017 / 8 min / English Lucas is surprised when his boss Mark invites him for a private meeting in an unsettling and isolated location. As drinks are poured and office etiquette is discarded, it soon becomes clear that Mark does not want to discuss business and that he has a very personal axe to grind. CURTAIN CALL • Lesley Manning UK / 2016 / 14 min / English Opportunity knocks for understudy actor Martin, but can he open the door and let it in? Martin is a talented actor waiting to make the step up from understudy. When he gets his big opportunity, however, he finds himself locked in the toilet. Will the chance pass him by? GET BENT • The Magic Shop USA / 2017 / 7 min / English A man in a double arm cast suddenly realizes he has to pee.
_______________________________________ SMOG OF THE SEA • Jack Johnson, Ian Cheney
USA / 2017 / 30 min / English Thursday, 7:00 PM, LA Programmed by The St. Augustine Film Society as part of their Golden Way series. Offered FREE of charge, and followed by TURTLE: The Incredible Journey The Smog of the Sea chronicles a 1-week journey through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea. Marine scientist Marcus Eriksen invited onboard an unusual crew to help him study the sea: renowned surfers Keith & Dan Malloy, musician Jack Johnson, spearfisher woman Kimi Werner, and bodysurfer Mark Cunningham become citizen scientists on a mission to assess the fate of plastics in the world’s oceans.
TURTLE: The Incredible Journey • Nick Stringer UK / 2009 / 81 min / English Thursday, 7:30 PM, LA Programmed by The St. Augustine Film Society as part of their Golden Way series. Offered FREE of charge, and preceded at 7:00 PM by Smog of the Sea. A little loggerhead turtle follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream all the way to the frozen north and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic to Africa and back to the beach where she was born.
_______________________________________ THE SPY AND THE POET (Luuraja ja luuletaja) • Toomas Hussar Estonia / 2016 / 96 min Estonian w/English sub-titles / Comedy Thriller Thursday, 7:45 PM, C3 • Saturday, 1:45 PM, C3 Lonely secret service officer Gustav meets a mysterious gypsy woman. It soon comes clear that it is a trap set by the Russian intelligence. Gustav is ordered to continue the relationship to get a better understanding of the enemy’s plans. Unfortunately, Gustav finds himself struggling with the task, as he is falling in love with the enemy. Is there a way out of this situation?
THE STORYTELLER • Joe Crump
USA / 2017 / 89 min / English / Dramatic Fantasy Sponsored by The St Augustine Entertainer Sunday, 2:00 PM, LA The love of an enchanted young girl brings wonder and healing to a broken family. On the run from her mysterious past and guided by a fairy that only she can see, Abby sparks a daisy chain of compassion, bringing joy and music
back into the family. ‘THE STORYTELLER’ is a powerful exploration of reality and the true meaning of family.
THESE DAUGHTERS OF MINE (Moje Córki, Krowy) • Kinga Debska
Poland / 2015 / 88 min / Polish w/English sub-titles / Bittersweet Comedy Thursday, 11:00 AM, C3 • Saturday, 11:30 AM, C3 A 40-year old actress (single and strong, yet lonely), her sister (an emotionally unstable schoolteacher whose married-withkids’ life appears more orderly) and their domineering father, who gradually loses control over his family due to his wife’s sudden illness and his own health troubles; these are the three individuals at the heart of this film, a touching story about the strength of family ties in a situation of imminent danger. Winner of nine nominations and winner of two Best Film Awards.
THE THIN YELLOW LINE (La Delgada Linea Amarilla) • Celso Garcia
Mexico / 2015 / 95 min / Spanish w/English sub-titles Saturday, 9:00 PM, LA • Sunday, 7:45 PM, GK The Thin Yellow Line is the journey of five men who are hired to paint the median line of a road that connects two villages in Mexico. On board of an old truck, they do the job: more than 200 kilometers that they must complete in less than fifteen days under a burning sun. Five solitary men will acknowledge that there is a thin line between right and wrong; between laughter and crying; between life and death. This seemingly simple beautiful film will move you suddenly, out of the blue, and remain with you for hours after the screen grows dark.
8th Annual
SAINT AUGUSTINE
FILM FESTIVAL
VENUES For directions to one of our screenings or events, please see our Festival Walking Map on the next page.
TRAIN DRIVER’S DIARY (Moje Córki Krowy) • Milos Radovic
Serbia-Croatia / 2016 / 85 min / Serbian w/English sub-titles / Dark Comedy Friday, 1:00 PM, C1 • Sunday, 12:45 PM, C1 Ilija, a 60-year-old train driver, is about to retire holding the infamous record of 28 kills committed during his career. His 19 years old adopted son Sima is preparing to take over the family trade and his father’s job. Ilja claims the first kill will happen quickly but when weeks pass without it and tension is getting unbearable for Sima, Ilja comes with help: he goes on search for suicidal people to jump under Sima’s train. “Kind spirit and black humour combine for maximum effect … with the right promotion, could even make multiplex crowds happy” – Cineuropa
THE TREE • Stephen Wallace Pruitt
USA / 2017 / 95 min / English / Drama Thursday, 1:30 PM, C2 • Saturday, 1:30 PM, C2 Inspired by an actual friendship between the director’s mother and his mother’s best friend, ‘The Tree’ is a poignant, heartwarming story about an 88-year-old widow (Dorothy Thorp) who takes a road trip from Wamego, Kansas, back to Terre Haute, Indiana, to visit her oldest and dearest childhood friend.
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WAITING FOR YOU • Charles Garrad
UK-France / 2017 / 92 min / English + French w/English sub-titles / Mystery Drama Thursday, 6:00 PM, C1 • Saturday, 10:15 AM, C1 Grieving young Englishman Paul, escapes to France looking for something he thinks is owed to his dead father. He manipulates his way into a mysterious, crumbling house owned by elegant, imperious musician Madeleine (Fanny Ardant). Thus, begins a game of cat and mouse between them. Both have dangerous secrets to reveal, and when all the painful truths seem to have been pulled into the light comes Madeleine’s final astonishing revelation.
THE YOUNG OFFENDERS Peter Foott
Ireland / 2017 / 83 min / English / Comedy Friday, 7:45 PM, C2 • Saturday, 8:30 PM, GK When a drug-trafficking boat capsizes off the coast of West Cork, teenagers Conor and Jock set their sights on finding one of the missing bales of cocaine, worth seven million euros. Jock, a legendary bicycle thief, procures two bikes and the best friends embark upon an eventful road trip, each hoping that the money will help them escape their troubled, inner city home lives. However, with bike-theft-obsessed Garda Sergeant Healy in hot pursuit, things get complicated - and dangerous.Inspired by the true story of Ireland’s biggest cocaine seizure in 2007, director Peter Foott’s The Young Offenders is a charming and, thanks to the antics of Conor and Jock, consistently funny movie. Warning: Comedic adult language may offend.
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USA-India / 2017 / 107 min / English Saturday, 4:15 PM, LA Sponsored by FunkyTown Fitness *The star Krystal Ellsworth & Andrea Chung, producer will be here This is the story of a feisty American hip hop dancer who travels to India with her family for a wedding and falls in love -- both with a new style of dance, and with the determined young man who introduces it to her.
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Passes & Tickets We’ve listened to our festival goers and made it easier than ever to have a simple solution to planning your SAFF participation. ALL ACCESS PASS • $180.00
The All Access Pass gives you access to all three parties and all films at any location. And, as a bonus, you have an exclusive preview day to watch films on Thursday at the Corazon Cinema and Café.
ALL FILMS PASS • $100.00
This inclusive pass gives you the opportunity to see movies at any of the three locations, as much as your eyes can handle! And, as a bonus, you have an exclusive preview day to watch films on Thursday at the Corazon Cinema and Café.
ALL LEWIS AUDITORIUM PASS • $60.00
Come see a curated range of films that will be shown in the comfort of Flagler College’s Lewis Auditorium all weekend long.
INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS • $7.00–$10.00
Individual tickets are available to purchase in advance only for Lewis Auditorium films, or 10 minutes prior to the film on-site in the Standby lines at any theater, subject to availability. $10.00 for adults; $8.00 for seniors, military and first responders; and $7.00 for students with ID.
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Attending Filmmakers Please note that filmmakers and actors will be in attendance at the screenings of their respective films. For times and venues, please see our full schedule in the center of the program; filmmakers are listed with their films.
Krystal Ellsworth, star of Heartbeats, and producer Andrea Chung
Sam Wickey and actress Kasha Fauscett My Amish World
Josh Hansbrough Peace of Heart and Riding the Wave of Autism
Lori Stoll Heaven’s Floor
Lorraine Portman Falling South
Ken Webb Serious Laundry