SouthSide Film Institute

2013 Screenings

Ananimo | Drama – Romance | Shorts 2 Block
Directed by: Andres Delzo
2012| Peru | 29m 53s
A handicapped teenager begins to exchange letters with an anonymous woman. As time progresses they quickly develop a strong mutual friendship. The young man grows affection for her, and the mysteries surrounding her whereabouts and her background is embarked in his dreams of pure fantasy towards the ideal woman he believes he’s communicating with. Standing in the edge of reality to his tempered dreams of the growing affection for the alleged woman.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 7:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Victory Firehouse: 3:20pm Saturday, June 15

Animation Hotline | Animation| Animated Block
Directed by: Dustin Grella
2012 | USA | 5m 30s |http://www.dustingrella.com
Animation Hotline, 2012 is a selection of short animations from the longer series of the same name.  Anonymous messages on the artist’s voicemail provide the content for these sometimes insightful, sometimes bizarre, micro-shorts.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 7:20pm Saturday, June 15

Barbed Wire City | Documentary
Directed by: John Philapavage and Kevin Kiernan
2013| USA | 117m 00s | http://barbedwirecity.com
Barbed Wire City: The Unauthorized Story of Extreme Championship Wrestling is an independent documentary film that studies the history of, and people who made, Extreme Championship Wrestling a cult sensation in the 1990s. The film takes an intimate look at this subculture and finds a very human story about athletes who see themselves as entertainers, and were willing to take massive amounts of punishment for little money based on the promise of something more within their industry. This is a film about culture and human beings-who just happen to use tables and chairs and violent acts as part of their performance art. This documentary is not owned or supported by the WWE.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 9:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Victory Firehouse: 5:20pm Saturday, June 15

Benjamin’s Flowers | Animated Drama | Animated Block
Directed by: Malin Erixon
2012 | Sweden | 11m 52s | http://www.benjaminsflowers.com
Benjamin’s lack of love and company has placed him on the blurry borderline between fantasy and reality, where it can be hard to understand what’s what. We meet Benjamin in the room in which he lives his life – see his confusion, his obsessive thoughts and colorful imagination.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 7:20pm Saturday, June 15

Burmese Refugee | Drama – Narrative | Shorts 2 Block
Directed by: Michael Tacca
2013| USA | 19m 30s | http://www.facebook.com/burmeserefugee
San Aung, a refugee from Burma, has escaped his oppressive homeland. He now faces an
uncertain future in America. Unable to work in his learned trade, San Aung slaves day after day in a dingy restaurant kitchen. Meanwhile, his family is still stranded in a Thai refugee camp.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 7:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Victory Firehouse: 3:20pm Saturday, June 15

Cannon Fodder | Horror
Directed by: Eitan Gafny
2012 | Israel | 92m 32s | http:// www.cannonfoddermovie.com
Doron, a security operative, who takes on one last mission: to capture, number 3 in the terrorist organization of Hezbollah, in Lebanon. With an elite force, Doron enters Lebanon to complete his last mission. Very soon he discovers that reality is not so simple, and that a new and unknown enemy is to be dealt with – and Hezbollah are the last thing on his mind.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 9:20pm Wednesday, June 12

Chiralia | Drama | Drama Block
Directed by: Gil Santiago
2012 | Germany | 26m 00s
Six people, three generations. A lake in the forest.  A boy disappears.  This tragic event, transported from person to person, spawns a collective screen onto which individual fears and wishes are projected.  The dramatic consequences recede to the background and are superimposed with the subjective experience of the figures until the veracity of the events dissolves.  Did something really happen to the boy?  What remains is a feeling of uncertainty that grows out of the unreliable interplay between reality, perception and memory.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 5:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Sinclair: 5:20pm Saturday, June  15

Christmas Day | Animated Drama | Shorts 2 Block
Directed by: Richard O’Connor
2012 | USA | 3m 50s
A couple experiences a typical Christmas.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 7:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Victory Firehouse: 3:20pm Saturday, June 15

Cicada Princess | Animated Narrative | Animated Block
Directed by: Mauricio Baiocchi
2012 | USA | 6m 44s
For sixteen years cicadas live underground. They emerge for one glorious night to live out their lives in hope of finding happiness and maybe… love. They gather for the grand cicada party at the castle, knowing that when the sun rises, their lives will come to an end.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 7:20pm Saturday, June 15

Cockneys vs Zombies | Horror Comedy
Directed by: Matthias Hoene
2012 | UK | 88m 00s | http:// www.facebook.com/CockneysVsZombies
The Bow Bells Care Home is under threat and the McGuire’s Andy, Terry, and Katy – need to find some way to keep their grandfather and his friends in the East End, where they belong. But, when you’re robbing a bank, zombie invasions makes things a lot harder. And let’s face it, they need all the help they can get when their bank-robbing experts turn out to be Mental Mickey and Davey Tuppance.  As contractors to an East London building site unlock a 350-year old vault full of seriously hungry zombies, the East End has suddenly gone to hell and the Cockney way of life is under threat. Equipped with all the guns and ammo they can carry, it’s up to the gang to save the hostages, their grandfather, and East London from zombie Armageddon.
Screening Times: Broughal: 11:59pm Friday, June 14

Crossbow | Narrative Drama| Shorts 3 Block
Directed by: James P. Gannon
2013 | USA | 15m 19s
After the death of his sister, Walter is forced to take in his nephew Willis. Willis, having never known his father, looks up to Walter and follows him around like a lost dog. This unwanted attention annoys Walter and leads to a confrontation that will change the way they look at each other forever. Crossbow, shot almost entirely using plastic and ‘hacked’ lenses is a collection of dream like moments and quite scenes. A brief study of the relationship between two grown men, who have never completely grown up or know how.
Screening Times:  Sinclair: 9:20pm Friday, June 14 | Victory Firehouse: 7:40pm Saturday, June 15

A Cure | Drama | Drama Block
Directed by: Matthew Herbertz
2012 | USA | 11m 30s
Pulled out of school when her mother finds out her sexual interest in other girls, Sarah is forced by her mother to undergo reparative therapy.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 5:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Sinclair: 5:20pm Saturday, June  15

Dear Mr. Watterson | Documentary
Directed by: Joel Allen Schroeder
2013 | USA | 89m 00s | http://www.dearmrwatterson.com/
Calvin and Hobbes dominated the comics in thousands of newspapers for a decade, but when the strip’s creator, Bill Watterson, retired the strip in 1995, readers everywhere felt the void left by the departure of Calvin and his tiger, and many fans would never find a satisfactory replacement.  Newspaper readership and book sales can be tracked and recorded, but the human impact Bill Watterson has had and the value and significance of his art are perhaps impossible to measure.  Dear Mr. Watterson is an exploration to discover why Watterson’s ‘simple’ comic strip made such an impact on so many readers in the 80s and 90s, and why it still means so much to us today.
Screening Times: Broughal: 7:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Sinclair: 7:20pm Friday, June 14

Die the Good Death | Documentary
Directed by: Silvia Fernandez Campos and Beatriz M. Calleja
2011 | Spain, India | 51m 45s
Varanasi – The City of Light and Death. Travel with us to the holiest city in India to which Indians make their final pilgrimage so they may bathe and die near the Holy Ganges River in order to purify their karma. We explore concepts in how Indians perceive, celebrate and prepare to accept their death in ways foreign to most Westerners in an effort to determine – Is it possible to die the good death?
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Victory Firehouse: 7:20pm Friday, June 14

Ellen is Leaving | Narrative Dramedy | Shorts 1 Block
Directed by: Michelle Savill
2012 | New Zealand | 15m 46s
Ellen is leaving because she can. Travel is the cancer of modern relationships. Ellen needs to find her sad-sack of a boyfriend, Hamish, a nice leaving gift to try and help the mutual breakup feel a bit better. When Hamish jokingly suggests she get him a new girlfriend Ellen realizes it’s actually the perfect idea and sets out to find him the right girl. But when things start going a bit better than planned, Ellen starts to loose her nerve. Can she really give him up?
Screening Times: Sinclair: 9:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 3:20pm Saturday, June 15

The Event | Animated Sci-Fi | Animated Block
Directed by: Julia Pott
2012| USA, UK | 3m 05s
Love and a severed foot, at the end of the world.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 7:20pm Saturday, June 15

Feral | Animated Drama | Animated Block
Directed by: Daniel A Sousa
2012 | USA | 12m 46s | http://www.danielsousa.com/feral
A wild boy is found in the woods by a solitary hunter and brought back to civilization. Alienated by a strange new environment, the boy tries to adapt by using the same strategies that kept him safe in the forest.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 7:20pm Saturday, June 15

Friend Request Pending | Narrative | Shorts 3 Block
Directed by: Chris Foggin
2011| UK | 12m 00s | http://www.chriscroucher.com/films/friend-request-pending
Friend Request Pending is a short comedy drama about the mature generation dating in our modern social networking world. It’s a tale of love but more importantly lifelong friendship. The twelve-minute tale tells the story of Mary (Judi Dench) and Linda (Penny Ryder) who spend an afternoon discussing the pleasures, pitfalls and problems with using social networking to try and woo the local choirmaster Trevor (Philip Jackson).
Screening Times:  Sinclair: 9:20pm Friday, June 14 | Victory Firehouse: 7:40pm Saturday, June 15

Funeral Home Pinatas | Animated Comedy | Animated Block
Directed by: Andrew McCully, Jayson Simpson, Jacob Tuck, and Arun Gnanasekhar
2012 | New Zealand | 1m 11s
We’re putting fun into funerals! A student directed team production, this CGI animated short is a mock-commercial for funeral parlour with alternative option for sending off your loved ones.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 7:20pm Saturday, June 15

Good Ol’ Freda | Documentary
Directed by: Ryan White
2013| UK | 86m 00s | http:// www.goodolfreda.com
Good Ol’ Freda is the story of Freda Kelly, a shy Liverpudlian teenager asked to work for a young local band hoping to make it big: The Beatles. Their loyal secretary from beginning to end, Freda tells her stories for the first time in 50 years.
Screening Times: Broughal: 8:00pm Tuesday, June 11 | Broughal: 7:20pm Friday, June 14

Graceland Girls | Documentary | Doc Block
Directed by: Jordan Salvatoriello
2012 | USA, Kenya | 28m 20s | http://www.GracelandGirlsDocumentary.com
Educating its adolescent girls has proven to be the cornerstone of Kenyan development, yet so many are denied equal access to education, social and economic equality and respect. The half-hour documentary Graceland Girls provides an intimate look at how the high school students at Graceland Girls School in central Kenya have, so far, defied the odds. Using a combination of video and digital photographs – taken by both the subjects and the filmmaker – the girls express the beauty and pressures of empowered Kenyan girlhood and share their personal struggles to find hope for a better future.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 5:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Sinclair: 5:20pm Friday, June 14| Victory Firehouse: 7:20pm Friday, June 14

Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation | Documentary
Directed by: Laura Archibald
2012 | Canada | 92m 00s | http:// www.greenwichmusicdoc.com
Featuring poignant interviews with Pete Seeger, Kris Kristofferson, Don McLean, Peter Yarrow, Arlo Guthrie, Lucy and Carly Simon, Tom Chapin and Judy Collins, among dozens of other music luminaries, Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation combines talking heads with rare archival footage to tell a story about a community that created a generation-defining music.
Screening Times: Broughal: 9:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Broughal: 5:20pm Saturday, June 15

Hell Cat | Horror Comedy | Late Night Movie Block, Shorts 3
Directed by: Ged Murray
2011 | Ireland | 9m 22s | http://www.hellcatmovie.com
Charlotte is obsessed with her talking cat Charlie’s Youtube hits. But when her new boyfriend tries to muscle in between her and her cat, all hell breaks loose. Charlotte and her cat fight it out all over the house, but it’s not over until all of Charlie’s nine lives are up.
Screening Times:  Sinclair: 9:20pm Friday, June 14 | Broughal: 11:59pm Friday, June 14 | Victory Firehouse: 7:40pm Saturday, June 15

I Am Tom Moody | Animated Comedy | Animated Block
Directed by: Ainslie Henderson
2012| UK | 6m 55s | http://www.ainsliehenderson.com
A surreal trip through the subconscious of a stifled musician as he struggles to sing.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 7:20pm Saturday, June 15

I Beat Mike Tyson | Documentary | Shorts 2 Block
Directed by: Joshua Z Weinstein
2012 | USA | 12m 41s | http://ibeatmiketyson.com
In 2005, an unknown Irish boxer beat Mike Tyson in front of hundreds of thousands of people. Then he disappeared. Filmmaker Joshua Z Weinstein rediscovers boxer Kevin McBride, raising his children in a gritty Boston suburb. Kevin’s body is deteriorating, yet he compulsively continues to fight. This lyrical film finds a boxer at the end of his career, engaging in the Sisyphean task that is his life.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 7:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Victory Firehouse: 3:20pm Saturday, June 15

Kayip (The Loss) | Drama | Drama Block
Directed by: Mete Sozer
2013 | Belgium, Turkey | 14m 10s
‘The Loss’ is the story of a man’s grieving uncomplainingly after the loss of his love and a woman’s awareness of her own loss as she gets older. Their ways cross time after time at the old Greek cafe. A lifetime passes by, changing them both spiritually and physically, while trying to cope with their pain.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 5:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Sinclair: 5:20pm Saturday, June  15

The Last Shepherd | Documentary
Directed by: Marco Bonfanti
2012 | Italy | 76m 00s
Renato Zucchelli is the last travelling shepherd left in Milan. And he has a dream: leading his sheep to the inaccessible center of the city to meet the children who have never seen him, showing them that dreams and freedom will always be as long as there is still place to believe in a last shepherd, who conquered back his city together with only his sheep and the power of fantasy.
Screening Times: Broughal: 5:20pm Friday, June 14 | Broughal: 3:20pm Saturday, June 15

Liv & Ingmar | Documentary
Directed by: Akolkar, Dheeraj
2012 | Norway, UK, India | 81m 00s | http://www.livandingmar.com/
This feature documentary is an affectionate yet truthful account of the 42 years and 12 films long relationship between legendary actress Liv Ullmann and master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
Screening Times: Broughal: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Broughal: 1:20pm Saturday, June 15

Mama Don’t Like No Guitar Pickers ‘Round Here | Documentary
Directed by: Jacqueline Van Vugt
2009 | Netherlands | 95m 00s
The film is situated in the Amsterdam vintage guitar shop de Plug. The visitors, some of whom are famous musicians, all share the love for music and guitars. It goes without saying: friendship is playing music together and sharing each other’s troubles and dreams.  Rock and Roll has its price: family life is shattered and visitation rights are hard to get. A moving film about love, heartache, and Rock and Roll.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 7:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Sinclair: 1:20pm Saturday, June 15

Marcel, King of Tervuren | Animated Drama | Animated Block
Directed by: Tom Schroeder
2012 | USA | 6m 0s
Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills and his son Max. Though blinded in one eye, he remains the King of Tervuren. Greek tragedy as acted out by Belgian roosters.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 7:20pm Saturday, June 15

More Than Honey | Documentary
Directed by: Markus Imhoof
2013 | USA, Germany, Switzerland, China| 91m 00s
Over the past fifteen years, numerous colonies of bees have been decimated throughout the world. The causes of this disaster haven’t yet been established. Depending on the regions of the world concerned, between 50% and 90% of the bees have disappeared. This epidemic, of colossal violence and breadth, is spreading from beehive to beehive all over the planet. Everywhere, the same scenario is repeated: billions of bees leave their hives, never to return. No bodies are found in the immediate surroundings. No visible predators.
Screening Times: Broughal: 7:20pm Saturday, June 15

My Apologies | Comedy | Late Night Movie Block
Directed by: Andreas Goldfuss
2009| Canada | 0m 10s
A filmmaker apologizes for his film.
Screening Times: Broughal: 11:59pm Friday, June 14

Nach Hause | Drama | Shorts 1 Block
Directed by: Janos Menberg
2012| Switzerland | 17m 55s
Vincent wants to go home to persuade his wife to come back to him. His Alzheimers, however, does not make it easy for him as everything is not as it appears in his world.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 9:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 3:20pm Saturday, June 15

Night Shift | Drama | Shorts 2 Block
Directed by: Zia Mandviwalla
2012 | New Zealand | 12m 00s
Salote, an airport cleaner starts another long night shift. She keeps her head down, does her job and gleans her survival from what others leave behind. No one would usually spare her a second glance.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 7:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Victory Firehouse: 3:20pm Saturday, June 15

Oh Willy… | Animated Comedy | Animated Block
Directed by: Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels
2012| Belgium, France, Netherlands | 15m 0s
Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 7:20pm Saturday, June 15

The Oldest Tree | Documentary | Shorts 2 Block
Directed by: Dale Elrod
1997 | USA | 12m 00s
We experience life’s tempo from the bristlecone pine’s perspective in arrestingly beautiful, lingering shots of these ancient, gnarled trees.  A surprise is in store when modern man meets 5,000-year-old tree.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 7:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Victory Firehouse: 3:20pm Saturday, June 15

On the Road to Tel Aviv | Drama | Shorts 1 Block
Directed by: Khen Shalem
2008 | Israel | 18m 00s | http://www.roadtotelaviv.com
“On the Road to Tel-Aviv” is a drama (with comedy elements) that shows how, under the tense reality of war and terror, enemies can sometimes find themselves in the same boat (or in the same bus).  It is a story of a young Israeli who finds himself in a frightening situation when a suspicious looking Arab woman enters the same bus as his fiance. He then tries to get his fiancée out of the bus without creating too much of a scene, but panic ensues and he must right the situation, as the realities of war, terror, and enemies are exposed.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 9:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 3:20pm Saturday, June 15

The Other Side | Drama | Shorts 1 Block
Directed by: Khen Shalem
2012 | Israel| 23m 00s
A simple soccer ball sparks an unusual friendship between two young boys on either side of the Israeli and Palestinian separation wall. Can this wordless and gaze free relationship over come the wall’s towering presence?
Screening Times: Sinclair: 9:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 3:20pm Saturday, June 15

Out of Print | Documentary
Directed by: Vivienne Roumani
2013 | USA | 54m 49s | http://www.outofprintthemovie.com
Out of Print draws us into the topsy-turvy world of words, illuminating the turbulent, exciting journey from the book through the digital revolution. Ray Bradbury, Scott Turow, Jeff Bezos, parents, students, educators, scientists — all highlight how this revolution is changing everything about the printed word — and changing us.  Narrated by Meryl Streep.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 5:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Sinclair: 5:20 Friday, June 14

The Places Where We Lived | Animated Dramedy | Animated Block
Directed by: Bernardo Britto
2012 | USA | 6m 45s
A man wakes up with a terrible feeling. His parents are selling his childhood home. A goodbye/love letter to Florida.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 7:20pm Saturday, June 15

Pechorin | Drama
Directed by: Roman Khrushch
2011 | Russian Federation | 94m 40s | http://romanfilm.ru/en/
Based on the Russian classic novel. While maintaining all the main plot-lines of the novel, it follows the events not as they happen but as they are reflected in the mind of the dying hero. Thus make a chain of recollections about the life he had lived through, now seen as a series of irrevocable mistakes and interpreted anew: it is either reconsideration or repentance. Recollections make main hero torment himself over his own past pretenses that seem ridicules now agonize and despair over his perfect indifference to everything except himself, see the horrible aspect of killing his friend, a greenhorn and a show-off. The final action of an intelligent and outstanding man is judging oneself without mercy.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 5:20pm Wednesday, June 12

Pulling Teeth | Documentary | Shorts 1 Block
Directed by: Jennifer Suwak and Steve Abruzzese
2012 | USA | 9m 25s
‘Pulling Teeth’ looks at the work and philosophy of Equestrian Dentist, John Baker. His communication with horses and his ability to bond with them make him very unique in his field of work.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 9:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 3:20pm Saturday, June 15

Q | Comedy | Shorts 3 Block
Directed by: Felipe Vara de Rey
2012 | USA | 7m 53s
A Knight-errand in Brooklyn.  Q has a goal: conquering the heart of the beautiful Dolores. However, his loyal friend Santos doesn’t think it will be that easy. They are going to need a strategy to get to Dolores. After all, who knows what fierce adversaries they might encounter on their way?
Screening Times:  Sinclair: 9:20pm Friday, June 14 | Victory Firehouse: 7:40pm Saturday, June 15

Red, White, and Blueprints:  A Rust Belt Documentary | Documentary
Directed by: Jack Storey
2013 | USA| 69m 00s | http://savingcities.com
Red, White, & Blueprints is a documentary film that highlights several of the most innovative initiatives, individuals, and emerging ideas in the Rust Belt, and makes the case for why we still matter as a region. From St. Louis to Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, & beyond; the sole intention of this film is to inform and inspire a new generation of leaders to take the vital actions necessary to revitalize our great region.
Screening Times:  Broughal: 5:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Victory Firehouse: 5:20pm Friday, June 14

Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto | Animated Drama | Drama Block
Directed by: Johan Oettinger
2012 | Denmark | 7m 48s
The Warsaw Ghetto, 1942. Samek, an eight year old boy who is naughty and full of life, peeks through a hole in the ghetto wall and sees a carrot lying on the sidewalk just on the other side. He tries to pull the carrot through the hole with a piece of wire, unaware that two SS men are posted nearby and are following his every move.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 5:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Sinclair: 5:20pm Saturday, June  15

Shelved | Animated Comedy | Animated Block
Directed by: James Cunningham
2012 | New Zealand | 5m 36s
Even robots get bored in dead end jobs, until they realize they are about to be replaced by humans! A clever comedy comes out of nowhere, shot in one day with actors replaced by animated robots.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 7:20pm Saturday, June 15

Sin Dolor | Drama | Drama Block
Directed by: Joe Greco
2012 | Puerto Rico, USA | 22m 16s | http://www.sindolormovie.com
A curious doctor seeks the source of a young boy’s inability to feel pain.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 5:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Sinclair: 5:20pm Saturday, June  15

Social Butterfly | Drama | Shorts 3 Block
Directed by: Lauren Wolkstein
2012 | France, USA | 14m 00s
A 30-year-old American woman enters into a teenage party in the South of France. Some of the guests wonder who she is and what she is doing there.
Screening Times:  Sinclair: 9:20pm Friday, June 14 | Victory Firehouse: 7:40pm Saturday, June 15

Statue | Romantic Comedy | Shorts 1 Block
Directed by: Andrew Bryan
2010 | USA | 9m 52s
A lonely, ‘living-statue’ street performer in the French Quarter of New Orleans tries to win the heart of a nearby street musician.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 9:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 3:20pm Saturday, June 15

Sticks and Stones | Drama | Drama Block
Directed by: Corine Dhondee
2013 | UK | 9m 37s
After fleeing abuse, a young woman, Rose struggles to re-assimilate into the world. Haunted by her past and face with the present she is forced to make a decision.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 5:20pm Thursday, June 13 | Sinclair: 5:20pm Saturday, June  15

Tales From The Organ Trade | Documentary
Directed by: Ric Esther Bienstock
2013 | Canada | 82m 00s | http://www.talesfromtheorgantrade.com/
Tales From The Organ Trade is a gritty and unflinching descent into the shadowy world of black-market organ trafficking: the street-level brokers, the rogue surgeons, the impoverished men and women who are willing to sacrifice a slice of their own bodies for a quick payday, and the desperate patients who face the agonizing choice of obeying the law or saving their lives.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 5:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Victory Firehouse: 9:20pm Friday, June 14

The Things My Father Never Taught Me | Comedy | Shorts 3 Block
Directed by: Burleigh Smith
2012| Australia | 7m 00s
Melvin gives dating advice to his three-year-old son.
Screening Times:  Sinclair: 9:20pm Friday, June 14 | Victory Firehouse: 7:40pm Saturday, June 15

Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film | Documentary
Directed by: Grant Hamilton
2012 | USA | 95m 00s | http://www.timezeromovie.com
“Time Zero” starts as a eulogy to Polaroid instant film and cameras, sharing with viewers the magic of instant photography through the perspective of a few artists and former employees of the corporation. After documenting the fateful day when Polaroid announced it would cease production of instant film, “Time Zero” shares the intense emotions of several photographers as they recount hearing the news…and focuses on the passionate efforts of a small team who,  against all odds, tried to keep instant photography alive.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 9:20pm Thursday, June 13

Volti | Drama | Shorts 3 Block
Directed by: Antonio De Palo
2013 | Italy | 30m 00s
Riccardo is a child with Down syndrome with a burning passion for the theatre. Each afternoon, with the collusion of Mr. De Angelis, he sneaks into the small-town theatre in order to witness rehearsals featuring Mattia as he prepares for a show inspired by Marcel Marceau. The young Mattia, however, is hiding a secret that no one suspects.
Screening Times:  Sinclair: 9:20pm Friday, June 14 | Victory Firehouse: 7:40pm Saturday, June 15

Weight of Words | Documentary | Doc Block
Directed by: Johnny Gerhart and Philip Armand
2012 | USA | 14m 35s
Artist Gene Schmidt takes St. Paul’s words about love on a journey through the ‘City of Brotherly Love’.
Screening Times: Victory Firehouse: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Victory Firehouse: 7:20pm Friday, June 14

Year of the Living Dead | Documentary
Directed by: Rob Kuhns
2012| USA | 76m 10s
In 1968, while war raged in Vietnam and U.S. cities exploded with racial violence, a young college drop out named George A. Romero directed a low budget horror film that shocked the world and became an icon of the counterculture – ‘Night of the Living Dead.’
Screening Times: Broughal: 9:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Broughal: 9:20 Friday, June 14

Yellow Sticky Notes | Canadian Anijam  | Animation | Animated Block
Directed by: Jeff Chiba Stearns
2013 | Canada | 7m 40s | http://www.yellowstickynotesanijam.com
For the first time in Canadian history, 15 of Canada’s most award-winning and celebrated independent animators have come together to create one collaborative animated film.
Screening Times: Sinclair: 7:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Sinclair: 7:20pm Saturday, June 15

Zero Charisma | Dramedy
Directed by: Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews
2012 | USA | 86m 49s | http://www.zerocharismathemovie.com
Metal-loving gamer geek Scott Weidemeyer lives with his ornery grandmother and works a lousy job at a donut shop. But every Tuesday night, he is the omnipotent Game Master, guiding his role-players through a tabletop journey of fantasy and adventure. However, when neo-nerd hipster Miles joins his game, Scott begins to resent the admiration Miles receives from the other players. To make matters worse, the health of his grandmother begins to falter, and his
estranged mother visits town, reminding Scott of a childhood he’d just as soon forget. Caught in a spiral of rage and delusion, Scott is forced to take drastic steps to reclaim his honor, and his identity as the Game Master.
Screening Times: Broughal: 5:20pm Wednesday, June 12 | Broughal: 9:20pm Saturday, June 15