Suncatcher
6:30pm Friday, Sept. 27th
(Narrative, United States, 12 minutes)
A haunting meditation that captures both the stunning beauty, and perilous isolation, of life on the fringes of Los Angeles’s coastal westside.
The Traffic Separating Device
6:30pm Friday, Sept. 27th
(Documentary, Sweden, 15 minutes)
A traffic separating device is installed in the middle of Stockholm. Tragic and funny situations occur and we follow the whole mess of human failures.
Mixed
6:30pm Friday, Sept. 27th
(Narrative, United States, 4 minutes)
Hecklers at a fast food drive-thru meet their match.
Minor Key
6:30pm Friday, Sept. 27th
(Narrative, Spain, 11 minutes)
A moving story about a father, his son, and a record player.
Behind the Bullet
4:30pm Sunday, Sept. 29th
(Documentary, United States, 84 min)
Four individuals share the conflicting emotions and moral injury that comes after a self-defense, accidental, or unintentional shooting, offering a new perspective on gun violence.
8 Slices
2:15pm Sunday Sept. 29th
(Narrative, United States, 83 min)
A struggling pizza parlor unknowingly hires an undercover YouTube star who’s notorious for his sarcastic viral videos. As he gets to know the staff the situation gets complicated.
Kifaru
12:00pm Sunday, Sept. 29th
(Documentary, Kenya, Subtitled, 81 min)
This film follows the lives of two young Kenyan recruits that join Ol Pejeta Conservancy’s rhino caretaker unit – a group of rangers that protect the last northern white rhino.
The Rusalka
9:15pm Saturday, Sept. 28th
(Narrative, United States, 79 min)
In a story of myth, passion, and revenge a man searches a North Carolina lake for the monster that murdered his husband. Meanwhile that monster falls in love with an unsuspecting visitor.
Ode to Joy
7:15pm Saturday, Sept. 28th
(Narrative, United States, 97 min)
Based on a story from “This American Life”, Charlie struggles with acute narcolepsy brought on anytime he experiences joy. When he falls in love his life becomes extremely complicated.
While I Breathe, I Hope
11:30am Saturday, Sept. 28th
(Documentary, United States, 75 min)
Exploring what it means to be young, Black, and Democrat in the Southern Republican state of South Carolina through the experiences of politician Bakari Sellers.