Film Festival Films 2016

Mousse

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Comedy

Genre: Drama/Comedy
Film Length: 41min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Short Synopsis: What could be easier than robbing a small bookie place on the outskirts of town? It’s during the year’s biggest horse race event and the betting center Washington’s Tobacco looks like the ultimate hit for some fast cash. Mousse is a man of pride and principles and is fed up with living as a second-class citizen. But what happens when he faces principles different to his own?

Promise Me

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Film type:
Short
Film Category: Drama

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 8min

Showtimes: Friday April 15, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Short Synopsis:
“Promise Me” is an emotionally charged social drama in which a once flourishing woman, now at the end of her life, struggles to ensure that her recently reconciled son does not make the same mistakes that she did.

Promise Me paints a touching, intimate portrait of one dying woman’s final day on Earth and her plight to right the wrongs of her past while attempting to convince her recently reconciled son not to follow in her footsteps. Promise Me broaches the topic of Death with Dignity in an environment where the practice is not legal, but shows the reality of a situation that happens in America on a daily basis.

Oh Crappy Day

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Comedy

Genre: Romantic Comedy
Film Length: 18min

Showtimes: Coming Soon

Short Synopsis: “Oh Crappy Day” is a romantic comedy with a psychological twist. Jared, an aspiring filmmaker, meets Katie, a charming young grad student, on a blind date, and the two of them seem perfectly matched. Jared has a problem, though: an acute case of OCD, which he’s determined to hide from Katie. He succeeds for a while, until a sticky menu triggers his compulsive hand-washing, threatening the budding romance. It’s a classic love triangle — a boy, a girl, a pair of hands.

The Skin

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Horror
Film Length: 10min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 5:45pm – 7:15pm

Short Synopsis: After the peculiar death of her father, Lena Hardesty discovers that her sister, Sarah, has acquired the same strange symptoms. With the help of a rustic local, Lena sets a plan in motion to save her sister and herself from the same fate.

Mother’s Day

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Drama, Family,

Genre: Drama, Family
Film Length: 7min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Short Synopsis: Tragedy forces Mary (Academy Award Winner: Melissa Leo) and her son Jay (Gabriel Furman) to say goodbye forever.

No_PosterShoreline

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Narrative

Genre: Experimental Narrative 
Film Length: 11min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 10:00pm – Friday, April 15, 2016 at 12:00am

Short Synopsis: Wynne must leave the family home to confront her grief. Staying with longtime friend Brean and her daughter Carla, all three ladies must learn to live with each other as Wynne finds the strength to make her way back home.

Immunity

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Suspense/Mystery
Film Length: 20min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 10:00pm

Short Synopsis: In 1942, in a small interrogation room at Auschwitz, a deadly game is playing out between a Jewish teacher (Rena Sofer) and her former student (Stephano DaFre) now an SS Doctor. The prize…his soul or her life.

Based on the Aurora Award winning Off-Broadway play

Sound of Tears

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 15min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Short Synopsis: Amina and her family have fled the city to escape her estranged lover Josh and the stamp of shame from their patriarchal community; but Josh tracks them down.

Mindflip – The Web Series

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Short

Genre: Sci-fi/Horror/Comedy
Film Length: 25min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 5:45pm – 7:15pm

Short Synopsis: The Mindflip web series introduces the characters of a feature length science fiction/horror film of the same name, while it is in development. The webisodes and interviews explore their backstories and their world. SCIENCE SPOTLIGHT features interviews with Dr. Laurence Fine, an ethically challenged Neurobiologist, and his arch-rival, Dr. Maurice Howard. WEBISODE 1 introduces Dr. Fine’s cut and paste approach to brute force cybernetics. In WEBISODE 2, Dr. Fine and his assistant Rex discuss impediments to their work over tea, with inescapable metaphors for literature, language and reality. WEBISODE 3 finds Dr Fine feeling scorned by the scientific community. To vindicate his theories, he attempts to swap the minds of a dog and a cat. The results are not as expected. WEBISODES 4 & 5 (in Post-production) reveal the dark consequences of his experiment, and the lightning bolt at the end of the tunnel.

Jack is Pretty

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Fairy Tale
Film Length: 26min

Showtimes: Friday, April 1 2016 at 7:00pm – 10:30pmer

Short Synopsis: Amid the chaos and instability of growing up with neglectful parents, and enduring the taunting of a bully, a little girl strikes out on her own to find order, happiness, and an understanding of the world around her. As the dangers surrounding her come closing in, her world brightens when she finds the solace of friendship and love with an old, discarded Jack In The Box.

No_PosterGood Morning

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Dark Comedy/Drama
Film Length: 9min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Short Synopsis:

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No End

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Experimental
Film Length: 6min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 2:00pm – 3:45pm

Short Synopsis: No End was inspired by a poem written by the film maker over the course of six months. During this process, abstract images surfaced, subsided, and settled, eventually forming the foundation of a film. What developed from this is a lyrical journey that explores the intersection of interconnectivity and lived experience. An original soundtrack composed by Graham Stewart of Viosac accompanies and complements the work.

 

 

A Cows’s Tale – The Laura Secord Story

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Historical Drama
Film Length: 18min

Showtimes: April 17, 2016 1:30 pm – 3:15 pm

Short Synopsis: It is June of 1813 and England and the United States are at war.

On a warm afternoon in Queenston Upper Canada, Laura Secord is peacefully milking her cow Elsie. Suddenly Laura’s niece Elizabeth screams for help as American soldiers have taken Laura’s husband James prisoner. Laura, Elizabeth and Elsie run to his rescue. US Col, Charles Boerstler orders Laura and her family to house and feed the Americans during their occupation.

Late one afternoon following as the Americans are indulging in an alcohol fueled meal, Elsie causes a big commotion to draw Laura outside just in time to hear the American’s planning their attack on British commander Fitzgibbon and his forces.

Because James is too injured to make the long walk to De Cew House himself, Laura and Elizabeth set out on the 18 mile journey. Elsie joins them.

Laura Elizabeth and Elsie set out on the journey and change their appearance to look as if they are ‘just going into town’. Not long into the journey they hear a gun shot…and become aware of other US soldiers in the area. They must take a detour.
As they continue on their new route, Laura tires of holding Elsie’s rope and orders Elsie to stay put so she and Elizabeth can continue without her. Elsie refuses and continues to march alongside them.

Later in the day, as they grow more tired walking through the swamps and trails, Elizabeth injures her ankle and becomes to weak to continue. Laura arranges for Elizabeth to stay at a home in Shipman’s Corners. Laura and Elsie continue on together.

As Laura and Elsie make their way through the woods and trails, they must make it up ‘the mountain’ – the Niagara Escarpment. Elsie must pull and drag Laura up the the hill and then they must cross the waters of the 12 Mile Creek. Laura grows even more exhausted and cannot even carry the satchel containing the important scroll. Laura places the bag strap over Elsie’s head for her to carry it. Finally Laura collapses and Elsie must continue on to Fitzgibbon.

Elsie arrives at DeCew House the home being used by the British forces. She surprises a red coated soldier and he calls for Fitzgibbon’s help. Col Fizgibbon notices the satchel and retrieves the scroll, He quickly reads the information and orders Elsie to take him to Laura.

Fizgibbon finds the collapsed Laura along the trail and he helps her to her feet. She is too weak and he mus carry her. Fizgibbon cannot carry Laura too much farther and drapes Laura over Elsie’s back so now the cow can transport Laura back to DeCew House.

Laura, Fitzgibbon and Elsie finally arrive at DeCew House and Laura is helped to safety.
At DeCew House a few days later, Col Fitzgibbon dictates the heroic efforts of Laura and the British victory to his colleague Cuthbert, and now Laura and Elsie can return to their normal lives.

Goodbye Ohio

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama

Film Length: 16min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00pm – 11:45pm

Short Synopsis: Lily, an aspiring writer gets an internship to New York City with no plans of returning. She meets one last time with the guy who broke her heart, her ex. As they reunite, she starts to wonder should she stay or should she go?

Guess Who’s Not Coming To Breakfast Lunch or Dinner?

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Dark Comedy / Psychological Horror
Film Length: 11min

Showtimes: April 16, 2016 8:15 pm – 9:45 pm

Short Synopsis: Set in 1956 propaganda filled, nuclear bomb scared America, the Swanson family has a peculiar taste for entertaining their guests.

No_PosterThe Mobile Stripper

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Comedy / Drama
Film Length: 14min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00pm – 11:45pm

Short Synopsis: Mark is having what appears to be a normal ordinary day in a small ordinary town. On his way to work, he notices something different. A pink RV stationed in a parking lot. There he meets Veronica, a wild mouth woman who just needs directions to the gas station. But often things are never what they seem and what begins as a friendly ride to the gas station soon develops into an unforeseen adventure with the Mobile Stripper.

Peter And Jane Know Some of the Same People

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Thriller, Comedy Noire
Film Length: 13min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Short Synopsis: Peter and Jane found each other on the internet. They liked what they saw and decided to meet in person. That’s when they discovered what wasn’t mentioned online.

The Watchers

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Short

Genre: Thriller/Sci-Fi
Film Length: 17min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00am – 11:30am

Short Synopsis: Mind-Control, Manipulation, Assassination, Chaos: All in a day’s work. Every Action is calculated. Every outcome is planned.

Ouroboros

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Science Fiction

Genre: Science Fiction
Film Length: 16min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16 2016 at 10:00am – 11:30am

Short Synopsis: Quantum physicist Dr. Faye O’Neill creates an artificial wormhole and achieves a breakthrough in teleportation. But the wormhole brings an unexpected visitor – Faye’s future self – with a warning that the teleportation device threatens the fabric of space time and the very existence of the universe.

Burned

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Thriller

Genre: Thriller
Film Length: 17min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016. at 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Short Synopsis: Jason (Beau Knapp; ‘The Signal’, ‘Southpaw’) hides in a motel room afraid of coming out. The only person he trusts is his girlfriend Lila (Maika Monroe; ‘The Guest’, ‘It Follows’), who takes him to meet a friend in a remote house in the desert. At their arrival, an unexpected guest asks too many questions. Jason’s trust for Lila begins to fade.

The Iroquois Creation Story

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Animation
Film Length: 17min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15 at 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Short Synopsis:What happens when a pregnant young woman named Sky Woman, falls through a hole in Sky World? She lands on the back of a great sea turtle and starts a new world, called Turtle Island. The Iroquois Creation Story tells the tale of how our earth came to be according to the oral story recited by the Haudenosaunee people for hundreds of years. This 16-minute film combines animation and dance to tell the story of Sky Woman and her Grandsons Fint and Sky Holder. Flint and Sky Holder make everything on earth and eventually battle for control of Turtle Island.

 

 

No_PosterContingency

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Drama

Genre: Existential Drama
Film Length: 10min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Short Synopsis: After waking up in an unknown location, a troubled man finds a rope going out into a pond and curiously, pulls it in.

 

Oracle

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama, Horror
Film Length: 14min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 8:00pm – 9:45pm

Short Synopsis: Oracle (2016) is the second in a trilogy of short films that began with Home Near Water (2013). The films are connected through themes of metamorphosis and animal spirit archetypes.

Oracle is a film about a young woman’s first signs in becoming a shaman or oracle. It follows her uncertain relationship and the haunting, dream-like visions from nature and owls that lead her to question love, death, and magic.

No_PosterIn Everyone’s Eyes

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 7min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15 at 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Short Synopsis: A poetic and slyly subversive film about life in Cuba, where it’s too dangerous to speak openly against la Revolucion.

Most Cubans learn to hide their despair, fear and paranoia about the State with a facade of acceptance and even outward happiness – it’s safer.

In the same way, a smiling singing narrator and his happy melody create the thin facade for a compelling message about free speech in today’s revolutionary Cuba.

Metal bars are a recurring motif, at homes and at the derelict Modelo prison on the isolated Isla de la Juventude. Cubans often describe their country as an ‘open prison’.

Filmed entirely in Cuba/Filmada enteramente en Cuba.

Traces of Memory

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 15min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Short Synopsis: Ruth wants to help “Phoebe,” but Phoebe wants nothing to do with her. Ruth tells Phoebe that she will leave her alone if she tells her why she is on the run. Ruth admits to burning her house down – with her kids inside– in order to escape abuse. Phoebe admits to beating her boyfriend’s lover to death, unintentionally. Ruth has some advice for Phoebe, then disappears – leaving Phoebe to ponder her own situation, and whether or not Ruth was a ghost, having died in the house fire alongside her children. Phoebe’s boyfriend shows up to get her. She decides not go with him, but instead sets off on her own.

SammySammy

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 6min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 6:00pm – 7:45pm

Short Synopsis:
While training for his 12th marathon an extremely fit middle aged runner experiences symptoms that are eerily similar to that of a heart attack. After a battery of medical tests he is diagnosed with severe coronary disease. The exact disease that killed his brother and father!

His first question is… “can I survive the surgery?”

His next… “will I ever run again?”

There is no guarantee of either!

His surgery as told through text messaging! 

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Annulment

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Short

Genre: Romantic, Comedy
Film Length: 21min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00am – 11:30am

Short Synopsis:
As zombie-like humans infected with a pandemic roam the land, stopping at nothing to spread the infection, recently divorced Harold Derryberry and Kerry O’Donoghue-Derryberry
 grudgingly try to get along, while stranded on an island cottage, as possibly the last two humans on earth.

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Vasu

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 27min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00pm – 11:45pm

Short Synopsis:
A scintillating account of a how a renowned painter gets his wife to agree for his latest nude painting assignment and lands himself in troubled waters

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Horror/Fantasy/Sci-fi
Film Length: 24min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:15pm – 6:30pm

Short Synopsis:
A strange tale of love, lust, deceit and karmic retribution. When Freddie Dale’s girlfriend sleeps with his house-mate, he is persuaded by his good friend Viz Verdi to unleash revenge through the manipulation of cosmic forces – Hindi dark magic that is Jadoo, on his unsuspecting housemate Ben with somewhat unusual repercussions. Freddie doesn’t expect any of the nonsense to work, but his friend Viz has other ideas as the two unwittingly bumble their way through a spell. An unusual set of events unfold that will change their perceptions of life, existence and the unknown forever…

‘When the need is desperate and the want impure, strange energies will flourish’

No_PosterSuspendu

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 15min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 6:00pm – 7:45pm

Short Synopsis:
At dawn, in a great classical dance conservatory, a boy falls while rehearsing some movements. Something breaks in his foot, causing sharp pain.
But it’s exams day and the boy refuses to quit: he tries to face his dance partner and classmates, convincing himself his body has no limits.

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Ante Mortem

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Dark Comedy
Film Length: 5min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Short Synopsis:
Cici, a good ol’ southern gal, is in a graveyard, about to dig up her husband as part of an elaborate insurance fraud. She is assisted by his best friend Slim, which name should really be spelled with an ‘e’ at the end of it. He sparks up a conversation about percentages, cuts, and fairness, slowing down the shoveling to make his point. Cici nervously comply, and when he finally opens the coffin we find out why. A Twisted tale that leaves Slim with a goddamn good story he gets to tell no-one. Ever.

 

She Loves Me

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Horror
Film Length: 12min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 5:45pm – 7:15pm

Short Synopsis: It is BEN and Kat’s very first date and the two seem to be hitting it off. That is, until, Ben says the wrong thing to Kat, and from there it turns into a deadly chase of cat and mouse.

No_PosterFreedom Lost

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 11min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

 

Bluey

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 13min

Showtimes: Coming Soon

Short Synopsis: Bluey is a powerful portrayal of an angry young woman trapped in a violent world of inner and outer turmoil. She desperately wants to break out of this cycle, but doesn’t know how. Through a young offender’s rehabilitation program Bluey meets a mentor. She plunges into the depths of her own self-loathing and despair. Bluey desperately wants to break out of her vicious cycle but doesn’t know how.
Bluey is a story about courage; the will to change and survive.

 

 

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Hyde

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Horror
Film Length: 1min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00pm – 11:45pm

Short Synopsis:
A tribute to old school horror films. The work is intended to echo the intensity of the original novelette by Robert Louis Stevenson, with a new twist.. The destructive actions of Hyde continue into the future. The entity of Hyde may be real, or a phantom afterimage of Hyde many years later. The film includes B movie icon, Conrad Brooks.

Therefore I Am
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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
ShortGenre: Sci-fi
Film Length: 9minShowtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 5:45pm – 7:15pmShort Synopsis: Teresa’s Fight to free herself from her merciless captor.
No_PosterSorry For Your Loss

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Film Length: 18min

Showtimes: Satuday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00am – 11:30am

Short Synopsis:
Janice is dead and her daughter wants to send her off exactly the way Janice pictured it – according to a psychic. Sorry For Your Loss follows Johnna after losing her alcoholic, absentee mother in a tragic accident. Johnna, her resentful brother, and two close friends come together to find peace and stay out of jail.

 

No_PosterSchattenboxer

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 17min

Showtimes: Coming Soon

Short Synopsis:
Shadow boxing is a training exercise where the boxer trades blows with their reflection. In other words, a shadow boxer is someone who fights themself.
After committing a violent felony, passing an anti- violence training is Ahmets last chance to take his personal and occupational future into his own hands. A challenging test that he can withstand only with difficulty.

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 23min

Showtimes: Friday, April 1 2016 at 7:00pm – 10:30pm

Short Synopsis:
Don’t fill life with days, fill days with life
After her husband’s death, Käthe doesn’t want to impose on anybody. She already ordered old people’s home brochures. But an accidental meeting with the love of her youth Hannes arises old contending feelings. Heartache and disappointment are mixed with desire and intimacy. Is it too late to forgive? Everyday Hannes is waiting for her on a bench in front of Käthe’s house. One day the bench stays empty and Käthe has to make a decision.

 

der alteDER ALTE MANN UND DIE KATZE 

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 10min

Showtimes: Friday, April 1 2016 at 7:00pm – 10:30pm

Short Synopsis:
Out of a profound longing for company and social contacts, an old, lonely man fantasies about a perfect world. Together with his imaginary cat he celebrates his 80th birthday. Suddenly the doorbell rings. His young, pretty neighbor is standing at the door.

 

 

No_PosterWIR KÖNNTEN, WIR SOLLTEN, WIR HÄTTEN DOCH…

 

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Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Short

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 11min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 2, 2016 at 7:00pm – 11:30pm

Short Synopsis:
A wintry Sunday evening. A German apartment. On television, the usual news about refugee disasters on the coast of Italy, in the kitchen Sushi is being stacked on a plate. An upper middle class couple is just getting cozy on the sofa, when the doorbell rings…

THE RUNNERLaurelsThe Runner

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary, Experimental
Film Length: 6min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Short Synopsis: The first breath is a decision. Each subsequent breath is a struggle for a goal that remains unseen. A struggle for life. He is a former long-distance runner. He reveals his suffering, pain, and effort, all of which are crucial elements

 

Love? Lust? Life?

Film type: Short
Film Category: 
Documentary

Genre: Experimental
Film Length: 
22min

Showtimes: April 15 – 16, 2016 – 10:00 pm – 11:45 pm

Short Synopsis: A young poet explores his poem through a series of imagination occurring in transitory time and settings as he constructs it. In a feat to discover and plot his queries, he tries entering subjectively into his self-generated objective realities; how shall he emerge from it remains open to individual opinions

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Ron Taylor: Dr. Baseball

Film type: Short
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 20min
Showtimes: Coming Soon

Short Synopsis: Ron Taylor: Dr. Baseball is the story of an 11-year major League pitcher, who after winning two world championships with the 1964 St. Louis Cardinals and the 1969 Miracle Mets, embarked on a USO tour through Vietnam that would change his life. After visiting field hospitals, Ron devoted the rest of his life to medicine, enrolling in Medical School at 35 and eventually becoming the team physician for the Toronto Blue Jays. Through interviews with former team mates and friends, his two sons uncover the course of their father’s life.

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The Sum Total of our Memory: Facing Alzheimers’s Together

Film type: Short
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 57min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14 2016 at 1:00pm – 3:00pm

Short Synopsis: An ode to memory: Three couples affected by a partner’s recent diagnosis of Early Alzheimer’s come to terms with their changing roles. Prominent Alzheimer’s medical experts offer their perspectives on diagnosis, the nature of the disease, helpful attitudes in caring for loved ones affected by the disease, stigma, support for caregivers, clinical trials, and overall healthcare concerns. This film is a primer for anyone who is curious about Alzheimer’s or who wishes to learn more about coping skills from both sides of the fence: caregiver and patient. The film also advocates for more funding for Alzheimer’s research, a warning about the tsunami of aging baby boomers who will be overwhelming the health care system with dementia, and the health risks to caregivers who must care for their loved ones.

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It’s Always About The Story: Conversations With Alan Ladd, Jr.

Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre:
Documentary
Film Length: 
50min

Showtimes:
Friday, April 15 2016 at 7:00pm – 8:45pm

Short Synopsis:
From his early days as an agent to some of the greatest stars of their time to heading three major motion picture studios, Alan Ladd, Jr., has been associated with films that have garnered over 150 Academy Award nominations and over 50 wins. He has green lit or produced such iconic motion pictures as Star Wars, Alien, The Right Stuff, Young Frankenstein, Police Academy and Gone Baby Gone. In 1995, Mr. Ladd received the best picture Academy Award for producing Braveheart.
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 No_PosterViews From Within

Film type: Short
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 4min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 8:00pm – 9:45pm

Short Synopsis: Trapped inside during the first winter storm these are the images that can be seen from within. race.

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Pink and Blue: The Colors of Hereditary Cancer

Film type: Feature
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 90min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 5:00pm – 6:45pm

Short Synopsis: The film picks up where Angelina Jolie left off.

Everyone knows the pink side of things, but the majority of people do not realize men can carry a genetic mutation and also get breast cancer. There is a higher percentage of men dying from breast cancer than women. Certain steps have to be made in order to dispel the social stigma associated with a so called, female disease.

Both of Angelina’s surgeons weigh in with their inside perspectives about mutation carriers and the so called, “Angelina Effect.”

Education is paramount in saving lives. This is not about one color or the other, but rather how we can work together to make all the colors shine. These experts and this documentary will finally help the blue step out from the shadows of the pink.

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The Sun Is Rising (le soleil se lève)

Film type: Short
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 7min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:30pm

Short Synopsis: Is there a key to understanding and ending armed conflict and terrorism? From naiveté to awareness and ultimately to questioning, a man looks at armed conflict and two terrorism attacks: the killing of Corporal Nathan Cirillo while standing guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa Canada on October 22 2014, and the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris three months later.

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In Everyone’s Eyes

Film type: Short
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 7min

Showtimes: Coming Soon

Short Synopsis: A poetic and slyly subversive film about life in Cuba, where it’s too dangerous to speak openly against la Revolucion. Most Cubans learn to hide their despair, fear and paranoia about the State with a facade of acceptance and even outward happiness – it’s safer. In the same way, a smiling singing narrator and his happy melody create the thin facade for a compelling message about free speech in today’s revolutionary Cuba. Metal bars are a recurring motif, at homes and at the derelict Modelo prison on the isolated Isla de la Juventude. Cubans often describe their country as an ‘open prison’.

Filmed entirely in Cuba/Filmada enteramente en Cuba.

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Yin & Yang

Film type: Short
Film Category: Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 20min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00am – 11:30am

Short Synopsis: The story of timid and reserved James Wales and his fractured life with his older and aggressive brother, James.

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India’s Daughter

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 63min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2014 at 1:00pm – 3:00pm

Short Synopsis:
INDIA’s DAUGHTER is the story of the short life, brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi in December 2012 of an exceptional and inspiring young woman. The rape of the 23 year old medical student by 6 men on a moving bus, and her death, sparked unprecedented protests and riots throughout India and led to the first glimmers of a change of mindset. Interwoven into the story line are the lives, values and mindsets of the rapists whom the film makers have had exclusive and unprecedented access to interview before they hang. The film examines the culture of rape and violence against women that exists in India and throughout the world and makes an optimistic and impassioned plea for change.

Lamentos

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Film type: Feature
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 80min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:15pm – 6:30pm

Short Synopsis:
A love story from Beyond the Grave

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Time Simply Passes

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Film type: Feature
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 56min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 7:00pm – 8:45pm

Short Synopsis:
Synopsis: Nearly 50 years ago, a mass murder was committed in the small Florida town of Arcadia. The victims were all children in the same family of African-American citrus pickers. Their father James Richardson was convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. More than 20 years and a series of unprecedented miracles followed in order to set him free. Now, in the present day, James Richardson travels back to Florida in the hopes of receiving a glimmer of justice from a State which took his life away. This is a story that has unfolded countless times in different ways in small towns across America. This film represents a multi-generational effort to diagram this story from beginning to end, in the hopes that we can one day learn how to prevent it from ever happening again.

 

The Rize & Fall of Tephlon Ent.

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Documentary

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 153min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:45pm – Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 12:45am

Short Synopsis:
This film is the 1st ever Buffalo Hip-Hop film about Emmanuel Kulu (aka KULU) and his record label “Tephlon Ent.” This film represents the struggles and triumphs of being a independent Hip-Hop record label. This film is a tale of Buffalo, that has never been seen before..

 

Death on a Rock

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Drama

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 82min

Showtimes:
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:15pm

Short Synopsis: This vibrantly shot tale follows Lillian’s year of happiness, pain, and growth, told through flashbacks and drifting between memories and shifting consciousness. Seen through a framework of loss, Death On A Rock is a bittersweet tale balanced between tragedy and levity.

Dirty Beautiful

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Drama

Genre: Comedy-Drama-Romance
Film Length: 95min

Showtimes: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 8:00pm – 9:30pm

Short Synopsis: In a comically nightmarish mash-up of opposites attracting, a struggling writer brings a shiftless young beauty into his L.A. apartment, where her bad habits crash head-on with his orderly life. Just as they’re about to completely destroy each other, fate throws them an unexpected curve.

After the Rain

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 94 min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Short Synopsis: Based on a true story, After the Rain centers around Ryan (Daniel Bonjour), a young man trying to come to grips with terminal illness. By his side is his adoring girlfriend, Paisley (Jelly Howie), who tries to breathe life back into his days. We share intimate moments with Ryan and Paisley as they re-create a colorful world through daily rituals such as photo collages, and imaginary bucket lists. Unsure how to say goodbye, Ryan tries whatever he can to make the transition easier for his family and friends, but alienating himself in the process. In After the Rain we glimpse the subtle beauty that accompanies the struggle in a person’s passing. How does one holster unbearable feelings in order to make every moment count?

 

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Drama / Polit-Thriller
Film Length: 88min

Showtimes: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 10:00pm – 11:30pm

Short Synopsis: German district attorney Marie Hofmann and French police inspector Jean-Luc Labortie are working on a case involving the murder of an employee at the nuclear plant Haut-Rhin, when an unknown men seizes control over the plant. David Kollwein, former head of security at Haut-Rhin, threatens to create a meltdown, should the French Minister of Energy failto tell the inhabitants of bordering countreis France, Germany and Switzerlandthe truth about the nuclear plant’s ailing condition. While the whole region is being held captive in the situation, Marie uncovers a conspiracy reaching to the very top of French politics, one that takes the French nuclear policy to the very foundation.

Land of Smiles

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Thriller
Film Length: 93min

Showtimes: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 4:30pm – 6:30pm

Short Synopsis: Abby arrives in Bangkok to meet up with her best friend on a backpacking adventure through paradise. Instead she receives a video with Penny tied to a chair, terrified, and being held in a dungeon. A madman in a clown mask invites Abby to play a game. A game of hide-and-seek through Thailand in which Abby’s hope is to save Penny’s life. As Abby’s adventure unfolds and she continues to question the legitimacy of what’s going on, she unknowingly becomes the centerpiece of a sociopath’s cinematic vision.

 

Benjamin Troubles

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Thriller – Dark Comedy – Fantasy
Film Length: 145min

Showtimes: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Short Synopsis: Down on his luck “Good Guy” Ben Solano, has the worst day of his life… fired, kicked out of his temp apartment – mugged, beaten, in his final moments of despair a homeless man gives Ben a pair of magic jeans that produce a $100 dollar bill every hour!! Once this magic $$ making machine is discovered things go from bad to good to better then get complicated — bad drug dealers, beautiful mysterious women, best friends with big ideas… Ben must solve all his troubles and face the final decision, to keep the jeans or not to keep the jeans!!

Prescient

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Sci-fi, Thriller, Drama
Film Length: 81min

Showtimes: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 8:30pm – 9:30pm

Short Synopsis: Theodore Meridian is a geneticist who grapples with his enigmatic ability of envisioning future deaths. After becoming aware of a shooting in a pharmacy through a vision of his patient, Theodore advises her to avoid the pharmacy. In a twist of fate, he discovers subsequently that his lover Anna was substituted as the victim of the inevitable pharmacy shooting. After mourning the loss of Anna, he becomes ever more determined in tracking down the “prescient gene”.

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Showtimes: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 10:00pm – Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 12:00am

All Colors of the Night

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 70min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2014 at 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Short Synopsis: Iris lives alone in a spacious apartment by the sea. The green horizon seems to distance it from the city in comfortable isolation. At nightfall, the place hosts known and unknown in a frantic party flow. Iris is the main attraction. But on a hungover morning, she finds a corpse in the living room.

 The Most Beautiful Thing in the World

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Driving While Black

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Comedy
Film Length: 97min

Showtimes: Coming Soon

Short Synopsis: Driving While Black is a dark comedy, based on the police experiences of a black kid From LA.

Dimitri delivers Pizzas for a living – but as a young black man he is faced with drama from the cops while navigating the city on the daily.

We see the psychology behind Dimitri’s attitude towards the police through piercing flashbacks to his prior experiences with the cops and how he maneuvers in the streets now.

 

 

Despite The Falling Snow

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Thriller

Genre: Romance, Thriller
Film Length: 1hr 33min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 7:30pm – 9:30pm

Short Synopsis: In 1950s Moscow, communist Katya secretly spies for the Americans in the Cold War arms race. When she lands her biggest assignment, stealing secrets from rising government star Alexander, the last thing she expects is to fall in love with him.
When Alexander unwittingly closes the net around his own wife, Katya decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect him – a sacrifice that Alexander only uncovers thirty years later.

 

 

Half Brothers

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Film Length: 97min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 10:00pm – Fri, Apr 15 at 12:00am

Short Synopsis: The first breath is a decision. Each subsequent breath is a struggle for a goal that remains unseen. A struggle for life. He is a former long-distance runner. He reveals his suffering, pain, and effort, all of which are crucial elements of each and every race.

 

On The Level

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Film type: Feature
Film Category:
Feature

Genre: Crime, Noir, Drama
Film Length: 84min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 8:00pm – 9:45pm

Short Synopsis: From writer / director Rick Masi comes ON THE LEVEL, the Buffalo based neo-noir drama about CJ Shea, a teenager investigating the suspicious circumstances surrounding the murder of his brother, Bryan. With the help of the seductive and mysterious, Carla – CJ dives deeper into the criminal underworld and comes face to face with the infamous Big Time. As CJ starts pealing away the layers he realizes that the people involved are not as innocent as they seem, and he’s forced to consider the question, “is apathy the only way to survive?”..

 

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Romantic Thriller, Crime Drama
Film Length: 79min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 4:00pm – 5:45pm

Short Synopsis: A story of love, guilt and redemption. Cobb Mills (Hoyt Richards) is a man tortured by the guilt he bears from his daughter’s death from car crash while he was at the wheel. Six years have passed. Cobb has lost his marriage, his job and any hope for happiness. But this year when he makes his annual visit up the small town where the fateful accident occurred, he meets a beautiful young woman (Anabella Casanova.) There is a spark between them. But do second chances come with a price?

The Mayo Conspiracy

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Film type: Feature
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Comedy
Film Length: 72min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 6:00pm – 7:15pm

Short Synopsis: When an intrepid journalist, CRAIG HORWITZ, meets up with M, a mysterious whistle-blower from the Mayonnaise cartel, he is taken down a dark historical path from France, to Nazi Germany, to the depths of culinary hell. Horwitz starts to fully comprehend the stranglehold Big Mayo has on modern American politics, revealing a much larger truth to his investigation: It’s no longer about what they’re doing to our body. It’s about what they’re doing to our country!

Near Myth: The Oskar Knight Story

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Film type: Feature
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Comedy, Hollywood Biopic, Documentary, Satire, Mockumentary
Film Length: 1hr52min

Showtimes: Sat, Apr 16 at 12:00pm – 2:00pm

Short Synopsis: Somewhere between “This Is Spinal Tap!,” “That’s Entertainment!,” and “Sunset Boulevard,” this unique Hollywood biopic is a life-and-times chronicle of one of our greatest directors — Oskar Knight. Lenny Von Dohlen (“Twin Peaks,” “Tender Mercies”) brings the iconic director stirringly to life — a legend of American
cinema, forgotten by many, but remembered here by such real-life stars as Oscar winner Margaret O’Brien, International Emmy winner David Suchet, Joaquim de Almeida, Kristina Anapau, Julianna Guill, Rudolf Martin,
Randall Batinkoff, Lawrence Pressman, Maya Stange, Noel Neill, Jon Provost, and many more. He probably never should have made “Oskar Knight’s Moby Dick.” But he did make “They Came in Low.” It’s the story of Oskar Knight.

Origins of Wit & Humor

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Comedy
Film Length: 92min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2014 at 8:00pm – 9:30pm

Short Synopsis: After the end of a long relationship, comedy writer Les Candalero (Joe Hursley; Accepted, Resident Evil Extinction, Fast & Furious) melts into self-doubt. He’ll try anything to move on, even a mail order elixir that makes you irresistibly funny. It works… too well, which casts doubts on the one thing he’s let define him – his sense of humor. With the help of his best friend, Pops (Steve Lemme; Super Troopers, Beerfest), Les sets out to flush this aphrodisiac from his system. Along the way, surreality begins to blossom throughout his world and Les has to accept that his desperate need for approval was the real cause of this. Can he be funny and human at the same time? Can he be more? Is it too late for those questions? Does this hat look funny?

Love Meet Hope

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: Feature

Genre: Romantic Dramedy, Drama, Comedy, Romance
Film Length: 93min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 8:00pm – 10:00pm

Short Synopsis: Love Meet Hope is a fantastical film about love and relationships, letting go of your past, and finding the courage to change. At his grandmother’s memorial, Morgan encounters a book entitled Love Meet Hope. It contains a series of fantastical tales that his grandfather (played by Ed Asner) wrote for his grandmother about different serendipitous circumstances in which they meet. After reading his grandfather’s love stories, Morgan willingly opens his heart and finds that the love he has been searching for has been right in front of him all along.

Love Meet Hope stars 7-time Emmy Award winning actor Ed Asner, Amanda Markowitz and Bradley Fowler, who all achieve inspiring and raw performances. The creative cinematography and unique storyline bring this film to life in a way that is both aesthetically and emotionally beautiful. Celebrate life and love on this honest journey through heartache, laughter, and imagination. This heartwarming film will touch and inspire all festival goers.

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Frankenstein’s Patchwork Monster

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Horror
Film Length: 98min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:15pm – Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 12:00am

Short Synopsis:
Dr. Vicktor Von Frankenstein plays with life to achieve immortality, but at what price?

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Betrayal

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Action, drama, comedy 
Film Length:
 73min

Showtimes: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 6:00pm

Short Synopsis:
When an area 51 scientist stops a terrorist plot, he never thinks that the repercussions will one day involve his daughter and a kidnapping. Two teens have to figure out a series of clues to save their families and the world, while being manipulated by a secret agent. As if high school wasn’t tough enough

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Savior

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Film type: Feature
Film Category:
 Feature

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 126min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00pm – Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 12:00am

Short Synopsis:
Clyde is a troubled homeless young man beginning his journey into the crime world. As Clyde rises to power, old family demons resurface, causing a domino effect of chaos. With life being full of choices, can Clyde come back from the choices he has made? 

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Arise Sweet Sarah

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Film type: Feature

Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Narrative Drama and Dance Film
Film Length: 99min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Short Synopsis:
Through a dramatic story and presentation based on true events, Arise Sweet Sarah shares a message of the value and importance of human life, as well as a message of healing and wholeness in the midst of silent grief in the wake of “choice”. One in three women will have an abortion by age 45, and these statistics are not exempt in faith-based settings. Furthermore, a large percentage of women believe abortion is their only choice when in crisis pregnancy. Others are coerced. One abortion affects 40 to 50 people in a lifetime. After abortion, 65 percent of women experience post traumatic stress disorder and are six times more likely to commit suicide than women who gave birth. Post traumatic stress disorder after abortion may include the following: flashbacks or nightmares; compulsive thoughts and feelings that started after the abortion; suicidal thoughts or feelings; depression or anxiety; lack of attachment to your children; self-hatred; shame; social isolation; relationship difficulties; and compulsive or addictive behaviors that started after abortion. Studies have also shown that abortion increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer and also a high risk of preterm deliveries of subsequent pregnancies. The vision for our work is to bring hope, healing and forgiveness to people who have suffered after choice, and to share our stories so others are educated of the potential risks and negative effects of abortion. Arise Sweet Sarah is based on the personal experiences of film writer, director and producer Sandy Arena and the uncountable stories of others who have suffered after abortion. The story is gently written and shared in the f! orm of a letter to our character “Sarah’s” unborn children that is brought alive in film through a powerful combination of personal narration, symbolism, acting, original score and a combination of modern dance, ballet, scenery and costuming. Presented by Arts Illuminate (formerly The Life Ballet) and Verb Records.

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The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Comedy, Dark Comedy, Drama
Film Length: 85min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14 2014 at 8:00pm – 9:45pm

Short Synopsis:
A man disillusioned with his failing marriage and dead end career abruptly decides to visit his past to figure out where it all went wrong. 

Stand Off

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Film type: Feature
Film Category:
Feature

Genre: Action, Horror
Film Length: 91min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 2:00pm – 3:30pm

Short Synopsis: When a mysterious epidemic enters the city, four strangers must work together in order to survive the zombie apocalypse. As they begin to uncover new information regarding the virus, the infected begin to grow stronger, faster, smarter, and larger in numbers.

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Counter Clockwise

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Film type: Feature
Film Category:
Feature

Genre: Sci Fi Thriller
Film Length: 91min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 6:00pm – 7:45pm

Short Synopsis:
Counter Clockwise is sci-fi thriller/dark comedy about a brilliant scientist on the verge of creating teleportation. But something goes wrong and he accidentally invents time travel. He’s hurled 6 months in the future where he finds a sinister upside down world. People are trying to kill him, he’s entangled in corporate espionage, and, worst of all, he’s the prime suspect for the murders of his wife and sister. In an attempt to change history and save his loved ones he must travel back in time to uncover the mystery surrounding their deaths.

 

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 87min

Showtimes: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 10:00pm – Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 12:00am

Short Synopsis: Starring Academy Award®-winner Mo’Nique (Precious), Interwoven is a drama
exploring the human condition and the search for connection. Inspired by true stories of people
struggling with love, loss, addiction, homelessness, and suicide, Director VW Scheich weaves
together 13 captivating stories to create one compelling tale of how strangers can impact our lives
in unimagined ways, thus revealing the fragile ties which bind us all as everyone searches for their
meaning of life.

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A Grim Becoming

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Horror Comedy
Film Length: 115min

Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 12:00pm – 2:00pm

Short Synopsis:
Raphael, a young executive who is on the verge of losing a multimillion dollar architectural deal with a large distribution company lead by the awkward Stanford(s). Raphael suffers a sudden death in his family and has to immediately leave to go to the funeral in his home town of Metzburgh. Seeing this as his big chance to get ahead is Wayne, a jealous co-worker who is in competition with Raphael. As Raphael returns to Metzburgh, he experiences a life changing event: witnessing a Grim Reaper taking a soul. This sighting results in Raphael becoming a Reaper and having to explore his own conscience and the lengths he will go to get his own life back. But Death, has other plans for the naive young executive.

 

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Historical
Film Length: 90min

Showtimes: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 8:00pm – 9:30pm

Short Synopsis:
Family and love story during first world war.

Mad Dog Time

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Comedy
Film Length: 93min

Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 9:30pm – 11:45pm

The Eve

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Film type: Short
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Drama Horror Experimental
Film Length: 20min

Showtimes: Thursday, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Short Synopsis: The first breath is a decision. Each subsequent breath is a struggle for a goal that remains unseen. A struggle for life. He is a former long-distance runner. He reveals his suffering, pain, and effort, all of which are crucial elements of each and every race.

 

 

Kings Queens & In-Betweens

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Film type: Feature
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 90min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Short Synopsis: Through the compelling stories of 8 performers in the unexpected, thriving drag scene of midwestern America’s Columbus, Ohio, KINGS, QUEENS, & IN-BETWEENS dives into the next frontier — the important and often misunderstood topic of “gender” itself. A fresh take on the traditional ethnographic doc, KQIB includes multiple voices to form a larger picture and address important issues of diversity. With humor, pathos, and great music, KQIB makes a complex subject approachable for mainstream audiences — inviting viewers into a conversation about the distinct differences between gender, sex, and sexuality that has not been represented in film before. With the increasing headline & cultural attention to the topic of gender, this is a perfect moment for KQIB.

The Closer

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Feature

Genre: Action, Drama
Film Length: 94min

Showtimes: Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 1:30pm – 3:00pm

Short Synopsis: The Closer Movie is a tale of friendship and betrayal between 3 friends set against the backdrop of the biggest boom & bust in Brooklyn’s subprime real estate market. The film is inspired by real events and approaches the 2008 housing crisis from a street-level view and from the perspective of developers, lenders, and home buyers. There is love, friendship, pain, hardship, and the testing of friendships and trust…all wrapped into a thrilling ride that will glue you to your seat. The Closer Movie was written and produced by 3 Brooklyn-based real estate experts & investors who witnessed the 2008 housing crisis first-hand and wanted to share their incredible and trying experiences.
The film was made to showcase these events and to share their stories.

 

Cold Nights Hot Salsa

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Film type: Feature
Film Category:
Documentary

Genre: Documentary,
Film Length: 60min

Showtimes: Friday, April 1 2016 at 7:00pm – 10:30pm

Short Synopsis: COLD NIGHTS HOT SALSA takes you inside the international Latin dance world of Victor and Katia, aspiring young salsa dancers from Montreal, Canada who seek to win a World Salsa Championship.

It’s the story of Victor and Katia’s love to dance and of how being lovers enhances and also complicates their lives, as they dedicate themselves to a grand ambition to conquer the Latin dance world.

Game Changers

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: Feature

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 91min

Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2014 at 7:30pm – 9:00pm

Short Synopsis: Brian and Scott are two life long friends, their identity and value has always been tied to their notoriety as professional gamers. Now in their late 20’s and working together at an IT company, they begin to feel the responsibilities of adulthood sinking in. Brian will do anything in his power to reclaim his status as a pro gamer. Scott doesn’t identify with the pro gaming circuit like he used to. He’s also conflicted over the stability of his job and the prospect of being single for the rest of his life.

Ekaj

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Film type: Feature
Film Category:
Feature

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 93min

Showtimes: April 13, 2016 at 9:45pm – 11:30pm

Short Synopsis: “Kids” meets “Midnight cowboy.”

A love story between two drifters, a naive teenager and a sarcastic hustler. Ekaj is a film packed with real
life drama and raw sense of humor. The film capture’s a runaway journey to New York City. After a few rude awakenings, Ekaj (Jake Mestre) meets Mecca (Badd Idea) who takes him under his care. Mecca is a foul mouthed character who has AIDS and multiple problems of his own. He is high all day but still manages to be the only voice of reason in Ekaj’s hopeless world. They cruise the city together looking for money and places to stay. The core of the movie is Ekaj, who thinks he will become the lover of a rich man and be taken care of for life but ends up finding his dreams quickly shattered. Although he makessome money as a prostitute, he finds he is disposable, replaceable and lacking what it takes to survive in the city. Mecca shows him how to endure and not lose hope. As the film progresses, their relationship develops into true friendship and love as they lean on each other for survival.

 

 

The Shattered Mind

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: Feature

Genre: Drama
Film Length: 85min

Showtimes: April 13, 2016 at 4:30pm – 6:00pm

Short Synopsis: The first breath is a decision. Each subsequent breath is a struggle for a goal that remains unseen. A struggle for life. He is a former long-distance runner. He reveals his suffering, pain, and effort, all of which are crucial elements of each and every race.

Awakening in Taos

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Film type: Feature
Film Category: 
Documentary

Genre: Documentary
Film Length: 70min

Showtimes: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 6:30pm – 7:15pm

Short Synopsis:

Awakening in Taos tells the story of Mabel Dodge Luhan’s personal evolution as a writer, salon hostess, art patroness and social activist and a resident of New Mexico.

Born in Buffalo, New York, Mabel was a woman unique to her time. Her influence extended into the world of arts, music, literature and activism for social change. In her late 30s, she experienced a life-altering arrival at a small town in Northern New Mexico and embraced a Native culture in a way that seized the attention of the artistic and literary world. Dodge helped put Taos on the world map as a place of distinctive beauty and transformative spiritual power.