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.
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 Schattenboxer
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| KIRSCHKUCHEN
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 DER ALTE MANN UND DIE KATZE
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| WIR KÖNNTEN, WIR SOLLTEN, WIR HÄTTEN DOCH…
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 The Runner
Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Short Genre: Documentary, Experimental 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
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Love? Lust? Life? Film type: Short Genre: Experimental 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 |
Ron Taylor: Dr. Baseball Film type: Short Genre: Documentary 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. |
The Sum Total of our Memory: Facing Alzheimers’s Together Film type: Short Genre: Documentary 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. |
| It’s Always About The Story: Conversations With Alan Ladd, Jr.
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| Views From Within
Film type: Short Genre: Documentary 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. |
Pink and Blue: The Colors of Hereditary Cancer Film type: Feature Genre: Documentary 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. |
 The Sun Is Rising (le soleil se lève)
Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Short Genre: Documentary 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. |
 In Everyone’s Eyes
Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Short Genre: Documentary Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 6:00pm 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 Genre: Documentary 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. Venues More Information Buy Tickets
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| India’s Daughter
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| Lamentos
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Time Simply Passes Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Documentary Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 7:00pm – 8:45pm Short Synopsis:
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The Rize & Fall of Tephlon Ent. Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Drama Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:45pm – Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 12:45am Short Synopsis:
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Death on a Rock Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Drama Showtimes: 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 Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Comedy-Drama-Romance 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 Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Drama Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 6:00pm 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? |
 Kollwein’s Day of Truth
Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Drama / Polit-Thriller 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 Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Thriller 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.
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Benjamin Troubles Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Thriller – Dark Comedy – Fantasy 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 Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Sci-fi, Thriller, Drama 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”. |
| Interwoven
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| All Colors of the Night
Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Drama 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
Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Short Genre: Drama Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 4:00pm Short Synopsis:A down on his luck boy finds love in the most unexpected way. |
Driving While Black Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Comedy 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.
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Despite The Falling Snow Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Romance, Thriller 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.
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Half Brothers Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Drama, Comedy 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.
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On The Level Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Crime, Noir, Drama 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?”.. |
| Intersection
Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Romantic Thriller, Crime Drama 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 Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Comedy 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 Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Comedy, Hollywood Biopic, Documentary, Satire, Mockumentary 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 |
Origins of Wit & Humor Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Comedy 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 Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Romantic Dramedy, Drama, Comedy, Romance 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. |
Frankenstein’s Patchwork Monster Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Horror Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:15pm – Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 12:00am Short Synopsis: |
Betrayal Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Action, drama, comedy Showtimes: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 6:00pm Short Synopsis: |
Savior Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Drama Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 10:00pm – Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 12:00am Short Synopsis: |
Arise Sweet Sarah Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Narrative Drama and Dance Film Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 2:00pm – 4:00pm Short Synopsis: |
The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Comedy, Dark Comedy, Drama Showtimes: Thursday, April 14 2014 at 8:00pm – 9:45pm Short Synopsis: |
Stand Off Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Action, Horror 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. |
Counter Clockwise Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Sci Fi Thriller Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 6:00pm – 7:45pm Short Synopsis: |
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Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Drama 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 |
A Grim Becoming Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Horror Comedy Showtimes: Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 12:00pm – 2:00pm Short Synopsis:
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| Mud and Glory
Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Historical Showtimes: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 8:00pm – 9:30pm Short Synopsis: |
Mad Dog Time Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Comedy Showtimes: Friday, April 15, 2016 at 9:30pm – 11:45pm |
The Eve Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Short Genre: Drama Horror Experimental 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.
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Kings Queens & In-Betweens Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Documentary 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 Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Action, Drama 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.
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Cold Nights Hot Salsa Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Documentary, 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 Venues More Information Film type: Feature Genre: Drama 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 Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Drama 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
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The Shattered Mind Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Short Genre: Documentary, Experimental Showtimes: April 13, 2016 at 4:30pm – 6:00pm Short Synopsis: A young girl struggles with a traumatic past and suffers from nightmares and flashbacks that takes her back to her childhood days. |
Awakening in Taos Venues More Information Buy Tickets Film type: Feature Genre: Documentary 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.
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Beverley
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Film type: Short
Film Category: Short
Genre: Drama
Film Length: 25min
Showtimes: Thursday, April 14, 2016 at 2:00pm – 4:00pm
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Beverley follows a mixed race girl’s struggles to carve out a sense of identity in a confusing, shifting cultural landscape, 1980 Leicester. A move from the decaying, poverty-stricken, urban environment to the relative comfort and theoretical safety of white suburbia does not provide the hope and opportunities Bev may have wished for. A familiar enemy is ever present – a threat that extends beyond her own safety – more importantly she must protect her brother and sister. By asserting her will and using her guile, Bev tries to shape her new environment into something palatable, but the result is the opposite of what she is trying to achieve.