Rated: G Director: Bertram Verhaag Producer: Claus Stigel Length: 88 min Documentary Germany, USA Friday: 5:00pm – Hendricks Art Center 1 Sunday: 2:30pm – Hendricks Art Center 2 Billed as “a political thriller on GMOs and freedom of speech”, this film by the German film-maker Bertram Verhaag tells the stories of […]
Location: Eclipse Center, 1701 Riverside Drive, Beloit Date: Thursday, February 17, 2011 Time: 5 pm – 7 pm Price: $10 Rub shoulders with filmmakers and aficionados from around the world at the BIFF Launch event. It’s the perfect way to kick off the festival. Help to congratulate our award winners as BIFF 2011 Filmmaker Award […]
Rated: G Director: Gonzague Pichelin and Benjamin Sutherland Producer: Gonzague Pichelin and Benjamin Sutherland Length: 52 min Documentary France, USA Friday: 5:00pm – Rotary River Center Saturday: 5:00pm – Bagels & More Sunday: 12:00pm –Bushel & Peck’s In 1951, George Whitman opened a bookshop-commune in Paris. George, 92, still runs his “den […]
Rated: PG Director: Vasanthabalan Length: 151 min Drama India Friday: 7:30pm – Domenico’s Saturday: 5:00pm – Hendricks Art Center 1 *subtitled* Jyothi Lingam (Mahesh) is a bright student and son of a mason who leads a happy life in his village near Tirunelveli. One day tragedy strikes as his father, the only earning […]
Rated: MA Director: Mark Laty Producer:Mark Laty Length: 100 min Comedy USA Friday: 10:00pm – Hendricks Art Center 1 Saturday: 10:00pm – Bushel & Peck’s An illegal Russian immigrant struggles to survive in the suburbs of Washington DC. He bumps into a twisted pimp, who runs an escort service, and a small-time […]
Rated: PG-13 Director: Willem Alkema Producer: Willem Alkema Length: 74 min Documentary Netherlands, USA Thursday: 5:00pm – Beloit Library Saturday: 7:30pm – La Casa Grande Website: Sly Stone Documentary Documentary about Sly Stone. The funklegend disappeared for years. In this documentary Willem Alkema finds him and takes writers Edwin and […]
Rated: R Director: Kathy Lindboe Length: 108 min Drama USA Friday: 2:30 pm – Rotary River Center Saturday: 7:30 pm – Hendricks Art Center 2 Sunday: 12:00 pm – The Metropolitan Website: NONAMES the Movie Blog: NONAMES Inspired by true events, NONAMES follows Kevin and his family of friends as they struggle […]
Rated: G Director: Josias Tschanz Producer: Josias Tschanz Length: 76 min Drama Canada, Switzerland Thursday: 7:30 pm – Bushel & Peck’s Friday: 2:30 pm – Hendricks Art Center 1 Saturday: 5:00pm – Beloit Library Website: Neutral Territory Trying desperately to forget his roots, Henry is drawn back into the fray […]
Rated: G Director: Luke Gasser Producer: Luke Gasser Length: 94 min Documentary Switzerland, USA Thursday: 7:30pm – Hendricks Art Center 2 Saturday: 2:30pm – Domenico’s Website: Bodmers Journey US Tour Sponsor: The Consulate General of Switzerland in Chicago Tracing the footsteps of Swiss artist Karl Bodmer and German Prince […]
Rated: PG13 Director: Bala Producer:Sivasri Sreenivasan Length: 165 min Action | Drama India Thursday: 7:30 pm – Rotary River Center Sunday: 2:30pm – The Metropolitan *subtitled* For astrological reasons, a father leaves his son Rudran (Arya) in Kasi. Years later, repenting his act he goes with his daughter in search of him. […]
Rated: R Director: Xiao- Yen Wang Producer: Xiao- Yen Wang Length: 74 min Documentary USA Thursday: 12:00pm – Hendricks Art Center 1 Website: The Beijing-San Francisco Film Group The Blank Point – what is transsexualism? The Blank Point is a personal view of the fragilities of transsexualism, that of a woman from China […]
Rated: PG13 Director: Jon Osbeck & Marc Wiskemann Producer:Dino Tripodis Length: 82 min Drama | News | War USA Friday: 7:30pm – Rotary River Center Saturday: 5:00 pm – Domenico’s Sunday: 12:00pm –Rotary River Center Website: Minus One the Movie A story of three soldiers from the 951st Army […]
Rated: G Director: Xiao-Yen Length: 95 min Family | Drama USA Friday: 5:00pm – Hendricks Art Center 2 Saturday: 2:30 pm – La Casa Grande The Monkey Kid focuses on the details of a nine year-old girl’s daily life during the Cultural Revolution. In 1970 China’s “intellectuals” had been dispersed to the […]
Rated: PG13 Director: Xiao-Yen Length: 76 min Drama USA Friday: 2:30 pm – Hendricks Art Center 2 Saturday: 12:00pm – Bushel & Peck’s Website: Beijing-San Francisco Film Group A film based upon the personal confilicts of a Chinese born filmmaker during her first few years in the United States. Viewer Ratings:
Rated: R Director: Eric England Producer: Eric England Length: 73 min Adventure | Drama | Thriller USA Friday: 10:00pm – Hendricks Art Center 2 Saturday: 10:00pm – La Casa Grande After losing his fiance, Trevor sets out on a soul searching adventure to clear his mind. While in the wilderness, he stumbles […]
Rated: R Director: Michael McCallum Producer:Michael McCallum Length: 61 min Comedy | Crime USA Friday: 5:00pm – Nikki’s Cafe Saturday: 12:00pm – La Casa Grande Website: Handlebar Movie Dwayne & Benny are two low-level thieves that are hired by an inner-city mafioso to kidnap a rival’s daughter. Instead, they […]
Rated: R Director: Allison Mason Length: 70 min Drama USA Friday: 2:30 pm – Bushel & Peck’s Saturday: 7:30 pm – Bagels & More Website: Finding Jenua Finding Jenua is about love, loss and finding your place in the world. A drama with mystery that’s told in an unconventional way – unraveling like […]
Rated: G Director: Chris Ordal Producer: Chris Ordal Length: 93 min Drama USA Friday: 5:00 pm – Bushel & Peck’s Saturday: 7:30 pm – The Metropolitan Sunday: 2:30 pm – Hendricks Art Center 1 Website: Earthwork In 1994, real-life crop artist Stan Herd traveled from Kansas to Manhattan’s […]
Rated: PG13 Director: Michael McCallum Producer: Michael McCallum Length: 111 min Drama USA Thursday: 7:30 pm – Angel Museum Saturday: 2:30 pm- The Metropolitan Website: Rebel Pictures James Winton (M. McCallum) is coming home. Paroled after serving four years in prison for involvement in an armed robbery, which he took […]
Rated: R Director: Mark Vadik Producer: Joel Kastelberg Length: 90 min Crime | Thriller | Mystery USA Friday: 10:00pm – Rotary River Center Saturday: 7:30 pm – Rotary River Center Website: Cyrus – Mind of a Serial Killer Inspired by a true story, a small independent news crew, made up of […]
Rated: R Director: Elias Matar Producer: Elias Matar Lenght: 90 min Drama | Terror | Thriller USA Friday: 7:30 pm – Hendricks Art Center 2 Saturday: 10:00p – Hendricks Art Center 2 Website: Ashes the movie An obsessive doctor working on a cure for AIDS unwittingly creates an aggressive new bacteria that […]
Rated: PG13 Director: Kivmars Bowling Length: 75 min Drama Germany Friday: 5:00pm – The Metropolitan Saturday: 10:00pm – Hendricks Art Center 1 Sunday: 12:00pm – Domenico’s *subtitled* Berlin. Night. An old, homeless drunk stumbles down the street. Ignored by everyone. Almost everyone. Suddenly a woman appears in front of him, mid-thirties, thin, […]
Based out of Portland, OR, C.K. Lichenstein II is a prolific producer of low-budget independent films….
Rated: PG-13 Director: Michael King Producer: Michael King Length: 94 min Documentary Germany, France, UK, USA Thursday: 7:30pm – Hendricks Art Center 1 Saturday: 5:00pm – Bushel and Peck’s Sunday: 2:30pm – Domenico’s Website: The Rescuers While Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List illuminated the previously little-known story of a German businessman who […]
