Snowmen

Rated: PG
Director: Rob Kirbyson
Executive Producers:Tina Segel, Diane Hendricks, Bill O’Kane and Ray Liotta
Producers: David Segel, Stephen McEveety and John Shepherd
Length: 96 min                Family
USA
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A gruesome discovery in the snow catapults three small-town boys into the spotlight. But when their instant celebrity fades, the outcasts hatch a scheme to set a Guinness World Record, insuring their names will never be forgotten. Through a comedic series of stunts that eventually threaten their very lives, the trio conquers schoolyard bullies, unites their community and discovers that while fame may be fleeting – true friendship lasts forever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUq8VS6aa9U


Neighborhood & Community Support for BIFF

In support of BIFF and a tip of the Stove Pipe Hat the Beloit neighbors and friends of the historic districts (The Beloit NPA – Neighborhood Preservation Assn.) with the support of the broader community came together to build a little snowman of their own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47RQepqj3gQ

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My Dinner with AJ

Rated: PG13
Director: David Walker            Producer: C.K. Lichenstein II
Length: 86
Comedy | Drama
USA

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David and A.J. have not seen each other in over ten years. David is a bitter and cynical writer who struggled to make a name for himself as a filmmaker. A.J. was a promising actor who traded in his dreams of stardom for fatherhood. Once close friends, they have grown apart, each having taken a very different path with their life. Reunited over dinner, A.J. and David begin to reveal personal truths about their experiences that will put their friendship to the test. Written and produced by stars A Wone and David F. Walker, and inspired by the works of Charles Burnett, John Cassavettes and Louis Malle, My Dinner with A.J. is an irreverent and intimate look at a friendship ravaged by time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QW5Oa674kM

UPDATE: Filmmaker will be showing a short 3 min. film from Caldoni BEFORE My Dinner with AJ.

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Bass Ackwards

Rated: R
Director: Linas Phillips Producer: Thomas Woodrow & Jack Bennett

Length: 103 min
Adventure | Comedy | Drama
USA

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Yes, in Bass Ackwards, a man drives a 76 Volkswagen van across America. No, the film isn’t mired with the tired mechanics of a typical road movie. This utterly original, lyrical, and visually exciting adventure has such a light touch that it quietly sneaks up and tugs you into an overpowering appreciation of being human.
When humble Linas, kicked off of his friends couch and spurned by his lover, finds a forgotten van on a llama farm outside Seattle, he begins lurching east with nothing to lose. Slowly, the road eases him out of his relentless longing and into the moment. As his encounters with enigmatic characters take on subtly transcendent qualities, his shame and discomfort at being alone gradually give way to self-acceptance and connection. The dented, off-kilter vehicle, which valiantly, amazingly endures the journey, becomes a colorful metaphor for the human condition—our tenacity and hopefulness always tinged with imperfection.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no0xelIuBG0

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Nothing Personal

Rated: PG13
Director: Michael Gorrie         Producer: Michael Gorrie
Length: 81 min
Drama
USA

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A manipulative novelist who says whatever he likes is married to a timid wife who was pushed into an open marriage. Her friend is overweight, lazy and dating a perfectionist with an eating disorder. These two relationships crash and combine into the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CFijAmUXk0

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Angadi Theru

Rated: PG
Director: Vasanthabalan
Length: 151 min
Drama
India

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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 member of the family, dies in an accident while crossing an unmanned railway gate. Mahesh now has to look after his mother and two sisters. Due to circumstances, he is forced to abandon his studies, even though he comes first in his school in the board exams. Through a canvassing agent, he and his friend Marimuthu, get jobs as sales boys in a textile showroom in Ranganathan Street in Chennai. Mahesh, along with hundreds of others, are employed at the Senthil Murugan Stores run by the big Annachi. On each floor at the textile showroom, there are around 50 to 60 sales boys and girls who work in pitiable conditions from early in the morning to late night, without any rest. He meets Kani (Anjali), a fiery independent girl…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65AMjaEM-6k

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The Russian Cowboy

Rated: MA
Director: Mark Laty    Producer:Mark Laty
Length: 100 min
Comedy
USA

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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 drug dealer, both obsessed with samurai movies, but the Russian cowboy soon discovers that money is hard to come by.

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NONAMES

Rated: R
Director: Kathy Lindboe
Length: 108 min
Drama
USA

Friday: 2:30 pm – Rotary River Center  Buy Tickets

Saturday: 7:30 pm Hendricks Art Center 2  Buy Tickets

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Website: NONAMES the Movie

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Inspired by true events, NONAMES follows Kevin and his family of friends as they struggle within the confines of a small town. After his mother’s death, Kevin decides to make a life for himself in his childhood home in spite of his father’s decision to move. In the wake of tragedy, Kevin must end his extended adolescence or lose the things he holds most dear. Haunted by unsettled scores, it becomes clear that he must leave the town he loves in order to save himself from it. A new beginning is only a bus ride away.

http://www.vimeo.com/5539319

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Neutral Territory

Rated: G
Director: Josias Tschanz       Producer: Josias Tschanz
Length: 76 min
Drama
Canada, Switzerland

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Website: Neutral Territory

Trying desperately to forget his roots, Henry is drawn back into the fray with his father when finances get the better of him. Returning with him to the family farm, his fiance soon discovers disturbing secrets about his past. A childhood sweetheart, a stubborn father thick with Swiss traditions, and a desperate lawyer who’ll do anything for money force Henry to decide between protecting his father or turning his back on him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5nKgxPVqC0

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Naan Kadavul (I am God)

Rated:  PG13
Director: Bala       Producer:Sivasri Sreenivasan
Length: 165 min
Action | Drama
India

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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. He finds him there but is shocked to learn that he has become an Aghori. Nevertheless he brings him back to Tamil Nadu. The story takes a turn here and introduces us to the world of physically and mentally challenged beggars. A world controlled by the cruel Thandavan (Rajendran). Hamsavalli (Pooja Umashankar) a blind girl is forcefully separated from her troop and made to join the beggars. Soon she becomes another victim of Thandavan’s cruelty. Meanwhile, Rudran leaves his house to find his place on a small cave, and soon meets Hamsavalli, who tries her best to convince him to return home, but fails. Thandavan then takes a deal with a Malayali man of the same profession and decides to force Hamsavalli to marry an ugly, deformed man for 10-lakhs worth of money. On one incident, Hamsavalli angers the deformative, who runs away without marrying her. This angers Thandavan, who deeply wounds her. She later goes crying to Rudran to somehow free from this curse. The aghori then kills her and grants her moksha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_BivF96QVg

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Minus One

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  

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A story of three soldiers from the 951st Army Reserve Unit, Minus One follows these men as they prepare to ship off to war. In the final days before they deploy, they each must face their past as they move toward an uncertain future.

http://vimeo.com/12544504

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The Monkey Kid

Rated: G
Director: Xiao-Yen
Length: 95 min
Family | Drama
USA

 

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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 countryside to “learn from the peasants.” Their children remained in the cities to learn life on their own. Shi-Wei is one of these children, and she survives her family’s fracture by instinctively clinging to happiness; she is a bright light against a dark background. With her parents away she gathers with friends wherever she wants, shows up late for school, tumbles down mountains of gravel, and balances on balconies five stories high. Shi-Wei has dizzying choices. And she slides away from the dull embrace of the Cultural Revolution.

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I’m Seducible

Rated: PG13
Director: Xiao-Yen
Length: 76 min
Drama
USA

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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.

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Hostile Encounter

Rated: R
Director: Eric England     Producer: Eric England
Length: 73 min
Adventure | Drama | Thriller
USA

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After losing his fiance, Trevor sets out on a soul searching adventure to clear his mind. While in the wilderness, he stumbles upon two local hunters that will stop at nothing to make him go away.

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Handlebar

Rated: R
Director: Michael McCallum           Producer:Michael McCallum
Length: 61 min
Comedy | Crime
USA

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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 make the biggest mistake possible: taking the boss’s daughter.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V68sqpkV-3o

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Finding Jenua

Rated: R
Director: Allison Mason
Length: 70 min
Drama
USA

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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 a memory and tying us back together with the simple beauty of human connection.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6PmQ02rw8Q

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Earthwork

Rated: G
Director: Chris Ordal         Producer: Chris Ordal
Length: 93 min
Drama
USA

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Website: Earthwork

In 1994, real-life crop artist Stan Herd traveled from Kansas to Manhattan’s Upper West Side to create a massive environmental artwork on land owned by Donald Trump. The multi-acre artwork was made from soil, rock, plants and vegetation near an underground railway tunnel. Stan recruited a number of homeless individuals living in the tunnel to become his crew. Over the months it took to complete the earthwork, Stan dealt with a myriad of difficulties in bringing his unique, rural art form to an urban canvas and the many costs his art exacted upon his life. In the process, he unexpectedly encountered the true meaning of his art and it’s ultimate, lasting rewards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rFT6cpMaeY

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Fairview St.

Rated: PG13
Director: Michael McCallum       Producer: Michael McCallum
Length: 111 min
Drama
USA

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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 the fall for. He’s uncertain about his future with his young wife (Moore) and his father (W. McCallum), but he’s ready to start new. Once out, Jim is confronted by his old friend, Bobby Stone (Root) and his former life.When a murder occurs unbeknownst to Jim, he becomes the prime suspect hounded by two detectives (Bone/Hagedorn) determined to make him pay for his past.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDFBSHtwEcc

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Cyrus- Mind of a Serial Killer

Rated: R
Director: Mark Vadik     Producer: Joel Kastelberg
Length: 90 min
Crime | Thriller | Mystery
USA

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Website: Cyrus – Mind of a Serial Killer

Inspired by a true story, a small independent news crew, made up of reporter Maria and her camera man Tom, investigates a series of unexplained disappearances in a small Midwestern county. The story leads them to the isolated town of Arkham Heights, where they find themselves interviewing Emmett, who possesses an all too intimate knowledge of the details of “The County Line Cannibal” – Cyrus (Brian Krause). As Emmett inter-weaves the macabre life tale of Cyrus with the story of his last three victims, Maria comes closer and closer to the greatest story of her life – or what’s left of it. Filled with reenacted documentary footage of actual forensic experts, serial killers and police authorities, Cyrus presents a simultaneously beautiful and horrific examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect leading to the creation of the most prolific serial killer in the history of the United States.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6LNO7A2-Dw

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Ashes

AshesRated: R
Director: Elias Matar     Producer: Elias Matar
Lenght: 90 min
Drama | Terror | Thriller
USA

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An obsessive doctor working on a cure for AIDS unwittingly creates an aggressive new bacteria that deteriorates the body and enrages the mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7TGmoCQogc

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Afterwards

Rated: PG13
Director: Kivmars Bowling
Length: 75 min
Drama
Germany

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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, a drug addict. They stand face-to-face for the first time in years, father and daughter, Volker and Anna. Anna is desperate and on the run from the police. She needs money urgently and demands the key to grandpa’s safety deposit box, a key which she knows her father still has. But Volker claims to have hidden it on the other side of the city. They set out on foot through the Berlin night, heading West. On the way, with Anna in pain, Volker notices she is bleeding from her stomach, but not all the blood is hers. And then Volker discovers the bloodied knife she’s carrying…As time runs out and the police close in, father and daughter walk through the night. Under cover of darkness the secrets of their East German past explode in a final confrontation, and the consequences of times past come to light.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=691Kuhdrnng

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A Lonely Place For Dying

Rated: R
Director: Justin Evans             Producer: Justin Evans
Length: 96 min
Action | Thriller | War
USA

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Website:  A Lonely Place for Dying

It is 1972. An abandoned Mexican prison sits alone in the dusty Chihuahua desert. KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. Dzerzhinsky holds explosive evidence against the CIA; information he will trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper must obtain this evidence and kill Dzerzhinsky or risk the end of his CIA career. As the two men hunt each other they discover that the sins from their past destined them for this deadly confrontation.



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