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.
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 upon two local hunters that will stop at nothing to make him go away.
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 make the biggest mistake possible: taking the boss’s daughter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V68sqpkV-3o
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 a memory and tying us back together with the simple beauty of human connection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6PmQ02rw8Q
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 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
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 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
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 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
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 deteriorates the body and enrages the mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7TGmoCQogc
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, 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
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 saved hundreds of Jews from the concentration camps during WWII, there were many such heroes who defied the Nazis to save countless Jews from a similar fate–-chief among them the 13 diplomats whose efforts are documented in this riveting documentary from Emmy-winning filmmaker Michael King and Executive Producer, Joyce D.Mandell.
The film traces the journey of Stephanie Nyombayire, a young Rwandan anti-genocide activist who teams up with Sir Martin Gilbert, the renowned Holocaust historian, to travel across 15 countries and three continents interviewing survivors and descendants of the diplomats who rescued thousands of Jews from the unspeakable horrors of the Nazi death camps. While Nyombayire embarks upon this quest in an effort to uncover potential solutions for the ongoing genocide in Darfur and elsewhere, what emerges from their journey is more a testament to the ways in which the inherent good in the human spirit can trump institutional evil no matter what the circumstance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx0i4bYlLNo
Rated: G
Director: Andrew Napier Producer:Andrew Napier & Jesse Musky-Fuller
Length: 50 min
Documentary | Biography | Comedy
USA
Thursday: 5:00pm – Domenico’s
Friday: 2:30pm – Angel Museum
Saturday: 10:00pm – Beloit Library
Website: Mary and Bill
Many people grow up idolizing the young college and professional athletes. The television figures that make slam dunks, hit home runs, and win the Tour de France 7 times. They are incredible individuals, but filmmaker Andrew Napier presents to you a documentary that will truly inspire people of all ages.
Mary and Bill is a feature length film focusing on Mary Stroebe and Bill Wambach. Mary is a 90-year-old triathlete and Bill an 83-year-old high jumper who holds the National record in his age bracket. Bill was also named “Male Athlete of the Year” by the National Congress of State Games. Mary has appeared on the Regis and Kelly Show and later returned to receive the Relly award. The film follows Mary and Bill immediately after health related obstacles. Mary had just broken her leg while down hill skiing and Bill, who recently quite smoking, is recovering from a heart attack. Despite these physical ailments, both decide to train and compete in their respective events. Mary, hoping to complete the Lifetime Fitness triathlon, and Bill shooting to win the National Senior Olympics. Through their amazing commitment, both Mary and Bill prove that age is just a number.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1-1erWdy68
Friday: 2:30 pm – Domenico’s
Saturday: 7:30pm – Nikki’s Café
Sudden Death
Letter Home
A Second Chance
School for the Rude
For a fistful of Snow
Kavi
Goldstar, Ohio
Responsibilities of Men
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Rated: PG
Director: Adam Hall
Length: 20 min
Short | Comedy | Musical
USA
Los Angeles has been overtaken by a virus known as Sudden Death Syndrome, a disease that causes its victim to die suddenly and has only one symptom… spontaneously breaking into well-choreographed song and dance.
Website: Sudden Death!
http://vimeo.com/13253333
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Rated: G
Director: Ken Pak Producer: Ken Pak
Length: 10 min
Documentary | Short | History
Canada
In times of trouble, home is only a letter away. There was only one person who understood the hell William Kemp went through… and when history repeats, William will be the one who will have to understand.
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Rated: PG
Director: Stephen Pickering
Length: 10 min
Short | Drama | Family
USA
When a global chemical warfare promises to wipe out all of civilization, a young couple faces a tragic choice– give their baby to the government’s desperate attempt to save a generation of the United State’s population in underground bunkers, or to die together as… a family.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbZgEKuAX0c
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Rated: G
Director: Genevieve Davis
Length: 2 min
Short
USA
Two Pulcinella clowns lounge in the streets of Venice during Carnivale. One sleeps, while the other is engrossed in a how-to pamphlet from the School for the Rude, called “Getting Rid of a Tapeworm”. He experiments on his sleeping compatriot with what he has read and is abundantly rewarded for his efforts!
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Rated: G
Director: Julien Ezri Producer: Julien Ezri
Length: 6 min
Animation | Short
Switzerland
A long time ago, terror, loathing and power reigned over the Wild Wild North. The foolishness of the inhabitants led them to battle for anything, even…For a Fistful of Snow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Yv1mSIZ8sA
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Rated: PG
Director: Gregg Helvey Producer: Gregg Helvey
Length: 19 min
Short | Drama
India and USA
Website: Kavi the Movie
I was shocked to learn that 27 million people* around the world are enslaved today. As I began to research and understand the extent of modern slavery, I knew that I had to make a movie about it. People had to know. This injustice and cruelty had to stop.
Kavi is my USC thesis film. It’s a 19-minute fictional film about a young boy who wants to escape from the brick kiln where he is forced to work as a modern-day slave. Kavi will be the first fictional film of its kind to expose the reality of “bonded labor”, a form of modern slavery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZS718v6FIc
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Rated: PG
Director: Michael Tisdale Producer: Michael Tisdale
Length: 16 min
Short | Drama
USA
Twenty-two marines — all from the 325, a reserve unit based in Brookpark, Ohio — were killed in Iraq’s Anbar Province on three separate occasions between July 28, 2005, and August 3, 2005. I grew up about a fifteen-minute drive from said base and when my father died (of cancer) on August 5, 2005, and I traveled back to northeast Ohio for his memorial, my grief and that of the friends and families of those marines became entangled. By the beginning of December 2005, I had begun cold-calling the families; and in February 2006, I returned to Ohio to meet with and audio record my first conversations with five families. More than three years later, I have made innumerable trips (to Ohio) and accrued in excess of seventy-hours of audio and video material documenting the experiences of four families since they were officially notified (by the Marine Corps) of their loved one’s death.
Goldstar, Ohio is an exploration of the instant the death of a loved one is understood. It contains no fictitious persons nor fictitious events. Words are never attributed to anyone but the individual who spoke them, and names have not been changed.
Website: Goldstar, Ohio Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqxhT4UPhQA
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Rated: PG
Director: Ryan Marzolph Producer: Ryan Marzolph
Length: 6 min
Short | Drama
USA
The Responsibilities of Men chronicles the daily life of the last man on earth, still trapped in the mundane rituals of his former life. Unable to cope with the terrible realities of the world around him, he chooses to blind himself by engaging in the meaningless traditions of a former world. He delivers a persuasive monologue on the merits of routine, obligation, and conformity which ironically contrasts his reality and serves to highlight the futility of his charade. As the humor wanes we see the true sadness of a man too afraid of the truth to face it. Choosing a comfortable lie over the heartbreaking truth, he condemns himself to repeat his mistakes forever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSRozNN-8SA
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Rated: R
Director: Justin Evans Producer: Justin Evans
Length: 96 min
Action | Thriller | War
USA
Thursday: 7:30pm – La Casa Grande
Saturday: 5:00 pm – La Casa Grande
Sunday: 2:30pm –La Casa Grande
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.
