Five women with disabilities are followed on their journey to the 2010 Ms. Wheelchair America pageant, where the concept of beauty is defined through the lens of advocacy & perseverance.
Friday: 7:30 pm – Domenico’s Saturday: 2:30 pm – Hendricks Art Center
Genre: Documentary Country: USA Rating: PG Runtime: 117 minutes Director: Gary Null, Valerie Van Cleve Producer: Valerie Van Cleve, Richard Polonetsky
Death by Medicine explores the dominant medical paradigm, the current health crisis, and a healthier, more holistic system. Based on Gary Nulls groundbreaking book with statistical evidence of hundreds of thousands of injuries and deaths due to conventional medicine. It looks at the pharmaceutical industry, drug reps, medical schools, medical journals and the absence of real medical science. The lack of oversight by our regulatory agencies, private insurance firms and lobbying influence upon our legislators. The result is the American medical system is broken and it is time to create a new medical paradigm.
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Friday: 2:30 pm – Hendricks Art Center Saturday: 7:30 pm – Angel Museum
Genre: Documentary Country: Sweden Rating: G Runtime: 59 minutes Director: Kjell Andersson Producer: Kjell Andersson
Nazi Germany made large orders of Swedish granite before and during World War 2. The intention was to build a new world of capital, which would be called Germania. A lot was delivered, but after 1943 it became impossible because of war. But the Germans wanted to have his stone and wanted to have supplies when they had won the war. Swedish quarries continued to cut building stone until the end of the war.
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Camel racing is a popular sport in the Middle East. In past years, thousands of young boys have been trafficked from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Mauritania and other countries to work as jockeys in the UAE under excruciating conditions. Over the last 10 years, some governments have tried to put an end to the use of child jockeys. Desert Riders will examine the situation before and since these government policies were enacted, as well as the difficult journey to retrieve and recuperate these children.
Friday: 7:30 pm – Hendricks Art Center Saturday: 7:30 pm – Speakeasy II
Genre: Documentary Country: USA, UAE, Bulgaria, Moldova, Greece, Turkey Rating: PG-17 Runtime: 73 minutes Director: Mimi Chakarova Producer: Mimi Chakarova
The Price of Sex is a documentary about young Eastern European women who’ve been drawn into a netherworld of sex trafficking and abuse. It is a story told by survivors a film that gives voice to women who were supposed to be silenced by shame, fear and intimidation. Mimi Chakarova, a photojournalist who grew up in Bulgaria, takes us on a personal, investigative journey into the shadowy world of sex trafficking from Eastern Europe to Turkey, Dubai and Greece. Told through the personal accounts of trafficked women, undercover footage, and still photography, this documentary exposes the root causes of why women continue to be sold into prostitution against their will and examines what can be done to stop it.
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Friday: 5:00 pm – Nikki’s Cafe Saturday: 7:30 pm – Hendricks Art Center
Genre: Documentary Country: USA Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 201 minutes Director: Peter Joseph Producer: Peter Joseph
A feature length documentary work which presents a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical “life ground” attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a “Resource-Based Economy”.
Friday: 5:00 pm – Wilson Theater Saturday: 2:30 pm – Bagels & More
Genre: Documentary Country: USA Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 73 minutes Director: Iara Lee Producer: George Gund, Sergei Krasikau
Does each gesture really make a difference? Can music and dance be weapons of peace? In 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, director Iara Lee embarked on a journey to better understand a world increasingly embroiled in conflict and, as she saw it, heading for self-destruction. After several years, travelling over five continents, Iara encountered growing numbers of people who committed their lives to promoting change. This is their story. From IRAN, where graffiti and rap became tools in fighting government repression, to BURMA, where monks acting in the tradition of Gandhi take on a dictatorship, moving on to BRAZIL, where musicians reach out to slum kids and transform guns into guitars, and ending in PALESTINIAN refugee camps in LEBANON, where photography, music, and film have given a voice to those rarely heard, CULTURES OF RESISTANCE explores how art and creativity can be ammunition in the battle for peace and justice.
Featuring: Medellín poets for peace, Capoeira masters from Brazil, Niger Delta militants, Iranian graffiti artists, womens movement leaders in Rwanda, Lebanons refugee filmmakers, U.S. political pranksters, indigenous Kayapó activists from the Xingu River, Israeli dissidents, hip-hop artists from Palestine, and many more…
Thursday: 7:30 pm – La Casa Grande Friday: 10:00 pm – Bushel & Peck’s
Genre: Drama Country: USA Rating: R Runtime: 105 minutes Director: Barry Hershey, Jay Roach, William Dance Producer: Jay Roach, David D. Johnson, William Dance
Previously released by Lions Gate Films as The Empty Mirror, this director’s cut is now being released under its original title of A. Hitler on the 15th anniversary of its world premiere at the Cannes International Film Festival. The film, by writer/director Barry J. Hershey, is a phantasmagoric journey into the darkest recesses of the mind of Adolf Hitler. In a dreamlike subterranean environment removed from historical time, Adolf Hitler confronts the demons of his psyche. As he dictates his memoirs, Hitler encounters apparitions of his fiendish confidant, Joseph Goebbels; his enigmatic mistress, Eva Braun; the mastermind of his military campaigns, Hermann Goering; Jewish psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud; and a mysterious Woman in Black. Through haunting images, Hitler’s stream-of-consciousness soliloquies and exchanges with his phantom guests, A. Hitler presents a terrifying primer on genius and psychosis, domination and destruction. The action unfolds amidst a flow of streaming archival film footage inter-cut with images from Leni Riefenstahl’s masterpiece of Nazi propaganda, Triumph Of The Will, and private home movies shot by Hitler’s lover, Eva Braun.
Friday: 5:00 pm – Rotary Center Saturday: 7:30 pm – Franchesco’s*
* (Dinner & a Movie – Dinner @ 6:00)
Genre: Drama Country: USA Rating: G Runtime: 91 minutes Director: Joanne Hock Producer: Rick Eldridge
When 12 year old Trinity Goodheart is visited by an angel who leaves her a pendant that belonged to her long lost mother, Trinity concludes that her mother is in danger and needs her help.
Genre: Comedy Country: USA Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 86 minutes Director: Christopher Panneck, David Hall Producer: Christopher Panneck, David Hall, Christopher Plogger
Troubles escalate in a small North Dakota town when a frozen food delivery man is mistaken for someone else and ends up embroiled in the middle of an old feud between two Norwegian mafia families and their lutefisk recipe.
Friday: 5:00 pm – La Casa Grande Saturday: 5:00 pm – Rotary Center
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Drama Country: United Kingdom, South Africa, Rwanda Rating: PG Runtime: 88 minutes Director: Debs Gardner-Paterson Producer: Mark Blaney, Eric Kabera, Jackie Sheppard
The extraordinary story of three Rwandan kids who walk 3000 miles to the Soccer World Cup in South Africa. Using a sack load of ingenuity and sass (and a World Cup wall chart for a map), our pint-sized protagonists set off through the endless horizons of Africa in pursuit of an unlikely dream. And as they walk they gather a tribe – a ragamuffin team – of broken and brilliant characters who help them negotiate a way through a series of glorious, dangerous, hilarious and often bizarre situations. Through these kids, we will encounter an Africa few people ever get to see; experience the hard reality of an epic walk through seven countries; as well as the joy, laughter and hope – ‘the ubuntu’ – that comes from making an incredible journey together.
Thursday: 10:00 pm – Bagels & More Saturday: 5:00 pm – Speakeasy II
Morya
Two Friendly Ghosts
The Ascension
Tempest
Lady and the Champ
In the Morning
Mothmen of Milwaukee
My Prison Called Life
Interview
Morya
Genre: Drama Country: India, USA Rated: G Runtime: 19 minutes Director: Vihang Walve Producer: Vihang Walve, Bhakti Walve
A 10 year-old Mumbai boy has tremendous faith in the elephant-headed god Ganesha. But his belief that the god fulfills his every wish takes an adverse turn.
Two Friendly Ghosts
Genre: Drama Country: Germany USA Rated: G Runtime: 11 minutes Director: Parker Ellerman Producer: Birke Birkner, Vincent Joliet, Thorne Mutert, Denni
James Dean and Donald Turnupseed, the man whose car killed Dean, meet again for the first time … at the very same intersection where the accident occurred.
The Ascension
Genre: Drama Country: China Rated: PG Runtime: 3 minutes Director: Gershon Sng Producer: Gershon Sng
A beggar finds a box with special powers and shares it with his friends. Soon the friends are plotting to steal the box, and what follows is unexpected.
Tempest
Country: Brazil Rated: PG Runtime:10 minutes
Lost at sea, a grizzly Captain must weather the storm of the century to sail his way home.
Lady and the Champ
Country: USA Rated: G Runtime: 3 minutes Director: Evan Burris Trout Producer: Evan Burris Trout
Strangers meet and a bond is immediately discovered
A troubled young couple has a fight shortly after waking up.
Mothmen of Milwaukee
Genre: Comedy Country: USA Rated: PG-13 Runtime: 6 minutes Director: Kristin Peterson Co-Producer and Students: Tate Bunker, instructor, Mitchell Blue, Joe Calamia, Kelly Danen, Derek Dehart, ,B.J. Fisher, Bennett Litton, Jonathan Long, Moe McPhearson, Kristin Peterson, Logan Peterson, Tony Porter, Noah Witt
Circling the lights at night, Milwaukee youth follow their leader in a new religious movement. Dressed in winged robed they explore ideas of community, joy, and purity through light.
My Prison Called Life
Genre: Family Drama Country: Canada Rated: PG Runtime: 10 minutes Director: Stephen Pickering Producer: Jeff Doiron
Charles Surdell spends his last day in prison, awaiting his execution for the murder of his wife 18 years ago. Having never received forgiveness from his son, he gives up hope that it’ll ever happen.
Interview
Genre: Musical, Animation Country: South Korea Rated: PG Runtime: 5 minutes Director: Hyun-Won Kim Producer: Hyun-Won Kim
The artist can’t focus on drawing as usual. He manages to calm himself down by venting his spleen on oil paints which are delivered today. Increasingly, he sees his appearance drawing and that bothers him. The more an appointment is getting closer, the more his nerves are on edge. What would he really want to draw ?
Genre: Comedy, Drama Musical Country: Canada Rating: PG Runtime: 93 minutes Director: Michael McGowan Producer: Michael McGowan, Avi Federgreen, Nadia Tavazzani
Seventeen-year-old Farley has led a sheltered life, raised on a diet of home schooling, organic living and trips to the art gallery. To his parents’ dismay, Farley loves to play shinny with the local rink rats. To their even greater dismay, Farley is scouted and signed by the owner (Stephen McHattie) of a junior league team, where he becomes an instant star. But Farley discovers that stardom comes with a price-including the expectation to fight on the ice. Throw in a changing relationship with his best friend (Allie MacDonald), and Farley finds himself losing his way.
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Friday: 5:00 pm – Woman’s Club Saturday: 5:00 pm – Angel Museum
Sunday: 2:30 pm – Bagels & More (Screening Added.)
Genre: Documentary Country: USA, Philippines, China Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 93 minutes Director: Donald Plata Producer: Donald Plata
Three months into World War II, the President of the United States ordered General Douglas MacArthur to leave 80,000 men behind on Bataan, and escape to Australia. Those soldiers faced one of the worst atrocities in military history – the Bataan Death March. In Forgotten Soldiers, Hollywood actor Lou Diamond Phillips and ten Philippine Scout survivors tell the story of their gallant stand, their bitter surrender, and their ultimate triumph over the enemy.
General MacArthur’s army in the Far East included U.S. National Guard units from Wisconsin, Illinois, California, and New Mexico; ten divisions of newly recruited Philippine Army soldiers, and one U.S. Army infantry division–the Philippine Scouts.
The top brass in Washington promised to send reinforcements, planes, naval support and supplies…but months went by and the reinforcements never came.
The men held on for four months. As their supplies dwindled they went on half rations, then one-third rations. They grew weaker, victims of malaria, dysentery and other tropical diseases. After every other allied stronghold in the Pacific had fallen, their commanding officer finally succumbed to the Japanese onslaught rather than see any more of his men slaughtered.
As Prisoners of War the survivors of Bataan suffered even more. Thousands died on the Death March, thousands more in horrible Japanese prison camps.
In this stirring documentary movie, Bataan survivors describe the events over photographs, reenactments, actual footage of the Death March and shots taken inside the Japanese camps, much of the film captured from the Japanese at the end of the war. The Philippine Scouts were the backbone of General MacArthur’s forces, but few Americans today are even aware of this unique segment of the United States Army. They are America’s FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS.
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Genre: Documentary Country: France, USA Rating: G Runtime: 51 minutes Director: Craig Schaefer Producer: Ted Rosean
Born into the chaos of the French Revolution, Mathias Loras would come to develop a vision for a state of spirituality in the New World that few dare dream. Brought up in an elegant, bourgeois family he would eventually become a missionary assigned to a remote outpost in the frontier territory of Iowa. There he would sew the seeds of the church to rough miners and farmers, while battling the unending hardships of life on edge of civilization.
Friday: 5:00 pm – Speakeasy I Saturday: 5:00 pm–Bagels & More
Genre: Documentary Country: USA Rating: G Runtime: 75 minutes Director: Ellen Frick Producer: Ellen Frick
Another American Soldier Has Died. Who cares? The suffering of soldiers and their families is largely invisible to most Americans. But not to these Americans. ‘Patriot Guard Riders’ is a documentary about a 200,000 strong motorcycle group who attend military funerals to honor the fallen, and to protect grieving families from a hate group who descend on the funerals and harass them.
Death strikes a mortal blow… to a common house plant. This plunges little Audrey into her deepest fear, that one day her mother will meet the same fate.
Protect the Nation
Genre: Drama Country: Germany, South Africa Rated: PG Runtime: 17 minutes Director: C. R. Reisser Producer: Marcus Machura, Thomas Reisser
In the spring of 2008, a shocking wave of xenophobic attacks against foreign immigrants spread across South Africa, leading to the deaths of sixty-two people and the displacement of over 40,000. “Protect the Nation” is a humble and intimate look inside the struggles of a community and the consequences of greed, miscommunication and hate. When faced with the unexpected kindness of a stranger, a young boy begins to question himself. Does he have the courage to do what’s right?
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Lars
Genre: Drama Country: USA Rated: PG-13 Runtime: 18 minutes Director: Manuela Rossi Producer: Adam Perly, Manuela Rossi
Lars, a young Stasi Lieutenant, discovers his parents are underground smugglers and struggles to reconcile his feeling of kinship with his ideology.
Genre: Drama, Documentary Country: Uruguay | Brazil Rated: G Runtime: 3 minutes Director: Renato C. Gaiarsa Producer: Renato C. Gaiarsa
During a trip to Uruguay, he filmed his girlfriend. After a break-up he returned to Sao Paulo and recorded the empty apartment where they both lived. As a result, pieces of love memories in the form of film.
Genre: Musical Country: USA Rated: PG Runtime: 8 minutes Director: Charlie Cunliffe Producer: Mary Cunliffe
Special Delivery” is a story about a group of matchmaking friends who get an unexpected surprise when they set up a wall flower and a quirky delivery person. They witness how love can truly transform people in ways they could not have imagined
Talk
Genre: Drama Country: United Kingdom Rated: PG-13 Runtime: 10 minutes Director: Callie Lane Producer: Mike Hume, Callie Lane, Amir Nader
When Michael’s girlfriend Eloise surprises him with a day out at the beach he is blissfully unaware that soon his life will begin to spiral out of control.
A House Full Of Thorns
(“Unha casa con silveiras”)
Genre: Drama Country: USA Rated: G Runtime: 18 minutes Director: Roi Fernandez Producer: Roi Fernandez
The journey of a Galician actress trying to find her place in NYC breaking through her communication problems.
Always Sprinkle Pepper
Genre: Family Country: USA Rated: G Runtime: 3 minutes Director: Evan Trout, Alex Rodgers Producer: Evan Trout, Alex Rodgers
Cinematic representation of the poem ‘Always Sprinkle Pepper’ by Shel Silverstein. A rebellious boy sprinkles pepper in his hair. He discovers that the pepper in his hair saves him from Wild Barbazoops and old hags.
Genre: Documentary Country: USA Rating: G Runtime: 65 minutes Director: Richard Chisolm Producer: Sheila Kinkade
Cafeteria Man is the true story of rebel chef Tony Geraci and his mission to radically reform Baltimore’s public school food system with a recipe for change.
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Thursday: 7:30 pm – Angel Museum Saturday: 7:30 pm – Woman’s Club
Genre: Documentary Country: France Rating: G Runtime: 54 minutes Director: Laurence Jourdan Producer: Nicolas Koutsikas
Each year, oceans produce half of our oxygen. They represent nearly one half of the productivity of the planet. And they are threatened.We know that, by producing ever increasing amounts of CO2, man is turning the climate upside down. Since very recently, we also know that the excess of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere modifies the chemistry of the deep seas.Oceans are getting more acid. Their acidification leads us on an uncertain journey about which the scientific community is worried.
Genre: Comedic – Drama Country: Canada, Syria, Arab Republic Rated: PG Runtime: 19 minutes Director: Amar Chebib
Upon being drafted for military service, Ahmad, a determined young Syrian poet, decides to flee the country. Consequently, he is forced up against his conservative family, reluctant lover, and must negotiate his way through the labyrinthine bureaucracy of Damascus. En route to Lebanon, he discovers himself in an unexpected place, an apricot orchard.
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Coventry
Genre: Drama – Thriller Country: USA Rated: G Runtime: 14 minutes Director: Shawn Cheatham, Jeremy Chandler
In an unknown era and an uncharted land, three men set out on a mysterious search that sends them to Coventry.
Perhaps Tomorrow
Genre: Drama Country: USA Rated: PG Runtime: 21 minutes Director: Sandy Garfunkel Producer: Sandy Garfunkel, Wendy Shear
Annie has detached herself from her friends and her work, and seems desperate to find a connection with a world other than her own. She thinks there is only one path to resolution, but unexpectedly, her daily lunch routine becomes the key to making peace with the ghosts of her past.
Genre: Drama Country: Spain Rated: G Runtime: 5 minutes Director: Javier Figuero Producer: Rocío González, Andrea Casaseca
A beggar remembers the day a little girl gave him the best present in his life.
Cheese!
Genre: Family – Comedy Country: USA Rated: G Runtime: 5 minutes Director: Damien Patrik
3 fun loving college girls and a camera. Say cheese!
Oliver’s Treasure
Genre: Animation Comedy Fantasy Country: USA Rated: G Runtime: 3 minutes Director: Chuck Grieb
Down on his luck again, the likable and plucky, if opportunistic, knight, Sir Oliver, is on the run. Stumbling into the king’s receiving room, Sir Oliver finds himself to have dogged his pursuers, but to find the old monarch’s crown was left forgotten on the throne. Intrigued at this unique, valuable, and fragile find, the easily distracted Sir Oliver gives the crown a try to see how it sits on his head. Trouble quickly returns when a searching knight tracks down Oliver’s hiding place. Oliver’s treasure is an animated comedy using Three Dimensional Computer Generated Imagery to bring the characters to life..
Dawn
Genre: Fantasy Country: Greece Rated: G Runtime: 7 minutes Director: Nick Dimitriadis
An artist seeks inspiration for his next project. His quest will take him to some rather unusual places.
Genre: Documentary Country: USA Rating: G Runtime: 29 minutes Director: Natabara Mark Rollosson, Sanjay Rawal Producer: Sanjay Rawal, Natabara Mark Rollosson, Mridanga Spencer
Sri Chinmoy defied all notions of age being a barrier to physical development. In fact, at the age of 76 he set personal bests in a number of lifts, not measured in the tens or hundreds of pounds, but in the thousands.Challenging Impossibility illustrates that one should never give up, that we can write and rewrite our history through inspired enthusiasm and a faith in our inmost capacities.This 28-minute short film features bodybuilding and strength legends Bill Pearl, Frank Zane, Hugo Girard, Mike Katz and Dan Lurie as well as nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis. Challenging Impossibility also features music by Explosions in the Sky and Arvo Pärt as well as appearances by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Sting and Susan Sarandon.
Genre: Drama Country: USA Rating: PG Runtime: 23 minutes Director: Chris A. Adle Producer: Mary Boregino
A teenager is sent on a journey to fetch her aging grandmother and return her to the family farm. What seems on the surface to be a simple task is compounded when we learn that along her route lays a tiny house, the occupants of which she seems to have been trying to avoid.
Genre: Documentary Country:India Rating: PG Runtime: 25 minutes Director: Sushmit Gosh, Rinto Thomas Producer: Sushmit Gosh, Rinto Thomas
DILLI is a moving collection of heartfelt interviews with Delhi slum dwellers. Its lens focuses on a group of dwellers, bringing to life the untold story of mass exodus of thousands who were bulldozed from their homes and transferred to a makeshift facade – Bawana without water, shelter or drainage, while the city was being beautified for Commonwealth Games 2010. DILLI – city of dreams – is a universal story of millions of underprivileged around the world. DILLI holds up a mirror not only to India, but to every nation around the world, whose poor live forgotten under bridges, children go hungry, and fathers work thousands of miles from their families to provide. DILLI brings awareness. And awareness is the first step towards action.
Genre: Documentary Country: USA Rating: PG Runtime: 55 minutes Director: Klaus Schneyder Producer: Angela Viscido
Beatboxing has become a multi-lingual and diverse instrument applied in all genres of music. The documentary shows how this modern style of music has spread and how it continues to enrich the entertainment world.
It Is What It Is
Genre: Musical, Comedy Country: USA Rating: PG Runtime: 40 minutes Director: VP Boyle Producer: VP Boyle, Andrew Gerle
A modern day contemporary movie musical with a completely original score, IT IS WHAT IT IS explores the lives of seven young New Yorkers during a twenty-four hour period of near misses, tattered relationships and crumbling dreams.