Defining Beauty

Defining Beauty: Ms. Wheelchair America

Defining BeautyFriday: 12:00 pm – Domenico’sBuy Tickets
Saturday: 10:00 pm – Beloit LibraryBuy Tickets

 

Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Rating: PG
Runtime:  79 minutes
Director: Alexis Ostrander
Producer: Molly  Kasch, Alexis Ostrander, Meagan Keane

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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.

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Death by Medicine

Death By Medicine

Death by MedicineFriday: 7:30 pm – Domenico’s     Buy Tickets
Saturday: 2:30 pm – Hendricks Art CenterBuy Tickets

 

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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Hitler Stones

Hitler Stones – A Strange Affair in the Shadow of War (The)

Hitler StonesFriday: 2:30 pm – Hendricks Art CenterBuy Tickets
Saturday: 7:30 pm – Angel Museum Buy Tickets

 

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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Desert Riders

Desert Riders

Desert RidersFriday: 5:00 pm – Hendricks Art CenterBuy Tickets
Saturday: 10:00 pm – Domenico’s    Buy Tickets

 

Genre: Documentary
Country: Canada, UAE, IK, Pakistan, Bangladesh
Rating: PG-13
Runtime:  78 minutes
Director: Vic  Sarin
Producer: Noemi Weis, Stephanie Morano

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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.

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The Price of Sex

Price of Sex (The)

The Price of SexFriday: 7:30 pm – Hendricks Art CenterBuy Tickets
Saturday: 7:30 pm – Speakeasy II     Buy Tickets

 

Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, UAE, Bulgaria, Moldova, Greece, Turkey
Rating: PG-17
Runtime:  73 minutes
Director: Mimi Chakarova
Producer: Mimi Chakarova

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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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Zeitgeist Moving Forward

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward

Zeitgeist Moving ForwardFriday: 5:00 pm – Nikki’s Cafe          Buy Tickets
Saturday: 7:30 pm Hendricks Art CenterBuy Tickets

 

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”.

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Cultures of Resistance

Cultures of Resistance

Cultures of ResistanceFriday: 5:00 pm – Wilson TheaterBuy Tickets
Saturday: 2:30 pm Bagels & MoreBuy Tickets
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Rating: PG-13
Runtime:  73 minutes
Director: Iara Lee
Producer: George Gund, Sergei Krasikau

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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…

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A. Hitler

A. Hitler

A. HitlerThursday: 7:30 pm – La Casa GrandeBuy Tickets
Friday: 10:00 pm – Bushel & Peck’sBuy Tickets

 

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.

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Trinity Goodheart

Trinity Goodheart

Trinity GoodheartFriday: 5:00 pm – Rotary CenterBuy Tickets
Saturday: 7:30 pm – Franchesco’sBuy Tickets*
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Rating: G
Runtime:  91 minutes
Director: Joanne Hock
Producer: Rick Eldridge

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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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ZyWKq0xf0

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Lutefisk Wars

Lutefisk Wars (The)

Lutefisk Wars

WINNER
BEST FEATURE FILM 2012

WINNER
BEST SCREENPLAY 2012

Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Rating: PG-13
Runtime:  86 minutes
Director: Christopher Panneck, David Hall
Producer: Christopher Panneck, David Hall, Christopher Plogger

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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.

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Africa United

Africa United

Africa UnitedFriday: 5:00 pm – La Casa GrandeBuy Tickets
Saturday: 5:00 pm Rotary CenterBuy Tickets

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

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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.

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Morya

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Thursday: 10:00 pm – Bagels & MoreBuy Tickets
Saturday: 5:00 pm Speakeasy II Buy Tickets

 

  • Morya
  • Two Friendly Ghosts
  • The Ascension
  • Tempest
  • Lady and the Champ
  • In the Morning
  • Mothmen of Milwaukee
  • My Prison Called Life
  • Interview

 

Morya

Morya

 

Genre: Drama
Country: India, USA
Rated: G
Runtime: 19 minutes
Director: Vihang Walve
Producer: Vihang Walve,  Bhakti Walve

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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 GhostTwo 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 AscensionThe 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 ChampLady 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

 

In the MorningIn the Morning

 

 

Country: USA
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Geoff Crittenden
Producer: Geoff Crittenden

 

A troubled young couple has a fight shortly after waking up.

Mothmen of MilwaukeeMothmen 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 LifeMy 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.

InterviewInterview

 

 

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 ?

 

 

Score: A Hockey Musical

Score: A Hockey Musical

Score: A Hockey MusicalFriday: 5:00 pm – Speakeasy II Buy Tickets
Saturday: 7:30 pm Beloit LibraryBuy Tickets
Sunday: Noon – Bushel & Peck’sBuy Tickets
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Genre: Comedy, Drama Musical
Country: Canada
Rating: PG
Runtime: 93 minutes
Director: Michael McGowan
Producer: Michael McGowan, Avi Federgreen, Nadia Tavazzani

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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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Forgotten Soldiers

Forgotten Soldiers
Winner – Power Of Film Award

Forgotten Soldiers
WINNER
The BIFF 2012 Power Of Film AWARD
Friday: 5:00 pm – Woman’s Club Buy Tickets
Saturday: 5:00 pm Angel MuseumBuy Tickets
Sunday: 2:30 pm – Bagels & MoreBuy Tickets
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Genre: Documentary
Country: USA, Philippines, China
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 93 minutes
Director: Donald Plata
Producer: Donald Plata

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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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Man of Deeds

Man of Deeds
Winner – Best Documentary

Man of Deeds
WINNER
The BIFF 2012 Best Documentary AWARD
Friday: 7:30 pm – Woman’s Club Buy Tickets
Saturday: 2:30 pm Domenico’sBuy Tickets
Saturday: 2:30 pm – Nikki’s CafeBuy Tickets
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Genre: Documentary
Country: France, USA
Rating: G
Runtime: 51 minutes
Director: Craig Schaefer
Producer: Ted Rosean

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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.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNPo6dyI1Kw

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Patriot Guard Riders

Patriot Guard Riders

Patriot Guard Riders Friday: 5:00 pm – Speakeasy I Buy Tickets
Saturday: 5:00 pmBagels & MoreBuy Tickets

Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Rating: G
Runtime: 75 minutes
Director: Ellen Frick
Producer: Ellen Frick

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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.

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Johnny's Gone

Johnny’s Gone
Winner Best Soundtrack

Johnny's Gone
WINNER
The BIFF 2012 Best Soundtrack AWARD
Friday: 7:30 pm – Speakeasy I Buy Tickets
Saturday: 10:00 pmBushel & Peck’sBuy Tickets
Sunday: 2:30 pmBeloit LibraryBuy Tickets
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Rating: G
Runtime: 94 minutes
Director: Giorgio Serafini
Producer: Giuseppe Pedersoli, Jack Laveau

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The unsettling but heartfelt relationship between Sarah and a two year-old she calls Johnny hides a dark secret.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdqqXgE8_LE

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Lost Bohemia

Lost Bohemia

Lost BohemiaFriday: 7:30 pm – Sullivan Theater Buy Tickets
Saturday: 7:30 pmDomenico’sBuy Tickets
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Rating: G
Runtime: 79 minutes
Director: Josef Astor
Producer: Jody Shields, Johnathan Ferrantelli, Trevor King, Laura MacDonald

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A House Full of Thorns

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Thursday: 7:30 pm Eclipse CenterBuy Tickets
Saturday: 5:00 pm – Speakeasy I Buy Tickets

 

  • Hop the twig
  • Protect the Nation
  • Lars
  • The Film I Did Not Forget
  • Special Delivery
  • Talk
  • A House Full Of  Thorns
  • Always Sprinkle Pepper

Hop the TwigHop the twig

 

Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Canada
Rated: G
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Kyle Rideout
Producer: Kyle Rideout, Yifeng Song, Josh Epstein, Naomi Wright

 

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 NationProtect the Nation

 

Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, South Africa
Rated: PG
Runtime: 17 minutes
Director: C. R. Reisser
Producer: Marcus Machura, Thomas Reisser

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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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LarsLars

 

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.

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The Film I Did Not ForgetThe Film I Did Not Forget

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.

Special DeliverySpecial Delivery

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

TalkTalk

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 ThornsA 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 PepperAlways 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.

Cafeteria Man

Cafeteria Man
Ken Hendricks Peoples Choice Winner
Best Documentary Winner

Cafeteria Man

The Ken Hendricks Peoples Choice Award Winner!

WINNER
The BIFF 2012 Best Documentary
Sunday: Noon  Beloit LibraryBuy Tickets
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Sunday: 2:30 pm  Domenico’sBuy Tickets
(Screening Added)
Friday: 5:00 pm – Domenico’s      Buy Tickets
Saturday: 2:30 pm – Bushel & PecksBuy Tickets
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Rating: G
Runtime:  65 minutes
Director: Richard  Chisolm
Producer: Sheila Kinkade

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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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Tipping Point

Tipping Point

Tipping PointThursday: 7:30 pm – Angel MuseumBuy Tickets
Saturday: 7:30 pm Woman’s ClubBuy Tickets

 

Genre: Documentary
Country: France
Rating: G
Runtime:  54 minutes
Director: Laurence Jourdan
Producer: Nicolas Koutsikas

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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.

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Treasure / Alhaja

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Thursday, 7:30 pm – Bagels & More Buy Tickets
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  • The Angels in the Middle of the Square
  • Mish Mush (apricots)
  • Coventry
  • Perhaps Tomorrow
  • Treasure /Alhaja
  • Cheese!
  • Oliver’s Treasure
  • Dawn

The Angels in the Middle of the SquareThe Angels in the Middle of the Square
(Os Anjos do meio da Praça)

 

Genre: Animation
Country: Brazil
Rated: G
Runtime: 10 minutes
Director: Alexandre Camargo ,Camila Carrossine

A fable about fallen angels, forgotten dreams and a boy.

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Mish Mush / ApricotsMish Mush (apricots)

 

 

Genre: Comedic – Drama
Country: Canada, Syria, Arab Republic
Rated: PG
Runtime: 19 minutes
Director: Amar Chebib

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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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CoventryCoventry

 

 

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 TomorrowPerhaps 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.

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TreasureTreasure /Alhaja

 

 

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!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 TreasureOliver’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..

DawnDawn

 

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.


Reco

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Thursday: 7:30 pm – Nikki’s CafeBuy Tickets
Friday: 2:30 pm – Domenico’sBuy Tickets

 

  • Challenging Impossibility
  • Reco
  • Dilli

Challenging ImpossibilityChallenging Impossibility

 

Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Rating: G
Runtime:  29 minutes
Director: Natabara Mark Rollosson, Sanjay Rawal
Producer: Sanjay Rawal, Natabara Mark Rollosson, Mridanga Spencer

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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.

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RecoReco

 

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.

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DilliDilli

 

Genre: Documentary
Country:India
Rating: PG
Runtime:  25 minutes
Director: Sushmit Gosh, Rinto Thomas
Producer: Sushmit Gosh, Rinto Thomas

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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.

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It Is What It Is

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Thursday: 10:00 pm – Wilson TheaterBuy Tickets
Friday: 10:00 pm – Sullivan TheaterBuy Tickets

 

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Beatboxing: The Fifth Element of Hip Hop

BeatBoxing – The Fifth Element of Hip Hop

 

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 isIt Is What It Is

 

Genre: Musical, Comedy
Country: USA
Rating: PG
Runtime:  40 minutes
Director: VP Boyle
Producer: VP Boyle, Andrew Gerle

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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.

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