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Pig Tale

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Documentary Short. Pig Tale follows a pig’s life from the pen to the plate; beyond the grocery store to see the men and women who are behind the food we eat.

Pirogue, The

Sharing a common desire to build a better life in Spain, and following the path of thousands before them, 30 Senegalese men and one woman set out across the rough seas in a pirogue – a boat resembling an oversized dinghy. Both heroic and tragic, the journey is the focus of director Moussa Touré’s (author of 8 documentaries and 2 other features) narrative, which premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard competition, and ultimately provides an examination of Senegal, a country that has drifted far off course.

 

Polluting Paradise (Der Müll Im Garten Eden)

German-Turkish director Fatih Akin returns to his grandparents’ hometown, Çamburnu, to find the Turkish government has turned the neighboring area into a giant provincial landfill. Akin interviews locals and collects hundreds of photos over five years, documenting the impact this ecological mess has had on a Black Sea community that depends so heavily on fishing and tea leaf harvests for its livelihood. Polluting Paradise is a heartbreaking documentary that perfectly illustrates globalization’s dangerous side effects.

Price of Sand, The

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Feature Documentary. The Price of Sand is a documentary film about the frac sand mining boom in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.

Purge

Based on a best-selling novel by Finnish-Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen, which has been translated into 38 languages, won multiple prizes and spawned an opera, Finnish director Antti Jokinen’s Oscar-submitted screen adaptation is a gripping, polished hybrid of contemporary thriller and historical melodrama.

Reality

Premiering at Cannes, Reality garnered director Matteo Garrone a second Grand Prix award, after his first came in 2008 for Gomorrah.

In this satirical black comedy, the easily excitable and arrogant Luciano dreams of joining the cast of Italy’s ‘Big Brother,’ but ultimately winds up alienated and jaded. The support Luciano receives from his family and community goes straight to his head, and, after a prank by his brother goes horribly wrong, his high hopes come crashing down.

 

Reluctant Fundamentalist, The

Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber and Kate Hudson co-star in this adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s international best-selling novel, about a young Pakistani man (Riz Ahmed) whose pursuit of corporate success on Wall Street leads him on a strange path back to the world he had left behind.

Reminiscence

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Narrative Short. During an assignment, Jai, a loan shark collector, stumbles upon a piano which changes his life. Written and directed by Bryan Vue, who wrote and co-directed "Journey to the Fallen Skies," which won the Best MN Made Feature Film at the 2012 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival.

Repentant, The

In the mountains of Algeria, Islamist groups continue to spread terror. Rashid, a young Jihadist, takes advantage of a national amnesty to rejoin civil society. In keeping with the law “of pardon and national harmony,” he must surrender to the police and give up his weapon. Those who do so are known as “repentants.” But the law can’t erase his crimes. For Rashid, it is the beginning of a journey of violence, secrets and manipulation, especially when he crosses paths with a separated couple whose lives were destroyed five years earlier.

 

School Night

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Narrative Short. Buddy and Kenny break into their high school in order to blow it up.

Shyamal Uncle Turns Off the Lights

An 80-year-old Kolkata retiree is on a mission to get his neighborhood streetlights turned off at sunrise after he notices they stay on all day. Shyamal Uncle finds his sense of propriety upset by this wasteful expense of electricity. But finding someone to take him seriously proves a battle against an indifferent bureaucracy and a complacent status quo (and is just maybe a welcome distraction from his otherwise dull routine).

Sicky

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Narrative Short. A little girl invents an imaginary friend to cope with her mother's illness.

Sigilo

Narrative Short. Two women are taking care of a household full of children, there is no time to answer all their questions, and that only feeds child’s curiosity.

Song of the Apprentice, The

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Documentary Short. This essay film reflects on issues of productivity, creativity and the need for meaningful and dignified work.

About the filmmaker: Born in Chile, Cecilia Cornejo is a non-fiction filmmaker and artist who resides and teaches in Northfield, Minnesota.

Southwest

In this gorgeously dreamlike and mysterious tale, a young woman named Clarice gives birth on her deathbed to a baby girl also christened Clarice by the bruxa (or witch) attending the nearly simultaneous moments of death and birth. Spirited away to a remote lakeside village, baby Clarice lives her whole life in the span of twenty-four hours, and yet even so compressed a lifetime remains impossible to fully grasp or contain.

Sparrow

Narrative Short. A family is in turmoil and a daughter is determined to connect with her late father. Sparrow tells the story of loss through the eyes of a young girl, and the nonsensical events that transpire from such a loss.

Spectres

Deploying a subtle form of cinéma-vérité, Belgian artist Sven Augustijnen sets out on a road-movie journey in pursuit of the individuals who have successfully controlled the historical narrative about the Belgian government’s role in the 1961 execution of the Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba. Traveling from lavish chateaux to cemeteries, from dusty legal archives to roadside scenes of violence, Augustijnen emerges as a sort of Belgian Errol Morris, with a gift for unpacking arcane legalese and an eye for eccentric details.

Stan Herd: Down to Earth

Documentary Short. An intimate portrait of International Earthwork artist Stan Herd as he creates large-scale images on the earth. Stan’s canvas is a field on the family farm and his materials include wheat, sunflowers, and other found objects. Two of his first installations were 160-acre portraits of Kiowa War Chief Satanta and Will Rogers.

Stay Home

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Animated Short. A dog and cat live together. The sun shines down and a day goes by.

MN-Made Animated Shorts screens with Persistence of Vision.

Stuck

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Stuck is an award-winning documentary film that uncovers the real-life stories of children and parents navigating a roller coaster of bureaucracy on their journeys through the international adoption system, each filled with hope, elation – and sometimes heartbreak.

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