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Fantastic World of Juan Orol, The

Move over Ed Wood! Mexico’s half-forgotten B-movie master, “involuntary surrealist” Juan Orol, receives a pitch-perfect tribute in this irresistible love letter to a self-made man of showbiz. In glorious black-and-white flashback mingling movie-tainted memories of his Galician childhood, Cuban exile “Juanito“ pursues failed careers as baseball player, boxer, bullfighter and gangster before landing in the movies.

Far

Narrative Short. David goes on a date with Hannah, a young woman, who isn’t quite what she seems.

Fifth Season, The

Selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, The Fifth Season’s mesmerizing cinematography and scenic vistas only make this slow burning dystopian narrative all the more disturbing. Farmers of a tiny village gather for a festival marking the end of winter, but a mysterious calamity strikes and the seasons refuse to change. Things start to disappear, even the colors, and soon this idyllic Belgian town is transformed into something completely unrecognizable.

Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart

A father-son road trip morphs into a musical journey examining the fraught history of Finnish immigration in Sweden. Playful and affecting, this film nabbed the Best Nordic Documentary in Gothenburg and uses vintage tunes to delve into distressing memories shared by many Swedish Finns.

Finnish Cow, The

Narrative Short. Fane, a farmer who loves animals, sells a breed cow to contemporary art museum, unaware that doing so will change his life forever.

First Comes Love

*Director Nina Davenport Attending*

Filmmaker Nina Davenport redefines both ‘family’ and ‘documentarian’ in this self-portrait of a single 40-year- old who decides to have a baby. Davenport turns the camera on herself, inviting the audience into all aspects of this process: from the earliest deliberations between friends and family to well-past the birth of her baby. First Comes Love is a touching and moving documentary, and a credit to Davenport who is both an affecting director and a compelling character.

Five Years

Narrative Short. On the first day of his Probation sentence, a teen gets a desperate call for help from a friend in crisis. Met with the suspicions of his peers, and driven ultimately towards a confrontation with a young teenage mother, Will is forced to weigh his own needs and security with the compassion he has for others.

Flower Buds

Writer-director Zdenek Jiráský, a brave ensemble cast, and an adept cinematographer (Vladimír Smutný) reveal the soul-killing limits of existence in the post-Stalinist Czech Republic through a diverse assembly of townsfolk trapped in the ugly, snow-clogged, nameless village at the heart of Jiráský’s unblinking drama.

Foreigner, The

Narrative Short. A remote Greek village must raise its population in order to avoid being cut off from the local government. When a foreigner, Eric, stumbles into town, the village mayor rallies the hostile townspeople to convince Eric to stay.

Forever in Hiatus

Narrative Short. A washed up former pop star lives in exile pedaling a xich lo (bicycle taxi) aimlessly in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City until he meets a 16 year-old girl who discovers who he is.

Fort Apache

Narrative Short. In 1940s America, a precocious young boy struggles to escape small town life. On the eve of his eleventh birthday, he must choose between leaving home or following his brother down a path of violence and destruction in this coming of age story.

Fray

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Narrative Short. A persevering little girl struggles to find hope during the last days of her mother's life.

From One Day to the Next (Von Heute Auf Morgen)

With tenacious empathy for his characters, Swiss filmmaker Frank Matter (In the Garden of Sounds) returns with a new documentary following four stubborn, noble and unconquerable elderly individuals through their everyday lives. Observing how they manage
the frustrations of gradually losing autonomy, Matter explores their increasing dependence on outside help, their insistence on living at home, and how their nurses reconcile their compassion with the professional, economic and bureaucratic demands of their
job.

Fruit Hunters, The

Director Yung Chang Attending!
Post-Show Fruit Party featuring Dulci Berry Miracle Fruit!
The Fruit Hunters follows a group of obsessive fruit collectors who will travel to all ends of the Earth to satisfy their addiction.

Girl from Birch Creek

Filmmakers Attending
Feature Documentary. A woman faces tragedy and hardship as a young girl in Depression-era Kansas, but grows up to fight the battle for equal justice and for women’s equality during the 1970’s, opening the doors of opportunity for generations of women who will come after her.

Girl Meets Bike

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Feature Narrative. A young high school shop teacher buys her first motorcycle with her wedding dress money, leading her away from her controlling fiancée into a new circle of motorcycle friends who are attracted but threatened by her newfound sexual freedom. As she learns to ride, she must interpret their offers of advice and mechanical assistance: are they subtle forms of control? Or crucial knowledge, without which she might get herself killed?

 

Gold Fever

*Director Tommy Haines & Executive Producer Tom Haines Attending*
From the Minnesota-based filmmaking team that brought us the 2008 Festival hit Pond Hockey. 500 years have passed since the conquistadors sailed, but the fever for gold persists. Gold Fever witnesses the arrival of the global economy to formerly remote San Miguel Ixtahuacán where a new mine has turned the town on its head. Caught in the crosshairs of a worldwide frenzy for gold, three people defend their ancestral lands in the face of long odds, and grave consequences.

Golden

Filmmakers Attending
Narrative Short. Hank is a simple man and has spent the last fifty years of his life with his loving wife Maria. He is unaccustomed to change and set in his routines.

Golden Hour

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Narrative Short. Jim is troubled by memory loss and is desperate to uncover his past. He relies on a book of prompts and post-it reminders to get him through simple daily tasks. Jim's mind has become scrambled with film clips of his life, where he searches to uncover the fragmented memory of a lost love.

Goodbye Morocco

Single mother Dounia lives with a Serbian architect in Tangiers—a scandalous relationship in the eyes of her Moroccan family. The couple supervises a construction project, where earthmovers uncover 4th century Christian tombs decorated with ornate frescoes. Dounia embarks on a lucrative but illegal trade in the hope of making some quick money so she can leave Morocco with her son and her lover. But one of the construction workers disappears...

 

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