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2008 Schedule
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12:00 PM

Choices + The Good Mother of Agangoh

When Ramona Johnson speaks to students about gun violence and the importance of choices, she hopes they listen and take what...

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12:00 PM

The World Laughs with You

A collection of short films from five different nations to bring a smile to your face and a tickle to your funny bone.

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12:00 PM

Love Lost and Found - Romance Shorts

According to 1980s pop music, love either lifts us up where we belong, or it bites. These seven shorts from five nations pretty much run that gamut...

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1:00 PM

Beyond Belief

Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are two ordinary soccer moms living in the affluent suburbs of Boston until tragedy strikes...

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1:45 PM

Iron Ladies of Liberia

After nearly two decades of brutal civil war, Liberia is a nation ready for change. On January 16th 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...

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2:15 PM

Cochochi

Evaristo and Luis Antonio Lerma Batista have graduated from boarding school. Though 12-year-old Evaristo...

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3:15 PM

Cubanos, Life and Death of a Revolution

Cubanos, an independent production, liberates itself from television convention to draw an impressionist portrait of the Cuban...

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3:45 PM

Pop Skull

Pop Skull depicts the lonely and disjointed life of Daniel, a young Alabama pill addict, as his efforts to cope with the trials of...

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3:45 PM

Torn from the Flag

Torn from the Flag relates Hungary's struggle for a national identity against the domination of Soviet Communism focusing on the...

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5:15 PM

Reprise

REPRISE is a film about friendship, madness and creativity, about love and sorrow, great ambitions and the often unpleasant clash...

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5:30 PM

Take

Take occurs over two days - one day in the present and one day in the past. Ana (Minnie Driver) drives through the desert to witness the...

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5:45 PM

Karl Rove, I Love You

In the heat of the 2004 election race, actor Dan Butler – best known as Bulldog on the TV sitcom “Frasier” – begins production...

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7:00 PM

It's Better if Gabriela Doesn't Die

Have you ever met someone and then forgotten they ever existed? That's what happens to Miguel (Mauricio Isaac), a writer...

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7:30 PM

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story chronicles the last great American showman, filmmaker William Castle, a master of ballyhoo...

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7:45 PM

Chronic Town

In Fairbanks, Alaska, Truman Korovin drives a cab he calls Bessie for a dispatcher he calls Blowjob. His sarcasm, witty barbs...

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8:45 PM

Before the Rains

Acclaimed cinematographer Santosh Sivan brilliantly captures the rustic beauty of his native Kerala with its sweeping vistas...

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9:00 PM

In the City of Sylvia

A young man arrives in Strasbourg, France, in search of a woman he met and fell in love with six years ago...

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9:45 PM

An Alternative to Slitting Your Wrist...

What if every single person in the world took a year out of their life to do all the things they've always thought about doing?...

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10:30 PM
Future Imperfect - Science Fiction Shorts

These SciFi/Fantasy shorts from five different nations represent what the genre can be when filmmakers use their minds...

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10:30 PM

On the Road with Judas

Novelist JJ Lask lives in two different worlds, and both exist within his mind. As he struggles to write his new book, the audience...

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