2018 Atlanta Film Festival

WALKING DISTANCE
Snapshots of peach state roots.
Documentary (Local), 61 minutes
Thursday, April 12, 2018, 6:00pm ⎯⎯⎯ Plaza Theatre

The Last Man You Meet | directed by Chris Bone, USA, 5:00
Take an exclusive look inside the gritty business of death as a third-generation funeral director reflects on his life.
#Georgia

Archive | directed by Adam Forrester, USA, 2:00
Filmed in a single-take, this experimental documentation of the demise of the iconic Georgia Archives Building in Atlanta, Georgia, explores our desire to preserve the past, our appetite to make way for the future, and the complex intersection of those urges.
#Georgia

The Whole Speaks | directed by Caroline Rumley, USA, 2:15
In two minutes we follow Nelms Creekmur through the process of creating a bottle opener out of a discarded railway tie. But it's more than that. It's a two minute manifesto on the creative process as a whole, applicable to any medium.
#Georgia

AWARE | directed by Jeremy Cournyea, USA, 7:08
The AWARE Wildlife Center is a non-profit that cares for injured and orphaned Georgia wildlife and promotes peaceful coexistence with our animal neighbors.
#Georgia

Magic is Everywhere | directed by Jordan Noel, USA, 14:48
A short documentary following the final few shows of Wil Wright, AKA Lil Iffy, who borrows characters, language and situations from the Harry Potter books to tell his own version of typical hip hop stories and themes.
#Georgia

Walls of Hope | directed by Elisabeth Pritchett, USA, 8:16
A short documentary about the Walls of Hope project in Savannah, Georgia and its creative and inspiring impact on the community.
#Georgia

American Dreaming | directed by Matthew Hashiguchi, USA, 10:56
With no guarantees of employment or opportunity, undocumented immigrants strive to obtain a college degree in the state of Georgia, where they are barred from enrolling in its most selected colleges and universities.
#Georgia

Atlanta From the Ashes | directed by Andrew Litten, USA, 10:07
An exploration of Atlanta's resiliency, and how the youth of Atlanta can look to the past for leadership and perseverance to move forward.
#Georgia

SPRING IN MY HOMETOWN
Films and filmmakers grown in Georgia clay.
Narrative (Local), 85 minutes
Thursday, April 12, 2018, 8:00pm ⎯⎯⎯ Plaza Theatre

M.A.F.I.A. | directed by Frances Chang, USA, 4:45
Discouraged by online dating, these women have turned to a new app, M.A.F.I.A., to find love.
#Georgia

Something Bigger | directed by Chris Anthony Hamilton, USA, 8:57
Teea confides in her best friend about her existential crisis when an ominous visitor interrupts their moment of connection.
#Georgia

Jukebox Girl | directed by Alex Richard Thomas, USA, 9:32
The mayor's daughter, Brenda moonlights as a criminal stuck between putting her delinquent days behind her or succumbing to a life of crime.
#Georgia

Beeda After the Wake | directed by Nina Marinov, USA, 10:04
In a southern magical realism story of loss, an observant five year old girl is left on her own to navigate death and grief.
#Georgia, #NewMavericks

Pupae | directed by Ryan Hope Travis, USA, 8:32
Compelled to confront his past, Moses returns home after living in a swamp for 7 years.
#Georgia

Cells | directed by Raymond Wood, USA, 12:00
A doctor is held captive by a group of masked intruders who force him to answer why billions of dollars go wasted each year in the name of medical research.
#Georgia

Jookuhdo | directed by Crystal Jin Kim, USA, 12:30
An antique shopkeeper is floored when her long-lost, yakuza-involved love suddenly reappears four years after his supposed death and is dying to find if this can be true.
#Georgia, #NewMavericks

On the Fence | directed by Jared Callahan, USA, 8:00
Pete attempts to reconnect with his family after escaping from a drug recovery center.
#Georgia

Snapshot | directed by Brett Bagwell, USA, 9:59
Expressed through the memories and dreams of a 12-year old boy, a mother and son struggle to cope with the absence of the father.
#Georgia

YOUNG AND WILD
Fables for kids who still believe in magic.
Animation & Puppetry (Family Friendly), 49 minutes
Saturday, April 14, 2018, 12:00pm ⎯⎯⎯ Hilan Theatre

Undiscovered | directed by Sara Litzenberger, USA, 2:49
Sasquatch has always remained elusive in photos--but not for the reasons we think.

那個午後的冒險 (The Adventure of the Afternoon) | directed by Vance Yang & Stella Huang, Taiwan, 7:45
The tale of a boy who meets an unexpected friend on a beautiful afternoon. They start an adventure journey to discover the world.

The Puppy Trials | directed by Thomas Nicol & Becky Nicol, USA, 4:02
An older dog teaches puppies how to behave.

Goodbye Sam | directed by Theo Taplitz, USA, 4:59
A boy and his posse say goodbye to a beloved friend.

Voyagers | directed by Gauthier Ammeux, Valentine Baillon, Benjamin Chaumény, Alexandre Dumez, Léa Finucci, & Marina Roger, France, 7:33
A tiger, escaping his hunter, ends up in a space station occupied by an astronaut and his goldfish…

Babushka | directed by Sabrina Brady, USA, 4:01
A young girl's day spirals out of control after she meddles with her grandmother's potion and sets off an unwanted explosion.
#NewMavericks

You Can’t Play With Us | directed by Jason Rhein & Serene Bacigalupi, USA, 15:44
When an inquisitive dinosaur happens upon some musical unicorns at Marshmallow Mountain, they aren’t as friendly as he expects.

OF ONE BLOOD
Family ghosts of the past, present, and future.
Narrative, 99 minutes
Saturday, April 14, 2018, 7:30pm ⎯⎯⎯ Hilan Theatre

Pantheon | directed by Ange-Régis Hounkpatin, France, 24:35
Cut off from his family roots, Solomon is about to donate his deceased father’s Voodoo costume to a museum when a young street-dancer reminds him that the ancestral soul still remains.
#Competition

Forgive Me | directed by Besim Ugzmajli, Kosovo, 15:00
Manipulated into joining a terrorist group, Bujar tries to convince his brother Agron to help his wife Mimosa join him in Syria.

Upset Body | directed by Delphine Le Courtois, Canada, 20:30
Gabrielle, a young independent woman, must face difficult questions when unexpected news comes hurtling into her life.
#NewMavericks

Ke | directed by Jun Chong, Singapore, 13:05
An elderly Taiwanese lady goes to Singapore's only Hakka cemetery to try and find her late grandfather’s grave before the cemetery is relocated.

Një Muaj (A Month) | directed by Zgjim Terziqi, Kosovo, 26:19
The real life story of a blind woman with no home and her four sisters’ pact to keep her at their respective residences for a month each.

YEAR OF THE CARNIVORE
Tales of breaking points, cruelty, and carnage.
Narrative, 108 minutes
Saturday, April 14, 2018, 9:45pm ⎯⎯⎯ Hilan Theatre

Krista | directed by Danny Madden, USA, 9:24
In her high school theater class, Krista uses her scene study as catharsis.
#Competition

Kudzu | directed by Connor Simpson, USA, 14:50
During a scorching summer in rural Alabama, a young boy wrestles with a deepening sense of remorse after the disappearance of his friend.

Runner | directed by Clare Cooney, USA, 12:40
A woman goes for a jog and witnesses something she can't run away from.
#NewMavericks

Retouch | directed by Kaveh Mazaheri, Iran, 19:37
While bearing witness to a serious accident, Maryam must decide whether to act or live with the consequences.

U Plavetnilo (Into the Blue) | directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, Croatia/Slovenia/Sweden, 22:08
An abused teenage girl thirsts for love, but her best friend’s cruelty awakens in her the violence she's been desperately trying to escape.
#NewMavericks

TV in the Fishtail | directed by Iesh Thapar, USA/India/United Kingdom, 13:20
As electricity is introduced to a remote Trans-Himalayan village, an adolescent boy struggles to reconcile his excitement with the abjection that surrounds him.

Home Shopper | directed by Dev Patel, USA, 16:32
In a loveless marriage, Penny finds solace in the hypnotic escape of the home shopping channel. When things take an unexpected turn, the channel proves to be her saving grace ... or perhaps it was the origin of the problem all along.

THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS
Meditations on weathered hands and patient hearts.
Narrative, 104 minutes
Sunday, April 15, 2018, 12:15pm ⎯⎯⎯ Plaza Theatre

For Nonna Anna | directed by is Luis De Filippis, Canada, 13:17
A trans girl cares for her Italian grandmother. She assumes that her Nonna disapproves of her - but instead discovers a tender bond in their shared vulnerability.
#Competition, #PinkPeach

Saturday Night Special | directed by Esteban Garcia Vernaza, USA, 12:00
In a fit of anger, young Wesley embarks on a journey through the dangerous streets in search of some food for his baby sister.

Khane Sefid (White House) | directed by Madeh Arastoo Mafakheri, Iran, 20:00
A brand new religious leader, searching for identity, finds himself in over his head and isolated during his first rural village assignment.

Emergency | directed by Carey Williams, USA, 11:40
Faced with an emergency situation, a group of young Black and Latino friends carefully weigh the pros and cons of calling the police.

Altmuligmand (Odd Job Man) | directed by Marianne Blicher, Denmark, 22:00
An old man struggling with life gets the chance to pursue a dusty dream.
#PinkPeach

Magic ‘85 | directed by Annika Kurnick, USA, 25:00
During the height of the AIDS epidemic in LA, Gabriel, a lonely hospice worker, helps lead his patients to a conscious death.
#Competition, #PinkPeach

CARBON COPY
Filaments of connection floating in projector light.
Documentary, 95 minutes
Sunday, April 15, 2018, 4:30pm ⎯⎯⎯ Hilan Theatre

The Last Tape | directed by Cyprien Clément-Delmas & Igor Kosenko, Ukraine/Germany, 12:12
A young man and a veteran meet for the last time before the Ukraine war separates them.

Charming Strangers | directed by Weichao Xu, USA, 22:24
Through the lens of a vintage film camera, a Chinese photographer and his 8-year-old students rediscover their experience as immigrants in the United States.
#Competition

Dengê min Hilgirt (Carry My Voice) | directed by Hasan Demirtas, USA/Turkey, 19:02
A personal story of love and separation against the backdrop of an episode of Kurdish history with profound consequences to this day.

Hallo Salaam (Hello Salaam)| directed by Kim Brand, The Netherlands/Greece, 15:07
Two young boys visit a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. First encounters of handing out food and careful greetings soon become playful gatherings and good conversations.

All The Leaves Are Brown | directed by Daniel Robin, USA, 11:00
A short film about memory, loss, family, and a sugar maple tree.
#Competition, #Georgia

Oma | directed by Bill Kirstein, USA, 15:24
A rich discovery in a dusty attic raises long forgotten questions for a centenarian facing the loss of her short-term memory. An exploration of memory, secrets and living to be 100.

LAUGHTER
Humorous collisions of circumstance and character.
Narrative, 77 minutes
Sunday, April 15, 2018, 6:00pm ⎯⎯⎯ Dad’s Garage

Sticky | directed by Richard Turley, United Kingdom, 13:06
A suburban tale of lust, chewing gum and first class stamps.

My Lethal Weapon | directed by Hope Leigh, USA, 9:24
A young blonde must navigate treacherous power dynamics when she’s pulled over late at night by a “friendly” cop.
#Georgia, #NewMavericks

The Homestay | directed by Priyanka Mattoo, USA, 11:48
A sheltered Indian couple visits their son in the U.S. for the first time and bungles their apartment rental, ending up in close quarters with their hosts, a gay couple and their dogs.
#PinkPeach

Offstage | directed by Andrei Huțuleac, Romania, 25:15
A famous Romanian actor is kidnapped by the obsessed mother of his biggest fan.

Hail Mary Country | directed by Tannaz Hazemi, USA, 18:09
Macho Grandmother Irene Dandy has to defend her family of football fanatics when they are robbed by Nora, a cocky thief with an all male posse.
#NewMavericks

UNDER THE SAME MOON
Blueprints of borders fabricated internally and externally.
Narrative & Documentary, 107 minutes
Monday, April 16, 2018, 6:15pm ⎯⎯⎯ Plaza Theatre

Eighth Continent | directed by Yorgos Zois, Greece, 11:00
On Lesvos Island, an old abandoned dump lies within two big craters, overflowing with thousands of life jackets from the refugee waves.
#Competition

Abu Adnan (Adnan’s Father) | directed by Sylvia Le Fanu, Denmark, 25:13
Sayid wants to keep his status as a father and the family patriarch in a new linguistic and cultural setting, despite his sons progress in assimilating to the Danish language culture.
#Competition

I Have a Message for You | directed by Matan Rochlitz, Israel/United Kingdom/Belgium, 12:45
To save her life, a woman left her father to die. Decades later, she got a message from him.

The Driver is Red | directed by Randall Christopher, USA, 14:37
Set in Argentina 1960, this true crime documentary follows the story of secret agent Zvi Aharoni as he hunted down one of the highest ranking Nazi war criminals on the run.

EUNA | directed by Seung-Hyun Chong, Korea/Germany, 18:45
A young factory worker tries to come to grips with her life as an outsider.

Sin Cielo (Without Heaven) | directed by J.S. Maarten, USA, 24:59
Delia and Memo are like most teenagers; defiant, hormonal, always on their phones; except they live in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods bordering Northern Mexico - where Dollars rule and missing girls' bodies turn up mysteriously in the river or never at all.
#CineMás

IMAGINARY FLYING MACHINES
Renderings of an animated technicolor world.
Animation, 102 minutes
Monday, April 16, 2018, 9:00pm ⎯⎯⎯ Hilan Theatre

Tête à Tête | directed by Natasha Tonkin, United Kingdom, 7:41
One family's search for connection in a digital world.
#Competition, #NewMavericks

Negative Space | directed by Max Porter & Ru Kuwahata, France, 5:30
My dad taught me how to pack.

Tokri (The Basket) | directed by Suresh Eriyat, India, 14:22
Two insignificant lives lost and found in time.

Two Balloons | directed by Mark C. Smith, USA, 9:08
Two travelers return to a place crossed by stars and clouds where love is at the beginning of everything.
#Competition

Heaven | directed by Miguel Anaya, Mexico, 11:19
In the late 40's, a pilot, who visits isolated communities to bring them food and rescue the sick, loses his brother who wanted to be like him.
#Competition, #CineMás

Railment | directed by Shunsaku Hayashi, Japan, 9:40
In a continuous scenery, his physical movement stays in the same position.
#Competition

Ming | directed by Danski Tang, USA, 3:07
A Chinese woman’s experience as a live figure model while abroad.
#Competition, #NewMavericks

10 | directed by Yu-Ting Cheng, USA, 3:38
An autistic 5-year-old with leukemia suffering both physically and mentally in the darkness of pain.

INN | directed by Zion Chen, USA, 4:26
A strange girl draws a young man's attention in the inn.

And the Moon Stands Still | directed by Yulia Ruditskaya, Belarus/Germany/USA, 10:47
The presence of the moon affects all under its glow. The film explores the lunar cycle and the energies invoked by its radiance.
#Competition

SOG | directed by Jonatan Schwenk, Germany, 10:14
A people of humanlike creatures lash out viciously against a shoal of fish that had unintentionally entered their desolate land.
#Competition

The Box | directed by Dušan Kastelic, Slovenia, 12:12
The Box is full of miserable creatures. One of them doesn’t belong there. He’s thinking outside the box...
#Competition

REBELS OF THE NEON GOD
Turbulent intersections of love and tech.
Narrative, 96 minutes
Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 6:00pm ⎯⎯⎯ Plaza Theatre

Wyrm | directed by Christopher Winterbauer, USA, 19:45
Wyrm has two days to complete his Level 1 Sexuality Requirement, typically osculation (aka kissing), or he'll be held back as part of the school district's No Child Left Alone program and forced to wear his My.E.Q. Electronic Monitoring Collar through high school.
#Competition

They Wait For Us | directed by Lukas Schrank & George Thomson, United Kingdom, 21:48
In a near-future end-of-life care facility, a reclusive hospital worker starts to believe a coma patient is secretly communicating with him.

基石 (Fundamental) | directed by ShihChieh Chiu, Taiwan, 7:10
A story of a teenager who discovers the strange and terrifying reality behind fundamentalism.
#Competition

STHLM HUNTERS | directed by Tor Helmstein, Sweden, 17:11
Amateur vigilantes Bibi and Kenneth must prove that the man they've taken hostage really is the internet pedophile they're looking for.

Long Bueno | directed by Abílio Dias, Brazil, 29:57
Mauro runs and runs, but Long Bueno remains far far away.
#CineMás

STUD LIFE
What makes a man?
Narrative & Documentary, 104 minutes
Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 8:15pm ⎯⎯⎯ Plaza Theatre

Gutten er Sulten (The Hunger) | directed by Kenneth Karlstad, Norway, 20:59
A sixteen year old boy with an intense desire for recognition seeks out a vicious criminal to prove his boundless grit.

Street Racers | directed by Aurélien Heilbronn, Dominican Republic/USA/France, 9:09
Deep in the Dominican Republic’s illegal motorbiking culture, a tight-knit community of teens risk their lives to entertain themselves, blocking off motorways and hitting high speeds on small custom bikes.
#Competition

Rice Ball | directed by Yusuke Oishi, Japan, 15:00
In the wake of a matriarch's death, a father and son grapple with their grief and the sudden realization that nothing, not even food, will ever be the same.

ZION | directed by Floyd Russ, USA, 10:25
A portrait of Zion Clark, a young wrestler who was born without legs and grew up in foster care.
#Competition

The Things You Think I’m Thinking | directed by Sherren Lee, Canada, 14:17
A black male burn-survivor and amputee goes on a date with a regularly-abled man.
#PinkPeach

Make Them Believe | directed by Taimi Arvidson, USA/Russia, 13:59
A Russian wrestler enchanted by the United States plays the ultimate villain as the stars and stripes-clad character “American Hope” in Moscow's underground wrestling ring.

Men Don’t Whisper | directed by Jordan Firstman, USA, 22:00
After being emasculated at a sales conference, gay couple Reese and Peyton set out to do the most masculine thing they can think of - sleep with some women.
#Competition, #PinkPeach

THOSE WHO MAKE TOMORROW
Exceptional avant-garde works that transform through beauty, wit and wonder.
Experimental, 83 minutes
Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 9:30pm ⎯⎯⎯ Hilan Theatre

Civilized Landscapes | directed by Taryn Ward, USA, 1:04
The evolution of corporation culture and its overwhelming presence on contemporary life.

Dream Phone | directed by Kendra Lohr, USA, 3:43
Who — who — who's got a crush on you! Was it all a dream?
#NewMavericks

Royal Jelly | directed by Stephanie Burbano, Canada, 9:53
A vivid exploration of drag brought about by experimentation and a unique insight into life.
#PinkPeach

165708 | directed by Josephine Massarella, Canada, 6:37
A woman looks out from the shoreline, acting as a point of departure to disparate yet interconnected sequences, prompting the viewer to engage in a structurally unique mode of inquiry and experience.
#NewMavericks

Blot | directed by Benjamin Rouse, USA, 2:15
A film about loss.
#Georgia

Because I Love You | directed by Yu-Ting Cheng, USA, 4:01
Nothing else matters other than love.
#NewMavericks, #PinkPeach

Farewell Transmission | directed by Mike Rollo, Canada, 14:05
Equal parts indexical record of the demolition of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s CBK Transmitter Station in 2015 and subjective response to the residual media documenting the event.

601 Revir Drive | directed by Josh Weissbach, USA, 8:40
An animal carefully guards an outlined space as a river runs backwards.

gutterball | directed by Sam Gurry, USA, 1:07
I was in a bowling league in third grade where I routinely rolled my ball into the next lane and ate a lot of cheese fries.
#NewMavericks

Down Escalation | directed by Shunsaku Hayashi, Japan, 7:20
Falling down, it feels ecdysone is filling up its body. Delving into the deeper layers of itself, the flesh is melted down in the shell until the form is no longer.

SDtoHDuprezMaxV2_009.mp4 | directed by Anna Spence, USA, 4:10
Booted from the limelight, Max Headroom now roves the video signal on the search for his life's meaning.
#Georgia

Edge of Alchemy | directed by Stacey Steers, USA, 19:00
Mary Pickford and Janet Gaynor, delicately lifted from their early silent films, are cast into a surreal epic with an upending of the Frankenstein story amid a contemporary undercurrent of hive collapse.
#NewMavericks

HARD WORLD FOR SMALL THINGS
Portraits of young minds and steel spines.
Narrative, 102 minutes
Thursday, April 19, 2018, 6:00pm ⎯⎯⎯ Hilan Theatre

Chandler | directed by Julia Kennelly, USA, 9:14
Feeling ignored on an important day, a 12-year-old girl seeks attention from an unexpected source.
#NewMavericks

وقت نهار (Lunch Time) | directed by Alireza Ghasemi, Iran, 15:57
A 16 year old girl goes to the hospital to identify the body of her mother. But age, bureaucracy, and culture might prevent her from seeing her mother one last time.

Varg (Wolf) | directed by Frida Kempff & Erik Andersson, Sweden, 11:41
In the shadow of a violent threat, a young woman must decide whether or not to take action to save her family’s way of life.

Marlon | directed by Jessica Palud, France, 19:50
Marlon, 14 years old, is visiting her mother in jail for the first time since her imprisonment. Protected by her family, she stubbornly believes that her mother is still her childhood heroine…
#NewMavericks

茧 (Cocoon) | directed by Mei Liying, China, 25:41
When Qingqing questions her mom’s odd relationship with a female friend, she discovers a secret that will unravel her peaceful family life and her burgeoning conceptions of love, sex, and female desire.
#NewMavericks, #PinkPeach

San Miguel | directed by Cris Gris, Mexico/USA, 19:30
In order to help heal her grieving mother, Ana, a devout 9 year old girl, pushes her faith to its limit in hopes of divine intervention.
#Competition, #CineMás, #NewMavericks

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
A weird and wacky balm for the soul.
Narrative, Animation, & Documentary, 68 minutes
Thursday, April 19, 2018, 12:00am ⎯⎯⎯ Plaza Theatre

ME OLEMME UNESSA (WE ARE IN A DREAM) | directed by Henna Välkky & Eesu Lehtola, Finland, 6:15
Based on personal recordings of people narrating their recurring dreams and nightmares, we race through their unconscious desires and fears.

Miedo De Monos (Fear of Monkeys) | directed by Michael Arcos, USA, 5:35
My father told me a story about why he is afraid of monkeys. His fear dates back to 1958 in Ecuador. This is what happened...
#CineMás

Ceviche | directed by Doménica García, USA, 9:37
Six women from different generations reveal the hidden emotions behind the preparation of Ceviche.
#NewMavericks, #CineMás

Stay Ups | directed by Joanna Rytel, Sweden, 11:00
A middle-aged woman is about to get nightly visits from a young man. Her child is, as usual, in the way.
#Competition, #NewMavericks

Sinformist | directed by Jade Yuchun Chao, USA, 2:08
Each person is accompanied by a demon that represents his/her biggest faults.

Namoro à Distância (Long Distance Relationship) | directed by Carolina Markowicz, Brazil, 4:48
A brief story about a gentleman who's obsessed about having sex with ETs.
#CineMás

Raisin | directed by Danny Hunt, USA, 13:05
Two young sisters are abducted by strange creatures that pretend to be their parents.

AI ZAI SHI JIE MO RI (Love After Time) | directed by Tsai Tsung-han, Taiwan, 15:24
After a nuclear explosion, two mutant humans fall in love.

MADEINUSA
Broad stripes and bright stars, the American ethos.
Documentary, 99 minutes
Friday, April 20, 2018, 6:00pm ⎯⎯⎯ Hilan Theatre

Footprint | directed by Sara Newens, USA, 17:05
A purely observational meditation on how different people engage with the World Trade Center Memorial, exploring the ways we choose to commemorate tragedy in the age of technology, social media, and changing attitudes toward patriotism.
#Competition

Shot. | directed by Aemilia Scott, USA, 9:30
Footage from every police shooting over the last two years, taken unedited, and aligned ⎯⎯⎯ synchronised to the moment of the first gunshot.
#Competition

Nuuca | directed by Michelle Latimer, USA/Canada, 12:58
The oil boom in North Dakota has brought tens of thousands of new people to the region and with that has come an influx of drugs, crime and sex trafficking.
#Competition, #NewMavericks

Socks on Fire: Uncle John and the Copper Headed Water Rattlers | directed by Bo McGuire, USA, 15:05
A failed poet takes up cinematic arms when he returns home to Hokes Bluff, Alabama to discover his homophobic aunt has locked his drag queen uncle out of the family home.
#Competition, #PinkPeach

The Fourth Kingdom | directed by Adan Aliaga & Alex Lora, Spain/USA, 14:21
The kingdom of plastics, a redemption center in NY for immigrants and underdogs where the American Dream becomes possible indeed.

Brooklynn | directed by Charlie Mysak, USA, 12:14
A deeply personal look into how gun violence impacts a family long after the media spotlight fades away.

Towards the North | directed by Jessica Chermayeff & Joshua Bennett, Mexico/USA, 17:48
With their sights set on the U.S., mother and daughter cover the length of Mexico, facing immigration officials and taking selfies along the way – only to arrive in Tijuana where the US border suddenly becomes a dark reality.
#CineMás

KABOOM
Unicorns, Rasputin, Sharknado - oh my! Puppets and clay that will blow your mind.
Puppetry & Stop Motion Animation, 64 minutes
Friday, April 20, 2018, 10:15pm ⎯⎯⎯ Plaza Theatre

You Can’t Play With Us | directed by Jason Rhein & Serene Bacigalupi, USA, 15:44
When an inquisitive dinosaur happens upon some musical unicorns at Marshmallow Mountain, they aren’t as friendly as he expects.

TubeHeads - Haie im Weltraum (TubeHeads - Sharks in Space) | directed by Henning Ricke & Daniel Raboldt, Germany, 5:18
A puppet sketch comedy for the generation Y, ‘TubeHeads’ is a wired and wonderful joyride through pop- and high culture with nerdy humor and general mischief.

Quarters | directed by FIG House, Canada, 5:00
A flippantly animated portrait of typical flat denizens who live together, yet apart.

To Be | directed by Farzaneh Omidvarnia, Iran/Denmark, 6:01
Seeking refuge, a group of migrants must brave unknown perils and one unfriendly climate after the next.
#NewMavericks

Nevada | directed by Emily Ann Hoffman, USA, 12:07
A young couple's romantic weekend getaway is interrupted by a birth control mishap in this stop-motion animated comedy.
#Competition, #NewMavericks

The Legend of Rasputin | directed by Jamie Shannon, Canada, 12:40
A dark historical comedy about the first tabloid star Grigori Rasputin, presenting a chapter in his life through puppets.

Don’t Think of a Pink Elephant | directed by Suraya Raja, United Kingdom, 7:20
A teenage girl fights her intrusive thoughts.
#NewMavericks

LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE
Glimpses beyond the veil of time and space.
Narrative, 110 minutes
Sunday, April 22, 2018, 12:00pm ⎯⎯⎯ Plaza Theatre

Arlo Alone | directed by Nicole Dorsey, Canada, 16:28
A futuristic drama that follows a young woman as she comes to terms with her own loneliness in a world where in-person contact has become a rarity.
#Competition, #NewMavericks

Expire (Exhale) | directed by Magali Magistry, France, 13:12
In a world blanketed by toxic fog, one young woman, alone in the world, tries to connect despite the inherent danger in stepping outside.
#NewMavericks

Low Tide | directed by Joseph Sackett, USA, 10:05
A queer supernatural break-up album about a woman who falls in love with an angel.
#PinkPeach

Paleonaut | directed by Eric McEver, China/Japan/USA/Singapore, 15:51
A scientist studying the first human time traveller falls in love with her subject. But if her research succeeds they will become separated by eons of history…

The Emissary | directed by Bryan Tan, USA, 21:17
Liv Laika embarks on a solitary mission to a distant planet in search of her ancestors who fled the earth nearly a century prior.
#Georgia

After Her | directed by Aly Migliori, USA, 14:39
A wayward teenage girl goes missing and her friend is haunted by her disappearance. An atmospheric sci-fi about first love and the lost girl.

Souls of Totality | directed by Richard Raymond, USA, 18:44
A relationship story about the sacrifices we make, the things we don’t say, and love’s seemingly supernatural ability to conquer all.

NOBODY'S WOMAN
Painstaking accounts of lives led, loved, and lost.
Narrative, 103 minutes
Sunday, April 22, 2018, 2:30pm ⎯⎯⎯ Plaza Theatre

Pas Papa (Not Daddy) | directed by Tamara Vittoz, France, 24:24
Anna doesn’t feel like an ordinary girl. Her violent father has gone for what seems like forever, and her mom keeps pushing her to forget he exists. Still, she dreams of meeting him.
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Ράγες (Tracks) | directed by Elina Fessa, Greece, 12:08
A student on her way to class. A mother trying to cope. One accident where they’ll learn what they’re made of.
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Nevada | directed by Emily Ann Hoffman, USA, 12:07
A young couple's romantic weekend getaway is interrupted by a birth control mishap in this stop-motion animated comedy.
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هایلایت (Highlight) | directed by Shahrzad Dadgar, Iran, 23:42
The reflection of sexual issues such as virginity, abortion and sex reassignment surgery in lives of three women spending an afternoon in a beauty salon in Tehran, Iran.
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Counterfeit Kunkoo | directed by Reema Sengupta, India, 15:00
In a city that houses millions, Smita finds herself fighting beasts of a different kind as she discovers a strange prerequisite to renting a house in middle-class Mumbai.
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Ming Wang Shin Tu (To Pluto) | directed by Yen-Ju Lee, Taiwan/United Kingdom, 15:58
A nurse who finds herself stuck in her current job and a dying long-distance relationship meets a cancer patient who is trying to find the family he abandoned before it is too late.
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