Screening Date: Sat. Nov. 16, 2024
Time: 12:00pm
Venue: The Main Cinema
Cost: $15
Select filmmakers will be in attendance for a post screening Q&A
SELECTIONS
Not the order they will play in
Film Title: Murf - “5 Iron”
Director: Dane Cree & Dan Hoffstrom
Run Time/Year/Country: 4min, 2024, USA
Premiere Status: MN
Synopsis: A sick clown and a hurt clown fight for their sanity when met by their demonic counterparts. Reflecting back the state of humanity, the physical and mental pain, the iIllness and injury in the world.
Film Title: BEIJING STORY
Director: Khalid Ali
Run Time/Year/Country: 22min, 2024, USA & China
Premiere Status: World
Synopsis: Beijing Story follows Cong Pai, an aspiring punk-rock guitarist who drops out of high school after his mother's sudden death.
Film Title: Ed Sheeran - “That’s On Me”
Director: Beatriz Santamaria Pinha
Run Time/Year/Country: 5min, 2022, UK
Premiere Status: World
Synopsis: An Ed Sheeran music video telling the story of Alger, a retired injured biker, who is seeking joy and an escape from boredom through the exploration of new passions.
Film Title: Gozie Ukaga - “Interstate Ninety Four”
Director: Gabriel Broderick
Run Time/Year/Country: 3min, 2024, USA
Synopsis: Sometimes the unknown can be a destination. An exploration of trust, human connection, mystery and finding purpose within.
Film Title: STUD COUNTRY
Director: Lina Abascal, Alexandra Kern
Run Time/Year/Country: 11min, 2024, USA
Premiere Status: MN
Synopsis: Stud Country, the largest queer country western line dancing event in America, was created to preserve Los Angeles' little known 50+ year queer line dancing tradition. Despite its success and fiercely committed community, the event is set to lose its venue due to gentrification.
Film Title: THE FALCONS
Director: Taniel Kilajian
Run Time/Year/Country: 14min, 2024, Armenia
Premiere Status: World
Synopsis: The Falcons is an intimate, observational documentary that explores the Tshakhruk Ethnoband in the highlands of Armenia, a musical ensemble composed of special needs children who refuse to be defined by their physical challenges.
Film Title: TR(ol)L
Director: Yourgo Artsitas
Run Time/Year/Country: 17min, 2024, USA
Premiere Status: Midwest
Synopsis: In 1999, a chain letter began to matriculate around online message boards. The goal? Get New Kids On The Block’s 1989 music video “Hangin’ Tough” on Total Request Live.
Why?
Cuz it wud b funny lmao.
Film Title: USED TO BE
Director: Dan Schneidkraut
Run Time/Year/Country: 12min, 2024, USA
Synopsis: Images and sounds from the last days of the oldest record store in town.
