All Films take place at the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum

Note: Viewer discretion is advised. Films may contain adult themes, content or language. Those likely best suited to ages 18+ have been marked MA for Mature Audience.
 

THURSDAY: MAY 9, 2019 (8PM)

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The Traffic Separating Device - Johan Palmgren
Sweden 15 min (Documentary)
Installed in the busy streets of Stockholm, a device meant to keep cars away so buses can pass freely meets mixed results and opinions.

For A Better Life - Yasmin Mistry
USA 10 min (Animated Documentary)
Sold to a foreigner for $100 at age 5, Fekri suffered abuse and confusion until finding refuge and a way to reconnect with family.
MA

Moved to Tiers - Avery Herzog
USA 11 min (Live Action/Animation)
A couple comes to life in a bakery and finds a way to escape a humdrum existence, creating its own version of happily ever after.

Tash Kømyr - Evgenii Chistyakov
Kyrgyz Republic 29 min (Drama) 
Two teens earn a living the hard way—selling coal they extract from a nearby mine. Despite rough conditions, they dream of a better life. MA

Why We Push - Nathan Sengillo
USA 22 min (Documentary)
Skateboarders from across Rochester, NY, explain how a passion for the sport and a sense of community enriches their lives.
MA

The Right Choice - Tomisin Adepeju 
UK 10 min (Sci Fi/Dark Comedy) 
With help from The Adviser, a couple answers three seemingly harmless questions in order to create their “perfect” designer baby.
MA

To Remember Me By - Rahoul Daswani
India 15 min (Narrative)
Young Anand searches Mumbai’s historic camera district hoping to revive memories jammed inside an 8mm film camera.

FRIDAY: MAY 10, 2019 (8PM)

The Scorpion’s Tale - Jhosimar Vasquez
USA 22 min (Drama)
Greed, revenge and death all collide in this taut crime drama which asserts that, in life, perhaps nothing is what it seems to be.
MA

Double Exposed - Julie Buck
USA 4 min (Documentary)
A filmmaker reflects on Super 8 films from her childhood (shot by her grandfather) to shed light on what remained unseen. 
MA

40 Meter - Samuel Flückiger
Switzerland 14 min (Documentary)
Kurt drove trains for 40 years and witnessed railroad death firsthand. This is an intimate portrait of a sturdy man navigating trauma.
MA

Him & Her - Nathalie Lamb
Germany 8 min (Animated Drama)
What if a magical tree house could somehow illustrate our fantasies and desires? And give us reason to reflect on our personal foibles?

Written in Stone - Sangsun Choi
South Korea / USA 18 min (Documentary)
This documentary sheds light on the lives of child workers in India who toil alongside family members in a stone quarry village.

L’Homme et le Poisson - Lewis Leon
Canada 4 min (Animation)
Set against the backdrop of a vast frozen tundra, a grizzled fisherman gets his comeuppance—from an eerily familiar fish.

Nevada - Javier Kühn
Spain 15 min (Drama)
Two women come face-to-face in a Las Vegas hotel room. While Elsa was hired for the job, Mrs. Taylor explains the family secret which brought them both here.
MA

Audition - Kim Seul-ki
South Korea 21 min (Comedy)
Will she get the part? Or won’t she get the part? Follow a young actor as she makes every effort to master her emotions.
 

SATURDAY: MAY 11, 2019 (4PM)

The Third Part (La tercera parte)- Alicia Albares, Paco Cavero
Spain 16 min (Dramatic Comedy)
Sergio is dying from marrow cancer. His doctor and the rest of the medical team work to make his last dream come true.

Lifelines - Catharine Parke
Canada 9 min (Drama)
Overwhelmed by the trials and tribulations of being a teen in high school, Arielle takes refuge in a dangerous habit—which doesn’t go unnoticed. MA

Martin Hill: Camera Man - Joanne Hock
USA 30 min (Documentary)
A curator with a passion for iconic Hollywood film cameras, Martin Hill spent 40+ years collecting cast-off film equipment from motion picture studios. 
 

Welcome to the Ball - Adam Vincent Wright
USA 5 min (Drama)
An effervescent child learns sign language in hopes of striking up a new and enduring friendship with a neighbor.

Man of the Land - Eddie Thomas
UK 11 min (Drama)
After a visit from his son and granddaughter (in which the son urges him to give up the farm), vascular dementia sets in for a proud land owner.

Misappropriation - Ana Maria Ferri
Spain 9 min (Narrative Fantasy)
Since Carla left, Coco and Sergio are now inseparable. One day Coco leads Sergio to Carla’s favorite shop, with a sway all its own.

Free - Ben Hartley
USA 12 min (Dramatic Performance)
A young enslaved man is given a pathway from slavery to freedom through literacy lessons carried out under the cover of darkness.

SATURDAY: MAY 11, 2019 (8PM)

Parting Shot - Özgür Cem Aksoy
Turkey 11 min (Dramatic Comedy)
At a Turkish funeral, a man fumbles to explain his own loss. When the Hodia leading the proceedings intervenes, a complicated but comic discussion unfolds.

Alone in New York - Jonathan Wilhelmsson
Sweden 2 min (Narrative)
A disillusioned businesswoman considers what her life might be like if she was the only inhabitant of New York City.

The Widow - Brendan Young
Australia 29 min (Drama)
Set in 1965, a Sicilian widow fights for her life when members of the local Calabrian mafia try to seize control of her murdered husband’s produce business. MA

Anacronte - Raúl Koler & Emiliano Sette
Argentina 15 min (Sci Fi/Animation)
Anacronte and the Sorcerers of Evil (devoid of emotion and fulfilling their own destiny) test humanity in a struggle that casts their targets as winners and losers. MA

All My Guardian Angels - Bernabé Rico
Spain 15 min (Drama)
A sports bag is abandoned on Christmas Day. Its contents undertake a journey of survival as it’s handed off by nocturnal beings: its unsuspecting guardian angels.

Ashes - Prashant Singh 
India 21 min (Drama)A young boy and his grandfather share a special bond. When they’re separated, the boy struggles to understand what’s going on around him. Produced by Tej Sisodia.

Two Balloons - Mark C. Smith
USA 9 min (Animation)
Two adventurous lemurs navigate their dirigibles halfway around the world to a place where happenstance and fate threaten to disrupt their reunion.