Sonoma International Film Festival

Sonoma, CA – The Sonoma International Film Festival celebrating the best in film, food, wine and spirits holds its 19^th edition. The five day program took place Wednesday, March 30 to Sunday, April 3. Considered one of the nation’s top destination film festivals, SIFF presents over 100 films shown at 6 venues, all within walking distance from Sonoma’s historic plaza -- dubbed SIFF VILLAGE -- in the heart of California Wine Country and hosted nearly 200 filmmakers from around the world.

“Every year we set out to bring unique films with new, provocative and inspiring ideas, accompanied by their filmmakers which add a certain pizzazz to our five-day festival,” said Executive Director Kevin McNeely. “We are thrilled to present fresh films that have not been seen at many of the world’s festivals, unique entertainment and celebrities, all adding to the mix of our welcoming and entertaining festival.”

Opening this year’s festival was Joachim Trier’s Louder Than Bombs, which stars Amy Ryan, Jesse Eisenberg, Gabriel Byrne and Rachel Brosnahan. A few years after a war photographer’s death in a car crash, her husband, Gene (Byrne), and two sons Jonah (Eisenberg) and Conrad, have to reopen old wounds when a retrospective of her work is being held at an art gallery.  Just like how a photograph’s meaning can be altered by framing and depth of field, so too can these three men’s memories and feelings offer a unique perspective on their wife or mother. The opening night festivities took place at the historic Sebastiani Theatre on Wednesday, March 30.

SIFF concluded with The Sense of Wonder, a romantic comedy directed by French director Éric Besnard. At the heart of the Drôme Provencale, Louise (Virginie Efira) raises her two children while trying to preserve the family farm. One evening she almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even though he’s not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought. The festivities came to a close with a party in the Backlot Tent featuring music by the Grateful Blue Grass Boys Band.

 

Festival Highlights & Local Offerings

 

As the Sonoma International Film Festival has grown over these past 19 years, it has established itself as a destination festival as well as continuing to expand and broaden its scope for filmmakers and guests alike. Every film has been selected for the integrity of the storytelling, dedication to the filmmaking craft and always keeping the audience in mind.

Complementing its diverse and truly international program of independent cinema, SIFF offers a unique blend of world-class cuisine from local artisans and exceptional wine from Sonoma vintners, making for an epicurean experience few film festivals in the world can match. Renowned filmmakers, industry leaders and celebrities have enjoyed its intimate ambiance, while many filmmakers who have premiered at SIFF return with future projects.

 

Film Categories & Sidebars

 

SIFF continues its commitment to feature exciting, culturally enlightening, and entertaining programming and sidebars. Over 100 films from around the world will be brought together to form an incredibly unique and diverse festival experience.

This year’s jury members were: David Dinerstein (producer), Mike Repsch (Breaking Glass Pictures), Ariane Rocchi (Magnolia Pictures), Steve Chagollan (Variety) for Features; James Cromwell (actor), Sir Nigel Daly (producer/director), Michael Howell (E.D. Devour Festival/Chef) for Documentaries; Leslie Vanderpool (E/D. Bahamas International Film Festival) and Lucy Walker (Academy Award-nominated director) for Short films..

Films from the following categories were be shown:

v  American Indies                                                           

v  Documentaries

v  World Cinema

v  Environmental/Social Causes

v  Food & Wine

v  LGBT

v  Extreme Sports

v  Music/Arts/Design

v  Health & Wellness

v  Cinema en Español

v  Family

v  UFO

 

JURIED AWARDS:

 

v Best American Independent Feature

v Best World Feature

v Best Documentary Feature

v Best Narrative Short

v Best Documentary Short

 

AUDIENCE AWARDS:

 

v The A3 Audience Award of $1,000 for Best Documentary

(named in honor of Amar A. Archbold, a longtime supporter and extraordinary Board member)

v The Stolman Audience Award of $1,000 for the Best American Independent Feature

      (named in memory of Caroline and Ed Stolman, founders of the Sonoma International Film Festival)

v SIFF Audience Award Best World Feature of $1,000

 

The full list of films is below or at www.sonomafilmfest.org. 

 

About the Sonoma International Film Festival:

The Sonoma International Film Festival is presented by the Sonoma Valley Film Society, a 501(c)3 dedicated to promoting independent film, supporting filmmakers around the world, and inspiring film lovers. Most films screened at the Festival have attending filmmakers and actors making for spirited Q&As.  This unique five-day event offers world-class cuisine from local artisans and exceptional wine from Sonoma vintners. Renowned filmmakers, industry leaders and celebrities such as Bruce Willis, Susan Sarandon, Robin Williams and Danny Glover, Demián Bichir and Mary-Louise Parker have walked the festival red carpet and enjoyed its intimate ambiance.

 

2016 SONOMA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

FILM LINEUP

 

NARRATIVE FEATURES

 

All in Time, USA

Directed by Chris Fetchko, Marina Donahue

Cast:  Seam Modica, Vanessa Ray, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, Lynn Cohen, Joshua Burrow, Rob Bartlett

Charlie quits his job in New York to move home to Pennsylvania to manage his favorite hometown rock band, firmly believing the band’s glory days are ahead of them.  His supportive girlfriend shares his love for the band, but the band’s guitarist, who has experienced the harsh reality of the music business, doesn’t share Charlie’s wide-eyed optimism.  His attitude derails Charlie’s best efforts to bring the band success and sends Charlie spiraling into an emotional, financial and romantic tailspin.  Charlie hits rock bottom when he loses both the band and his girlfriend, but gets some unexpected help from his elderly neighbor who sets him back on his path.

 

Always Worthy, USA

Directed by Marianna Palka

Cast:  Amberlee Colson, Eric Edelstein, Ian Gomez, Lukas Haas

A quirky aspiring actress is determined to make her dreams come true in Hollywood, but first she’s got to overcome her biggest obstacle – herself.

 

Booger Red, USA

Directed by Brendt Mader

Cast:  Deborah Abbott, Tim Ajro, Dakota Carrasco, Rebecca Chulew

A veteran reporter searches for the truth behind the largest child-sex ring in Texas history.  On his journey through the bowels of East Texas, he’s forced to confront his own history with abuse while he discovers that the allegations at the root of his investigation might never had happened.

 

Coming Through the Rye, USA

Directed by James Sadwith

Cast:  Chris Cooper, Stefania LaVie Owen, Adrian Pasdar, Alex Wolf, Eric Nelson

Jamie Schwartz is stumbling through disastrous relationships at a boy’s boarding school.  He runs away with a local girl to the mountains of New Hampshire in search of J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of The Catcher in the Rye.

 

Fire in the Sky, USA

Directed by Robert Lieberman

Cast:  D.B. Sweeney, Robert Patrick, Peter Berg, James Garner, Henry Thomas

An Arizona logger mysteriously disappears for five days in an alleged encounter with a flying saucer in 1975.

 

First Girl I Loved, USA

Directed by Kerem Sanga

Cast:  Briana Hildebrand, Pamela Adlon, Dylan Gelula, Cameron Esposito

Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her LA public high school.  But when Anne tells her best friend Clifton, who has always harbored a secret crush, he does his best to get in the way.

 

Her Composition, USA

Directed by Stephan Littger

Cast:  Joslyn Jensen, Heather Matarazzo, Christian Campbell, Margot Bingham

A talented, artistically stuck composition student starts seeing escort clients after failing to secure her scholarship.  Struck with unexpected sounds during her sexual encounters, she turns them into music and the clients into her muse.

 

How to Plan an Orgy in a Small Town, Canada

Directed by Jeremy LaLonde

Cast:  Jewel Staite, Katharine Isabelle, Lauren Lee Smith, Lauren Holly

When a famous sex columnist attempts to host an orgy with old high school acquaintances in her conservative hometown, keeping secrets becomes the least of her problems.

 

Ithaca, USA      

Directed by Meg Ryan

Cast:  Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Jack Quaid, Sam Shepard

Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen.  His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother Ulysses.  And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain…and death…to the good people of Ithaca.  And Homer will grapple with one message that will change him forever.  Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan’s 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, Ithaca is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the abruptness of change, the sweetness of life, the sting of death, and the sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.

 

Jack of the Red Hearts, USA

Directed by Janet Grillo

Cast:  Famke Janssen, Scott Cohen, Israel Broussard, John D’Leo

A streetwise teenage runaway scams her way into a job as a live-in caregiver of a severely autistic child.  Her name is Jacquelyn but don’t call her anything but Jack.  Their lives are forever changed when Jack has a positive impact on the child, and the family has one on her.

 

Lost and Found, USA

Directed by Joseph Itaya

Cast:  Justin Kelly, Benjamin Stockham, Cary Elwes, Jason Patric

Sent to spend the summer with their uncle on a remote island, young brothers Andy and Mark learn that their eccentric grandfather once owned the island, but vanished without a trace taking with him the secret to a vast fortune.

 

Louder Than Bombs, Norway – OPENING NIGHT

Directed by Joachim Trier

Cast:  Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne, Jesse Eisenberg, Amy Ryan, Rachel Brosnahan

A few years after a war photographer’s death in a car crash, her husband Gene (Byrne) and two sons, Jonah (Eisenberg) and Conrad, have to reopen old wounds when a retrospective of her work is being held at an art gallery.  Just like how a photograph’s meaning can be altered by framing and depth of field, so too can these three men’s memories and feelings offer a unique perspective on their wife or mother.  Louder Than Bombs is a familiar story told with surprising complexity and thoughtfulness, restraint and respect.

 

Papa, Cuba

Directed by Bob Yari

Cast:  Giovanni Ribisi, Mariel Hemingway, Minka Kelly, Joely Richardson

A young Miami Herald journalist is befriended by Ernest and Mary Hemingway and witnesses Hemingway’s decline into depression and alcoholism with the backdrop of the Cuban Revolution.

 

Showing Roots, USA

Directed by Michael Wilson

Cast:  Uzo Aduba, Maggie Grace, Elizabeth McGovern, Adam Brody, Cicely Tyson

Set in a small southern town during the premiere of the miniseries Roots, Showing Roots is about two young women – one white and one black – who forge an unlikely friendship that sparks a journey of independence, self-discovery and ultimately results in the perfect hairdo.

 

The Colossal Failure of a Modern Relationship, Canada

Directed by Sergio Navarretta

Cast:  Krista Bridges, Enrico Colantoni, David Cubitt, Brooke Palsson

Cat has been cheating on her long-term partner with his boss, Richard.  She is understandably guilt-ridden and breaks it off.  She decides to join Freddy on a work-related trip, but things quickly go awry when she learns Freddy’s boss has decided to join them.

 

The Great and the Small, USA

Directed by Dusty Bias

Cast:  Melanie Lynskey, Ritchie Coster, Ann Dowd, Louisa Krause

Scott is living on the streets and trying to find his way back into society while on probation for petty crimes.  He attempts to navigate his complex relationships with his two-bit criminal of a boss, an enigmatic detective and his ex-girlfriend.

 

 

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

 

10 Billion What’s on Your Plate, Germany

Directed by Valentin Thurn

By 2050, the world population will grow to ten billion people.  In the middle of the heated debate about food security comes this broad and analytic look into the enormous spectrum of global food production and distribution – from artificial meat, insects, industrial farming to trendy self-cultivation.

 

A Line Across the Sky, USA

Directed by Josh Lowell, Peter Mortimer

The Fitz Roy Traverse is one of the most sought-after achievements in modern alpinism:  a gnarly journey across seven jagged summits and 13,000 vertical feet of climbing.  Who knew it could be so much fun?  Join Tommy Caldwell and Alex Honnold on the inspiring – and at times hilarious – quest that earned the Piolet D’or.

 

André Villers:  A Lifetime in Images

Directed by Marketa Tomanova

An intimate portrait of French photographer and visual artist Andre Villers, who as a young man met and befriended Pablo Picasso in the South of France.  Through Picasso, Andre photographed some of the most famous European artists of the 20^th century.

 

Big Voice, USA

Directed by Varda Bar-Kar

A high school’s choir director’s passion for choir fuels his desire to exceed all expectations.  Following a series of competitive auditions, Mr. Huls convenes his dream choir ensemble only to discover that these 32 teenagers are the most unwieldy group he has ever taught.

 

Chasing the Win, USA

Directed by Chris Ghelfi, Laura Sheehy

After a surprising victory at the Dubai World Cup, a rookie trainer and small-time owner are invited to compete around the world with their imperfect racehorse as they try to find their place in the sport of kings.

 

Colin Hay - Waiting for my Real Life, USA

Directed by Nate Gowtham, Aaron Faulls

This tells the story of Colin Hay’s personal and artistic journey from the heights of superstardom with Men At Work, to the depths of obscurity, to finding salvation through song as a solo artist.

 

Cooking up a Tribute, USA

Directed by Ben Knight

In their quest to innovate, the Roca brothers, co-owners of El Celler De Can Roca, closed the restaurant for five weeks to tour the world with the entire staff and design 57 new dishes paying tribute to local food traditions and ingredients and the power of global food culture.

 

Gordon Getty:  There Will Be Music, USA

Directed by Peter Rosen

About composer Gordon Getty, the son of J. Paul Getty, the richest man in the world.  He was the head of a family dynasty known for scandal: suicides, drug overdoses and kidnapping.  All suffered from the curse that comes with great wealth.

 

Harold and Lillian, USA

Directed by Daniel Raim

Harold and Lillian eloped to Hollywood in 1947, where they became the film industry’s secret weapons.  Nobody talked about them, but everybody wanted them.  Theirs is the greatest story never told – until now.

 

Havana Motor Club, Cuba

Directed by Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt

As a fifty-year ban on racing is lifted, Cuba’s top underground drag racers prepare their American classics to compete.  The vast changes sweeping Cuba are evident in these drivers’ hopes and struggles, as they gear up for the first official race since the Revolution.

 

In Search of Balance, USA

Directed by Adam Pfleghaar

Exploring a vision of health, science and nature that recognizes the importance of the interconnections between us, the food we consume, how we produce that food and the natural world at large including the mysterious, invisible world of the human microbiome.

 

Jack London, USA

Directed by Chris Million

By turning his globe-trotting adventures into classics like The Call of the Wild, Jack London became the nation’s highest-paid author and first mass-media celebrity, in the process of documenting the vast cultural and societal changes sweeping early Twentieth Century America.

 

Kampai, For the Love of Sake, Japan

Directed by Mirai Konishi

A British sake brewer, an American journalist and a young president of a century-old sake brewery in Japan join together to explore the mysterious world of sake, or Japanese rice wine.  The film illustrates how these unique individuals who have been fascinated with this extraordinary beverage of Japanese origin meet the challenges of the current sake industry, investigating the rich, complex and spectacular world of sake.

 

Pumped Dry, USA

Directed by Ian James, Steve Elfers

Around the world, supplies of groundwater are rapidly vanishing.  As aquifiers decline and wells begin to go dry, people are forced to confront a growing crisis.  USA Today and The (Palm Springs) Desert Sun investigate the consequences of groundwater depletion.

 

The C Word, USA

Directed by Meghan O’Hara

A personal, important, surprising and funny documentary about the industries of death that give us cancer, and the unheralded science of prevention.

 

The Last Man on the Moon, USA

Directed by Mark Craig

When Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan stepped off the moon in December 1972, he left his footprints and his daughter’s initials in the lunar dust.  Only now is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment, love and loss.

 

The Messenger, Canada

Directed by Su Rynard

An artful investigation into the causes of songbird mass depletion and the compassionate people who are working to turn the tide.  The film takes viewers on a visually stunning journey revealing how the problems facing birds also pose daunting implications for our planet and ourselves.

 

The Nature of Modernism:  E. Stewart Williams, Architect, USA

Directed by Jake Gorst

In the desert of Palm Springs, Frank Sinatra looked to build a Georgian-style house but was convinced to explore the benefits of modernism by E. Stewart Williams.  The two had no idea how far-reaching and influential that decision would prove to be.  The house was the first in a string of mid-century modernist gems that still define the look and feel of the Coachella Valley today.

 

Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton, USA

Directed by Jennifer W. Stein

In November of 1975, seven Arizona loggers encounter a UFO and one goes missing, igniting a firestorm of controversy aimed at the logging crew.  This film provides an accurate in-depth coverage of how this event changed their lives forever.

 

Women He’s Undressed, Australia

Directed by Gillian Armstrong

Orry-Kelly was a Hollywood legend, his costume designed adored by cinema’s greatest leading ladies – but in his native country of Australia, his achievements remained unknown.  Now acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong is bringing the legend home and celebrating the life of this extraordinary Aussie.

 

Yard Dog Road Shows, USA

Directed by Flecher Fleudujon and Zebu Recchia

Three friends accidentally formed a jug band while trying to make a short movie and that jug band transformed into a fifteen-piece theatrical show traveling the world.

 

 

WORLD CINEMA FEATURES

 

Between Sea and Land, Columbia

Directed by Manolo Cruz, Carlos del Castillo

Cast:  Manolo Cruz, Vicky Hernandez, Viviana Sema, Jorge Cao, Mile Vegara

Alberto lives on a swampy marsh adjacent to the Caribbean Sea.  Afflicted with a neurological disorder that confines him to his bed, his mother Rosa lovingly protects and takes care of him.  But the life he imagines with his would-be sweetheart feels just as close-yet-out-of-reach as the sea he looks upon.

 

Dias Santana, South Africa

Directed by Chris Roland, Maradona Dias Dos Santos

Cast:  Paulo Americano, David O’Hara, Hakeem Kae-Kaxim, Neide Van-Dunem Vieira

When Dias and Matias discover the man who murdered their parents 35 years ago, one seeks justice, the other revenge.  The only thing standing in their way is each other.

 

Happy 140, Spain

Directed by Gracia Querejeta

Cast:  Maribel Verdú, Antonio de la Torre, Eduard Fernández, Nora Navas

On her 40^th birthday, Elia gathers together a few select relatives and friends at a luxury country house to tell them some extraordinary news:  she has won a jackpot of 140 million Euros!  Watch how happiness turns to greed.

 

La vanité, Switzerland

Directed by Lionel Baier

Cast:  Patrick Lapp, Carmen Maura, Ivan Georgiev

David Miller is sick and has decided to end it all.  But despite choosing the place, the date and the method, nothing goes according to plan.  Does death lie at the end of this night which is supposed to be his last?  Based on a true story, vanity isn’t simply just a deadly sin.

 

Last Cab to Darwin, Australia

Directed by Jeremy Sims

Cast:  Michael Caton, Jacki Weaver, Emma Hamilton, Mark Coles Smith, Ningali Lawford

Rex is a loner, and when he’s told he doesn’t have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you’ve got to share it.

 

Les Mauvaises Herbes (Bad Seeds), Canada

Directed by Louis Bélanger

Cast:  Alexis Martin, Gilles Renaud, Emmanuelle Lussier-Martinez, Luc Picard

Jacquest Thériault, an actor with big gambling debts, takes refuge in the country where he is found by Simon, a sly, uncouth farmer.  Simon forces a “reasonable association” between the two.  The men end up becoming friends and begin to grow cannabis.  They meet Francesca, a young Hydro-Québec employee who embraces their project.  During the winter harvest, they learn to live together with a degree of happiness.  Yet a threat from the outside comes to disturb this delicate balance.

 

My Big Night, Spain

Directed by Álex de la Iglesia

Cast:  Mario Casas, Blanca Suárez, Raphael, Hugo Silva, Carolina Bang

Chaos ensues during a TV network’s New Year’s Eve special.  The hosts are bickering, a crane wipes out an extra, a pop star is duped by a semen-thief, and a legendary diva is stalked by an armed and angry failed songwriter.

 

Oddball, Australia

Directed by Stuart McDonald

Cast:  Shane Jacobson, Alan Tudyk, Sarah Snook, Deborah Mailman, Frank Woodley

With persistent fox attacks threatening to close down the main tourist attraction of a small town in southern Australia, an eccentric chicken farmer teams up with his granddaughter to save the penguins using a very odd method:  his rambunctious, troublemaking sheep dog.

 

Standing Tall (Le Tête Haute), France

Directed by Emmanuelle Bercot

Cast:  Catherine Deneuve, Rod Paradot, Benoît Magimel, Sara Forestier, Diane Rouxel

Malony has been in conflict with the school and with the law since he was six.  Some are convinced that they can save him from the spiral of revolt and violence in which he seems to be caught for the rest of his days.

 

Sunset Song, UK

Directed by Terrence Davies

Cast:  Agyness Deyn, Kevin Guthrie, Peter Mullan, Ian Pirie, Niall Greg Fulton

The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.  Family trauma merges into global catastrophe as the First World War devastates her village.  Based on the novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbons.

 

Taj Mahal, France

Directed by Nicolas Saada

Cast:  Stacy Martin, Gina McKee, Alba Rohrwacher, Louis-Do de Lencques, Frédéric Epaud

One evening, 18-year-old Louise, alone in her hotel room at Taj Mahal Mumbai, hears strange noises out in the corridor.  Within minutes, she realizes that a terrorist attack is underway.  Louise must spend a long night alone.  She will never be the same again.

 

The Parisian Bitch Princess of Hearts, France

Directed by Eloïse Lang, Noémie Saglio

Cast:  Camille Cottin

A young woman, unsatisfied with her social class, decides to marry someone rich and powerful to be able to stop working and have whatever she wants for the rest of her days.  This movie is entirely shot with hidden cameras.

 

The Sense of Wonder, Norway – CLOSING NIGHT

Directed by Éric Besnard

Cast:  Virginie Efira, Benjamin Lavernhe

At the heart of the Drôme Provençale, Louise raises her two children while trying to preserve the family farm.  One evening she almost crushes a stranger with her car.  She takes care of him, even though he’s not really wounded.  It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought.

 

The Violin Teacher, Brazil

Directed by Sérgio Machado

Cast:  Lazaro Ramos, Elzio Vieria, Kaique Jesus, Sandra Corveloni

The movie tells the story of Laerte, a talented violinist who after failing to be admitted into the Osesp orchestra, is forced to give music class to teenagers in a public school in Heliopolis.  His path is full of difficulties, but the transforming power of music and the friendship arising between the professor and his students opens the doors into a new world.

 

The Wave, Norway

Directed by Roar Uthaug

Cast:  Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp, Thomas Bo Larsen, Fridtjov Såheim, Arthur Berning

Based on the fact that mountain pass Åkneset, located in the Geiranger fjord in Norway, one day will fall out and create a violent tsunami of over 80 meters that will crush everything in its path before it hits land in Geiranger.  A geologist gets caught in the middle of it and a race against time begins.

 

Viva, Cuba

Directed by Paddy Breathnach

Cast:  Jorge Perugorr, Luis Alberto Garcia, Mark O’Halloran, Héctor Medina. Luis Manuel Alvarez

When everything is for sale, what’s the value of love?  Jesus does make up for a troupe of drag performers in Havana, but dreams of being a performer.  When he finally gets his chance to be on stage, a stranger emerges from the crowd and punches him in the face.  The stranger is his father Angel, a former boxer, who has been absent from his life for 15 years.  As father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, Viva becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and become a family again.

 

 

SHORT FILMS

 

142 Miles From Monday, USA, directed by Alex Witkowicz

 

A Child For Sale, USA, directed by Fiona Bock, Eric Paul Fournier

 

A Man Wakes Up, USA, directed by Voki Kalfayan

 

An Apprentice, USA, directed by Shane Harper

 

Avaatara, Lebanon, directed by David Lama

 

Bernie & Rebecca, USA, directed by Melissa Kent

 

Bottomless, USA, directed by Veronique Vanblaere

 

Chapa (The Grill Man), Brazil, directed by Golts

 

Come Away With Me, USA, directed by Ellen Gerstein

 

Cooking Up a Storm, USA, directed by Tim Wilson

 

Dear Governor Brown, USA, directed by Jon Bowermaster

 

Denali, USA, directed by Ben Knight

 

Eye for an Eye, USA, directed by Antoneta Kusijanovic

 

Hand Over Hand, USA, directed by Padraic Lillis

 

Lobster Fra Diavolo, USA, directed by Oriana Oppice

 

Lower Piddle, USA, directed by Keith English

 

LunaFest, USA – A collection of six short films by, for and about women.

 

Mermaids on Mars, USA, directed by Jon V. Peters

 

Merry Xmas, USA, directed by Boman Modine

 

Mindful Vineyards, USA, directed by Chris Jordan-Bloch

 

Mothers for Justice, USA, directed by Erik Ljung

 

Nature Rx (Parts 1,2,3), USA, directed by Justin Bogardus

 

Opt Out, USA, directed by Steve Utaski

 

Parent Teacher – The Musical, USA, directed by Austin Klinger

 

Passing Orion, Canada, directed by Sean Thonson

 

Phone Life, USA, directed by Ivan Cash

 

Pulp Free, USA, directed by William Papadin

 

rated, USA, directed by John Fortson

 

Reservations for Three?, USA, directed by Steven Bennett

 

Reset, Canada, directed by Jeremy Lutter

 

Rosa, USA, directed by Sean Kusanagi, Hanah Gregg

 

Sanjay’s Super Team, USA, directed by Sanjay Patel

 

Shift, USA, directed by Rachel Lincoln, Amelia Rudolph

 

Sonoma, USA, directed by Timothy Wetzel

 

Stalker Breakup, USA, directed by Thomas Michael

 

Stealth, USA, directed by Bennett Lasseter

 

The Art of Flying, Netherlands, directed by Jan van Ijken

 

The Burden, USA, directed by Roger Sorkin

 

The Cannoli, USA, directed by Stephen Donnelly

 

The Denver Bread Company, USA, directed by Gareth Burghes

 

The Firefly Girls, USA, directed by Katie Micay

 

The Lake, Canada, directed by Michael Buie

 

The Loneliest Stoplight, USA, directed by Bill Plympton

 

The Man Who Shot Hollywood, Canada, directed by Barry Avrich

 

The Mountain King, USA, directed by Peter Brambl

 

The Offer, Canada, directed by Winnifred Jong

 

The Story of Percival Pilts, Australia, directed by Janette Goodey and John Lewis

 

Writing on Stone, Canada, directed by Gillian Armstrong

 

-Official SIFF press release edited by Vanessa McMahon