Every day people are being replaced by machines worldwide. After 1,400 years, thousands of muezzins in Cairo are no longer calling people to pray as wireless receivers replace them in reciting the adhan. CAIRO IN ONE BREATH unfolds as the Adhan Unification Project takes hold and as Egypt undergoes Revolution and regime change.
2016
Best of Fest
Documentary Feature
Egypt, United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
20 minutes
Director:
Anna Kipervaser
Special Jury Award for Truth in Storytelling
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
35 minutes
Director:
Chris Brown
THE OTHER KIDS follows six teenagers as they struggle through their final days of high school in the small, gold rush town of Sonora, CA. ISAAC, a Mexican national abandoned as a child by his family, barely treads water in a culture hostile to non-whites. Poor and living on his own in an abandoned trailer, Isaac works three jobs (landscaping, dishwashing and metalworking), studies hard, and dreams of someday becoming a diplomat. Isaac's girlfriend, SIENNA, a stable-hand and natural cowgirl, is forced to cope not only with the brutal dissolution of her family, but with her parents' violent objections to her relationship with Isaac.
Special Jury Award
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
28 minutes
Director:
Colby Holt
When he cant afford a retirement community, a nursing home, or a caregiver, Rudy Hendricks and his husband are forced to move back to his hometown in Kentucky to care for his ailing conservative father. Along the way, he grows closer with his single mother, sister and his gay but repressed best friend who never left home.
Special Jury Award
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
34 minutes
Director:
Zach Bandler, Kelly Blatz
A moving performance by Anthony Heald (Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon, Boston Public) highlights THE STAIRS, as an older man who hires a male escort for company on Christmas Eve. Faced with the realities of his own loneliness, he finds a strange kinship with the young man in this late-night exploration of solitude, intimacy and the basic human need for connection.
Special Jury Award
Narrative Short
Serbia
Runtime:
10 minutes
Director:
Luka Popadic
Two fishing buddies, Big brother and some fish stew. BAITS AND HOOKS is a black comedy inspired by the style oft he Czech New Wave about how two workers of an old factory face the transition from socialism to capitalism. A short and sweet film about friendship and cooking, but also about a generation of workers who have to deal with the changed system.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
26 minutes
Director:
Wilson Conkwright
Guerrillas is an empathetic look at a delusional artists inability to transfigure visions.
Narrative Feature
Portugal
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
26 minutes
Director:
Patricia Sequerira
Following Martas wake, her five best friends decide to spend the night at a rural tourist getaway that Marta never got around to opening. That long night becomes a maze-like journey through their interconnecting friendships, where each reveals herself as it was the last day. On the eve of the burial, the talk is about life and a friendship that survived it all. But will this friendship be able to survive death?
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
11 minutes
Director:
Vlad Aksenov
In the fantasy world of Charani, an 11-year-old girl who has recently lost her beloved mother, an ancient legend may help to resurrect her.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
9 minutes
Director:
Jordan Noel
A womans encounter with a horrifying entity is chronicled over a series of weekly breakfasts with her best friend.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
54 minutes
Director:
Julianne Donofrio
PIECED TOGETHER is the first documentary film about the American quilt square trail movement. Directed by Julianne Donofrio, a Peabody award-winning producer and veteran of ABC News, PIECED TOGETHER tells the story of how one woman's love for her mother changed the American landscape - and saved her life after job loss and breast cancer.