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.
2016
Special Jury Award
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
28 minutes
Director:
Colby Holt
REIFF 2016
Special Jury Award
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
34 minutes
Director:
Zach Bandler, Kelly Blatz
REIFF 2016
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
REIFF 2016
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 Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
47 minutes
Director:
Daniel Kremer
REIFF 2016
Terry and Tessa are married ex cult deprogrammers living in the San Francisco Bay Area. A 'deprogrammer' is a professional contracted by families to kidnap people away from dangerous cults to counsel them back into their previous lives. Terry and Tessa's cryptic motto during their often verbally and physically abusive deprogramming process: 'For those who'd rather not drink the Kool-Aid, raise your kids on seltzer, bubble per bubble!'
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
34 minutes
Director:
Flecher Fluerdujon, Zebu Recchia
REIFF 2016
The story of how a gang of poets and musicians turned a pile of puppets into an international touring "vaudeville" show. This is a bohemian journey that examines the lifestyle that inspires the art and the struggle between friends trying to manifest a collaborative vision. With appearances by Ken Kesey, Michael Franti, Bassnectar, Speed Levitch and members of Beats Antique.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
26 minutes
Director:
Wilson Conkwright
REIFF 2016
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
REIFF 2016
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
REIFF 2016
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
REIFF 2016
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
REIFF 2016
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.