2016

Special Jury Award
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
28 minutes
Director:
Colby Holt

REIFF 2016

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

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)
34 minutes
Director:
Ryan Hartley

REIFF 2016

LAZY is an honest look at dealing with adolescence, tragedy and the transition from youth to adulthood while growing up in a small town. Filmed on the edges of Kentucky and Tennessee, a recent high school graduate must revisit a journey from his past after the suicide of his best friend.

Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
49 minutes
Director:
Matt Crossett

REIFF 2016

Horse. Cowboy. Skier. Rope. ICE COWBOYS is a documentary about the sport of skijoring as demonstrated throughout the Rocky Mountains. This high-adrenaline, time trial sport captivates spectators with natural, raw power. ICE COWBOYS follows competitors of the open class during the 2015 season as they travel from one small mountain town to the next fighting for glory.

Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
33 minutes
Director:
Christine Vartoughian

REIFF 2016

Max McLean is eighteen years old and can't get out of bed. Since her boyfriend Adam killed himself over a year ago, Max has been using sex, drugs, and parties to ignore the pain until one day she wakes up in a hospital, haven taken a nearly lethal dose of sleeping pills. While being haunted by visions of Adam, Max runs away from home and ventures into the forest with a bizarre but endearing boy named Ish.

Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
11 minutes
Director:
Derrick Kisabeth, Jake Tribble

REIFF 2016

An alcoholic, drug addicted Los Angeles comedian gives up on his career and his life after years of struggling. With no options left, he moves back home with his dad in Kentucky in an attempt to salvage what little life he has left.

Documentary Feature
Ireland
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
15 minutes
Director:
Risteard O'Domhnaill

REIFF 2016

Narrated by Emmy Award-winning actor BRENDAN GLEESON, ATLANTIC follows the fortunes of three small fishing communities - in Ireland, Norway and Newfoundland - as they struggle to maintain their way of life in the face of mounting economic and ecological challenges. Filmed in some of the most remote and breathtaking locations in the North Atlantic, and at close quarters with some of the seas most captivating characters, ATLANTIC will bring the very personal stories in the vital resource debate to the fore, exploring how three modern day communities must learn from the past, in order to secure a brighter future.

Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
10 minutes
Director:
Amber R Langston

REIFF 2016

A milkman terrorizes unsuspecting young women in his neighborhood.

Experimental
United States
Runtime:
7 minutes
Director:
Margaret Orr

REIFF 2016

This is a journey through the mind of a depressed individual.

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