2016

Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
13 minutes
Director:
Shayna Connelly

REIFF 2016

The period between knowing death is near and deaths arrival forms an unbearable state of regret, sadness and anticipation for Samantha. She is powerless to help Anne, who on the eve of her death, has not come to terms with her fate and remains angry and afraid.

Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
6 minutes
Director:
Kevin Endres

REIFF 2016

A forlorn woman searches for truth in her mothers eclectic sayings, blurring the line between memories and home movies as she reflects.

Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
29 minutes
Director:
Gregg Simpson

REIFF 2016

Professional bodybuilder Denise Masino has spent her life striving for the physical perfection of a superhero. When she discovers there are people calling themselves real-life superheroes (dressing in costume and fighting crime!) she embarks on a journey across the U.S. to get to the bottom of this incredible story.

Experimental
United States
Runtime:
16 minutes
Director:
Josh Jacobs

REIFF 2016

Sometimes when you change, the world doesn't - it continues.

Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
17 minutes
Director:
Nicholas Zafonte

REIFF 2016

Two college friends reunite fifteen years later in a secluded summer home, for a writers' retreat. As they attempt to write a movie together, Sean, still a carefree musician and Emily, now an uptight lawyer, try to recapture the intimate friendship they once shared.

Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
30 minutes
Director:
Cyrus Dowlatshahi

REIFF 2016

TAKIN PLACE is an observational documentary film directed by Cyrus Dowlatshahi about ordinary people and everyday life on the South Side of Chicago. As they work, chill, hustle and survive, Dowlatshahi reveals the common aspects of all neighborhoods and communities around the world: a desire to share, grow and celebrate.

Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
16 minutes
Director:
Brandon Kramer

REIFF 2016

CITY OF TREES tells a deeply personal story about the struggle to implement a high-stakes, stimulus-funded green job-training program at the height of the recession. CTY OF TREES follows the point-of-view of three long-term unemployed DC residents hired by the program Charles, Michael, and James; and Steve, the director tasked with managing the multi-million dollar stimulus grant. When local racial tensions and a marginalized communitys entrenched distrust of outsiders complicate a seemingly simple goal of putting unemployed people back to work by planting trees, CITY OF TREES thrusts viewers into the inspiring but messy world of job training and the paradoxes changemakers face in urban communities everyday.

Experimental
United States
Runtime:
9 minutes
Director:
H. Paul Moon

REIFF 2016

Combining cinematic western landscapes with intimate poetry recitation, MINING THE MOTHER LODE is an agrarian dirge on wasted resources, our culture of consumption, and brokers who trade on our most precious resource: water.

Narrative Feature
Hong Kong, SAR China
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
20 minutes
Director:
Dax Phelan

REIFF 2016

A year after his wife's murder, once-successful Hong Kong businessman Leonard To (Jason Tobin) is still reeling from the tragedy. Having lost his job, friends and all sense of order in his life, Leonard becomes obsessed with a mysterious stranger he sees at his wife's grave, believing him to be responsible for her death.

Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
25 minutes
Director:
Viraj Nayar

REIFF 2016

Carl Reed, a 27 year old single father and recently released ex convict, struggles to find work before the week is up in order to pay his overbearing grandmother rent money before she kicks him out of the house. As his crunch for time nears its deadline, he is forced to choose between doing the right thing and doing what put him in jail in the first place.

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