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.
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
47 minutes
Director:
William Taggart
REIFF 2016
Staged against the backdrop of one of North Americas wildest and most remote areas, is the story and history of Box Canyon of Clarks Fork of Yellowstone river, and the desperate battle to protect it. Adventurous kayakers began exploring the depths of the canyon just as a massive dam development project began to unfold, threatening the very existence of this pristine national treasure.
Narrative Short
France
Runtime:
30 minutes
Director:
Wilhelm Kuhn
REIFF 2016
Sam Porter usually follows his older brother Ned. They ride together and rob banks. One night mysterious bounty hunters capture Sam. They offer to keep him alive, but only if he turns his brother in. Treading through the vast landscapes of the American Frontier, he discovers that the price of redemption goes far beyond that of betrayal.
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
54 minutes
Director:
Remington Smith
REIFF 2016
RUBBERTOWN is Louisville, Kentucky's heavy chemical manufacturing neighborhood, which features synthetic rubber plants, a toxic landfill site and a coal burning power plant. It's also next to residential housing. With residents suffering higher cancer rates and regular leaks or spills, resident and advocate Monika Burkhead aims to move her entire home to another county to escape Rubbertown. This documentary reveals what is hiding behind lush Louisville summers are higher cancer rates and insidious environmental hazards.
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.