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DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS

Marvin Chilton THROWAWAY (USA, 18 minutes)
Zion Matovu UMUGANDA (Rwanda, 58 minutes)

DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS

Luis Lam BEARERS OF FANES (USA, 110 minutes)
Bearers of Fanes directed by Louis Lam is a feature documentary portrait of seven local characters living in the Dolomites, the most northern part of Italy, their passion of connection with the Alps mountains, love of their roots from the legendary Kingdom of Fanes, and challenges they face since unification of Italy on their linguistic and cultural identities.

Kurt Jacobsen & Warren Leming
CLANCY SIGAL: HOLLYWOOD BLACKLIST TO A LIST (USA, 83 minutes)
Clancy Sigal ventured everywhere and accomplished everything a bold spirit can in the turbulent course of a mere lifetime: street-smart city kid, union organizer, soldier, UCLA graduate, Hollywood agent, blacklisted target of McCarthyism, European emigre, Fleet Street journalist, novelist, staunch leftist disdainful of party lines, enemy of cant of any kind, psychedelic journeyer, skeptical devotee of psychiatrist R. D. Laing, National Book Award nominee.

Helio San Miguel AGNES HELLER: PHILOSOPHER, DISSIDENT, ACTIVIST
This film tells the story of eminent philosopher Agnes Heller, whose cinematic life is a model of ethical and political commitment. She experienced the Holocaust, repression under the Communist regime, and exile, but kept a tireless optimistic outlook. After the fall of the Eastern Bloc, her relentless activism took her back to Hungary to become, in her seventies, the fiercest critic of Hungary’s populist government, and she suffered political attacks until her tragic and sudden death.

SHORT FILMS

Cici Scovell THE NIGHT OF (Canada, 2 minutes)
Giorgio Paleologo & Alesia Brovtcyna BOREDOM IS A BEAST (USA, 5 minutes)
Haruka Horiuchi THE REFRIGERATOR (USA, 6 minutes)
Jelena Sorkn SMALL TALK FULL MOUTH (USA, 11 minutes)
Kaihang Ye COME BACK (China. 13 minutes)
Anooj Bhandari & Robin Virginie KNOWN (USA, 13 minutes)
Karsen Herr SIGNALS (USA, 15 minutes)
Sujin Min WEST WIND (S Korea, 15 minutes)
Pengwei Yu BEING TOWARDS DEATH (China, 17 minutes)
Vipul Ajit Wadekar THE LAST STRAW (USA, 18 minutes)
Ricky Ju CROSS THE BRIDGE (China, 18 minutes)
Jeremy Greenberg STRETCHED THIN (USA, 19 minutes)
June Ji Yun Lee FLOATING (S Korea, 27 minutes)
Vit Hradit DISCONNECTED (Czech Republic, 30 minutes)

FEATURE

Clement Arock DAD’S DREAM (USA, 65 minutes)
Dad’s Dream is an emotional, social-awareness drama inspired by a true story. An Indian-American father pressures his daughter to become a doctor, believing it is the path to success. As the daughter struggles to follow her own dreams, the film explores parental expectations, Indian family values, cultural pressures, and the importance of choosing one’s own future.