56th Festival April 10-12, 2014

9-1-1

 Andrew Fairbank, USA 16 min

(Drama) A 9-1-1 operator receives a frantic call and every word matters when the call is being recorded.

Le train bleu (The Blue Train)

Stéphanie Assimacopoulo, France 18 min

(Romance) (in French with English subtitles) Paris – He wants to end the relationship, she is still in love and wants to pick up the pieces. At The Blue Train, a traditional bar for parting, they stop to have a last drink. Neither can imagine what will happen next…

Distance

 Aimee Long, USA 25 min

(Futuristic Drama) In the year 2038, severe pollution has caused the government to restrict transportation by rationing travel miles, affecting a father’s plans to reconcile with his daughter.

Cinema Time Capsule

 Scott Norwood, US 6 min

(Documentary) The Avon Cinema in Providence, RI. opened in 1938. Join the owner and staff for a celebration of its 75th anniversary.

L’escale (The Stopover)

Serge Goriely, Alain Margot Switzerland / Belgium 25 min

(Narrative/Drama) (in French with English subtitles) When an attractive young Russian girl decides to get rich by doing sex work in Switzerland, she is torn between her ambitions and the tugs of her heart.

La bomba en el despacho (Explosive)

Ivan M Valencia & José Ramón Soriano, Spain 18 min

(Business Drama) (in Spanish with English subtitles) An ultra high-stress job and an antagonistic boss are about to make Carlos explode…

Tag

Freeland Shreve , USA 5 min

(Family Drama) A father and his young son make a game out of shooting the groundhog that’s terrorizing their vegetable garden… it’s kind of like tag.

Way in Rye

Goran Stanković, USA 28 min

(Historical Drama) (in Russian with English subtitles) A humble farmer and his wife must protect a crate from Leningrad while waiting for news from their son, a soldier fighting on the Eastern front.

Dies Irae, jour de colère (Day of Wrath)

Emmanuel Dubois, France 25 min

(Drama) (in French with English subtitles)
Two competitive childhood friends hike in the mountains and resolve some deep animosities.
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REM

Joseba Alfaro, Spain 18 min

(Sci-Fi Drama) (in Spanish with English subtitles) Do we sometimes feel more attached to our dreams than to the day-by-day existence we live in? Would we like to turn the tables and not have to wake up and face cold reality?

A New Leaf

Clinton Cornwell, USA 15 min

(Drama/Narrative) Sam is climbing the corporate grocery store ladder. When asked to teach an old cowboy new tricks, she begins to question her direction in life.

Monkey Rag

Joanna Davidovich, USA 4 min

(Animation) This film is a traditionally animated throwback to the musical cartoons of yore. Inspired by the music of the Asylum Street Spankers, Mitzi pursues a disaster of her own making, but she may be barking up the wrong tree.

Lief konijn (Sweet Rabbit)

Camiel Schouwenaar, Netherlands 14 min

(Tragic Comedy) (in Dutch with English subtitles) Janet lives a lonely married life with her grumpy husband Arnold, until she discovers one morning that she is inflicted with a rather unique predicament.

Mr. Hopewell’s Remedy

 Kathi Carey, USA 18 min

(Comedy/Romance) A luckless altruist struggles against despair in a timeless town where co-mingling of recyclables is punishable by jail.

The Choice

Evan Kaufmann, USA 21 min

(Narrative) A young man who recently experienced a miraculous recovery from a terminal illness seeks the mysterious woman whose daily encouragement he credits for saving his life.

Cough

Jason Kempnich, Australia 11 min

(Narrative Sci-fi) Food shortages during a year-long pandemic force recently widowed George to stray far from home to survive. A simple purchase of rations derails when George stumbles upon a Shopkeeper’s secret, placing all of them in mortal jeopardy.

El hombre equivocado (The Wrong Man)

Roberto Goñi, Spain 16 min  (Narrative Drama) (In Spanish with English Subtitles) Tensions and romance run high when a shoe salesman has a first date with a sea archaeologist.

The Cowboy – in color

Trygve Nielsen, Norway 7 min

(Animation) In a black and white world a cowboy picks colors up from his hat, but a crow steals the hat and turns the world gray. A fable about the elementary particles – in RGB technique.

Shenanigans

Peter Kimball, USA 8 min

(Teen Love Comedy) Opening your son’s bedroom door is always a surprise. Let’s see if he can talk his way out of this!

Butterfly Dreams

Venkat Krishnan, India 22 min

(Narrative-Drama) (in Tamil with English subtitles)
A nine year-old girl in rural India, exploited by child labor, must find a way to pursue her dream – to read and write. She has a chance when an educated man comes to town.