FEATURES SCREENING SCHEDULE FOR CIFF 2011
Note: the schedule is still a work in progress. New information will
be added.
Most of the shorts will screen before features.
DATE: WEDNESDAY MAY 11
| Title: Jack the Reaper | Dir: Kimberly Seilhamer |
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| A cold-blooded creature known as Railroad Jack haunts a stretch of desert highway called Death’s Door, waiting for his next victims. He is a Reaper, one who ushers souls to the afterlife, willing or no. Railroad Jack stalks the desert, drawing prey to the abandoned roadside carnival that is his weapon. | |
| Screening at: Wednesday May 11, Palais C, 14:00 | |
DATE: THURSDAY MAY 12
| Title: SHARKWISE | Dir: Lieven Debrauwer |
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| Sharkwise tells the compelling story of Marc Sluszny’s quest for the true face of the Great White Shark. Follow his unique expedition throughout Egypt, Mozambique and South Africa. Sharkwise is an enthralling human adventure, a mental journey that pushes boundaries and explores dreams. | |
| Screening at: Thursday May 12, Palais I, 16:00 | |
DATE: SATURDAY MAY 14
| Title: Bong of the Dead | Dir: Thomas Newman |
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| Tommy and Edwin are a pair of stoner buddies who keep themselves occupied by growing and smoking as much pot as humanly possible! One day they discover that by using zombie brains as fertilizer, they are able to grow a strain of super potent weed. In order for them to be able to keep a constant surplus of pot they must find more zombies! | |
| Screening at: Saturday May 14, Rivera I, 16:00 | |
DATE: SUNDAY MAY 15
| Title: Meat | Dir: Maartje Seyferth |
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| A butcher and a butchery, both look perfectly normal. The delivery arrives in the morning, the butcher prepares the meat as it should be. Not many clients though. It’s more like his fantasy world, his asylum, here he can live out his sexual fantasies, here he can play out his dark side and forget about the miserable life he has. There is Roxy, the young girl in the butchery. She’s videoing everything as part of her search for answers, her limits, her life. And the butcher gets into her head, she gets into his. | |
| Screening at: Sunday May 15, Grey 5, 14:00 | |
| Title: Leading Ladies | Dir: Erika Randall-Beahm & Daniel Beahm |
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| The Camparis are a family of women in which everyone knows her place. Sheri is the larger-than-life, overbearing stage mom. Once a young and beautiful ballroom champion, Sheri now lives vicariously through her youngest daughter Tasi, the darling of the local amateur ballroom circuit. Sheri’s oldest daughter, Toni, is Tasi’s practice partner, the wallflower who must quietly support them all. The only consistent man in the life of the Campari women is Cedric, Tasi’s dance partner and Toni’s best friend. Find out what happens to each as they re-examine their roles in modern life and on the dance floor and learn to "Let Love Lead." | |
| Screening at: Sunday May 15, Rivera I, 20:30 | |
DATE: MONDAY MAY 16
| Title: Still Waters | Dir: Tana Smith |
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| Something evil lays in wait as Ben and Sally head to their new country home. It watches from the shadows and calls to Ben in his dreams. An ancient creature that exists purely to feed...and breed. The visions haunting Ben drive him to madness, telling him to leave, but the voice that calls him won’t relent until Ben opens the door. Sally has no idea the danger she is now in. Every night she sleeps alone as all around her people disappear. Something is out there, something is wrong, but can she figure it out before it’s too late. The diary she finds could hold the answers, but it is written in a language she doesn’t understand. Why is it she has not been taken, what is keeping her safe, and why is Ben trying to make her leave. | |
| Screening at: Monday May 16, Palais K, 22:30 Also Screening May 18, Grey 1, 16:00 |
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DATE: TUESDAY MAY 17
| Title: SHORTS BLOCK 1 | |
| A selection of CIFF shorts. | |
| Screening at: Tuesday May 17, MMV Resort Salon 1, 18:00 | |
| Title: SHARKWISE | Dir: Lieven Debrauwer |
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| Sharkwise tells the compelling story of Marc Sluszny’s quest for the true face of the Great White Shark. Follow his unique expedition throughout Egypt, Mozambique and South Africa. Sharkwise is an enthralling human adventure, a mental journey that pushes boundaries and explores dreams. | |
| Screening at: Tuesday May 17, MMV Resort Salon 1, 19:30 | |
| Title: Jack the Reaper | Dir: Kimberly Seilhamer |
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| A cold-blooded creature known as Railroad Jack haunts a stretch of desert highway called Death’s Door, waiting for his next victims. He is a Reaper, one who ushers souls to the afterlife, willing or no. Railroad Jack stalks the desert, drawing prey to the abandoned roadside carnival that is his weapon. | |
| Screening at: Tuesday May 17, MMV Resort Salon 1, 21:00 | |
DATE: WEDNESDAY MAY 18
| Title: SHORTS BLOCK 2 |
| A selection of CIFF shorts. |
| Screening at: Wednesday May 18, Palais K, 14:00 |
| Title: AU PAIR KANSAS | Dir: JT O'Neal |
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| A recently widowed woman living on a buffalo ranch near a small town in Kansas hires a Norwegian soccer player to be a male au pair and help raise her two sons. | |
| Screening at: Wednesday May 18, Palais K, 14:30 | |
| Title: SHORTS BLOCK 3 | ||
| A selection of CIFF shorts. | ||
| Screening at: Wednesday May 18, Palais K, 18:00 | ||
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| Title: FORT McCOY | Dir: Kate Connor & Michael Worth | |
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| Based on a true story of a family living next to a Nazi POW camp in Wisconsin during W.W.II. A coming of age story beset with tragedy, a love story between a Jewish soldier and Catholic girl, and the journey of one man (Eric Stoltz) struggling to find his worth in a war that does not want him | ||
| Screening at: Wednesday May 18, Palais K, 18:30 | ||
| Title: Too Much Pussy | Dir: Emilie Jouvet |
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| Seven women take on a performance art tour through the famous night clubs and theaters of Europe. They are activists, artists, writers, musicians, sex-workers and porn stars, of various sexual (dis)orientations and gender expressions. In this explicit documentary, Emilie Jouvet shows it all: their wild adventures, the intimate connections and the inevitable tensions evolving between each other, their sexual encounters with the locals and their lives between pornography and art, performance and reality, personal and political. | |
| Screening at: Wednesday May 18, MMV Resort Salon 1, 20:30 | |
DATE: THURSDAY MAY 19
| Title: SHORTS BLOCK 4 |
| A selection of CIFF shorts. |
| Screening at: Thursday May 19, MMV Resort Salon 1, 18:00 |
| Title: Reconciliation: Mandela's Miracle | Dir: Michael Henry Wilson |
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| Nelson Mandela was once considered a terrorist by the apartheid government. “Reconciliation” details events leading up to what South African’s coined “Mandela’s miracle”, a strategy that prevented a bloodbath and shepherded in a peaceful transition to a democracy. It is driven by the notion that even the most terrible tyranny can be overcome through reconciliation, as both the oppressed and the oppressors need to be liberated from the vice-grip of blind prejudice and injustice. | |
| Screening at: Thursday May 19, MMV Resort Salon 1, 19:30 | |
| Title: Leading Ladies | Dir: Erika Randall-Beahm & Daniel Beahm |
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| The Camparis are a family of women in which everyone knows her place. Sheri is the larger-than-life, overbearing stage mom. Once a young and beautiful ballroom champion, Sheri now lives vicariously through her youngest daughter Tasi, the darling of the local amateur ballroom circuit. Sheri’s oldest daughter, Toni, is Tasi’s practice partner, the wallflower who must quietly support them all. The only consistent man in the life of the Campari women is Cedric, Tasi’s dance partner and Toni’s best friend. Find out what happens to each as they reexamine their roles in modern life and on the dance floor and learn to "Let Love Lead." | |
| Screening at: Thursday May 19, MMV Resort Salon 1, 21:00 | |