Films & Schedules - Saturday, November 14, 2015

 

(DOC) Set in the West Bank city of Ramallah, The Palestinian Circus School welcomes The Lido, a visiting circus school from France. In a month, the two schools must come together to create a mobile circus for children. Living in the West Bank means that mastering acrobatics isn’t the only challenge for a traveling Palestinian circus—hitting the road means an obstacle course of permits and checkpoints along the way. But for these students, the circus is a form of peaceful resistance; instead of surrendering to despair, they overcome their difficult circumstances through the power of art and unity. 

 

(DOC) Set in the West Bank city of Ramallah, The Palestinian Circus School welcomes The Lido, a visiting circus school from France. In a month, the two schools must come together to create a mobile circus for children. Living in the West Bank means that mastering acrobatics isn’t the only challenge for a traveling Palestinian circus—hitting the road means an obstacle course of permits and checkpoints along the way. But for these students, the circus is a form of peaceful resistance; instead of surrendering to despair, they overcome their difficult circumstances through the power of art and unity. 

WHITSELL AUDITORIUM     80 Minutes     2015    

Interests: Documentary/Narrative.

WHITSELL AUDITORIUM     75 Minutes    

Interests: Animation, Documentary/Narrative, Experimental.

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[WHO]

DIRECTOR: ABBEY SACKS - (KIRKLAND, WA)

 

(ANI) Faces and objects come into view and suddenly vanish in this texturally dense, surprising animation. 

1 Minutes     2015    

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ARCA ARCHA

DIRECTOR: SARAH EL BAKKOURI - (RICHMOND, BC)

 

(NAR) A man alone in an apartment experiences a series of visible internal changes and alternate realities. 

6 Minutes     2015    

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BEAUTY & THE SEA

DIRECTOR: IVY LIN - (PORTLAND, OR)

(DOC) Sensitively filmed and edited, this portrayal follows an elderly woman and her daily wanderings, from getting a haircut to buying and cooking fish. 

10 Minutes     2015    

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TRAPPED

DIRECTOR: LONG TRAN - (RENTON, WA)

 

(DOC) A perky and witty portrait of an early teen who grew up in Hong Kong and has embarked upon an affirming journey of self-discovery. 

5 Minutes     2015    

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SEVEN WAYS FROM SUNDAY

DIRECTOR: ROBERT SICKELS - (WALLA WALLA, WA)

 

(EXP) Seven powerful anecdotes of racial injustice, each told against a backdrop of industrial locales that are populated by unlikely stand-ins for the narrators. 

7 Minutes     2014    

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CONSTRUCTED SITUATIONS

DIRECTOR: MICHAEL T WORKMAN - (MISSOULA, MT)

 

(DOC) An imaginatively crafted portrait of a locally active performance artist’s singular creative life. 

8 Minutes     2015    

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MOTH

DIRECTOR: EVAN BRITZ - (DELTA, BC)

 

(NAR) Resisting the taunts of her domineering father, a teenage girl faces mortality by confronting the helplessness of a small dying bird. 

6 Minutes     2015    

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SON IN THE BARBERSHOP

DIRECTOR: NATHAN DOUGLAS - (BURNABY, BC)

 

(NAR) A wrenching double character study of a teenager and his businessman father, each out of touch and view of the other but who reveal a lifetime of pain and misunderstanding. 

7 Minutes     2015    

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SOURDOUGH

DIRECTOR: KIRK RASMUSSEN - (BOZEMAN, MT)

 

(DOC) A son’s home movies and reminiscences, recorded in the early ‘90s, are reshaped into a deeply personal portrait of his father, a tough longtime inhabitant of a remote landscape. 

10 Minutes     2015    

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EVERY BEAUTIFUL THING

DIRECTOR: SONYA LEA - (SEATTLE, WA)

 

(NAR) A poignant tale of two sisters and their aging, ill mother, in which different generations reach out to each other despite years of mistrust and painful disconnects. 

11 Minutes     2014    

 

(NAR) Based on his short film of the same name, Dahl’s first feature weaves documentary and narrative elements into a poignant and funny memoir about the collapse of his marriage and subsequent struggles to find his footing in the bohemian paradise that is Portland, Oregon. His ex-wife, parents, and brothers appear as themselves in the film and scripted material, footage from the director’s married life, and interviews with family and friends paint the picture of a somewhat misguided late-bloomer experiencing all the freedom, loneliness and humiliation that come with having to start over when the bloom is off the...

 

(NAR) Based on his short film of the same name, Dahl’s first feature weaves documentary and narrative elements into a poignant and funny memoir about the collapse of his marriage and subsequent struggles to find his footing in the bohemian paradise that is Portland, Oregon. His ex-wife, parents, and brothers appear as themselves in the film and scripted material, footage from the director’s married life, and interviews with family and friends paint the picture of a somewhat misguided late-bloomer experiencing all the freedom, loneliness and humiliation that come with having to start over when the bloom is off the rose. 

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2015 PORTLAND 
DIRECTOR: JOSH LUNDEN 

 

(NAR) Under the pressure of a hanging marriage proposal, a young woman attempts to avoid reality during an ill-conceived night of drinking, smoking...and bowling. (20 mins.) 

WHITSELL AUDITORIUM     87 Minutes     2014    

Interests: Narrative Feature.