Away from home, the Kongo, Michel seeks Asylum in Germany. Sophie is nine years old and today shes misses the School Field Trip and is forced to return home alone. The Chronology of different events will let these two people come together in a very tragic way. For Michel nothing is the same no more. Hes is searching for an answer, that is impossible to give, and so hes is confronted with Sophie`s mother.
2011
Narrative Short
France
Runtime:
20 minutes
Director:
Nadine Voss
REIFF 2011
Experimental
United States
Runtime:
7 minutes
15 seconds
Director:
Michael Walsh
REIFF 2011
Empty Cache adopts archival footage of Alaskan big game hunts, weaving together an ironic eerie aura of humans hunting for the mount, not for the meat.
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
44 minutes
Director:
Chel White
REIFF 2011
In a small, wooded town, a young man struggles to leave a secret militia started by his father. With an eerily beautiful tone, Bucksville touches on the timely topics of ethics and the militia movement, within the context of family conflict. It is also a film about love, loyalty, and the loss of innocence.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
16 minutes
Director:
Chris King
REIFF 2011
Haunted by memories of a love lost, a lonely man finally decides to move on with his life. With family wedding ring in hand, he gathers the last bit of courage he needs before asking the biggest question of his life. Based on a true story.
Experimental
United Kingdom
Runtime:
35 minutes
Director:
Emily McMehen
REIFF 2011
An introduction to Haitian Vodou as told by Vodouisants, Achante is an immersive image-driven portrait of spiritual practices in Haiti.
Experimental
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
Director:
Ronnie Cramer
REIFF 2011
Sixty in 60 is an experimental art film featuring sixty one-minute works of many types. Genres represented include abstract, animation, documentary, experimental, narrative, stop-motion, time-lapse and video art.
2012
Best Of the Fest
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
35 minutes
Director:
Jacob Cartwright, Nick Jordan
REIFF 2012
Between Two Rivers is a new documentary film about Cairo, Illinois, a historic town with a dark and troubled past, located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, in the heartland of America. Filmed, edited and directed by artists Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan, Between Two Rivers offers a remarkable insight into a community struggling with severe economic, social and environmental pressures.
Jury Prize Documentary Short Film
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
40 minutes
Director:
Christine Lee
REIFF 2012
Hip Hop Maestro begins with an overture of kinetic concert footage that reveals linebacker sized maestro, Geoff Double G Gallegos, his symphony, Reepus II in A Minor, and the young, vibrant Los Angeles musicians who willingly give their time and talent to this orchestra known as daKAH. Told in first person narration, Double G chronicles his amazing journey as a young composer whose epic vision of bringing elements of hip hop, jazz, funk and reggae into the symphonic audience despite great odds- a.k.a no $. In three movements, this daKUMENTARY shall demonstrate how Double Gs unique leadership and single- minded determination propels daKAH from the Los Angeles nightclub scene to the magnificent stage at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Jury Prize For Documentary Feature
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
35 minutes
Director:
Ana Nogueira
REIFF 2012
Ana Nogueira is a white South African and Eron Davidson a Jewish Israeli. Drawing on their first-hand knowledge of the issues, the producers take a close look at the apartheid comparison often used to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their film breaks down the rhetorical analogy into a fact-based comparison, noting where the analogy is useful and appropriate, and where it is not. There are many lessons to draw from the South African experience relevant to conflicts all over the world. This film is as much a historical document of the rise and fall of apartheid, as it is a film about why many Palestinians feel they are living in an apartheid system today, and why an increasing number of people around the world agree with them.
Jury Prize For Narrative Short Film
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
27 minutes
Director:
Alexander Gaeta
REIFF 2012
Marcy Meyers is down on her luck. Faced with piling bills, the remnants of a failed marriage, and now an imminent home foreclosure, she has nowhere to turn but to the hope of a miracle. That miracle she find in Shoot the Moon, a national game show that promises a once-in-a-lifetime chance to win it all. But Marcy's faith in the show comes with a price as her relationship with her daughter, Alice, is put to the test as the clock ticks towards a seemingly inescapable fate. Shoot the Moon tells the story of miracles and the extraordinary places they're found.