2013

Jungle Warfare College
Documentary Short
India
Runtime:
9 minutes
56 seconds
Director:
Jesse Veverka

REIFF 2013

When people think of India they think of spiritual awakening, the worlds largest democracy, lush jungles and the towering Himalaya. But inside this country of 1.1 billion is an ongoing insurgency that tests the limits of Indias constitutional democracy. Chhattisgarh, a new state formed in 2000 is the center of a Maoist uprising that has continued since the 1960s.

Jungle Warfare College is a documentary short that shows a cross section of this conflict and Brigadier BK Ponwar who vows to fight it.

Rose, Mary and Time
Narrative Short
United Kingdom
Runtime:
37 minutes
Director:
Hardeep Giani

REIFF 2013

Real is Love - Is life governed by Kismet, or can we change our life path.

Leave No Trace
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
19 minutes
Director:
Travis Newton

REIFF 2013

A chemistry professor hopes to hike the Appalachian Trail in his retirement, but during a last-minute physical he receives news that he is unfit to hike. As he prepares for his retirement reception, he realizes that his life has had little impact, and this journey may be his last chance to give his life meaning.

Donnie Vincent's The River's Divide
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
46 minutes
39 seconds
Director:
Kyle Nickolite

REIFF 2013

The documentary film of Donnie Vincent's bowhunting journey in to the Badlands of North Dakota, chasing a whitetail deer known as 'Steve'.

Can't Stop Me Leavin'
Narrative Short
Japan
Runtime:
25 minutes
Director:
Yoh Komaya

REIFF 2013

Getting out of town always seems to be such a big deal in Hollywood movies. Characters are constantly trying to escape the town they grew up in, for example, The Last Picture Show, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Stand By Me.

I guess, getting out of town is some kind of a myth. This, I suppose, is why it needs to be so tricky and agonizing. Can't Stop Me Leavin' is a comedy about one desperate couple's escape that challenges this very myth.

The irony here is that this is Japanese town and the couple's escape doesn't look very hard nor painful. Will their escape succeed? Or will it fail as in other movies? Either way, you'll witness a new myth born in Higashiayamato city of Japan.

Book Club
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
10 minutes
Director:
Hope Hartman

REIFF 2013

Through work, war, love, loss, birth and death, a group of women have shared life's journey bonded by a little book club formed more than 60 years ago.

Kane
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
25 minutes
Director:
Michael Williams

REIFF 2013

After losing what meant most to him, the man behind the masked hero KANE decides to let the people he protects fend for themselves.

Farewell to Factory Towns?
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
1 minutes
Director:
Maynard Seider

REIFF 2013

What can residents of communities that have been devastated by deindustrialization do to improve their condition during a time of austerity, war and anti-labor attacks? The film focuses on the introduction of a massive museum of contemporary art in the same buildings that housed Sprague Electric Company in a typical New England mill town. Billed as an engine of economic development, the museum hasn't produced the jobs it promised and the city's downtown is semi-deserted. The film argues that national policy must change and that vibrant unions and social movements are needed to bring about a new 'New Deal' to deal with the social and economic crisis facing U.S. cities today.

Le Train Bleu
Narrative Short
France
Runtime:
14 minutes
Director:
Stephanie Assimacopoulo

REIFF 2013

Paris - Gare De Lyon. Helie behaves as a true bounder, Selena, evermore in love, still wants to pick up the pieces. At the bar of 'Le Train Bleu', where they stop to have a last drink, neither one cannot imagine what will happen ...

Music City USA
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
19 minutes
Director:
Chris McDaniel

REIFF 2013

Nashville, a city currently based on music, wasn't always called Music City. Find out how this printing and Insurance mecca became the music capital of the world, and see how the devastating flood of 2010 tried to get them down, but thanks to this thriving music community, a city was reborn. Resilience in the form of the artists, entertainers and musicians that put the MUSIC in MUSIC CITY.

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