2014

Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
15 minutes
Director:
Courtenay Singer

REIFF 2014

Out of the Fire offers a rare, absorbing look into the little-known world of wood-firing potters. Join Kevin Crowe, Krista Loomans, and their crew for a four-day, high-temperature kiln firing, in which nearly 2000 handcrafted pots are at stake. Interwoven commentary explores the drive to create, the importance of community, and the role of risk-taking and authenticity in making our best work - and living our most fulfilling lives.

Narrative Short
United Kingdom
Runtime:
17 minutes
18 seconds
Director:
Adam Morse

REIFF 2014

Sam and Danny crash an exclusive party with different objectives. Sam is pursuing his girlfriend in the hope of resolving their relationship while Danny's mission is to hook up with the first girl he finds. The universe however, has other plans for the two when a single coin flip separates them from each other and alters their destinies.

Narrative Short
Sweden
Runtime:
25 minutes
Director:
Andrej Landin

REIFF 2014

Alexander, a lone cosmonaut, is adrift in orbit around Earth. He has lost communications and life-support systems are dwindling fast. At the same time in Italy, a radio engineer is working the night shift. He discovers a voice amidst the empty static. Under desperate circumstances, and across vast distances, an intense connection is made.

Best of the Fest, Special Jury Award for Acting
Narrative Feature
Bulgaria
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
29 minutes
Director:
Thom Southerland

REIFF 2014

Krasimira Stanimirova wins second place in a Bulgarian play writing contest. Her award is a trip to the United States, Kentucky to be exact, to see the world premiere of her communist-era, autobiographical play, 'Black Coat'. Expecting to meet with a warm welcome and southern hospitality, Krasi instead finds herself isolated and lonely in a hotel off an interstate.

Exploring America on foot, Krasi must confront the reality that her play might not be such a big deal in the States. Along the way she slowly finds comfort amongst strangers in this alien world, including a young mother and her son and a fellow tourist.

2015

Best of the Fest
Narrative Short
Ecuador
Runtime:
28 minutes
Director:
Javier Fesser

REIFF 2015

An amazing innovation reaches a tiny school lost in the heart of the Peruvian Andes and revolutionizes the lives of the whole community: the internet. It brings the world to their doorstep, but even more importantly, it offers the world the chance tofinally discover what's happening in the remote village of Ingatambo.

Best Narrative Feature
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
44 minutes
Director:
Kyle Ham

REIFF 2015

Reparation is a powerful psychological thriller that swirls like a funnel cloud around Bob Stevens, a small-town vegetable farmer with a three-year hole in his memory. When a mysterious stranger, Jerome, shows up claiming to be his best friend in the Air Force Police, Bob's peaceful existence begins to unravel from the outside in. Bob's entire family are caught in the storm, but none more than his eight- year-old daughter, Charlotte, who discovers she might hold the key to conjuring Bob's forgotten past.

As Charlotte comes to learn, 'every time something happens that knocks us out of balance, we try doing something that will knock us back in...' That universal theme of balance is the soul of Reparation.

Best Narrative Short
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
13 minutes
Director:
Chris King

REIFF 2015

When a young military wife gets news that her Marine husband has been severely wounded in combat, she discovers that life ahead for them is going to be a difficult and yet amazing journey.

Best Documentary Feature
Documentary Feature
United Kingdom
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
18 minutes
Director:
Susan Steinberg

REIFF 2015

Mirrors to Windows: The Artist as Woman is a unique film following an international cast of three generations of women artists who are all forging their careers in the heat of the London art scene. From the studio to the gallery, candid conversations infused with humour and zeal give us a rare insight into the lives of ten artists working across a diverse a array of mediums, united by an enduring belief in themselves and their work.

Featuring artists aged 22-82, the film forms a compelling collective biography, telling a cross-generational coming of age story. Act 1 sees three young artists at the start of their careers. Act 2 finds artists balancing the conflicts of middle age, and in Act 3, four artists are experiencing new-found freedom as their work becomes more active than ever.

Best Documentary Short
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
50 minutes
Director:
Mercedes Kane

REIFF 2015

Ina Pinkney is a Chicago legend of the tastiest kind. Known around town as the Breakfast Queen, she has been feeding Chicagoans for the past 33 years. Faced with the late stages of polio, Ina has decided to close the doors of her beloved breakfast nook. An outstanding chef and businesswoman, Ina is so much more. She's a community leader, a pioneer, a television personality - but most importantly, she's the rare sort of person who's found a way to transform her passion into a joy that extends across an entire city, and beyond.

The documentary, Breakfast at Ina's gives audiences a glimpse into Ina's extraordinary life, all while chronicling the last days of the restaurant as Ina and her staff serve up its final meals.

Best Experimental
Experimental
Canada
Runtime:
7 minutes
Director:
George Ungar

REIFF 2015

Opening our eyes each new day, we stare for a few minutes into space, seeing the first sights, hearing the first sounds. It is neither night nor day but something in-between. Fragments of dreams refusing to expire, the grip of the day not yet uponus, memory and desire hovering around the edges.

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