Terry Ratliff makes chairs with his hands and lives way up in the mountains of Appalachia in a cabin made of wood that he also made with his hands. This is his story.
2022
Official Selection
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
12 minutes
4 seconds
Director:
Ethan Payne
REIFF 2022
Official Selection
Narrative Feature
Germany
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
30 minutes
Director:
Laura Lehmus
REIFF 2022
Frida unexpectedly falls pregnant and Felix, the father of her child, breaks up with her to re-unite with his ex. Although some serious health problems caused by the late pregnancy force Frida to rest, she still tries to get Felix back, using methods which are absurd, exaggerated and sometimes hilarious.
Official Selection
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
8 minutes
40 seconds
Director:
Matt Long
REIFF 2022
A merciless outlaw discovers blood money has its own price as he comes face to face with a supernatural vigilante.
Official Selection
Documentary Feature
Spain
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
18 minutes
Director:
Gonzalo Suarez Garayo
REIFF 2022
Gonzalo wants to be a film director, he dreams of directing comedies. In november 2006 his life stopped in a traffic accident that caused him a spinal cord injury. A few days after he was bedridden, he borrowed a video camera and as self-therapy began to film everything that happened to him, beginning his life 0.5 meters above the ground. When the state terminates his rehabilitation, he returns to his hometown. He has two options: stay put or continue his life in an eternal traveling. In order not to be alone, he decides to practice wheelchair basketball at the famous club AMFIV, and his story takes a Copernican turn. Discover a new universe for him in this professional sport, a world that has not yet been filmed from the inside.
Official Selection
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
45 minutes
Director:
James Camali
REIFF 2022
In the heart of rural Kentucky, a high school senior and his family struggle to cope with the true identity and intentions of a dangerous town shooter.
Official Selection
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
27 minutes
Director:
Emma Thatcher
REIFF 2022
A self-destructive ex-Mormon finds out her abusive father is on his deathbed and road trips to Utah to reckon with her past.
Official Selection
Narrative Short
Spain
Runtime:
16 minutes
38 seconds
Director:
Aitor Almuedo Esteban
REIFF 2022
A boy is thrown into a trash container from the future. In his frantic search for the exit, he runs into a misterious man, who will make him doubt the origin of his own existence.
Official Selection
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
45 minutes
Director:
Jonathan Petramala
REIFF 2022
On December 10, 2021 one of the longest tracked tornadoes in US history ripped a twisted trail of death and destruction 165 miles long through western Kentucky. Dozens were killed but somehow hundreds in the path survived. These are some of the stories that will be shared for generations.
Official Selection
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
41 minutes
30 seconds
Director:
Garrett Zevgetis
REIFF 2022
A video goes viral, showing a white police officer in South Carolina pull a Black teenager from her school desk and throw her across the floor. Healer-Activist Vivian Anderson uproots her life in New York City to move to South Carolina to support the girl and dismantle the system behind the assault at Spring Valley, including facing the police officer. Adding context, geographer Janae Davis treks the surrounding swamps and encounters the homes of formerly enslaved people of African descent, connecting the past to the present.
Official Selection
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
16 minutes
18 seconds
Director:
Thomas Sutherland
REIFF 2022
The identify of the little girl in a famous photograph from 1951 has remained a mystery for over seventy years. I'M THE GIRL investigates the power of a single image and the women who claim to be her.