Four individuals from various walks of life, desperate for cash, become entwined in the enigmatic plans of a cunning recluse.
2015
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
28 minutes
Director:
W. David Keith
REIFF 2015
After almost 50 years in business, the time has come to say goodbye to the Metcalf South Shopping Mall. In its last days of operation former employees, customers and hangers on are invited back to relive what were the best years of their lives. Featuring interviews with Gus, The Mer-Man, Dr. Randy The Puppeteer and a virtual Who's Who of Metcalf South denizens throughout its years on this planet. This is the story of the greatest mall ever built...but in some ways it is the story of us all. This is Metcalf South Memories.
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
9 minutes
Director:
Elle Schneider
REIFF 2015
A short documentary about webcam performance artist Joey Kim, who communicates with her audience through an adult chat site.
Experimental
United States
Runtime:
5 minutes
Director:
Kristin Reeves
REIFF 2015
A fever-dream processes childhood memories of medical exploitation. Back and forth flash the clinical gaze, which holds tight to the profitable conjuring that vulnerable bodies make possible. Patients unravel into material to support a billion-dollarpharmaceutical industry driven by commercial interests and the fear of our fragile physiology.
Animation
United States
Runtime:
4 minutes
Director:
Ellen Raines
REIFF 2015
A lonely cactus in the middle of the southwest wants nothing more than a simple hug.
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
21 minutes
Director:
John Goshorn
REIFF 2015
When Jonah, recently fired from his newspaper job, goes mysteriously missing, his young wife Maggie has to weigh the hopes of his return against impending financial breakdown. The anxiety of the following days threatens to tip her over the edge, yet she hopes any moment could provide the answer to the puzzle of what happened to her husband.
Narrative Feature
France
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
20 minutes
Director:
Nael Marandin
REIFF 2015
Aiyu Lin is an illegal Chinese prostitute in the streets of Belleville in Paris.She lives with Cherry, her teenage daughter in the apartment of Kieffer, a septuagenarian bedridden in her care in exchange for accommodation.She carefully hides her business from her daughter.
Their life changes when one night, a stranger suddenly enters the home.Injured Daniel is pursued by men to whom he owes money.It forces Lin Aiyu to stash the money without the knowledge of the old owner. Sometimes abductor, now prisoner, Daniel started as a threat, but Aiyu Lin now sees an opportunity to seize.Lin Aiyu offers him a proposal. A struggle starts between them in which power and desire mingle.
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
19 minutes
Director:
Brian Schmidt
REIFF 2015
The story of Jojo and his annoying little sister Avila is an adventure story filled with ravenous wolves, raging rivers, and a crafty old hobo. Its a story where little Jojo is thrown into the woods and is forced save his little sister, but at the same time he also learns to get along with her. It starts when their mother decides to take her two children to go visit Grandma in the woods.During the trip to Grandma's, Jojo starts to realize that he is no longer the sole center of love and affection in the family and that he grudgingly might have to share some space with his baby sister Avila.
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
11 minutes
Director:
Paolo Monico
REIFF 2015
When a hardened widow receives an unexpected visit, she is given the chance to shed light on her husband's death.
Documentary Feature
Australia
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
43 minutes
Director:
Jeff Bird
REIFF 2015
Written in the blood of mineworkers and their families, Blood on the Coal tells the story of Australias Queensland coalfields one of the worlds richest energy resources and for 150 years a bitter industrial battleground.
The film opens with a journey to Mt. Mulligan, a remote and now abandoned mining community in outback Queensland. In 1921 Mt. Mulligan was the siteof Queenslands worst mining disaster, when 75 men were killed in a coal mine explosion. A retired coal miner and his two daughters make the long journey in search of their familys past and to pay their respects to their lost loved ones. Wiping out two thirds of the towns male population, Mt. Mulligan sent a shock wave throughout Australias mining industry and began the long and bitterly fought path to improved safety and working conditions. But it would be decades before improvements began to filter through to the coal face.