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.
2015
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.
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
48 minutes
Director:
Anthony West
REIFF 2015
Today's nuclear industry was born in a world of secrecy duringWorld War II, as America searched for a way to create the worlds first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, a process that would allow for the creation of the most powerful bombs ever built.The Manhattan Project was the code name for the mission, and it would lead to a search for someone who could refine massive amounts of uranium.
Edward Mallinckrodt Jr, who ran a small chemical company in St. Louis, Missouri, would agree to take on the job.The Mallinckrodt workers would become some of the most contaminated nuclear workers in history, and the city of St. Louis would be left dealing with the fallout of creating some of the worlds first nuclear waste 70 years later.The questions of how to best keep workers and the public safe from these dangerous materials is as challenging today as it was in the past.
2016
Best of Fest
Documentary Feature
Egypt, United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
20 minutes
Director:
Anna Kipervaser
REIFF 2016
Every day people are being replaced by machines worldwide. After 1,400 years, thousands of muezzins in Cairo are no longer calling people to pray as wireless receivers replace them in reciting the adhan. CAIRO IN ONE BREATH unfolds as the Adhan Unification Project takes hold and as Egypt undergoes Revolution and regime change.
Special Jury Award for Truth in Storytelling
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
35 minutes
Director:
Chris Brown
REIFF 2016
THE OTHER KIDS follows six teenagers as they struggle through their final days of high school in the small, gold rush town of Sonora, CA. ISAAC, a Mexican national abandoned as a child by his family, barely treads water in a culture hostile to non-whites. Poor and living on his own in an abandoned trailer, Isaac works three jobs (landscaping, dishwashing and metalworking), studies hard, and dreams of someday becoming a diplomat. Isaac's girlfriend, SIENNA, a stable-hand and natural cowgirl, is forced to cope not only with the brutal dissolution of her family, but with her parents' violent objections to her relationship with Isaac.