37th CIFF College Day

Independent Shorts Program 6

Running Time: 50 Minutes

• Death of a Shadow
• Elliott Erwitt: "I Bark At Dogs"
• Eskimal
• Farid in the West
• Rising Hope
• That Wasn't Me
• The Other Side

Material

SOUTH AFRICA
Directed By Craig Freimond
Running Time: 93 Minutes

Set in Johannesburg, South Africa, MATERIAL is a comedy about textiles. Also, it’s about stand-up comedy. But mostly it’s about textiles and Ebrahim’s fabric store. It’s kind of about comedy, but it is definitely about the fabric store. In fact,... {more}

Yuma

POLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC
Directed By Piotr Mularuk
Running Time: 113 Minutes

Zyga (rising star Jakub Gierszał) and his pals have nowhere to go in their lousy Polish border town. Communism has just collapsed and people are getting into Yuma, stealing from German stores and redistributing the wealth on the Polish market.... {more}

Beauty (Nosilatiaj. La Belleza)

ARGENTINA
Directed By Daniela Seggiaro
Running Time: 83 Minutes

Look for the beauty in the sparse landscape, with its twisting tangled trees that take on human forms. The once-fertile grassland of the stoic Wichi people of northern Argentina has been gradually appropriated by outsiders, forcing them to adapt to... {more}

Putzel

USA
Directed By Jason Chaet
Running Time: 88 Minutes

All is not well at Himmelstein’s House of Lox in New York. Walter “Putzel” Himmelstein, heir apparent to the Himmelstein smoked fish empire, is having yet another crisis. He is pathologically unable to go beyond the boundaries of the Upper... {more}

We Went To War

UNITED KINGDOM, IRELAND, USA
Directed By Michael Grigsby
Running Time: 78 Minutes

In 1970 British director Michael Grigsby made a stunning documentary called “I Was A Soldier.” The award-winning film followed three young soldiers from Mernard, Texas after they returned home from Vietnam. In the film, the men struggled to transition back... {more}

Independent Shorts Program 9

Running Time: 45 Minutes

• A Better Place Than This
• Béatrice Coron's Daily Battles
• Coming Soon
• Howard
• Marking the Distance
• The Louder The Better
• Touch Me

When Night Falls (Wo Hai You Hua Yao Shuo)

SOUTH KOREA, CHINA
Directed By Ying Liang
Running Time: 70 Minutes

WHEN NIGHT FALLS is not a movie the Chinese government wants you to see. Based on the true story of a young man executed for murders he was never proven to have committed, the film is a scathing look into... {more}

Aliyah

FRANCE
Directed By Elie Wajeman
Running Time: 90 Minutes

This absorbing drama traces one young man’s emotional and physical exodus to the Promised Land, the Jewish tradition of immigration to Israel known as ALIYAH, Alex is a secular Jew who dreams of getting out of the projects outside Paris.... {more}

La Demora (The Delay)

URUGUAY, MEXICO, FRANCE
Directed By Rodrigo Plá
Running Time: 84 Minutes

LA DEMORA introduces us to Maria, who is raising three children in a very cramped apartment and living on the little she earns as a garment worker. Maria’s elderly and ailing father Agustin also lives with them, pushing her to... {more}

Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth

GERMANY, USA
Directed By Frauke Sandig, Eric Black
Running Time: 98 Minutes

From the Mayan creation story the Popol Vuh, we know that “Heart of Sky” is the world’s maker, part of the Mayan cosmovision of oneness with nature. This exquisitely beautiful film introduces us to present-day Mayans, from the highlands of... {more}

The Repentant (El Taaib)

ALGERIA, FRANCE
Directed By Merzak Allouache
Running Time: 87 Minutes

A lone jihadist runs through the high flatlands of Algeria, looking over his shoulder as he heads back to his native village. The Civil War has raged for more than ten years, and though Islamic terrorists continue to sow fear,... {more}

Downeast

USA
Directed By David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
Running Time: 77 Minutes

When the Stinson Seafood plant closed its doors in 2010, nearly 130 people in Gouldsboro, Maine lost their jobs. The cannery was the last of its kind, a relic from a time when the sardine industry ruled the Maine coast.... {more}