SATURDAY JULY 15TH
AT CROWLEY THEATER
10AM | CROWLEY THEATER
AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, author and activist Chris Hedges, discusses modern day consumerism, totalitarian corporate power and living in a culture dominated by pervasive illusion.
Amanda Zackem
DOCUMENTARY | Texas Premiere | USA | 15min.
HIGH CHAPARRAL
A theme park celebrating America’s mythic Wild West in wintery Sweden becomes a welcoming home for refugees fleeing the Syrian civil war.
David Freid
SHORT | Texas Premiere | USA 9min.
FIRST DAUGHTER AND THE BLACK SNAKE
The “Prophecy of the 7th Fire” says a “black snake” will bring destruction to the earth. For Winona LaDuke, the “black snake” is oil trains and pipelines. When she learns that Canadian-owned Enbridge plans to route a new pipeline through her tribe’s 1855 Treaty land, she and her community spring into action to save the sacred wild rice lakes and preserve their traditional indigenous way of life. .... (MORE) Keri Pickett
FEATURE | Texas Premiere| USA 94 min.
12:30PM | CROWLEY THEATER
THE HISTORY OF MAGIC : ENSUENO
When the high school bell rings, Ester Bolaños escapes her small, border-town high school. But when she rides her beloved bike all the way home, Ester escapes reality. To feel alive, she imagines every fantastical way she could die. She'll take her chances against sharks, tanks, or flame-throwing Nazis anyday if it means avoiding the boring fates of her fellow students and family.
José Luis González
USA | 5min.
MY EILEEN
Eileen, a frustrated protagonist, acts out against the bitter narrator of this short film.
India Donaldson
SHORT | World Premiere | USA | 8min.
CARMEN
What do you need to be, to be really funny? Stand-up comedienne Carmen Lynch knows what it takes. As she wanders from make-up mirror to performance stage, via Portland’s woozy streets and an all-night grocery store, we’re given an intimate insight into a talented individual. The city’s saturated lights and dying, showbiz neon become Carmen’s passing backdrop. She confronts herself - her looks, her dreams, the weird rituals of mating in the modern world - by confronting her audiences. Sometimes they laugh with her. Sometimes they don’t laugh at all.
Chloë Sevigny
SHORT | USA 8min.
E.W.A.
EWA is a teenage girl who is suffering from a condition of a constant nose bleed while exploring different aspects of her life and the people around her.
Gigi Ben Artzi
SHORT | Texas Premiere | Ukraine 7min
SPLENDONA
A physically disfigured fashion model prepares for her runway debut. But as the fashion show approaches, dream and reality becomes blurred.
Kevin Vu
SHORT | Texas Premiere | USA 10min
SAD GIRL
A babysitter traverses the suburbs at night in search of happiness.
Dolan Chorng
SHORT | World Premiere | USA 12min.
FORLOVE - MISSING PERSONS
In Forlove's debut single Missing Persons, Thomas and Dara are made up of the searing layers and pulpy fruits of an imperfect relationship. The film slices emotional moments into colorful spectrums, compartments, half-seconds, measures of patience, heartbreak and sculptural elements to examine reflection and entanglement. Jody Stillwater
MUSIC VIDEO | USA 4min.
UFO DAYS
An enigmatic, strangely familiar man attends the annual UFO Days celebration in a small Wisconsin town.
Quinn Else
SHORT | Texas Premiere | USA 9min
GOING HOME
A family awaits for the return of their beloved Jimmy, an astronaut back from his first space mission, and find that he has been a little bit changed.
Rick Darge, Machete Bang Bang, John Weselcouch, Erin Granat, Charlie Scovill and Jim Carrozo
SHORT | USA 9min.
CALL FOR THE GOOD KING
A man travels to a foreign land of funk only to discover he has not only been accepted by the locals but others like him follow his lead . It is never to late to go back especially when the beat calls.
Joseph Taylor
SHORT | Texas Premiere| Canada 4min.
PARTHENON
A naked body moves a stranger to empathy. PARTHENON is a slippery, dizzying provocation on art, control, and perception.
Frank Mosley
SHORT | USA 14min.
2:45PM | CROWLEY THEATER
TENDER MOMENTS
TENDER MOMENTS follows John, who after being laid off by his job in Houston flees to Shreveport with the stolen company car. Once in town an attempt to make a human connection through some casual-sex goes awry, and he is roped into acting as the alibi for the woman that robbed him of his severance money.
Alberto Govela & Rob Neilson
SHORT | USA 15min.
THIRST STREET
Alone and depressed after the suicide of her lover, American flight attendant Gina (Lindsay Burdge, A TEACHER) travels to Paris and hooks up with nightclub bartender Jerome (Damien Bonnard, STAYING VERTICAL) on her layover. But as Gina falls deeper into lust and opts to stay in France, this harmless rendezvous quickly turns into unrequited amour fou.
Nathan Silver
FEATURE | USA 83min.
5PM | CROWLEY THEATER
MESSIAH
In a playful collision of cultures, a hapless Irishman and his Parisian girlfriend get more than they bargained for when they encounter a particularly mischievous stranger in the spectacular Australian wilderness.
Damian Walshe-Howling
SHORT |Australia 17min.
ALI, THE GOAT AND IBRAHIM
Ali believes his late girlfriend's soul has been reincarnated in a goat. Ali, his goat and his friend Ibrahim embark on a journey of friendship and self-discovery across Egypt to reverse the curse.
Sherif El Bendary
FEATURE | FRANCE 92min.
9PM **EVENT | SURREAL BALL | THE CAPRI **
A celebration of the unbridled mind, inspired by the blurred lines between reality and the imagination. Tonight has never happened before, and will never happen again...Check your phone at the door and dance, frolic, and weave your way through a garden of special performances, artistic interpretations and amaing art designed to evoke your inner "I don't do drugs. I AM drugs." ~ S. Dali
The Capri | Free for MFF Passholders
Door $25 Locals $10 (with ID)