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Saturday 7:30 PM | Colonial Theatre
2018 | USA | 81 min | Documentary
Director: Cynthia Wade, Sasha Friedlander
Producers: Sasha Friedlander, Cynthia Wade, Tracie Holder, Matthew Syrett
Cinematographers: Boaz Freund, Axel Baumann, Bao Nguyen
Editor: Sasha Friedlander

Filmmakers in attendance

When Dian was six years old, she heard a deep rumble and turned to see a tsunami of mud barreling towards her village. Her neighbors ran for their lives. Sixteen villages, including Dian’s, were plunged under 60 feet of mud. A decade later, nearly 60,000 people have been displaced from what was once a thriving industrial and residential area in East Java, Indonesia. The cause? Lapindo, a multinational company drilling for natural gas in 2006, struck an underground pocket of mud and unleashed a violent flow of hot sludge from the earth’s depths.

Despite initial assurances to do so, Lapindo has not provided promised reparations to the victims. Dian is determined to rise out of the muddy life.  She and her mother fight against the corporation accused of one of the largest man-made environmental disasters in recent history. The film bears witness to Dian’s transformation into a politically active teenager as she questions the role of corporate power and money in the institution of democracy itself.

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Saturday 4:00 PM | Colonial Theatre
2019 | Norway | 100 min | Drama
Presented by the KSC Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Director: Ross Clarke
Writer: Trond M K Venaasen
Executive Producer: Brandi Savitt
Producers: Lisa G. Black, Leon Clarance, Ross Clarke
Principal Cast: Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Jakob Cedergren, Arthur Hakalahti, August Diehl, Laura Birn, Johannes Kuhnke, Anders Baasmo Christiansen

Filmmakers in attendance

The Bird Catcher is a suspenseful, coming of age story set against the backdrop of violence and prejudice. It’s inspired by the little known actual stories of Norwegian Jews during World War 2 that have never been told. This film uncovers a hidden slice of history that grips at the heart and inspires us all at the deepest level – it’s a profound fable of identity and loss, of forced migration and the cost of war.

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Saturday 1:30 PM | Colonial Theatre
2018 | Lebanon | 120 min | Drama
Director: Nadine Labaki
Writer: Nadine Labaki, Jihad Hojeily, Michelle Keserwany, Georges Khabbaz, Khaled Mouzanar
Producer: Khaled Mouzanar
Director of Photography: Christopher Aoun
Editor: Konstantin Bock
Principal Cast: Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Boluwatife Treasure Bankole, Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Kamel Youssef, Cedra Izam, Alaa Chouchnieh,

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and Oscar Nominee for Best Foreign Film, Capernaum (“Chaos”), is a new film by Nadine Labaki about the journey of a clever, gutsy 12-year-old boy, Zain, who survives the dangers of the city streets by his wits. He flees his parents and to assert his rights, takes them to court suing them for the “crime” of giving him life. (Rated R)

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Saturday 11:45 AM | Colonial Theatre
2018 | USA | 74 min | Documentary
Director: David Abel
Writer: David Abel and Andy Laub
Producers: David Abel, Andy Laub
Cinematography: Andy Laub and David Abel
Editor: Andy Laub

Filmmaker in attendance

Lobster War is an award-winning feature film about a climate-fueled conflict between the United States and Canada over waters that both countries have claimed since the end of the Revolutionary War. The disputed 277 square miles of sea, known as the “Gray Zone”, were traditionally fished by US lobstermen. But as the Gulf of Maine has warmed faster than nearly any other body of water on the planet, the area’s previously modest lobster population has surged. As a result, Canadians have begun to assert their sovereignty, warring with the Americans to claim the bounty.

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Friday 8:15 PM | Colonial Theatre
2018 | USA | 100 min | Drama
Director: Paul Dano
Writers: Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan
Producers: Eddie Vaisman and B. Ted Deiker
Director of Photography: Diego Garcia
Principal Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould

Fourteen-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry – a housewife and golf pro – in a small town in 1960’s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job – and his sense of purpose – he decides to join the cause of fighting the fire, leaving his wife and son to fend for themselves. Suddenly forced into the role of an adult, Joe witnesses his mother’s struggle as she tries to keep her head above water. (PG-13)

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Friday 6:15 PM | Colonial Theatre
2019 | Iceland | 101 min | Comedy/Drama
Director: Benedikt Erlingsson
Writer: Benedikt Erlingsson and Olafur Egill Egilsson
Producers: Marianne Slot, Benedikt Erlingsson, Carine Leblanc
Director of Photography: Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson
Editor: Davíð Alexsander Corno
Principal Cast: Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson

Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman, but behind the scenes of her quiet routine as a choir director, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by her alias “The Woman of the Mountain,” Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry. As Halla’s actions grow bolder, from petty vandalism to outright industrial sabotage, she succeeds in pausing the negotiations between the Icelandic government and the corporation building a new aluminum smelter. But right as she plans her biggest and boldest operation yet, she learns that she’s finally been approved to adopt a Ukrainian orphan, leading her to wonder what would be more fulfilling: motherhood or making sure the Icelandic Highlands remain pristine for all to enjoy.

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Friday 3:15 PM | Colonial Theatre
2018 | USA | 94 min | Documentary
Presented by the KSC Student Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Group
Director/Writer/Producer/Cinematographer/Editor: Alexandria Bombach
Producers: Hayley Pappas and Brock Williams

Twenty-three-year-old Nadia Murad’s life is a dizzying array of exhausting undertakings from giving testimony before the U.N. to visiting refugee camps to soul-bearing media interviews and one-on-one meetings with top government officials. With deep compassion and a formal precision and elegance that matches Nadia’s calm and steely demeanor, filmmaker Alexandria Bombach follows this strong-willed young woman, who survived the 2014 genocide of the Yazidis in Northern Iraq and escaped the hands of ISIS to become a relentless beacon of hope for her people, even when at times she longs to lay aside this monumental burden and simply have an ordinary life.