The Human Trial
Friday, 26 August 2022
92 min
Director: Guy Mossman, Lisa Hepner
Producer: Kristin Lesko, Simon Kilmurry, Lisa Hepner, Jonathan Formica
In 2011, Lisa Hepner and her husband Guy Mossman heard about a radical stem cell treatment for diabetes, a disease that shockingly kills over five million people each year. Driven by a desire to cure Lisa of her own type 1 diabetes (T1D), the filmmakers got unprecedented access to a clinical trial – only the sixth ever stem cell trial in the world. What follows is an intimate decade-long journey with the patients and scientists who risk everything for everybody else. The Human Trial peels back the headlines to show the sweat, passion, and sacrifice behind every breakthrough cure. For the millions of patients suffering around the world, these breakthroughs can’t come fast enough.
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The Hunt For Planet B
Friday, 26 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2021 | United States | 93 min | Documentary
Director: Nathaniel Kahn
Producer: Nathaniel Kahn, Bonnie Hlinomaz
The Hunt for Planet B captures the human drama behind NASA’s high-stakes Webb Telescope, due to launch in October 2021—the most ambitious space observatory ever built. The film interweaves the creation of this massive machine with the story of a pioneering group of female scientists on a quest to find life beyond our solar system. What begins as a real-time scientific adventure turns into a deep meditation on our place in the universe. On the brink of seeing farther out than ever before, we find ourselves looking back at our own imperiled planet with new eyes.
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I am Like You
Friday, 26 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | United States | 128 min | Narrative
Director: Haik Kocharian
Producer: Jeff Kozlowski, Amy A. Napierala, Steve Ruchefsky, Rondi Charleston, Tigran Sahakyan, Armen Baloyan, Shawna Lea, Karine Kocharyan
A story of the friendship between a teenage boy and a wolfdog. When the two are forcefully separated, we follow the journey of the animal in search of his best friend. Addresses animal abuse, teens with undiagnosed conditions, and assisted suicide.
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I Didn’t See You There
Friday, 26 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | United States | 72 min | Documentary
Director: Reid Davenport
Producer:
Keith Wilson
Closed Captioning and Closed Audio Description
As a visibly disabled person, filmmaker Reid Davenport is often either the subject of an unwanted gaze — gawked at by strangers — or paradoxically rendered invisible, ignored or dismissed by society. The arrival of a circus tent just outside his apartment prompts him to consider the history and legacy of the freak show, in which individuals who were deemed atypical were put on display for the amusement and shock of a paying public. Contemplating how this relates to his own filmmaking practice, which explicitly foregrounds disability, Davenport sets out to make a film about how he sees the world from his wheelchair without having to be seen himself.
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I Was Not Born for War
Friday, 26 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2020 | Ukraine | 70 min | Documentary
Director: Vladyslav Robskyi
Producer: Julia Chernavska, Oleg Shcherbyna
The man, who went through hell during the war, and did not lose his fortitude and faith in people. And now, in a rather unusual way, he helps people with disabilities bring back their thirst for life. Kostya Oborin, the film`s main character, prepares two disabled men, ATO veterans, for the parachute jump. They`ve still never skydived, but Kostya persuaded them for a jump as a method of rehabilitation and mind-broadening. The training is not easy, but it`s worth it.
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In the Water
Friday, 26 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2021 | United States| 10 min | Narrative
Director: Drew Highlands
While hooking up at a party, two high schoolers unearth a dark secret leading to an unexpected catharsis.
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Into Light
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
When a child reveals who they truly are on the inside, how does a parent set aside their own expectations to help them become their most authentic self? Sheona McDonald’s documentary captures a season of change as a mother and child navigate the complexities of gender identity together.
2021 | Canada | 19 min | Documentary
Director: Sheona McDonald
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Let It Shine: The Story of the Keene Pumpkin Festival
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | United States | 81 min | Documentary
Director: Gavin Key
A heartwarming documentary about the world famous Keene Pumpkin Festival in Keene, NH.
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The Life We Learn With
Friday, 26 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | United States | 79 min | Documentary
Director: Daniel Paul
The Life We Learn With is a narrative documentary of the filmmaker’s own true story about the production of his senior class film project at Keene State College in 1984. Taken under the wing of his mentor Bob Gunther, along with his cast and crew of fellow film students, he learns the intricate details involved in making a short film. It is also a coming-of-age story as he experiences the joys and heartaches of falling in love for the first time.
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Living all of Life
Friday, 26 August 2022
Virtual Showing
2022 | Mexico | 27 min | Narrative
Director: Marlén Ríos-Farjat
Producer: J. Luis Rivera, Eduardo Vasconcelos
After a lifetime together, Susana has been abandoned by her husband. She is in denial and holds on to the past. One day, she needs the help of her neighbor, Gloria, a free-spirited woman who Susana can’t stand. But the friendship that emerges between them arises from Susana the desire to live in the present.
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