Virtual Showing 
2021 | USA | 7 min | Drama
Director: Gairo Cuevas
Producers: Bianca Vidal, Gairo Cuevas

Two teenagers debate the issue of gun control on their walk home after leaving a memorial service honoring friends they lost during a school shooting.

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Thirst

FIRST WE EAT

PERPETUAL JOURNEY

Virtual Showing 
2020 | USA | 77 min | Documentary
Director: Patrick Trefz
Producers: Christine Jarvis, Patrick Trefz, Jesse Carfield, Andreas Jaritz

Profiles Outstanding in the Field founder Jim Denevan, his trials of growing up in a turbulent family dynamic, and the artwork that came of it — both in his geometric land drawings and table-to-farm dinners through OITF. Instead of bringing the food to the restaurant, Outstanding in the Field has brought the restaurant to the food since 1999. Hosted at one long table, with 100 to 1000 guests dining together, Denevan has set tables in vineyards, beaches, meadows, fishing docks, and city streets.

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THIS IS WHAT I LOOK LIKE NAKED

GRAFTON

CAN YOU BRING IT BILL T. JONES AND D-MAN WATERS

Virtual Showing 
2021 | Malta | 95 min | Drama
Director: Alex Camilleri
Producers: Rebecca Anastasi, Ramin Bahrani, Alex Camilleri, Oliver Mallia

A hardworking Maltese fisherman, Jesmark is faced with an agonizing choice. He can repair his leaky luzzu – a traditional, multicolored wooden fishing boat – in the hopes of eking out a meager living at sea for his wife and newborn son, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Or he can decommission it in exchange for an EU payout and cast his lot with a sinister black-market operation that is decimating the Mediterranean fish population and the livelihoods of the local families who depend on it. Luzzu won a Sundance Jury Prize for its nonprofessional lead actor Jesmark Scicluna, a real-life Maltese fisherman, and heralds the arrival of writer-director-editor Alex Camilleri. His gripping film operates in the neorealist tradition of Luchino Visconti, Roberto Rosselini, and the Dardenne brothers and calls to mind the work of his mentor Ramin Bahrani (Man Push Cart, The White Tiger), also a producer of the film.

Sundance Film Festival 2021 (Winner: Jury Prize for Acting), New Directors/New Films 2021

“Understated in a way that would make the gods of neorealism proud, the film is anchored by the alluring, underlying rage in Scicluna’s lived-in performance.”— Carlos Aguilar, RogerEbert.com

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VOLINSKY: TAKING THE FIGHT FOR EQUALITY TO THE CLASSROOM

PERSIAN LESSONS

THE BIG SCARY “S” WORD

Virtual Showing 
2020 | Ireland | 11 min | Drama
Director: Michael-David McKernan
Producer: Michael-David McKernan
Editor: Michael-David McKernan

A capsule romance accelerates against the backdrop of the pandemic as two filmmakers are forced to move in together after two weeks of knowing each other.

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MAN IN THE FIELD: THE LIFE AND ART OF JIM DENEVAN

ONE MOMENT

THE R-WORD

Virtual Showing 
2021 | Switzerland, Albania, Kosovo | 83 min | Documentary
Director: Blerta Basholli
Producers: Yll Uka, Valon Bajgora, Agon Uka

Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo, and along with their grief, her family is struggling financially. In order to provide for them, she launches a small agricultural business, but in the traditional patriarchal village where she lives, her ambition and efforts to empower herself and other women are not seen as positive things. She struggles not only to keep her family afloat but also against a hostile community that is rooting for her to fail.

Winner at the online Sundance film festival this year, picking up the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic, Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic, and Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic prizes.

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AILEY

HANNINGS: NOT YOUR AVERAGE ELECTRICIAN

GATHER