OLYMPIA
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Saturday 2:45 PM | Putnam Theatre
2018 | USA | 90 min | Drama
Director: Gregory Dixon
Writer: McKenzie Chinn
Producers: Lucy Lola Manda, McKenzie Chinn, Matt Miller
Principal Cast: McKenzie Chinn, Charles Gardner, Ericka Ratcliff,
Filmmaker in attendance
Olympia is a coming-of-adulthood drama about Olympia Welles, a young woman who has to make a choice. Her roommate has moved out, leaving her to cover rent on an apartment she can’t afford. Her career as an artist has stalled before even taking off, her peers are starting careers that threaten to take them far away, and her mother is sick in the hospital. When her boyfriend Felix asks her to move to California with him as he starts his own career, Olympia, on the cusp of 30, has to decide if she’s going to change along with the world around her, or get left behind.
PURCHASE TICKETS- Published in 2019, Feature Films, Putnam Theatre
CAPERNAUM
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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)
PURCHASE TICKETS- Published in 2019, Colonial Theatre, Feature Films
BALIAN (The Healer)
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Saturday 11:45 AM | Putnam Theatre
2018 | USA | 82 min | Documentary
Director: Daniel McGuire
Producers: Daniel McGuire and Injil Abu Bakar
Editor: Rachel Clark
Filmmaker in attendance
A film shot over 20 years, Balian (The Healer) depicts the rise and fall of a traditional Balinese healer after being ‘discovered’ by Western tourists. A fable of globalization that Alan Berliner calls “a magical portrait of a one-of-a-kind trickster/healer. It’s funny, too.”
(Mature content, viewer discretion advised)
- Published in 2019, Feature Films, Putnam Theatre
LOBSTER WAR
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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.
PURCHASE TICKETS- Published in 2019, Colonial Theatre, Feature Films
INSTRUCTIONS ON PARTING
Saturday 9:45 AM | Putnam Theatre
2018 | USA | 95 min | Documentary
Director: Amy Jenkins
Producers: Amy Jenkins and Mary Kerr
Editors: Amy Jenkins and Bara Jichova Tyson
Filmmaker in attendance
Instructions on Parting weaves breathtaking artistic footage with cinema verite to tell an elegiac story about transformation, grief, and the essential nature of the collective human journey. Told in an unconventional visual style, the story evolves from the viewpoint of Director Amy Jenkins, whose first child is born while she negotiates the cancer diagnoses and transits toward death of three of her closest family members. By chronicling with her camera to interrogate loss, the filmmaker leads us to a bold and daring acceptance of our inevitable end.
PURCHASE TICKETS- Published in 2019, Feature Films, Putnam Theatre
WILDLIFE
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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)
PURCHASE TICKETS- Published in 2019, Colonial Theatre, Feature Films
WOMAN AT WAR
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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.
PURCHASE TICKETS- Published in 2019, Colonial Theatre, Feature Films
THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED
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Friday 4:30 PM | Putnam Theatre
2018 | USA | 86 min | Documentary
Director: Assia Boundaoui
Producers: Assia Boundaoui and Jessica Devaney
Director of Photography: Shuling Yong
Editor: Rabab Haj Yahya
The Feeling of Being Watched follows Assia as she pieces together this secret FBI operation, while grappling with the effects of a lifetime of surveillance on herself and her family. She uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on her Muslim community.
- Published in 2019, Feature Films, Putnam Theatre
ON HER SHOULDERS
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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.
PURCHASE TICKETS- Published in 2019, Colonial Theatre, Feature Films
TRANSMILITARY
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Friday 2:45 PM | Putnam Theatre
2018 | USA | 90 min | Documentary
Director: Gabriel Silverman
Writers: Jamie Coughlin and Gabriel Silverman
Producer: Jamie Coughlin
Director of Photography: Gabriel Silverman
Editor: Gil Seltzer
TransMilitary follows the Emmy-nominated short film Transgender, at War and in Love. Around 15,500 transgender people serve in the U.S. military (notably the largest transgender employer in the U.S.), where they must conceal their gender identity because military policies ban their service. TransMilitary chronicles the lives of four individuals (Senior Airman Logan Ireland, Corporal Laila Villanueva, Captain Jennifer Peace & First Lieutenant El Cook) defending their country’s freedom while fighting for their own.
- Published in 2019, Feature Films, Putnam Theatre