THE R-WORD
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 65 min | Documentary
Director: Amanda Lukoff
THE R-WORD is a humanizing, purposeful, and deeply respectful look into the long-reaching history and lasting implications of derogatory language used to describe people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Through captivating animation sequences, the personal narrative of four sibling stories, and the first-person accounts of self-advocates, we get an intimate and nuanced perspective of the challenges and triumphs of people living with an intellectual disability.
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THE POPPING
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 2 min | Animated
Director: Shelby Pogue
Producer: Ringling College of Art and Design
A popcorn character from the “Let’s All go to The Lobby” advertisement accidentally runs off his film strip and into the world of the movie playing next, a slasher horror film.
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A PLENA VISTA/ IN PLAIN VIEW
Virtual Showing
2021 | Thailand, Mexico | 15 min | Documentary
Director: Luis Palomino Benítez
Producers: Sirin Mcintyre, Smithi Skunnawat
Manot is a blind man who plays the saxophone on the sidewalk of Silom road in Bangkok. Ten meters away from him Ayutthaya, a deaf-mute homeless man, sniffs glue and sleeps all day. Through an impossible encounter between the two, instigated by the director of the film, secrets will unfold that will change their perspectives.
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PERSISTENCE
Virtual Showing
2020 | UK | 20 min | Narrative
Director: Leo De Haan
Producers: Barbara Maria Hauser, Leo De Haan
On a marina in France, Joe and Ivan, father and son, prepare to head back to the UK. When an immigrant father and son approach them desperate for passage to the UK, a spiral of events challenges all of their morals.
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PERSIAN LESSONS
Virtual Showing
2020 | Germany | 127 min | Drama
Director: Vadim Perelman
Producers: Rauf Atamalibekov; Timur Bekmambetov; Pavel Burya; Murad Osmann; Vadim Perelman; Ilya Stewart; Ilya Tsofin
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by inventing words of “Farsi” every day and teaching them to Koch.
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PERPETUAL JOURNEY
Virtual Showing
2021 | USA | 99 min | Drama
Director: Douglas Challenger, Laurie Challenger
Perpetual Journey details the trials and triumphs of five students and their two faculty leaders who undertake a semester-long secular pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago in Spain. In this 1 hour 40 minute visually stunning production with a wonderful soundtrack, the Franklin Pierce team is searching for meaning in their journey and in their lives. They deal with culture shock—the differences in culture, language, climate, and locality, and grapple with the big questions: Who they really are and who they think they are. In this once-in-a-lifetime experience, the students are stretched to the limit. Painful blisters and foot injuries test their sense of endurance as they come to realize that the Camino is “one giant metaphor for life.”
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ONE MOMENT
Virtual Showing
2020 | USA | 114 min | Narrative
Director: Deirdre O’Connor
Producers: Deirdre O’Connor, Jodi Weiner
A humorous, heartwarming story of middle-aged siblings struggling to manage their own lives while also caring for their recently widowed aging father.
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ONE LONG DAY
Virtual Showing
2021 | USA | 71 min | Narrative
Director: Gairo Cuevas
Producers: Bianca Vidal, Gairo Cuevas
Editor: Chelsea Walton
Dani’s morning seems to be going pretty well until she’s told by her best friend that her life is pathetic. Now all Dani wants to do is go home and hide from the world. However, Dani’s roommate blames Dani for her dog running away. Now she has one day to find Scout or lose her apartment for good. Dani spends the day hiking through her outdated hometown encountering new and familiar faces forcing Dani to re-evaluate her life by confronting her dreaded past. Maybe, if Dani can just make it through the day, she’ll find a little more than she thinks she’s been scouting for.
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OLD DOG
Virtual Showing
2020 | Canada | 4 min | Animated
Director: Ann Marie Fleming
Producer: Shirley Vercruysse
After losing his best friend, an elderly pug named Henry must depend on his owner for help and companionship. Writer/director Ann Marie Fleming (Window Horses) makes visible the tender work of caretaking in her new animated short, Old Dog. All dogs (and people) should be so lucky and so loved.
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O28
Virtual Showing
2019 | France | 5 min | Animated
Directors: Otalia Caussé, Geoffroy Collin, Louise Grardel, Antoine Marchand, Robin Merle, Fabien Meyran
Producer: Philippe Meis
A married couple embarks on a gravity-defying race when their brakes go out on a tram ride… with a baby on board!
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