2021 Film Guide & Ticket Purchase
Purchasing tickets: Tickets for the festival are available by block/event or you can get a weekend pass. Tickets are available for purchase in this page or at the door. Due to Covid-19, we ask that you get a ticket in advance or if you want to purchase at the door that you use a card to prevent cross contamination. To learn more about what precautions the festival is taking due to covid visit the 2021 Festival Covid-19 Precautions page.
Saturday: February 6
Theatre 1
4p - block: Cuckoo’s Nest
Small World
US – Director: Jim Ford
Two strangers meet in a far away land and realize they are from the same town.
Discovery
Russia – Director: Mikhail Saburov
A father - daughter fishing trip leads to an unexpected discovery.
Myosotis Love
US – Director: Charlie LaTourette
An older woman plants flowers in the garden as she struggles to help her forgetful husband remember how they met. Questions of memory, loss, and love reveal the difference between fantasy and reality.
Call on Me
US – Director: Pia Cook
A lonely old man resorts to chatting with an equally lonely telemarketer.
Listen
US – Director: Jhanelle Elissa
A black woman who feels like a glitch in society decides to speak up. When her outer bubbly persona is met with exhaustive complacency, she resorts to a tragic alternative with a smile.
Faraway, So Close
US – Director: Gustavo Milan
A young man relies on the support of his greatest ally in order to live the excitements of a double life
Ekaant (Sollitude)
India – Director: Swapnil Pagare
Manasi, a poet, and Sudha, a housewife, are deeply in love with each other but the restrictions of society have put chains around their relationship. Ekaant (Solitude) is expression of their secluded extramarital lesbian affair and poetic recital of first moment of closeness.
I Hope They Remember My Name
Canada – Director: Patrick Weiers
Struggling with depression, a famous vlogger travels to Asia and documents his search for dopamine.
I’m Happy, I Promise
US – Director: Mimi Cave
A series of phone calls between Parker and his friends narrate Parker's mission to find true happiness through superficial obsessions.
The Mirror
Australia – Director: Joel Kohn
When a young girl discovers a mysterious antique mirror in the basement of her ailing grandmother’s house, she accidentally opens a window between time that allows her to cross over into war-torn Nazi-occupied Poland.