FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2018
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5:00PM
Wayside Cider
DOUBLE FEATURE: Broken Sidewalk & Animals
Broken Sidewalk
23 minutes
Comedy
USA
Director Aaron McPherson
Showing up for her New Year's Eve shift, Pepper deals with an unwanted proposal, a group of shiftless misfit coworkers more concerned with bathroom bong breaks and an unraveling backroom love triangle, and an ex who shows up with a long lost surprise.
Animals
44 minutes
Dark Comedy
USA
Directed by Jason Moore
Set in the hardscrabble Catskills Mountain town of Walton, this dark comedy pits two small-time criminal brothers against a corrupt and sinister animal control officer who captures their runaway dog.
Animals Filmmaker Q&A
5:00PM
The Andes Hotel
DOUBLE FEATURE: Love is a Burning Thing & A Tale of War
Love Is A Burning Thing
50 minutes
Documentary
Sweden
Directed By: Fredrik Aronsson
A documentary about love in its most beautiful form, unconditional and without promise of getting something back. Meet the people behind the often bashed football supporter culture.
A Tale of War
39 minutes
Documentary
Australia, Iraq
Directed by Hossein Jehani
The destitute atmosphere of refugee camps is constantly narrated through the idea that life halts and time stills. These refugees share a common plight, and that is the hope of returning to their home-land and a return to the norm of life, a hope that is being challenged by the presence of Shia militias.
5:30PM
Streamside Yoga Studio
1 hour 53 minutes
Drama
India
Directed by Dr. Jose. P. V.
Washerman Kanavan takes in a innocent young woman from the family of his late wife, along with a donkey. Despite Kanavan’s drunkenness and cruelty, the woman loves his son as if he were her own as she settles in to her new life.
Filmmaker Q&A TBD
7:00PM
Wayside Cider
1 hour 17 minutes
Horror
USA
Directed by Jenn Wexler
Teen punks, on the run from the cops and hiding out in the woods, come up against the local authority - an unhinged park ranger with an axe to grind.
7:00PM
The Andes Hotel
1 hour 10 minutes
Comedy
France
Directed by Lewis Eizykman
How could the disappearance of a simple cat lead to the biggest financial crisis of all times? French documentary filmmaker Thomas Lafite went out looking for an answer and found one of the most incredible stories of the 21st century.
8:00PM
Streamside Yoga Studio
1 hour 25 minutes
Action
USA
Directed by J. Christian Ingvordsen
Underneath the surface of a sleepy country town, a brutal drug war rages as rival crime syndicates battle to control the heroin supply that's fueling a rural epidemic.
Filmmaker Q&A
See the trailer here.
8:30PM
The Andes Hotel
Comedy / Romance
USA
Directed By: Natalya Padilla
Russian mail order bride tries to balance her love life with her rich but morally bankrupt husband and her scruffy yet charming paramour.
Filmmaker Q&A
9:30PM
Wayside Cider
Only a Switch w/ opening short
The Phantasmagoria of Offense: the male version
6 minutes
Animation
USA
Directed by Jess Irish
An animated film lyric in which corporal images focus on the male body, presenting a collage history that contrasts the cultural anxieties around expressions of vulnerability and homosexuality with power and privilege within the dominant paradigm.
Only a Switch
1 hour 15 minutes
Adult Drama
USA
Directed by Michael Vincent
Two lovers are on the run in this psychedelic fairy tale that blurs lines of sexuality and identity.
Only a Switch Filmmaker Q&A
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