Thursday
,
Oct
21
1:30 pm
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3:30 pm
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Screenings of the 2021 Your Shorts Are Showing Final 40 will be featured in four 2-hour blocks throughout the Festival. These are the ten/forty Finalists being shown during this block (not necessarily in this order). You can also see the schedule in the printed program. “The Train to Moscow,” Elliott Ambrosio; “Scarlet Circle,” Ryan Cervasio; “The Engagement,” Joseph Rossi and David Magini; “b l u s h,” Ryan Rivard; “Trial by Fire,” Alex Astrella; “Clark!,” Claire Dub; “Wasted Talent,” Derrick Benton; “Two Days,” Marco Baratta; “Collectors’ Item,” Rebecca Ozer; “ Keeper,” Maren Lavelle.
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Thursday
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Oct
21
4:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Screenings of the 2021 Your Shorts Are Showing Final 40 will be featured in four 2-hour blocks throughout the Festival. These are the ten/forty Finalists being shown during this block (not necessarily in this order). You can also see the schedule in the printed program. “A Tale of Redemption and Regret with Sunny the Heat,” Eric Carosella; “Highwaymen,” Jamie Spaulding; “Beyond the Script,” Anthony Marques; “Big Weekend Plans,” Tesha Kondrat; “Penumbra,” Daniel Byers; “Millenial,” Ryan Thomas; “The Door,” Tim O’Hearn; “Junior,” AJ Wilhelm; “Blue Berries,” Sam Millstein and Kevin Rogers; “The Line,” Everett Marston.
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Friday
,
Oct
22
9:00 am
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11:00 am
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Screenings of the 2021 Your Shorts Are Showing Final 40 will be featured in four 2-hour blocks throughout the Festival. These are the ten/forty Finalists being shown during this block (not necessarily in this order). You can also see the schedule in the printed program. “In Between Trains,” Joshua Melnick; “Look at Lucas,” Agustin S. McCarthy; “Memory Builds the Moment,” Isaac Yowman; “Thirteen Years,” Steven Hoskinson; “MarriageFit,” Rob DiNinni & Jeffrey Palmer; “Matched,” Zack Kron; “Cheat Day,” Jiri Balcar; “Pottero,” Lindsey Martin; “Transferal,” Lucky Cerruti & Matthew Sorensen; “I Think I’m dying,” Paavo Hanninen.
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Friday
,
Oct
22
3:30 pm
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5:00 pm
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Film
Film Guest
Film
2021
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Fantasy/Adventure/Drama
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91 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Kentucker Avaley and Albert Birney
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Event overview:
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In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in the dreams of an aging eccentric.
Friday
,
Oct
22
4:00 pm
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5:30 pm
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Film Guest
Film
2019
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Comedy/Drama
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88 minutes
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Subtitles
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Director:
Evgeny Ruman
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Event overview:
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Victor and Raya Frenkel were the golden voices of the Soviet film dubbing for decades. All the western movies that reached Soviet screens were dubbed by them. In 1990, with the collapse of Soviet Union, the Frenkels decided to do Aliyah - immigrate to Israel, just like hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews. There's no need in Israel for Russian speaking dubbing artists, and Victor's and Raya's attempts to use their talent will cause bizarre and unexpected events during their first months in Israel, and turn the beginning of the new chapter of their life into an amusing, painful, and absurd experience.
Friday
,
Oct
22
4:30 pm
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6:00 pm
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Film
Film Guest
Film
2021
,
Drama/Thriller
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94 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Lauren Hadaway
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A queer college freshman joins her university’s rowing team and undertakes an obsessive physical and psychological journey to make it to the top varsity boat, no matter the cost.
Friday
,
Oct
22
6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
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Film
Film Guest
Film
2021
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Thriller/Horror
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93 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Jim Cummings & PJ McCabe
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A married Hollywood agent receives a mysterious letter for an anonymous sexual encounter and becomes ensnared in a sinister world of lying, infidelity and digital data.
Friday
,
Oct
22
6:30 pm
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8:05 pm
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Film Guest
Film
2021
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95 minutes
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Drama
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Subtitles
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Director:
Alex Camilleri
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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.
Friday
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Oct
22
8:30 pm
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10:15 pm
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Film
Film Guest
Film
2021
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Comedy/Romance/Sci Fi
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105 minutes
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Subtitles
Venue:
Director:
Maria Schrader
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In order to obtain research funds for her studies, a scientist accepts an offer to participate in an extraordinary experiment: for three weeks, she is to live with a humanoid robot, created to make her happy.
Friday
,
Oct
22
9:00 pm
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11:40 pm
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Film
Film Guest
Film
2020
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Drama
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96 minutes
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Subtitles
Venue:
Director:
Pushpendra Singh
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Laila Aur Satt Geet is part allegory, part ethnographic study, and part feminist fairy tale, using the narrative device of local folk songs - seven, to be exact- to describe the protagonist- Laila’s inner and outer worlds.
Saturday
,
Oct
23
10:00 am
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12:00 am
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Screenings of the 2021 Your Shorts Are Showing Final 40 will be featured in four 2-hour blocks throughout the Festival. These are the ten/forty Finalists being shown during this block (not necessarily in this order). You can also see the schedule in the printed program. “Ghost Girl,” Paavo Hanninen; “Guardian,” Christy Lee Hughes; “Awakening,” Julie Koehnen; “Fulesee,” Christina Benz; “Y2K Concert,” Jake Jasie; “Junk,” Amanda Rosa; “GARUDA,” Issah Rahim Contractor; “Don’t Jump,” Loring Murtha; “Colors: Saffron,” AK Srikanth; “Acting President,” Camden Elizabeth.
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Saturday
,
Oct
23
11:30 am
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1:30 pm
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Film
Film Guest
Film
2021
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Drama/Romance
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121 minutes
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Subtitles
Venue:
Director:
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
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An unexpected love triangle, a failed seduction trap and an encounter that results from a misunderstanding, told in three movements to depict three female characters and trace the trajectories between their choices and regrets.
Saturday
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Oct
23
12:00 pm
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1:30 pm
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Film Guest
Film
2021
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Documentary
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90 minutes
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Subtitles
Venue:
Director:
Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas
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In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, redefining what it means to be powerful.
Saturday
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Oct
23
1:30 pm
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3:30 pm
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Film
Film Guest
Film
2021
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Drama
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110 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Eva Husson
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A maid living in post-World War 1 England secretly plans to meet with the man she loves before he leaves to marry another woman.
Saturday
,
Oct
23
2:30 pm
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4:30 pm
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Film
Film Guest
Film
2021
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Drama
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108 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Stephen Karam
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Sunday, Oct 24, 2:00 PM in Palace Theatre
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Set inside a pre-war duplex in downtown Manhattan, The Humans follows the course of an evening in which the Blake family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving. As darkness falls outside the crumbling building, mysterious things start to go bump in the night and family tensions reach a boiling point.
Adapted from a Tony Award winning Broadway production. Starring Richard Jenkins, Jayne Houdyshell, Amy Schumer, Beanie Feldstein, Steven Yeun and June Squibb.
Saturday
,
Oct
23
4:30 pm
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6:30 pm
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Film
Film Guest
Film
2021
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Documentary
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2 hours
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Venue:
Director:
Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler
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Jeffrey Robinson’s talk on the history of U.S.anti-Black racism, with archival footage and interviews.
Saturday
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Oct
23
5:00 pm
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5:30 pm
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Film
Film Guest
Film
2020
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Short/Drama
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18 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Doug Roland
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A late-encounter on a New York City street leads to a profound connection between a teen-in-need and a DeafBlind man.
Saturday
,
Oct
23
5:00 pm
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6:30 pm
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Film
Film Guest
Film
2021
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Drama
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84 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Blerta Basholli
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Watch for more information about a Guest Appearance of one of the cast or crew from HIVE.
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Triple award winner HIVE is a searing drama based on the true story of Fahrije, who, like many of the other women in her patriarchal village, has lived with fading hope and burgeoning grief since her husband went missing during the war in Kosovo. In order to provide for her struggling family, she pulls the other widows in her community together to launch a business selling a local food product. Together, they find healing and solace in considering a future without their husbands—but their will to begin living independently is met with hostility.
The men in the village condemn Fahrije’s efforts to empower herself and the women around her, starting a feud that threatens their newfound sovereignty—and the financial future of Fahrije’s family. Against the backdrop of Eastern Europe’s civil unrest and lingering misogyny, Fahrije and the women of her village join in a struggle to find hope in the face of an uncertain future.
Winner of the Audience Award, Directing Award, and World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, HIVE is a pithy, devastating portrait of loss and our uphill journeys to freedom.
Saturday
,
Oct
23
5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
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Film
Film Guest
Film
1941
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Crime/Film-Noir/Mystery
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100 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
John Huston
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Event overview:
Introduction by author, film historian, and Turner Classic Movies guest commentator Jeremy Arnold, who will sign his book, TCM’s The Essentials Vol. 2: 52 More Must-See Movies and Why They Matter, in the Palace lobby.
Special Guest: Jeremy Arnold
Reception sponsored by:
80th anniversary screening! In Hollywood’s quintessential detective movie and one of the earliest instances of film noir, San Francisco private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) takes a case involving the search for a priceless, jewel-encrusted falcon statuette, and quickly finds himself entangled with bizarre, unforgettable characters played by an outstanding ensemble cast of Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Elisha Cook, Jr. This classic also launched John Huston’s acclaimed directing career.
Sunday
,
Oct
24
11:00 am
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2:00 pm
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Drum roll please...the top ten films from the 2021 Shorts entries will be screened in ascending order of ranking culminating in Best Overall. Prizes will be awarded for Best Drama, Best Documentary, Best Comedy, Best Animation, Best Student Short and Best in Festival Short.
A reception will follow in the LPCA Gallery.
Reception sponsored by:
Sunday
,
Oct
24
12:00 pm
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2:00 pm
Showtimes coming soon
Film
Film
Film Guest
Film
2021
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Documentary
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97 minutes
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Subtitles
Venue:
Director:
Jessica Kingdon
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Event overview:
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Factory workers diligently parse fabrics and prepare plastic products—like water bottles and binoculars—in clusters and in an assembly line. Men weld metal cylinders with precision, and a networking conference devotes its attention to training a predominantly female audience how to excel in business etiquette.
These and many other absorbing vignettes are what make up the central focus of Jessica Kingdon’s Ascension: an exploration of contemporary China’s identity as it relates to its vision of consumerism, innovation, and social standing.
Sunday
,
Oct
24
1:00 pm
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2:10 pm
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Film
Film Guest
Film
1988
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Family/Animation
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70 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Don Bluth
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The Palace Theatre and Adirondack Film invite families to come enjoy, free admission, this wonderful animated story. An orphaned brontosaurus teams up with other young dinosaurs in order to reunite with their families in the valley. Free admission; masks are required.
Sunday
,
Oct
24
4:30 pm
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6:00 pm
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Film
Film Guest
Film
2012
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Drama
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94 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Clint Bentley
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An aging jockey aims for a final championship, when a rookie rider arrives claiming to be his son.
Thursday
,
Oct
21
9:30 pm
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11:30 pm
Showing time is coming soon
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Film Guest
Film Guest
Film Guest
2020
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Horror
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13 minutes and 51 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Lucky Cerruti and Matt Sorensen
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Event overview:
Screening of a local filmmakers, Matt Sorensen and Lucky Cerruti’s short film, “Transferal” and Lucky’s feature film “FREAK” followed by Q&A with Lucky and Matt and the mostly local, very talented cast and crew. Presented by Adirondack Film and the Pendragon Theatre. As a special tribute to our local filmmaker, the Palace Theatre will honor the ‘everyday” theatre ticket price of $10.00.
Tickets available that evening at The Palace Theatre.
Reception sponsored by:
A bloody legend becomes all too real for a group of kids heading out for a weekend of camping and partying. Will they survive what waits for them in the woods?
From Lucky Cerruti, writer/director of KINDNESS OF STRANGERS, comes a new reason to fear the forest...
"Bloody, Gory, and Imaginative." - Horror Society
"My jaw dropped more than a couple of times" - HorrorBuzz.com
"Balls to the wall carnage" - Twisted Minds
Friday
,
Oct
22
4:00 pm
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6:00 pm
Showing time is coming soon
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Film Guest
Film Guest
Film Guest
1946
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Drama/Film-Noir/Romance
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102 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
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Event overview:
75th anniversary screening! Introduction by author, film historian, and Turner Classic Movies guest commentator Jeremy Arnold, who will sign his book, TCM’s The Essentials Vol. 2: 52 More Must-See Movies and Why They Matter, in the Palace lobby.
Special Guest: Jeremy Arnold
Reception sponsored by:
A U.S. intelligence agent recruits the daughter of a German war criminal to spy on her father’s Nazi associates, falling in love with her in the process. Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman are unforgettable in Alfred Hitchcock's masterful blend of suspense and romance.
Friday
,
Oct
22
7:30 pm
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10:00 pm
Showing time is coming soon
Film
Film Guest
Film Guest
Film Guest
2021
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Documentary
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Venue:
Director:
Jared Drake & Steven Siig
Encore:
Event overview:
Barkeater Trails Alliance BETA and Adirondack Film are pleased to present “Buried,” an acclaimed documentary film and winner of the 2021 Audience Choice Awards at the 2021 Mountain Fest. We are honored to have both Jared Drake and Steven Siig attend the Film Festival to present the film and lead Q&A after the screening.
This is BETA’s annual ski movie fundraiser.. https://www.betatrails.org/
Doors Open at 7:00 PM and Film at 7:30 PM
Special Guest: Jared Drake and Steven Siig
Reception sponsored by:
A feature length documentary based on the events and circumstances surrounding the 1982 avalanche in Alpine Meadows, CA. https://www.buriedfilm.com/the-story
Saturday
,
Oct
23
11:30 am
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1:00 pm
Showing time is coming soon
Film
Film Guest
Film Guest
Film Guest
2021
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Documentary
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51 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Jeff Mehiel
Encore:
Sunday, Oct 24, 4:30 PM in Palace Theatre
Event overview:
Come join us at this international premier screening engagement to meet the filmmaker during Q&A.
Special Guest: Jeff Mehiel.
Reception sponsored by:
Following the unconventional musical journey of Dean Brown, this documentary explores the Jazz Rock Fusion genre, the measures artists take to discover and shape their identity, and the courage it takes to pursue their art.
Saturday
,
Oct
23
12:00 pm
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1:30 pm
Showing time is coming soon
Film
Film Guest
Film Guest
Film Guest
2021
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Documentary
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60 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Paul Frederick
Encore:
Sunday, Oct 24, 2:30PM in Palace Theatre
Event overview:
Director Paul Frederick, Producers Julie Canepa and Bruce Carlin along with survivor Vladimir Munk will be on hand for a Q&A after the show.
Special Guest: Vladimir Munk with Paul Frederick
Reception sponsored by:
Return to Auschwitz: The Survival of Vladimir Munk is the moving story of retired SUNY professor and Czech Holocaust survivor Vladimir Munk. The film follows Vladimir, now 95, as he returns to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, the camp where he was held prisoner during World War II. This will be his last chance to honor thirty of his close relatives, including his parents, who perished there. The journey from his home in the United States will be filled with painful memories and unknown challenges but it is a journey he knows he must take.
Saturday
,
Oct
23
2:00 pm
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6:30 pm
Showing time is coming soon
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Film Guest
Film Guest
Film Guest
2021
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Documentary
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120 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Raoul Peck
Encore:
Event overview:
From 2:00PM to 4:00PM, Russell Banks and Raoul Peck will introduce the first two of four in a series of films where Raoul Peck examines the intertwined currents of hate and bigotry running through history. Part One: The Disturbing Confidence of Ignorance and Part Two: Who the F*** is Columbus.
At 4:00 PM Russell Banks and Raoul Peck will lead a Q&A session.
At 4:30 PM we will screen Part Three: Killing at a Distance or ...How I Thoroughly Enjoyed the Outing and Part Four: The Bright Colors of Fascism.
The $15.00 ticket will cover the entire event 2PM - 6:30 PM.
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Part One: The history of western civilization and its flourishing is the story of colonialism, genocide, slavery and exploitation, based on deep-seated doctrines of white supremacy, the founding principles of the American Nation.
Part Two: The brutal history of the United States retold from the perspective of those who were murdered, those whose land was stolen and those who were enslaved by those who thought they were racially superior.
Saturday
,
Oct
23
2:30 pm
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4:30 pm
Showing time is coming soon
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Film Guest
Film Guest
Film Guest
2021
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Documentary
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90 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Campbell Dalglish
Encore:
Event overview:
Director Campbell Dalglish will be here to present the film and lead Q&A after screening.
Special Guest: Campbell Dalglish.
Reception sponsored by:
When Custer County Police kill 18 year old Cheyenne Arapaho Mah-hi-vist Red Bird Goodblanket in his family’s kitchen, descendants of the sand Creek and Washita Massacres take us back 150 years to reveal how historical trauma and the horrors of the past are still present in America today.
Saturday
,
Oct
23
2:30 pm
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4:00 pm
Showing time is coming soon
Film
Film Guest
Film Guest
Film Guest
2021
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Documentary
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86 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Michael Caplan
Encore:
Event overview:
Russell Banks will moderate a discussion with Director Michael Caplan after screening the film.
Special Guest: Michael Caplan and Russell Banks.
Reception sponsored by:
Charts the rise and fall of Nelson Algren, a writer whose transgressions, compassion and thirst for justice pushed him to become a champion of America’s underclass and one of the 20th century’s most consequential literary voices.
Saturday
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Oct
23
7:30 pm
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9:30 pm
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Presented by Doug LeClaire, Director of Asbury Shorts. You know those short films you’ve never heard of that win Academy Awards or honors from well-known film festivals? Well, the Asbury Shorts Film Concerts give you a rare opportunity to view those mini-gems on the big screen – and in a real theater format.
The event covers any and all genres of short films—from animation, comedy and drama to documentary, experimental and everything in between - presented at theaters, museums and performing arts centers all across America.
You’ll finally be in-the-know when it comes to award-winning short films.
Saturday
,
Oct
23
7:30 pm
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9:30 pm
Showing time is coming soon
Film
Film Guest
Film Guest
Film Guest
2016
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Documentary/History
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93 minutes
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Venue:
Director:
Raoul Peck
Encore:
Event overview:
Jeffrey Brown, Senior Correspondent for the PBS Newshour and Director, Raoul Peck will introduce this powerful documentary and lead Q&A after the screening.
Special Guest: Raoul Peck and Jeffrey Brown
Reception sponsored by:
Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House.