Driftless is a feature-length drama about Nova Abbey, a park ranger at work during a state government shutdown on a busy 4th of July weekend, protecting the park from the people and the people from each other.
In this Program
- A Gray One
- Matt Enlow8mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
- Girls Are Strong Here
- Scott Burkhardt16mUSAArabic, English (English Subtitles)Narrative Short
- Dieorama
- Kevin Staake11mEnglish Documentary Short
- 7AM Wednesday
- Julie Herlocker10mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
- Feeling Flush
- Erin Brown Thomas10mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
- Babs
- Celine Held, Logan George13mGBEnglish Narrative Short
- Relationship Deli
- Ian Van der Werff4mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
- Fantasy Pony
- Caitlin Carleton20mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
*Comedy*
A tough lady trucker trains her wimpy best friend to compete in the National Ladies Arm Wrestling Championship.
Faced with a split custody break up, a family's older daughter kidnaps her hostile younger sister to embark on a journey to reconnect before they part.
*Biography*
In 1970s New York, photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a time when the city had declared war on it. Decades later, Cooper has become influential to the global movement of street artists.
Socially out of touch Eddie is obsessed with old school pinball. When he's not fantasizing about 1970s pinball champs he's working as a repair man. After discovering a mysterious old pinball table, Eddie starts a quest to repair it and learn of the game's origins. As his focus deepens and his desire to fix the machine turns into paranoid obsession, he seeks out help to uncover the game's secrets. Is this the greatest game ever made?
Three women at different stages of life - Suzy Hotrod, Evilicious, and Captain Smack Sparrow - struggle to balance their lives in New York City with the dedication and stamina needed to maintain their place on the world's best roller derby team.
In this Program
- Cold Storage
- Thomas Freundlich9mFinlandEnglish Narrative Short
- The Slows
- Nicole Perlman20mEnglish Narrative Short
- Behave, Kids
- Tripp Crosby10mEnglish Narrative Short
- La Merde
- Ben Adam-Harris8mGBEnglish Narrative Short
- Vanished At the Finish
- Jason Cooper17mEnglish, Italian (English Subtitles)Documentary Short
- The right night (Le bon soir)
- Jeremias Nussbaum9mFranceFrench (English Subtitles)Narrative Short
- I, Rose
- Daniele Guerra13mGBEnglish Narrative Short
- Seven
- Benjamin Saad11mGBEnglish, Norwegian, Russian (English Subtitles)Narrative Short
- Asparagus Tips
- Sam Bailey4mEnglish Narrative Short
Wayne, a struggling method actor, inherits the city's last porno cinema from his estranged father, Al. Seeing this as an unconventional opportunity to reconcile their relationship, Wayne absorbs himself in the underworld of the pornography business. While running the cinema Wayne meets a cast of characters. Each character acts as a piece of a puzzle in helping Wayne rediscover the father he barely knew. But the old cinema turns out to be much more than Wayne anticipated.
Will, the estranged son of a conman, was left holding the bag, literally. His shady Russian neighbor, Roman, asked him to hold a million-dollar stamp collection, then swiftly disappears. Driven by fear and the desire to "do the right thing," Will goes on the hunt for Roman with the intention of returning the valuable goods. But when a significant piece of the collection goes missing, the filmmakers are forced to reexamine Will's capacity for honesty.
Unlucky at love, Josie joins a lesbian soccer league in hopes of meeting more single women. She hits the jackpot in Emma and in a brief musical montage, the two fall in love and get married. When Emma's cancer takes a turn for the worse, she presents her new wife with a deathbed order: find someone new while Emma is still around to approve of her choice. Can a story with heart, humor, and a dying spouse have a happy ending?
A deep dig into the crates of the vinyl record resurgence to discover what an old technology says about our relationship to music and each other in a divided time in America.
Vinyl Nation & Panel Discussion
Following the screening of Vinyl Nation listen to the conversation as director & producer Kevin Smokler joins Jay Glysz of Lightning Licks Vinyl Preservation Society, Jim Gleason of Radio Wasteland (Midland), and Jordan Pries of Electric Kitsch (Bay City) in a panel discussion guided by Peter Rose-Barry, festival programmer.