Filmmakers Attending!
The 2018 MSPIFF Spotlight theme recognizes difference and dares us to find common ground. The subjects in Chasms & Bridges I, II and III accept that challenge, with varying degrees of success.
Transfer, The: An Israeli commissioned officer confronts his own hard-line policy when transferring a prisoner.
Director(s): Michael Grudsky | Runtime: 22 min | Country: Germany, Israel | 2017 | Hebrew
Los Lecheros: Undocumented workers and Wisconsin's $43 billion dairy industry grapple with options for survival.
Director(s): Jim Cricchi | Runtime: 21 min | Country: USA | 2017 | English, Spanish
Tough: New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.
Director(s): Jennifer Zheng | Runtime: 5 min | Country: China, UK | 2016 | English, Chinese (Mandarin)
CLEAR: Ember's first day home after a 16-year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit is bittersweet as she uncovers how her family's lives have gone on without her after all these years.
Director(s): Maya Washington | Runtime: 15 min | Country: USA | 2017 | English
Month, A: A blind woman, quieted by the seeing world, is passed between her sisters every month.
Director(s): Zgjim Terziqi | Runtime: 26 min | Country: Kosovo | 2017 | Albanian