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The Area
An eye-opening saga of resistance in a South Side Chicago neighborhood, where more than 400 African-American families are being displaced by a multi-billion dollar railroad company. The Area follows a homeowner-turned-activist, who puts off her plans to move; instead, she digs in to become an ad hoc community organizer and be "the last house standing."-CM
Sun, Feb 10, 2019 12:30 PM
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Ask for Jane
Based on the true story of the underground, Chicago-based collective Jane, which performed nearly 12,000 illegal abortions in the ’60s and ’70s before Roe v. Wade. Starring Cait Cortelyou, Alison Wright (The Americans), Sarah Ramos (Parenthood), and a cameo by original Jane’s member Judith Arcana. -JM
Sun, Feb 3, 2019 7:16 PM Thu, Feb 7, 2019 7:01 PM
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Bad Art Gallery S07E01
A whole new collection of dumpster-dived art awaits at the February edition of the MISSION B.A.G. (Bad Art Gallery). Hilarious catalog notes, paintings curated from only the finest flea markets, thrift stores and back alleys. Please join us for tasty beverages, groovy music and bad art! A 21up event.
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Banana Season
Peter is a little person with a big dream of flying, like the birds his dwarfish body resembles. Sun is a talented MMA cage fighter who loves the energy and excitement of fighting, but finds inflicting harm on others more unbearable than just absorbing the pain himself. A tale of true love, friendship and taking flight. -CM
Fri, Feb 1, 2019 5:00 PM Sun, Feb 3, 2019 7:15 PM
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Billboard
At a failing radio station the manager pulls out one of the oldest tricks: the wacky contest. His plan is to host a billboard sitting contest, where 4 lucky contestants have the opportunity to win big bucks and a mobile home! Who will be the last person to survive, living on a billboard? -CM
Sat, Feb 9, 2019 5:00 PM Thu, Feb 14, 2019 7:00 PM
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Centerline
Set in 2027 Japan, self-driving cars are the norm with few accidents. When one crashes, however, newly appointed Prosecutor Amane Yonago decides to put the AI of the self-driving car on trial. The instant the trial begins, the AI says that they killed the victim on purpose, forcing Amane Yonago to find a way to prove the AI has feelings. -JM
Sun, Feb 10, 2019 2:45 PM Mon, Feb 11, 2019 7:01 PM
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Collisions
Precocious 12-year-old Itan Bautista is forced to carry the weight of her family when her mother is detained by ICE in this San Francisco-set drama. Collisions is a breathtaking and timely first feature that reveals the devastating impact of draconian US immigration policy as it falls on one family. -CM
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Cruel Hearts
Discovering the woman he has been sleeping with is married to a crime boss, a man seeks out the notorious criminal and offers himself up for punishment forgiveness. A film noir that conjures up memories of Hitchcock and Preminger, Cruel Hearts harkens back to a Hollywood of characters and intricate plotting. -BF
Sun, Feb 10, 2019 9:31 PM
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Daddy Issues
Maya insta-stalks Jasmine, placing herself in her wake, leading to insta-friendship. But when she discovers Jasmine’s secret life as a sugar baby to someone with a peculiar age-play fetish, the bizarre love triangle makes everyone’s life a complete mess in this picturesque nightmare of post-modern Queer cinema from uncompromising director Amara Cash. -BF
Sat, Feb 9, 2019 7:15 PM Tue, Feb 12, 2019 9:16 PM
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Degenerates
A screenwriter recruits a group of eccentric characters to go and find a missing teenage girl with the intention of turning the search into a true story script. But can a screenwriter, a boy scout, a teen thief, and drug dealing grandma really solve the case? -JM
Sun, Feb 3, 2019 5:00 PM Thu, Feb 7, 2019 7:00 PM
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Desolation Center
Before Lollapalooza, Burning Man, or Coachella, Desolation Center brought punk and industrial music fans to the Mojave Desert for performances that the LA Weekly described as “like some bizarre ritual at the end of the world.” Interviews and rare performance footage of Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Survival Research Laboratories, Swans and more. -CM
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Donovan Reid
A young man escapes his lifelong captor and poses as a long-missing child, but as doubts arise about his identity, he must hurry to discover his new family's darkest secret. This feature debut was filmed here in the Bay Area in Petaluma and Dillon Beach with a local cast and crew. -JM
Sat, Feb 2, 2019 7:16 PM Thu, Feb 7, 2019 9:16 PM
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Drawn, Painted, and Pixelated - Animated shorts
This program features the best of new animation from around the world, with a wide range of styles from 8-bit cartoon to celluloid manipulation to rotoscoping.
Sat, Feb 9, 2019 12:31 PM Mon, Feb 11, 2019 7:00 PM
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Exit Music
A rare invitation into the world of a young artist dying of cystic fibrosis as he and his father navigate the ominous, sacred, and unmapped journey at the end of life. Equal parts comedy and darkness, the film explores the last year, last breath, and final creative act of Ethan Rice as he awaits the inevitable. -CM
Sun, Feb 3, 2019 2:45 PM Tue, Feb 5, 2019 7:00 PM
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Fathers of Football
At Wagoner High, “Coach” is more than just the guy shouting out plays, he's a mentor to the young men on his team. In a small town where high school football is not only the brightest stage, but also the best ticket out, Coach must help his players manage both their triumphs and their struggles. -CM
Sun, Feb 3, 2019 12:30 PM
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Good Feels on Wheels
Hoping for a fun weekend in Austin, instead Opal gets stood up, her Airbnb is a creep, and she awakens hungover in her rideshare driver’s bedroom. While trying to make her exit, she meets the roommate, Wyatt, a weed delivery guy who offers to take her along to see the real Austin. -JM
Sun, Feb 10, 2019 5:00 PM
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Guardian
Instituted in the early 1900s, the Canadian government's “Guardian” program established a network of maritime patrolmen tasked with the ecological protection of coastal waterways. Dedicated to lives of science and solitude, Guardians live on boats full-time, monitoring the salmon populations that are a crucial element of both ecosystems and economy. -CM
Sat, Feb 2, 2019 12:31 PM Mon, Feb 4, 2019 7:01 PM
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Harvest Season
Lush and luxurious, Napa and Sonoma are known for their top-notch wine making. The unsung heroes of the industry are the vineyard workers who lovingly oversee all aspects of the wine-making process. We are immersed in the challenging and unpredictable process over the course of one of the most dramatic harvests in history. -CM
Sat, Feb 2, 2019 5:00 PM Wed, Feb 6, 2019 7:01 PM
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Human Affairs
A compassionate drama about a young, successful theatre couple in New York City who meet their surrogate mother for the first time, and embark on a startling and intimate weekend of surprises and emotional revelations. Featuring Kerry Condon and David Harbour (Stranger Things, Hellboy). -JM
Fri, Feb 1, 2019 7:15 PM Thu, Feb 7, 2019 9:15 PM
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I am Maris: Portrait of a Young Yogi
Tormented by mental illness and hospitalized for life-threatening anorexia, a teenage girl confronts her buried emotions through yoga. Her journey from despair to self-acceptance is illustrated through vivid animation based on her haunting artwork and writing. -CM
Fri, Feb 8, 2019 5:00 PM Sun, Feb 10, 2019 5:01 PM
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I May Regret
Suffering from dementia, an ailing woman finds herself at the mercy of a young live-in nurse who is out to kill her and take her life's fortune--or is she? Dementia plays a starring role in this brilliant thriller that will keep you guessing until the very last minute. -JM
Sun, Feb 10, 2019 7:16 PM
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Iris
Once a well-known celebrity, Iris is on the cusp of being irrelevant and trying to reinvent herself when strange things start to happen sending her into a dark decline. She no longer recognizes the woman in the mirror and is pulled towards the small town she escaped. -JM
Fri, Feb 1, 2019 7:16 PM Wed, Feb 6, 2019 9:15 PM
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Is That You?
When her father goes missing, 13-year-old Lili uses a spiritual ritual to find him, but she gets it wrong and her life turns into a nightmare in the first psychological horror film to be made in Cuba. -JM
Sun, Feb 3, 2019 9:30 PM Thu, Feb 14, 2019 9:15 PM
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Just Something in My Eye - Heartwarming doc + narrative shorts
Whether wrenchingly true or vividly made-up, these well-crafted stories skillfully engage all your emotions.
Sun, Feb 3, 2019 12:30 PM Wed, Feb 6, 2019 7:00 PM
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Ladyworld
A birthday party devolves into chaos when an earthquake traps eight teenage girls in a house. Alliances are made, broken, back-stabbing occurs, plans made, defeat resigned to. And like a female-centric version of Lord of the Flies, Kramer’s characters have just as much propensity for malevolence as their male counterparts. -BF
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The Last Hot Lick
A washed up musician on a never-ending tour is desperate to recapture the fleeting fame he experienced in the 1970s. Gigging from town to town, he meets a mysterious woman whose beautiful voice might be the ticket to his comeback. Jaime Leopold, an original member of Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, plays the aging alt-folk troubadour. -CM
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Level 16
The girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being “clean.” practicing the virtues of perfect femininity. In a film that exists clearly under the shadow of The Handmaid's Tale and the current political climate, Esterhazy offers a dark vision of the future, of females as commodities and compulsory conformity. -BF
Fri, Feb 8, 2019 7:16 PM Wed, Feb 13, 2019 9:16 PM
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Little Woods
Little Woods’ wide-open prairies are inhabited by people who have little room to move. Trapped by poverty and failed by a broken health system, for them it’s hard work for little return. First-time writer/director Nia DaCosta has drawn a rich world of dynamic characters, complex relationships, and hard choices that recalls Winter’s Bone. Anchored by two incredible performances by stars Tessa Thompson and Lily James, and deftly handled by DaCosta, Little Woods is a tense movie that illuminates many aspects of the US political zeitgeist from a strong female perspective. This is deeply felt cinema, a directorial debut that is not to be missed. -JR
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LIVE IN-VR SHORT FILM SHOWCASE
Check out a selection of this year’s IndieFest short films at Sansar’s Theater in virtual reality. Attendees can check out the show with VR gear, or a PC, via Sansar’s platform. Films will be presented with live intros and QAs from filmmakers.
Sun, Feb 10, 2019 1:00 PM
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The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot
Effortlessly dancing back and forth between timelines, Krzykowski’s debit follows Sam Elliot’s Calvin Barr, a "grumpy old man" who years ago snuck into Nazi High command and killed Hitler. Long since retired, he lives his solitary life on bar stools and arm chairs until the FBI and the Canadian government tap him for a save-the-world mission, killing a virus-laden Bigfoot. An arthouse film masquerading as a genre piece, the film finds its perfect anchor in Barr, and offers the chivalry and honor only achievable in a great hero. Sam Elliot is that hero, he is The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot. -BF
Thu, Jan 31, 2019 7:00 PM
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Mermaids and Manatees
When actor Benji visits Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rich, a last-minute conflict leaves the brilliant but unstable Benji in charge of Rich's baby. Benji's babysitting skills devolve until a terrifying act that might also be the crazy breakthrough Rich needs in his life. The semi-autobiographical film stars BJ Averell and Tyler MacNiven, 12 years after winning The Amazing Race. -JM
Sat, Feb 9, 2019 2:46 PM Wed, Feb 13, 2019 7:01 PM
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My Friend the Polish Girl
Borrowing styles from cinema verite and video bloggers, this fiction film watches like experimental documentary. Amateur filmmaker Katie is an American rich kid in London following Alicja, an erratic unemployed Polish actress. Katie’s colonizing, disruptive presence in Alicja’s life mirrors the treatment of migrants in the UK. A raw, sexual, and visually brash film exploring--and abusing--intimacy. -JR
Sat, Feb 2, 2019 7:15 PM Tue, Feb 5, 2019 9:15 PM
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Octavio is Dead!
A psychosexual ghost story, Octavia is Dead! follows Tyler to the apartment of her estranged and dead father. There, amongst the lifeless flowers and musty books, she finds her father’s ghost, and her own sexuality. With obviously Shakespearean plotting, this gender-bending romance defies genre but lasts in the mind for weeks. -BF
Fri, Feb 8, 2019 9:30 PM Mon, Feb 11, 2019 9:15 PM
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Overwhelm the Sky
Local filmmaker Daniel Kremer's newest film follows radio DJ Eddie as he tries to solve the murder of a sleepwalking drifter. Shot in beautiful black-and-white Scope, the film is loosely based on one of the first American Gothic novels: Charles Brockden Brown’s 1799 novel Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a Sleepwalker. -JM
Sun, Feb 10, 2019 2:46 PM Mon, Feb 11, 2019 9:16 PM
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Permanent Green Light
Acclaimed American writer Dennis Cooper (Frisk) is famous for stories full of violent, drug-fueled queer characters and explicit fantasies of sexual violence. Permanent Green Light looks like a friendlier version of his literary universe but preserves its inner and subversive tension: a young French man wants to blow himself up in public, without any clear reason. -JR
Sun, Feb 3, 2019 9:31 PM Mon, Feb 4, 2019 9:16 PM
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Pet Names
Grad-school-dropout Leigh spends seemingly endless days caring for her ill mother in her childhood home. A chance encounter with her ex leads Leigh to make a last-minute decision to invite him on her solo camping trip. The "vacation" becomes a constant guessing game of whether or not the two will find themselves back together, or never speaking again. -JR
Sat, Feb 2, 2019 9:31 PM Tue, Feb 5, 2019 9:15 PM
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Real Unusual Life Choices - Documentary shorts
Sometimes otherwise regular people veer off the beaten path in awesome ways.
Sat, Feb 9, 2019 2:45 PM Tue, Feb 12, 2019 7:01 PM
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Rock Steady Row
His bicycle stolen on his first day, The Freshman finds the empty streets of Rock Steady University nothing like the promotional materials. He uncovers a vast cycle-stealing conspiracy where fraternities fight for control of the campus’s only currency in this dystopian-comic book that transplants Animal House into some sort of Mad Max-ian world. -BF
Fri, Feb 1, 2019 9:30 PM Mon, Feb 4, 2019 9:15 PM
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The Rusalka
Tom falls in love with a mysterious woman who swims in a lake at night, where too many people have drowned. She rarely leaves the water, but they are drawn to each other almost immediately. Looming in the background is a man out for revenge, convinced she drowned his spouse. -JR
Sun, Feb 10, 2019 9:30 PM Tue, Feb 12, 2019 9:15 PM
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Saviors
A young woman embeds herself in a white power group in order to find her adoptive African-American mother, but one night after the group returns from a rally, the members put her allegiance to a severe test. Christopher Greenslate’s powerful debut film was shot in a single impressive, continuous take. -JM
Sat, Feb 2, 2019 9:30 PM Wed, Feb 6, 2019 9:15 PM
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Screenplay Competition Reception/Event
Panel discussion with working writers plus a live read of this year's competition winners: Devil's Punch (Noah Weisel, Feature); North Star (P.J. Palmer, Short)
This year's Live Screenplay Read features: Rasheed Custer, James Roop, Anna Kritikos and Anne Oxenhandler
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The Secret Poppo
Discovering his granddaughter is missing, Poppo goes on quest of diminutive proportions, eventually uncovering a conspiracy that’s either a cult, or sci-fi, or a sci-fi cult. The team behind Meathead Goes Hogwild (IndieFest 2015) return with a largely improvised headscratcher that plays out like Poirot on a park bench. -BF
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Seven Stages To Achieve Eternal Bliss By Passing Through The Gateway Chosen By The Holy Storsh
A hapless couple arrive in L.A. and end up living in the suicide headquarters of a cult. A dark comedy starring Dan Harmon as a John Candy-esque cop, Caldinelli’s debut doesn’t leave the audience room to question its absurdity, just feel the assault of maniac joy on the senses. -BF
Sat, Feb 9, 2019 7:16 PM Wed, Feb 13, 2019 9:15 PM
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This Taco Truck Kills Fascists
Jose Torres-Tama is on a mission to create a revolutionary Taco Truck Theatre with a simple message: “No guacamole for immigrant haters." This sci-fi docu-theatre follows New Orleans-based performance activist Jose Torres-Tama as he struggles to raise his two boys into political consciousness in the Age of Trump. -JM
Fri, Feb 1, 2019 5:01 PM Sat, Feb 2, 2019 2:46 PM
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This Teacher
Hafsia, a young Muslim Fench woman visiting a childhood friend in NYC, impulsively escapes for some woodsy solitude upstate, until an explosive encounter with a couple in a nearby cabin. It's both an intense character study of Hafsia and the Americans she meets who think they're open-minded. -JR
Sun, Feb 10, 2019 7:15 PM Tue, Feb 12, 2019 7:00 PM
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The Unicorn
Facing the fourth year of their engagement, indecisive couple Caleb and Malory are forced to go to Palm Springs for a weekend to celebrate Malory’s parents’ 25th wedding vow renewal where they discover the secret to their happy marriage—threesomes. Horrified but intrigued, and determined to properly celebrate their own ‘re-engagement,' they embark on the most uncomfortable night of their lives by intentionally and unintentionally involving a third party in their relationship. A very different take on the traditional romantic comedy. -JR
Wed, Jan 30, 2019 7:00 PM
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Waterlily Jaguar
Produced by Paul Thomas Anderson, this award-winning film presents Bob Price (James LeGros) as a famous novelist known for his “airport” best-sellers. When he seeks to write something more meaningful for his new book, his quest to pen a magnum opus sends him tumbling down a spiral of obsession that may leave the relationships he has already forged in shambles, including his marriage to Helen (Mira Sorvino). -JR
Thu, Feb 14, 2019 7:01 PM
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We Have Ourselves a Situation - Tense and mysterious dramas
Starting with a phone call, a strange noise, or an assignment gone sideways, these suspenseful narratives will have you wondering how it ends.
Sat, Feb 2, 2019 2:45 PM Tue, Feb 5, 2019 7:00 PM
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We'll Look Back on This and Laugh - Comedy shorts program
Chatty strangers, awkward phone calls, Charlton Heston superfans, dumbass friends, and the most extra coming-out story ever told.
Sat, Feb 2, 2019 12:30 PM Mon, Feb 4, 2019 7:00 PM
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Romantic Mishaps
In this mostly lighthearted program, the road to love is bumpy, no matter what kind of love you're looking for.
Sun, Feb 10, 2019 12:31 PM Wed, Feb 13, 2019 7:00 PM
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Wildland
Epic and intimate in the same breath, Wildland tells the story of a single wildland firefighting crew as they struggle with fear, loyalty, love, and defeat. What emerges is a story of a small group of working-class men, their exterior world, their interior lives, and the fire that lies between. - JR
Fri, Feb 8, 2019 5:01 PM Sat, Feb 9, 2019 12:30 PM
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Witch
The precocious and fiercely independent Aima tells her babysitter that the Witch they created in a game of make-believe will never stop chasing them. After an accidental dosing of acid, the babysitter agrees to follow Aima into a world where imagination rules and wildness, magic, and delight are hidden around every corner. -JM
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The Wolf House (La Casa Lobo)
In La Casa Lobo a young woman emerges from the walls and melts into the floor, paintings cry, a tree grows in a living room and pigs transform into children. Drawing on both fairy tale and surrealisic elements, this stop motion puppet film is both visually and emotionally stunning. - JR
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