SalemFilmFest.com Trailers | schedules | tickets | interviews | & more Mar 29 to APR 4 | 2019

Questions about ticketing? Please email [email protected] FEATURE FilmS 16 BARS CHILDREN OF THE SNOW LAND FALSE CONFESSIONS ENDICOTT COLLEGE | Sat, Mar 30 at 6 pm** CINEMASALEM | Sat, Mar 30 at 11:45 am** CINEMASALEM | Sun, Mar 31 at 7:30 pm** PEABODY’S BLACK BOX | Sun, Mar 31 Four Nepalese teenagers make the arduous Why do people confess to crimes they at noon** trek from their school in modern Kathmandu didn’t commit? A defense attorney fights Activist Grammy-winning hip hop artist Todd to their remote Himalayan villages to for the rights of victims of manipulative and ‘Speech’ Thomas collaborates with reconnect with family and an ancient way of exploitive police interrogation tactics. inmates through a unique rehabilitation effort life after a 12-year separation. that produces an of their original FATHER THE FLAME music. CHINA LOVE PEABODY’S BLACK BOX | Sat, Mar 30 PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | Sun, Mar 31 at 2 pm** THE ACCOUNTANT OF AUSCHWITZ at 12:30 pm** A cinematic journey around the globe PEABODY’S BLACK BOX | Sat, Mar 30 Nothing says love and marriage in China like and across generations that explores the at noon a billion-dollar pre-wedding photography forgotten craftsmanship and sacred origins of A 94-year-old former Nazi officer goes on industry that caters to contemporary Chinese the tobacco pipe, and its legacy as symbol of trial in Germany where he faces his former obsession with premarital fantasy shots. contentment and contemplation. victims in a prosecutorial race against time. COUNCILWOMAN FREE MEN ALWAYS IN SEASON CINEMASALEM | Fri, Mar 29 at 7 pm** PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | Sat, Mar 30 CINEMASALEM | Mon, Apr 1 at 8 pm** An activist Dominican immigrant whose job at 3:10 pm** When a teenager’s death by hanging is is cleaning hotel rooms in Providence, Rhode Convicted of capital murder, sentenced to quickly ruled a suicide, his mother’s fight for Island, defies political odds when she wins a death at the age of 18, and held in solitary truth and justice runs headlong into North coveted City Council seat by advocating for confinement for the last 25 years, Kenneth Carolina’s history of racial terrorism and low-income workers. Reams found freedom from his mental violence. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. chains through art and love. When all signs THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS of hope seemed lost, he pushed back and BALIAN (THE HEALER) PEABODY’S BLACK BOX | Sat, Mar 30 found a purpose in life. CINEMASALEM | Sun, Mar 31 at 5 pm** at 4:30 pm A film shot over the 20 year rise and fall of a A year in the life of 10-year-old Oleg and his GENERAL MAGIC charismatic, but unorthodox Balinese healer devoted grandmother as they wait out the NATIONAL PARK SERVICE VISITOR CENTER whose “discovery” by Western tourists leads nearby war in Eastern Ukraine and the havoc Sun, Mar 31 at 12:15 pm to serious consequences. it wreaks. The unknown story of a pioneering tech startup that tried and failed to invent a BUDDY DIVE: RITUALS IN WATER smartphone in the 1990s, paving the way for THE CABOT | Sun, Mar 31 at 11:45 am CINEMASALEM | Sun, Mar 31 at noon** the Silicon Valley we know today. Six owners share the stories of their Icelandic babies and their new parents bond connections with their guide dogs, exploring in a unique way thanks to the unorthodox MORE GREAT FILMS ON THE OTHER SIDE! what an intimate bond of loyalty, dedication, approach of a visionary swimming coach ** Q&A with filmmaker follows screening and love with an animal means to them. who creates a world where infants comfortably swim underwater. Salem T r olley CAMOUFLAGE: VIETNAMESE BRUSH STROKES WITH HISTORY THE END OF FEAR PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | Sat, Mar 30 PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | Sat, Mar 30 at 10:20 am** at 1 pm** Contemporary Vietnamese artists overcome Barnett Newman’s controversial painting, THE SALEM TROLLEY obstacles that demand personal courage and Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III, As a convenience, we offer FREE Salem artistic determination to document a little is a visual emotional trigger that leads to Trolley shuttle service. The Trolley stops known side of the aftermath of America’s war its brutal vandalization and troublesome, at the corner of New Liberty and Essex in Vietnam. unconventional restoration. Streets in Salem, at Peabody’s Black Box, and The Cabot. CARE TO LAUGH ETHIOPIQUES: REVOLT OF THE SOUL PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | Sun, Mar 31 Saturday | 12 to 6 pm PEABODY’S BLACK BOX | Sun, Mar 31 Salem and Peabody’s Black Box at 3 pm at 10:30 am Ethiopia’s unique and influential - Caring for his aging parents gives rising star Sunday | 12 to 6 pm Jesus Trejo more than pride for doing the music scene in the 1960s and 70s, which was nearly lost to the world amid political Salem, Peabody’s Black Box, and The right thing—it also gives him material for his Cabot stand-up act. unrest. FEATURE FilmS CONTINUED GRIT THE MONEY STONE moment, takes on the improbable challenge CINEMASALEM | Sun, Mar 31 at 2:30 pm** PEABODY’S BLACK BOX | Sun, Mar 31 of kayaking the rapids through the Grand One of the world’s largest man-made at 5 pm** Canyon. environmental disasters, a tsunami of boiling A coming-of-age story as two boys in Ghana mud that sinks 16 Indonesian villages, face stark choices between a future in school WHEN ARABS DANCED transforms a teenage survivor into a political or a risky but lucrative job in the dangerous CINEMASALEM | Tue, Apr 2 at 6 pm activist. gold mine pits. An exploration of how Islamic fundamentalists have suffocated the HAIL SATAN? PRIMAS freedom, creativity, and progressive values of THE CABOT | Sun, Mar 31 at 7:15 pm** NATIONAL PARK SERVICE VISITOR CENTER traditional Arab society— especially its love The Satanic Temple has evolved from a Sat, Mar 30 at noon** for dancing and music. small-scale media stunt to an internationally Two Argentine teenage cousins embark on recognized religion campaigning to place a a program of theater, dance, and circus WHY CAN’T I BE ME? AROUND YOU Satanic monument on the Arkansas State therapy to overcome the heinous acts of THE CABOT | Sun, Mar 31 at 4:30 pm** Capitol lawn. violence and sexual abuse that interrupted When Albuquerque machining savant their childhoods. and drag racer Rusty Tidenberg begins to HOME + AWAY transition by getting breasts, biker friends THE CABOT | Sun, Mar 31 at 2 pm** THE PROPOSAL reject her and women won’t date her. Competitive sports represent one of the few PEABODY’S BLACK BOX | Sat, Mar 30 at 7pm Undeterred, she soldiers on. available paths to the American Dream and An art film that is part thriller, part romance, a better life for El Paso, Texas, high school and part legal mystery. Witness the making WITKIN & WITKIN students, who commute from their homes in of a provocative project that explores the CINEMASALEM | Sat, Mar 30 at 4:30 pm** nearby Mexico. contested legacy of the late Luis Barragán, Identical twin artists, who have chosen to Mexico’s most famous architect. spend the majority of their almost 80 years KATE NASH: UNDERESTIMATE THE GIRL apart, reluctantly unite for their first-ever joint CINEMASALEM | Sat, Mar 30 at 7:10 pm** THE RED SOUL museum show in Mexico City. Platinum-selling pop dissident Kate Nash CINEMASALEM | Mon, Apr 1 at 6 pm turns her back on the music business and Why do so many Russians still defend learns how to survive as a punk renegade, Stalin as a great leader and a hero? The TV wrestling queen, and DIY leader of an Russian psyche of today is intimately probed, SHORTS BLOCKS all-girl band. revealing a world full of contradictions. SHORTS BLOCK A LIVE THE STREAM: THE STORY OF JOE HUMPHREYS THE REMNANTS NATIONAL PARK SERVICE VISITOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE VISITOR CENTER CINEMASALEM | Wed, Apr 3 at 6 pm CENTER Sat, Mar 30 at 2:45 pm** In Laos, the most heavily bombed country FREE ADMISSION An intimate portrayal of Pennsylvania’s fly in history, omnipresent war remnants create Fri, Mar 29 at 3:30pm fishing legend, Joe Humphreys, a man who contemporary livelihoods, from deminers to 67 minutes in total has followed his calling to fish, teach, and “War Tour” guides to those who repurpose pass on a respect for our waters. killing objects into everyday tools. SHORTS BLOCK B NATIONAL PARK SERVICE VISITOR LOSS WON’T PAY THE BILLS SATAN AND ADAM CENTER CINEMASALEM | Sat, Mar 30 at 2:20 pm** CINEMASALEM | Thu, Apr 4 at 7 pm FREE ADMISSION A moving and humorous portrait of Holland’s An electric soundtrack accompanies Sat, Mar 30 at 10 am** oldest greengrocer and his wife, who have the rise of an unlikely duo— 67 minutes in total run their seaside shop for 65 years and won’t a streetwise and grizzled black guitarist and consider quitting. a young Upper West Side white player—from the streets of to SHORTS BLOCK C international stardom. PEABODY’S BLACK BOX MARCOS DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE FREE ADMISSION CINEMASALEM | Wed, Apr 3 at 8 pm** Sat, Mar 30 at 10 am A decorated Marine veteran, whose THE SILVER BRANCH 65 minutes in total undocumented husband is deported to PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | Sun, Mar 31 Mexico, fights to reunite her family amidst at 3 pm the trauma caused by America’s immigration The life and insights of Irish philosopher, SHORTS BLOCK D policy. poet, and fifth-generation farmer, Patrick NATIONAL PARK SERVICE VISITOR McCormack, as he fights encroaching CENTER development to preserve the natural FREE ADMISSION MIDNIGHT TRAVELER Sun, Mar 31 at 10 am** CINEMASALEM | Fri, Mar 29 at 9 pm harmony of the Burren, Western Ireland’s 67 minutes in total An Afghan filmmaker and his family flee rugged landscape. after the Taliban put a bounty on his head, capturing their desperate multi-year search THE WEIGHT OF WATER SHORTS BLOCK E for refuge with their camera-phones. PEABODY’S BLACK BOX special screening PEABODY’S BLACK BOX with audio description + closed captioning FREE ADMISSION Mon, Apr 1 at 7 pm** Sun, Mar 31 at 10 am CINEMASALEM | Tue, Apr 2 at 8 pm** 63 minutes in total SalemFilmFest.com A blind adventurer, in pursuit of that elusive tickets | Trailers | interviews | & more state of being engaged in the present ** Q&A with filmmaker follows screening