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Cinema//Care Cinema Unbound March 6 | 3 PM PST Awards Virtual, FREE Where There’s March 4 | 6:45 PM PST Guest programmed by Sundance Film Smoke Drive-In and Virtual Festival’s Gina Duncan, this program March 7 | 12 PM PST reinforces a commitment to care and March 13 | 12 PM PST The Cinema Unbound Awards is an annual community, and how through the Virtual, FREE event headquartered in Portland, OR that programming of independent films at art celebrates internationally- renowned artists, houses, festivals, we can create and sustain a In Where There’s Smoke, writer/director/ trying new things, thinking bigger, and culture of care right where we live. Featuring storytelling pioneer Lance Weiler unravels pushing forward to transform the field and four recent independent films that reflect the secrets of his enigmatic father–a the world. In 2021, we will assemble a small this value both in how the film was made volunteer firefighter and amateur fire scene but mighty band of internationally renowned and within the story itself, the program will photographer–and two devastating fires that artists, creatives and curators working also include a discussion with acclaimed struck the Weiler family in the early 1980s. somewhere in the middle of the Venn filmmakers Debra Granik (Leave No Trace), In the final months of his battle with colon diagram of cinema and unboundedness. Andrew Ahn (Driveways), Loria Limbal cancer, his father invites Lance to interview (Through the Night)and Crystal Kayiza him, and these conversations reignite 30 (See You Next Time) focused on how we as years of wondering… were those fires more artists and audience members can continue than tragic accidents and sustain this care in our new reality. SPECIAL EVENTS/PROGRAMS continued Lore United States | 11 min | 2019

Images of friends and landscapes are cut, fragmented, and reassembled on an overhead projector as hands guide their shape and construction in this film stemming from Hollis Frampton’s “Nostalgia”. The voice tells a story about a not too distant Spectral past, a not too distant ruin, with traces Transmissions: of nostalgia articulated in terms of lore; Poetic Cinema and knowledge and memory passed down and Ghosts of Futures shared not from wistful loss, but as a pastiche Past Persona Tales: Three of rumination, reproduction, and creation. Screening March 5-14 Shorts from Sky Virtual Hopinka Spectral Transmissions: Ghosts of Futures Screening March 5-14 Past is a multimedia event by Donal Virtual Mosher and Mike Palmieri in the style of a 1930s/1940s radio show. In this special Sky Hopinka is a visual artist and filmmaker festival edition of Spectral Transmissions, who is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation a host of filmmakers, writers, and artists and a descendant of the Pachanga Band explore how the past and the future haunt of Luiseño people. This program features us today. three short films of Sky’s, each one utilizing a IF/Then: The Art of different method to document the personal reflections on land, culture, and memories. In the Pitch March 11 | 12:30 PM PST addition to the short films is a pre-recorded Virtual, FREE conversation with Sky and Kathleen Ash- Milby the Curator for Native American Art The Art of the Pitch session deep dives at the Portland Art Museum. This program on best practices in virtual pitching and is co-presented with the Video Data Bank. considerations for post-COVID production funding. Mentors from IF/Then will share The program includes the following shorts: sage advice on preparing your elevator pitch and long-form presentations to gatekeepers. A Closer Look at Visions of an Island Two film teams will be invited to pitch United States | 15 min | 2016 their film live during the panel and receive Improv: A Portland feedback in real-time. An Unangam Tunuu elder describes cliffs Masterclass Short Doc Distribution 101: Since 2017, IF/ March 13 | 6 PM PST and summits, drifting birds, and deserted Then Shorts has supported more than 50 Virtual, FREE shores. A group of students and teachers play and invent games revitalizing their films from around the globe with funding, extensive mentorship, and a strong emphasis Some of Portland’s finest improv talent language. A visitor wanders in a quixotic on multi-platform distribution. IF/Then will gather for this special online event chronicling of earthly and supernal terrain. Director Chloe Gbai and Supervising to celebrate the PIFF screening of For These visions offer glimpses of an island in Producer Caitlin Mae Burke will discuss Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close. the center of the Bering Sea. the initiative’s commitment to broaden Aden & Eric Nepom of Infinite Improv! will distribution opportunities for short lead this exploration of some of Close’s documentaries, even during the pandemic, highly influential ideas, featuring performers Fainting Spells United States | 11 min | 2018 and will be joined by IF/Then alumni from a number of Portland’s acclaimed to discuss their distribution trajectories, improv theaters. Told through recollections of youth, learning, challenges, and triumphs. lore, and departure, this is an imagined myth for the Xąwįska, or the Indian Pipe Plant— used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who have fainted. FUTURE/FUTURE PROGRAM

Highlighting boundary-pushing new cinema from emerging filmmakers, PIFF’s Future/future competition represents some of the most exciting new voices in global cinema. The selected films come from around the world and exemplify the theme of unboundedness. The competition winner, selected by our jury, will win a $1,000 prize.

A Machine to Live In American Thief Directed by Yoni Goldstein, Meredith Zielke Directed by Miguel Silveira Brazil, United States | Documentary, Sci-fi | United States | Thriller, Drama | 2020 Sugar Daddy 2020 | English Subtitles Directed by Wendy Morgan A teen hacker seeking revenge for his Canada | Drama, Comedy | 2021 A Machine to Live In is a hybrid father’s murder becomes a pawn in a plot to documentary linking the cosmic power derail the 2016 presidential elections. When a struggling musician can’t afford to structures of the state to the mystical follow her dreams, she signs up to a sugar architecture of cults and utopian cities in the daddy website where rich older men pay to remote hinterlands of Brazil. go on dates with younger women.

A Rifle and A Bag Everything in the Directed by Cristina Hanes, Isabella Rinaldi, End A Kaddish for Bernie Arya Rothe Directed by Mylissa Fitzsimmons Madoff 90 min | India, Romania, Italy, Qatar | 76 min | United States | Drama | 2021 Directed by Alicia J. Rose Documentary | 2020 | English Subtitles United States | Drama, Musical, Fantasy | Stranded in a small Icelandic village during 2021 A young Indian couple of surrendered Earth’s final days, a man seeks solace in the communist rebels (Naxalites) is fighting for brief human connections he encounters. A Kaddish for Bernie Madoff tells the story their children’s future. of Madoff and the system that allowed him to function for decades through the eyes of musician/poet Alicia Jo Rabins, who watches the financial crash from her 9th floor studio in an abandoned office building on Wall Street.

A couple’s world collapses when their son is A mother travels across Mexico in search of shot, and the father discovers he’s not the her son who authorities say died while trying boy’s biological parent. to cross the border into the United States. VIRTUAL FEATURES

499 Alberto and the Directed by Rodrigo Reyes 89 min | History, Documentary | Mexico, Adventures of a Concrete Jungle United States | 2020 | English Subtitles Directed by Chris Shimojima Mathematician 105 min | United States | Adventure, Through the eyes of a ghostly conquistador, Directed by Thor Klein Comedy, Drama | 2020 499 recreates Hernan Cortez’s epic 103 min | Germany, Poland, UK | Drama, journey from the coasts of Veracruz to the Historical Fiction | 2020 Adventurous digital nomad Alberto Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, the site of Buenaventura becomes absurdly stuck in contemporary Mexico City. The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant New York City. To find a way out, he must and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved zigzag across the 5 boroughs, dealing with to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the various groups of diverse characters that difficult losses of family and friends all while complicate the process and make him re- helping to create the hydrogen bomb and examine his unattached lifestyle. the first computer.

200 Meters Directed by Armeen Nayfeh Palestine, Jordan, Qatar, Italy, Sweden | Drama, Socio-Political | 2020 | English Subtitles Barbie’s Kenny Viewable for 48 hours only: March 6-8 Air Conditioner Director: Zachary Ray Sherman Directed by Fradique 92 min | United States | Drama | 2021 Mustafa and his wife Salwa live 200 meters 73 min | Angola | Dark Comedy, Surreal | apart in villages separated by the wall. One 2020 | English Subtitles Kenny, a struggling actor in Los Angeles, day he gets a call every parent dreads: feels his life turn upside down when his birth his son has had an accident. A 200 meter When the air-conditioners in the city mother unexpectedly arrives at his doorstep distance becomes a 200 kilometer odyssey, of Luanda mysteriously began to fall, after having not been in touch for over a as Mustafa, left with no choice, attempts to Matacedo and Zezinha embark on a mission decade. smuggle himself to the other side of the wall. to retrieve the boss’s AC by the end of the day. This mission leads them to Kota Mino’s electrical supply store, which is secretly assembling a complex memory retrieval machine. VIRTUAL FEATURES continued

Chasing Childhood Directed by Margaret Munzer Loeb and Driveways Directed by Andrew Ahn Eden Wurmfeld 84 min | United States | Drama | 2019 Produced by Eden Wurmfeld, Lisa Bitter Love Eisenpresser Directed by Jerzy Sladkowski When Kathy’s sister passes away, she travels Sweden, Finland, Poland | Documentary, with her shy son to the late sister’s house 80 min | United States | Documentary, Romance | 2020 | English Subtitles to sell it. As she realizes how little she knew Social Issue | 2020 about her sister, her son develops an unlikely On a Russian cruise ship of the cheaper friendship with the widower who lives next In today’s world, free play in childhood has kind, everyone is looking for love—and door. luckily find it. disappeared, giving way to unprecedented anxiety and depression. How can we give our kids the freedom to become their true selves?

Faasla Directed by Priya Sen, Nicholas Grandi Blue Hour 60 min | Argentina, India | Hybrid, Directed by Jesse Pickett Death of Nintendo Experiential | English Subtitles 103 min | Canada | Drama, Speculative Directed by Raya Martin “Faasla” is a series of video letters composed Fiction | 2021 99 min | Philippines, United States | Coming between Nicolás Grandi in Buenos Aires of Age, Comedy | 2020 | English Subtitles Lee, an anxious young man living in rural and Priya Sen in New Delhi, artists and collaborators since 2011. Through the Alberta, is about to start a new job in road Set in ‘90s Manila, Philippines, the story miasmas of uncertainty and the sudden construction. Confounded by the news of an takes us into the colorful pop-culture world reordering of their days brought on by illness in the family, his parent’s conflicting of these four 13-year old friends, back in the the global pandemic of 2020, Nicolás and ideologies, and masculinity stereotypes—Lee days when video games were still a novelty. must decide whether to stay or go. Priya “wrote” to each other of distances and intimacies they could no longer access. VIRTUAL FEATURES continued

Firstness Holy Frit! I Am A Town Directed by Brielle Brilliant Directed by Justin Monroe Directed by Mischa Richter 78 min | United States | Coming of Age, 120 min | United States | Documentary | 83 min | United States | Documentary | 2020 Drama | 2021 2021 In an exploration of the free-spirited A maladjusted dad is trying to heal in an Tim Carey, a talented yet unknown LA artist, community in Provincetown, Massachusetts, experimental therapy group called Infinite bluffs his way into winning the commission Mischa, whose artist family has lived Beginnings. Meanwhile, his nonbinary to make the largest stained-glass window in the town for close to 100 years, has kid is getting close with an older man. of its kind. The problem is, he doesn’t know conversations with pilgrims, outcasts, Their relationship feels both dreamy and how to make his complicated design. After fishermen, drag queens and spirit guides in concerning—depending on who’s watching. a desperate search, he finds someone who an attempt to discover what freedom means might have the answer… in America today.

Hunger Ward For Madmen Only Directed by Skye Fitzgerald Directed by Heather Ross 40 min | United States | Documentary | Leave No Trace 86 min | United States | Documentary, 2020 Directed by Debra Granik Drama | 2020 United States | Drama | 2018 Filmed with unprecedented access within Comedy guru Del Close, mentor to a sensitive conflict-zone in Yemen, Hunger A father and his thirteen-year-old daughter everyone from Bill Murray to Tina Fey, sets Ward documents two women health care are living an ideal existence in a vast urban out to write his autobiography for D.C. workers fighting to thwart the spread park in Portland, Oregon when a small Comics. As he leads us through sewers, of starvation against the backdrop of a mistake derails their lives forever. mental wards, and his peculiar talent for forgotten war. making everyone famous but himself, Close emerges as a personification of the creative impulse itself.

Lorelei Directed by Sabrina Doyle United States | Romance, Drama | 2020

A man is released from prison after 15 years. He reunites with his high school girlfriend, now a single mother of three. What follows is a story of love, regret and second chances. VIRTUAL FEATURES continued

Rehab Cabin Directors: Kate Beacom, Louis Legge Stateless Love in Dangerous 78 min | United States | Comedy | 2020 Directed by Michéle Stephenson Times 96 min | Canada, United States | Directed by Jon Garcia Best friends Chloe and Domenic are quickly Documentary | 2020 | English Subtitles 95 min | United States | Romance, Drama | growing apart. At Chloe’s insistence, for 2020 their last hurrah, they kidnap their favorite Through the grassroots campaign of celebrity, washed-up former child star attorney Rosa Iris, Stateless reveals the With the world in a pandemic, Jason and Amanda Campbell. Driving a stolen limo, depths of racial hatred and institutionalized Sorrel meet on a dating app and build a they take Amanda to a secluded cabin where oppression that divide Haiti and the romance as the situation gets worse. they improvise a rehabilitation program Dominican Republic. designed to rejuvenate her career.

One of These Days Directed by Bastian Günther Shiva Baby Germany, United States | Drama | 2020 Directed by Emma Seligman The Daphne Project 78 min | United States | Comedy, Coming of Directed by Zora Iman Crews, Alec Tibaldi In a small southern town in the US, twenty Age | 2020 United States | Comedy | 2020 down-on-their-luck folks compete to win a brand new pick-up truck, a prize that might A near college graduate, Danielle, gets paid The Daphne Project is a heightened version finally tip the scales of life in their favor. by her sugar daddy and rushes to meet of the experience of being the only woman Each contestant has their own reasons for her neurotic parents at a family shiva. As of color in a production. It’s alienating joining the contest, and as the hours tick by, the day unfolds, Danielle struggles to keep realizing you’re the only person of color in their humanity is laid bare. Who will hold on up different versions of herself, fend off the room. and win—and at what cost? pressures from her family and confront her insecurities without completely losing it.

When a father is faced with the corrupt 15 year-old Lyz, a high school student in the Beat poet and experimental filmmaker Piero social services taking away his children, just French Alps, has been accepted to a highly Heliczer left a void in his young daughter’s because the family is poor, he sets out on selective ski club whose aim is to train future life. Forty years later she explores the foot across Serbia to appeal to the ministry professional athletes. Taking a chance on promise and perils of leading an authentic, in Belgrade. Against all odds he embarks on his new recruit, Fred, ex-champion turned creative life as she tries to understand a man a heroic journey to fight for justice. human coach, decides to make Lyz his shining star she never knew. dignity and his right to raise his children. regardless of her lack of experience. VIRTUAL FEATURES continued

The Shepherdess Through the Night Directed by Loira Limbal Who’s On Top? and the Seven Songs 1h 15 min | Documentary | 2020 | USA Directed by Pushpendra Singh LGBTQs Summit 1h 38 min | India | Drama, Ethnographic, To make ends meet, people in the U.S. are Mt. Hood Music | 2020 | English Subtitles working longer hours across multiple jobs. Directed by Devin Fei-Fan Tau This modern reality of non-stop work has 1h 17 min | United States | Documentary | The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs is resulted in an unexpected phenomenon: 2021 part allegory, part ethnographic study, and the flourishing of 24-hour daycare centers. part feminist fairy tale, using the narrative Through the Night is a verité documentary “Who’s on Top?” (narrated by George device of local folk songs – seven, to be that explores the personal cost of our Takei) is the emotional story of members exact – to describe the protagonist – Laila’s modern economy through the stories of two of the LGBTQ community who challenge inner and outer worlds. working mothers and a child care provider. stereotypes about gender and sexuality and demonstrate their diverse journeys Screens with the following short film: in overcoming physical and figurative See You Next Time mountains. Directed by Crystal Kayiza | United States | Documentary | 2020 See You Next Time is a short documentary that captures the intimate moments between a Chinese nail tech and her Black client in a Brooklyn nail salon. It reaches across the nail salon table for a nuanced look into how two women of color see each other in a space There Is No Evil unlike anything else in their worlds. Directed by Mohammad Rasoulof 151 min | Czech Republic, Germany, Iran | Drama, Mystery| 2020 | English Subtitles Yalda, A Night for Every society that enforces the death Forgiveness penalty needs people to kill other people. Directed by Massoud Bakhshi Four men are put in front of an unthinkable 1h 29 min | United States | Drama, Suspense but simple choice. Whatever they decide, it | 2020 | English Subtitles will directly or indirectly corrode themselves, their relationships, and their entire lives. 22-year-old Maryam accidentally kills her husband Nasser, 65 years old, and is sentenced to death. The only person who Who is Lun*na can save her is Mona, Nasser’s daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a popular Menoh? live TV show and forgive Maryam. But Directed by Jeff Mizushima forgiveness proves difficult when they are 81 min | United States | Documentary | 2020 forced to relive the past. Japanese Renaissance artist Lun*na Menoh, creates art using clothing, music and fashion displayed in performance exhibitions. Her sculpturesque dresses, paintings, and musical fashion shows convey a statement on contemporary urban life and individual expression in a commercially commoditized world. SHORTS PROGRAMS

Daily routines intersect with the turmoil of A sci-fi comedy musical that combines 15 year-old Milagros’ world still revolves the world outside as three Black Portlanders live-action and animation. This short hybrid around her mother’s affection. This summer go about their day during the COVID film is set in an orbiting space station where an unexpected encounter with death will shutdown in Oregon. a lonely lady astronaut works out a love make her question her own existence. triangle between her past, present, and future self. Each woman has a different but meaningful relationship to “space” and are all portrayed by the same actor. SHORTS PROGRAMS continued

SHORTS BLOCK 1 This shorts program contains the following shorts: A Trip To Heaven While I’m Still Enthusiasts Directed by Linh Duong | Vietnam | 2020 | Directed by Gonzalo Escobar Mora | United Dark Comedy, Surreal | English Subtitles Breathing States | 2020 | Hybrid, Drama Directed by Laure Giappiconi | France | During a peculiar tour bus to Mekong Delta, 2019 | Hybrid, Drama | English Subtitles Uncertainty transpires as a couple navigates 50-year-old Mdm. Tam bumps into her their future plans. high school sweetheart. She’s hopeful for a In a 3 movement narrative, the movie draws chance of reconciliation, but maybe he’s not. the journey through a woman’s sexuality, in all its roughness and softnesses. From that Feeling Sexual little girl inspired by the models painted by Directed by Brooke Ross Tides of Hyperion Paul Delvaux and Klimt, to her first sensual United States | 2020 | Comedy Directed by AJ Lenzi | United States | 2019 gestures as a teenager and her experience as | Drama a stripper, we gradually see a woman unfold. In desperate need of a self-worth makeover, high school senior Izzy Klein recruits Susan Two Russian / American friends move to Rothman, the yente of her synagogue and Seattle to escape the traumas of their past. part-time therapist, to help her develop communication and boundary setting skills for intimate settings. Izzy will put Susans’ teachings to the test when she visits her long-time crush. SHORTS PROGRAMS continued My Hero Directed by Logan Jackson United States | 2020 | Drama

Brandon and Mason live life as close brothers, always taught to look after one another. Their mother, Brittney, is a strong independent woman; their father they never met. Struggling to make ends meet Brittney must pick up a second job to stay afloat, at a time that is most critical to her and the boys as her primary job has begun cutting hours. Entre Tú Y Milagros Directed by Mariana Saffron Colombia, United States | 2020 | Coming of Age, Drama | English Subtitles

15 year-old Milagros’ world still revolves around her mother’s affection. This summer an unexpected encounter with death will SHORTS BLOCK 2 make her question her own existence. This shorts program contains the following shorts: La Tienda Mountain Cat Misery Loves Directed by Karina Lomelin Ripper | United Directed by Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir Company States | 2020 | Documentary Mongolia | 2020 | Drama | English Subtitles Directed by Sasha Lee A short documentary that tells the story of South Korea, United States | 2020 | two letterpress printers (Camila Araya and A troubled girl is coerced into seeing a local Animation, Comedy | English Subtitles Daniela del Mar), with roots from Chile shaman. Trapped by ancient beliefs that now based in Portland, Oregon. They share serve only to pacify her mother, she finds One night, Seolgi is lying on a grass field their journey to create bilingual art that peace in the physical realm by unleashing with friends. A shooting star falls, and intertwines social justice with the craft of her repressed, youthful spirit on the dark and intrusive thoughts hit her. Her letterpress printing. unsuspecting shaman. melancholy blooms into bright and colorful “flower people”, dancing around and making Jean Aquí a wish of METEORITE to end the world. Directed by Jen Elkington Directed by Melina Coumas United States | 2020 | Thriller, Drama United States | 2019 | Experimental | English Subtitles Jean, a lonely spinster who has spent her life secretly harboring romantic feelings Aquí is an experimental 16mm short for other women, becomes infatuated with film exploring what home means to a her caretaker, a sweet woman named Rose. multicultural young woman against the When Rose rejects Jean’s advances, Jean backdrop of the Oregon Dunes. is inconsolable and lashes out at Rose with heartbreaking consequences. SHORTS PROGRAMS continued

SHORTS BLOCK 3 This shorts program contains the following shorts: No Leaders Please End of the Season Stray Dogs Come Directed by Joan C. Gratz Directed by Jason Evans United States | 2020 | Animation United States | 2020 | Documentary Out At Night Directed by Hamza Bangash No Leaders Please is an animated film based At the end of the season, a group of Pakistan | 2020 | Drama | English Subtitles on a poem by Charles Bukowski. Works matsutake mushroom hunters search for rare inspired by artists Basquiat, Banksy, Haring, subterranean treasures in the high desert of Iqbal, a migrant sex worker, cannot come to and A Weiwei represent the poem’s theme Oregon’s Cascade mountain range. A film terms with his illness. He convinces his uncle of self-invention. that considers nature, consumption, labor, to take a day trip to the beach, desperate for displacement, and temporary shelter. respite. The Arabian sea beckons. Clebs (Mutts) Directed by Halima Ouardiri Noösphere Men Among Men Canada, Morocco | 2019 | Short, Directed by Miles Sprietsma Directed by Savannah Reich Documentary, Animals United States | 2021 | Experimental United States | 2020 | Comedy

In a stray-dog refuge in Agadir, Morocco, A playful take on an outdated philosophy, It’s 1849. After months alone in a mining more than 750 animals find help and Noösphere juxtaposes the beauty of camp, Tex, Sparky, Jebediah, William, protection while awaiting adoption. Each day a supplanted landscape against the Jonesy, and Jess have begun to practice is the same as the last, the only excitement inescapable detritus of a self-absorbed active listening, normalize platonic affection, provided by mealtime. species. All footage shot and edited under and treat each other with kindness and care. social-distancing measures. They have even made a chore wheel. But can their new anti-patriarchal lifestyle survive Tommy John when they get invited to a party in town- Directed by Alex Goldberg with girls? United States | 2020 | Comedy A baseball player’s press conference about a season ending injury devolves into an existential breakdown. SHORTS PROGRAMS continued

SHORTS BLOCK 4 This shorts program contains the following shorts: Mission Control Faces, Displays and Kin Directed by Josiah Savage Directed by Mila Zuo United States | 2020 | Sci-Fi, Comedy Other Things United States | 2021 | Drama Directed by Woodrow Hunt A couple of space station workers plod United States | 2020 | Experimental A tense love triangle between three through a typical day in the control room. twenty-somethings in rural Oregon ends Monica, the ship’s computer, doesn’t make A familiar route is remapped to contemplate in unimaginable violence. KIN explores the the intergalactic grind any easier. and remember the complicated past of libido of hate and the psychosis of white Indigenous labor in the Pacific Northwest. supremacy in Trump’s America. Dirt Devil 550 XS Directed by Rolf Hellat Bittu Tears Teacher Switzerland | 2020 | Comedy | Directed by Karishma Dev Dube Directed by Noémie Nakai English Subtitles India, United States | 2020 | Drama, Social Japan | 2019 | Documentary | Issue | English Subtitles English Subtitles Residents of a flat share discuss the purchase of a new vacuum cleaner. A genuine film Set in a forgotten Himalayan community, Yoshida is a self-proclaimed ‘tears teacher’. about group dynamics, democracy and daily this film follows eight-year-old Bittu. Unlike A firm believer that crying promotes living together, in which banality, poetry and most girls in her village, Bittu is a streetwise healthier living, he’s made it his mission to humour are mixed. charmer with a brilliantly foul tongue. make people weep. SHORTS PROGRAMS continued

SHORTS BLOCK 5 This shorts program contains the following shorts: Trumpet The Flapper The Great Malaise Directed by Kevin Haefelin Directed by Salise Hughes Directed by Catherine Lapage United States | 2020 | Drama United States | 2020 Canada | 2019 | Animation, Drama A Japanese trumpet player on a cultural pilgrimage to discover New York City jazz After a devastating WWI came Modernism A young woman describes herself and her experiences a hell of a night after being lost in full force, and with it the modern woman life in glowing terms, but the visual narrative in Brooklyn. who bobbed her hair, danced to jazz, and tells a different story: with heart-rending expected the same independence as men. power it illustrates the heavy burden of Along with the new “wild” woman known anxiety carried by this worried overachiever. The Ritual to Beauty as flappers came a new cultural trope, the Directed by Shenny de Los Angeles, Maria vamp, the dangerous woman, later to be Marrone called femme fatale. Anita United States | 2020 | Experimental, Directed by Sushma Khadepaun Documentary India, United States | 2020 | Drama Forastera The Ritual to Beauty invites you to witness Directed by Lucia Aleñar Iglesias Anita, a young Indian living in the US, the meaning of beauty through three Spain | 2020 | Coming of Age, Drama | returns to India for her sister’s wedding. generations of Dominican women. In English Subtitles She counts on her husband’s support to learning about the ritual to beauty that was announce some great news. All excited, her passed down to each woman, there is a pain Spending her summer in Mallorca, Antonia family immediately assumes Anita is having buried deep in the denial of their blackness. comes to recognize the latent similarities a baby, but their joy is short-lived. Anita between her and her dead grandmother, found a new job. and discovers a power over her mourning grandfather. She can’t resist playing dress- up, but it becomes unclear who is inhabiting who. DRIVE-IN PROGRAMMING

Sorry to Bother You Minari Directed by Boots Riley Directed by Lee Isaac Chung Snowpiercer R | 1h 52 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | Directed by Bong Joon-ho PG-13 | 1h 55min | Drama | USA | 2018 | USA R | 2h 6min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi | USA | English Subtitles 2013 March 7, 6pm, at Zidell Yards March 5, 6pm, at Zidell Yards March 6, 6pm, at Zidell Yards In an alternate present-day version of A tender and sweeping story about what Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green Set in a future where a failed climate- roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American discovers a magical key to professional change experiment kills all life on the planet family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm success, propelling him into a macabre except for a lucky few who boarded the in search of their own American Dream. universe. Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the The family home changes completely with globe, where a class system emerges. the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but Screens with the following short: incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the Screens with the following short: instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, Minari shows the Fluidity undeniable resilience of family and what Directed by Clyde Petersen | Washington | Hard Disk 2 min | Documentary really makes a home. Directed by Mount Defiance | Oregon | 2:30 min | Sci-Fi, Comedy Screens with the following short: We are all unique fluid beings and that is something to be celebrated and fawned In a post-technology dystopia, techno- over. radicals, puppets and anarchists rise up Fluidity to reclaim their social data and physical Directed by Clyde Petersen | Washington | 2 freedoms from an oppressive, AI min | Documentary government cache. Hard Disk is a cutting social satire from Portland, Oregon taken We are all unique fluid beings and that is dead seriously. something to be celebrated and fawned over. DRIVE-IN PROGRAMMING continued

Children of Men Eternal Sunshine of The Sticky Fingers Directed by Alfonso Cuarón the Spotless Mind of Time R | 1h 49min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi | Directed by Michel Gondry Directed by Hilary Brougher USA | 2006 R | 1h 48 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | Unrated | 1h 21 min | Sci-Fi | Spain | 1997 USA | 2004 March 10, 6pm, at Zidell Yards March 9, 6pm, at Zidell Yards March 8, 6pm, at Zidell Yards The year is 2027, and for reasons not entirely When Tucker Harding, a writer of hard- clear, a human child has not been born in 18 Joel is stunned to discover that his girlfriend boiled fiction, steps out to buy coffee one years. Civilization has deteriorated. Amidst Clementine has had her memories of their day in 1953, she finds herself mysteriously this desolation, an office drone finds his tumultuous relationship erased. Out of transported to 1997. Wandering confused ennui shattered when an ex-girlfriend arrives desperation, he contacts the inventor of through New York’s East Village, she with what is surely the only pregnant woman the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak, to have collides with Drew, a jaded young woman on earth, and a charge that he must help her Clementine removed from his own memory. with blossoming self-destructive urges. group get this new mother to safety. These two soon realize they are both “time Screens with the following short: freaks”—souls who are able to live time out Screens with the following short: of order.

Cabin for Two Screens with the following short: Zombie Walk Directed by Sam Hoiland | California | Directed by Rollyn Stafford | Oregon | 13 min | Comedy, Apocalypse 7 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi Cabin for Two Harold, a hermit living in a remote cabin, Directed by Sam Hoiland | California | A guy takes his zombie for a walk through uses a self-made dating tape to talk about 13 min | Comedy, Apocalypse post apocalyptic Downtown Portland, his search for love. As he bears his soul to Oregon. the camera, we see a montage of his daily Harold, a hermit living in a remote cabin, activities and it becomes clear that all is not uses a self-made dating tape to talk about right in the world. A lurking threat is just out his search for love. As he bears his soul to of sight, but not even the apocalypse can the camera, we see a montage of his daily dampen Harold’s spirit. activities and it becomes clear that all is not right in the world. A lurking threat is just out of sight, but not even the apocalypse can dampen Harold’s spirit. DRIVE-IN PROGRAMMING continued

The Matrix Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Neverending Story The Iron Giant Wachowski Directed by Wolfgang Petersen Directed by Brad Bird R | 2h 16min | Action, Sci-Fi | USA | 1999 PG | 1h 42min | Adventure, Drama, Family | PG | 1h 26min | Animation, Action, USA | 1984 Adventure | 1999 March 11, 6pm, at Zidell Yards March 12, 6pm, at Zidell Yards March 13, 6pm, at Zidell Yards When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, A lonely young boy with a love of books Hearing stories of a UFO that crashed he discovers the shocking truth–the life he becomes drawn into a timeless world into the sea, nine-year-old Hogarth, always knows is the elaborate deception of an evil of fabulous creatures–a world that only on the lookout for mutant aliens, finds a cyber-intelligence. Neo joins legendary he can save from certain destruction–as huge, metal-eating robot with an insatiable and dangerous rebel warrior Morpheus in he discovers that he is the hero of The curiosity and equally insatiable appetite. But the battle to destroy the illusion enslaving Neverending Story. the extraterrestrial’s presence unleashes a humanity. Now, every move, every second, wave of Cold War paranoia that threatens every thought becomes a fight to stay alive– Screens with the following short: to engulf Rockwell unless Hogarth and his to escape The Matrix. 50-foot friend can stop it.

Screens with the following short: Old Dog Screens with the following short: Directed by Ann Marie Flemming | Canada | 3 min | Animation, Political Zombie Walk Old Dog Directed by Rollyn Stafford | Oregon | 7 min Since his partner passed away, Henry relies Directed by Ann Marie Flemming | Canada | Comedy, Sci-Fi on his carer for companionship and help | 3 min | Animation, Political with life’s obstacles, from failing eyesight and A guy takes his zombie for a walk through unsteady legs to fatigue and incontinence. Since his partner passed away, Henry relies post apocalyptic Downtown Portland, All dogs should be so lucky and so loved. on his carer for companionship and help Oregon. with life’s obstacles, from failing eyesight and unsteady legs to fatigue and incontinence. All dogs should be so lucky and so loved. Dune Directed by David Lynch PG-13 | 2h 17min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 1984 | USA

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In the year 10191, a spice called melange is the most valuable substance known in the universe, and its only source is the desert planet Arrakis. A royal decree awards Arrakis to Duke Leto Atreides and ousts his bitter enemies, the Harkonnens. However, when the Harkonnens violently seize back their fiefdom, it is up to Paul, Leto’s son, to lead the Fremen, the natives of Arrakis, in a battle for control of the planet and its spice.

Screens with the following short: Hard Disk Directed by Mount Defiance | Oregon | 2:30 min | Sci-Fi, Comedy

In a post-technology dystopia, techno-radicals, puppets and anarchists rise up to reclaim their social data and physical freedoms from an oppressive, AI government cache. Hard Disk is a cutting social satire from Portland, Oregon taken dead seriously.