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Director: Mona Zandi Haghighi Director/Producer: Pedro Pires Producer: Alireza Shojanoori Writers: Pedro Pires, Josiane Lapointe Cast: Fatemeh Motamed Arya, Saeed Aghakhani, Cast: Alexandre Demard Reza Babak Fifteen years after a psychotic event on the South Middle-aged Shokoo finds out that ex-husband, China Sea flipped his life upside down, Alex, a sensi - Fereydoun, has been placed in a nursing home by tive, refined and schizophrenic man is at a cross - their children. She, and second husband Reza, roads. His grand-mother and confidante, who decide to take care of Fereydoun themselves, but would like to die with peace of mind, insists that he in their own home. In doing so, the relationship tries to find a girlfriend. His encounter with a young between Shokoo and Fereydoun is significantly psychotic woman gives birth to an ardently passion - transformed. This new situation affects Reza and ate relationship, making him slowly drift away from Shokoo’s daily life and unexpected changes take his usual emotional boundaries. While the South place in the lives of all three characters. China Sea’s troubled waters well up in his mind, he gradually isolates himself, in danger of being swal - Sat, Jun 19 | 10am lowed by paranoia’s unfathomable abyss. An inti - Sedona Performing Arts Center mate odyssey, at once troubling and sublime.

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Amundsen: Director/Producer/Writer: Jean-François Boisvenue The Greatest Expedi tion Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic | 2019 | 125 min “Nyctophobia” is an essay-documentary about Narrative Feature psychological distress. Jean-François Boisvenue tells us about his childhood fears and his history of Director: Espen Sandberg mental illness. On the screen, we can see a series of Producers: Kristian Strand Sinkerud, Espen Horn, hand-drawn animations projected onto his body John M. Jacobsen that plunges us into psychosis and depersonalization. Writer: Ravn Lanesskog The whole was captured by the camera without Cast: Pål Sverre Hagen, Christan Rubeck, Katherine postproduction effects. Waterston, Trond Espen Seim, Glenn André Kaada, Ida-Ursin Holm Mon, Jun 14 | 4pm Harkins 1 Roald Amundsen’s dream of reaching the North Pole haunts him throughout his life. He is obsessed Thu, Jun 17 | 7pm with the idea of discovering the last unchartered Mary D. Fisher lands of the world. While he wins the race against Robert Scott to becomes the first man ever to con - Total Running Time: 1:14 quer the South Pole, Amundsen will sacrifice every - thing to be the first to explore the icy wastelands of the North Pole.

Sat, Jun 12 | 10am Sedona Performing Arts Center

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Director/Writer: Ruthy Pribar Director: Maisie Crow Director: Jorge Gurvich Producers: Yoav Roeh, Aurit Zamir Producers: Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault, Hillary Producers: Roberto Berliner, Leon Edery, Moshe Cast: Alena Yiv, Shira Haas, Tamir Mula, Gera Sandler Pierce Edery, Gal Greenspan Writers: Jorge Gurvich, Hagi Lifshitz Asia (Alena Yiv) and Vika (Shira Haas) are more like Ten miles from the Mexican border, students at Cast: Asaf Goldstein, António Petrin, Rom Barnea, sisters than mother and daughter. Young mom Asia Horizon High School in El Paso, Texas, are enrolling Hadas Kelderon hides nothing about her work-hard, play-hard in law enforcement classes and joining a unique lifestyle, and expects the same openness and hon - after-school activity: the criminal justice club. When a divorced Israeli dad finds himself on a esty from teenage Vika. But Vika is at an age where Through mock-ups of drug raids and active-shooter spontaneous family trip from Israel to Brazil for the privacy and independence are paramount, and in - takedowns, they inch closer to their desired careers World Cup, with his Brazilian father, a soccer fa - evitably begins to rebel against her mom’s parent - in border patrol, policing, and customs enforce - natic possibly, and his disinterested 12-year old ing style. ment. We follow Mexican American students Kassy son, what could possibly go wrong? and Cesar and recent graduate Cristina as they navi - With two stubborn and opinionated women under gate the complications inherent in their chosen Roberto (40), divorced with a failing business, his one roof, Asia finds herself in new territory and path and discover their choices may clash with the son Itay (12), a spoiled teenager that snubs his fa - stumbles to achieve a balance between asserting values and people they hold closest. ther and despises soccer, and the grandfather her parental authority and respecting her daugh - Samuel (76), an enthusiastic soccer fan that re - ter’s point of view. When health issues lead Vika to Through intimate access and a clear-sighted lens, cently found out he doesn't have much time to live, be confined to a wheelchair and her need for ro - director Maisie Crow takes us inside one of the depart spontaneously to the World Cup Games in mantic experiences and sexual exploration be - largest policing education programs in the region, Brazil - their former homeland. Their unplanned trip comes more urgent, Asia realizes she must get out offering a rare portrait of Latinx adolescents grap - turns into a wild journey that changes all of them. of the way so that her daughter can live her life. pling with their place within their communities. Wed, Jun 16 | 1pm In her debut feature film, Israeli filmmaker Ruthy Unafraid of confronting the difficult questions that Sedona Performing Arts Center Pribar focuses on a pair of Russian immigrants in lurk at the intersection of identity, immigration, and Israel, candidly exploring the challenges of mother - personal politics, "At the Ready" asks: What is the Total Running Time: 1:30 hood and the desires of the differently-abled. price of pursuing dreams that have very real ramifications? Fri, Jun 18 | 10am Sedona Performing Arts Center Sun, Jun 13 | 10:10am Harkins 2 Total Running Time: 1:25

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Director: Sonia Lowman Director: Peter Sattler Director: Todd Chandler Producers: Elliot V. Kotek, Sonia Lowman, Jon- Producers: Thad Luckinbill, Trent Luckinbill, Molly Producers: Todd Chandler, Danielle Varga Thomas Royston, Chad Williamson Smith, Rachel Smith, Trina Wyatt Writer: Steve Waverly What does it mean to be safe in school in the "Black Boys" illuminates the spectrum of black male Cast: Ben Platt, Lola Kirke, Yvette Nicole Brown, United States? Safe from what, and from whom? humanity in America. An intimate, inter-genera - Alphonso McAuley "Bulletproof" poses and complicates these ques - tional exploration, the film strives for insight to tions through a provocative exploration of fear and black identity and opportunity at the nexus of In the wake of his father’s death, Scott (Tony American violence. sports, education and criminal justice. Award-winner Ben Platt) — a twenty-something writer — sees his dream of moving to Paris put in "Bulletproof" explores the complexities of violence Preceded by: jeopardy when he’s forced to temporarily take in in schools by looking at the strategies employed to his wildly unpredictable, mentally ill sister, Cindy prevent it. The film observes the longstanding ritu - (Lola Kirke). He's then left to handle the sale of his als that take place in and around American schools: father's home but needs his sister to sign off on it homecoming parades, basketball practice, morning as it was left to both of them. announcements, and math class. Unfolding along - side these scenes are a collection of newer tradi - tions: lockdown drills, teacher firearms training, Sun, Jun 13 | 7pm Sedona Performing Arts Center Sponsored by: metal detector screenings, and school safety trade shows. The film asks what these rituals reflect back Total Running Time: 1:30 at us, looking beyond immediate causes and re - sponses to mass shootings in a cinematic medita - tion on the array of forces that shape the culture of violence in the United States.

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Director: Jackson Tisi Producer: Luigi Rossi

A moving documentary short about the journey and life of Leon Ford who, after surviving a traumatic encounter with police in November of 2012, deter - mines not to let himself become consumed by neg - ativity, focusing instead on therapy and community outreach to heal from the past. IBsrareol | k20e20n | 1M04 miirnr •o Narrrs ative Feature Sun, Jun 13 | 4pm Harkins 1 Directors: Imri Matalon, Aviad Givon UQSAu | i2e02t0 |N 27o m inM • Doocrume entary Short Producers: Liora Landau, Ronit Reichman Fri, Jun 18 | 10:10am Cast: Shira Haas, Yiftach Klein, Renana Raz, Yoav Director: Eleonore Hamelin Harkins 2 Rotman Producers: Ruth Aravena, Eleonore Hamelin

Total Running Time: 1:49 Shadowed by a strict, military father who inflicts se - After Reverend Sharon Risher’s mother was killed vere methods of punishment as a form of discipline, by a white supremacist in the historically black seventeen-year-old Ariella (Shira Haas) commits a Mother Emanuel AME Church massacre in grave error that her father isn't willing to punish Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17, 2015, she her for. Seeking a punishment of her own, Ariella found herself struggling to cope. Though many in embarks on a dark quest where she will discover a her church community were soon able to forgive secret to her father's past that will lead them to the killer, Risher was not. confront one another. In this short documentary, viewers follow Risher’s Fri, Jun 18 | 1pm journey as she begins her healing process, turning Sedona Performing Arts Center to social activism and working nationwide to speak out against racism and gun violence. Total Running Time: 1:44 Sat, Jun 12 | 4pm Harkins 1

Mon, Jun 14 | 1pm Enchantment

Total Running Time: 1:50 Thahilaend , CIrealanvd e| 2019 | 104 min • Narrative Feature UCShA |a 20s2i0n | g85 mCinh •i Dlodcuhmoentoardy Feature UCSuA |r 2e02d 0 | 80 min • Documentary Feature

Director: Tom Waller Directors: Eden Wurmfeld, Margaret Munzer Loeb Directors/Writers: Patrick Sammon, Bennett Singer Producers: Allen Liu, Tom Waller Producers: Eden Wurmfeld, Lisa Eisenpresser Writers: Katrina Grose, Don Linder, Tom Waller Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a Cast: Jim Warny, Ekawat Niratvorapanya, James Overprotected and overdirected, American children cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists Edward Holley are wilting under the weight of well-meaning par - used to describe lesbians and gay men in the 1950s, ents. In the pursuit of keeping them safe and creat - 1960s, and early 1970s. According to the medical The rescue mission that gripped the world. ing an impressive resumé of extracurricular establishment, every gay person—no matter how activities to wow admissions boards, over-parenting well-adjusted—suffered from a mental disorder. "The Cave" is a Thai film that tells the story of the smothers children across socioeconomic classes And as long as lesbians and gay men were “sick,” incredible rescue of the “Wild Boars” Soccer Team and leads to anxiety and depression. progress toward equality was impossible. "Cured" – 12 boys and their coach who in July 2018 casually chronicles the battle waged by a small group of ac - set off to explore Tham Luang cave in northern "Chasing Childhood" follows education profession - tivists who declared war against a formidable insti - Thailand and were inescapably trapped by sudden als and reformed helicopter parents who seek and tution—and won a crucial victory in the modern monsoon flood waters. Against all the odds, hastily offer solutions for developing more confident, inde - movement for LGBTQ equality. assembled teams of heroic and selfless cave divers pendent young people while restoring some joy and responders rushed to the site from around the and freedom to childhood. This film takes viewers inside the David-versus- world and saved all the boys and coach after 9 days Goliath struggle that led the American Psychiatric during which no one knew if they were alive or Preceded by: Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from dead. "The Cave" delves into the deep spiritual and its manual of mental illnesses in 1973. Viewers cultural resonance the event had on the Thai peo - meet the key players who achieved this victory, ple, as well as on the millions worldwide transfixed along with allies and opponents within the APA. to the story and hoping for a miracle. Preceded by: Sat, Jun 12 | 10am Harkins 1

Tue, Jun 15 | 1:10pm Harkins 2

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Director: Denali Tiller

This uplifting film "Little Sparks" follows a day in the lives of Kayden, Kassandra, and Tatiana — three New UHSAy |s 2t02e0 r| i1c3 amiln •G Doicrul mentary Short Remember your York City children, during the COVID-19 pandemic. Director/Writer: Kate Novack Thu, Jun 17 | 4:10pm Producers: Kate Novack, Andrew Rossi Harkins 2 Festival Souvenir In 1900, Sigmund Freud began treating a 17-year old girl he called "Dora." Her parents brought her to Sat, Jun 19 | 7:10pm therapy after she accused a family friend of sexual Harkins 2 Merchandise! assault. Freud's account of his sessions with Dora was the only major case history he published of a Total Running Time: 1:42 female patient. Intercutting his published text with a scripted version told from Dora's point of view, Available in the lobby “Hysterical Girl” revisits this landmark case. Woven throughout are several decades of cinema, of each venue! Congressional hearings, and media coverage. What emerges is a portrait of the grip that Freud’s theory of hysteria has had on popular culture over the past century and into the present day.

Sun, Jun 13 | 7pm Enchantment Sponsored by:

Tue, Jun 15 | 1pm Mary D. Fisher

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Director: Dror Zahavi Director: Ferdia Mac Anna Director: S.J. Chiro Producer: Alice Brauner Producer: Richard Kearney Producer: Jane Charles Writers: Stephen Glantz, Marcus O. Rosenmuller, Writers: Ferdia Mac Anna, Mary Duffin Writers: Thane Swigart, David Guterson (novel) Johannes Rotter, Dror Zahavi Cast: Darragh Byrne, Clelia Murphy, Helena Cast: Tom Skerritt, Mira Sorvino, Annie Gonzalez, Cast: Peter Simonischek, Daniel Donskoy, Gotz Geoghegan, Jack Hickey, Alexandra Moloney Wally Dalton, Jule Johnson Otto, Mehdi Meskar, Sabrina Amali “Sing Street” meets “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” in this Retired Seattle heart surgeon Ben Givens (Tom When world-famous conductor Eduard Sporck new coming-of-age romantic comedy. Set in small Skerritt) doesn’t have long to live. A year into a can - (Peter Simonischek) accepts the job to create an town Ireland in 1981, an anxious, stuttering teen cer diagnosis and a year into being a widower, he’d Israeli-Palestinian youth orchestra, he is quickly struggles to save his demented family while caught rather end his life on his own terms. Without telling drawn into a tempest of sheer unsolvable prob - in a love triangle between gorgeous playgirl Carla his daughter (Oscar-winner Mira Sorvino) about his lems. Having grown up in a state of war, suppres - and the nerdy Donna. The film centers around decision, he and his dog Rex hop into his car and sion or constant risk of terrorist attacks, the young Daniel Buckley who is a nervous teenager who head east over the Cascade Mountains with only a musicians from both sides are far from able to form needs to grow up quickly after his father disappears backpack and a shotgun in tow. Now among the a team. and needs to manage his madcap family – apple orchards and gorges of Eastern Washington especially his eccentric mother. and near his boyhood home, he is determined to tie Lined up behind the two best violinists – the up loose ends before he takes matters into his own emancipated Palestinian Layla and the handsome Sat, Jun 12 | 7pm hands. But as is cus - Israeli Ron – they form two parties who deeply Enchantment tomary in this kind of mistrust each other, on and off-stage alike. Will story, his journey takes Sporck succeed and make the young people forget Mon, Jun 14 | 10am Enchantment a few unexpected their hatred, at least for the three weeks until the turns, forcing him to concert? Total Running Time: 1:37 reassess what truly matters in life. Based With the first glimmer of hope, however, the on the bestselling political opponents of the orchestra show them novel by David Guter - how strong they are. son ( Snow Falling on Cedars ), "East of the Loosely inspired by Daniel Barenboim’s West-East - Mountains" will cap - ern Divan Orchestra, Academy-Award nominated ture your heart. director Dror Zahavi directs this gripping drama as a constantly growing ‘crescendo’, rising the tension Tom Skerritt Lifetime Achievement Award via Zoom. and conflicts until the last frame. A remarkable theatrical movie and contribution to the world- Preceded by: wide efforts towards understanding, humanity and peace.

Sun, Jun 20 | 7pm Mary D. Fisher BDraezil a| 2r0 2C0 |h 8i6l md in • Documentary Feature Total Running Time: 1:46 Director: Luca Ammendola Producer: Nikolai Galitzine Cast: Paul Woodson, Jessica Cores Beautifully shot on location in a drug rehabilitation center in Brazil, "Dear Child" is the story of a group of teenagers reflecting on their past as drug traffick - ers. When left to face the consequences of their ac - tions, a missionary priest will try to show them it is UMSA a| 2r0b20l |e 1 2C main n• Nyaroratin ve Short unbounded love and compassion that will keep their spirit alive. Mixing documentary and poetic Director/Writer/Cast: Jule Johnson narrative, we fall into a series of memories, inter - views and intimate recollections that open up a A young man’s hunger for adventure drives him perspective of laughter, innocence and resilience in away from the dullness of modern life, and lands a world commonly seen as horrifying and hopeless. him on the dusty doorstep of Virgil Cliffwater’s cabin. Set amongst the towering crimson walls of Tue, Jun 15 | 4pm Marble Canyon, this western-comedy takes us on a Mary D. Fisher journey of self-discovery. Sponsored by: Fri, Jun 18 | 1pm Sat, Jun 19 | 7pm Harkins 1 Sedona Performing Arts Center Total Running Time: 1:26 Total Running Time: 1:33 CEaanatda W| 20h20 e| 8a 6 tmiine •s N! arrative Feature End of the Line: The UESnA |t 2a02n0 g| 7l5e md in • Documentary Feature Women of Standing Rock Director/Writer: Scott Abramovitch USA, Finland | 2021 | 87 min • Documentary Feature Director/Writer: David Abel Producers: Scott Abramovitch, David J. Phillips Producers: David Abel, Lise King Cast: Tony Hale, Paul Walter Hauser, Danielle Director/Producer/Writer: Shannon Kring Brooks, Elisha Cuthbert, David Walton, Alan Tudyk "Entangled" is an award-winning, feature-length "End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock" is film about how climate change has accelerated a Sid Straw's life unravels as he tries to prove that he the incredible story of a small group of indigenous collision between one of the world's most endan - was friends with a celebrity in college. women who risk their lives to stop the $3.8 billion gered species, North America's most valuable fish - Dakota Access oil pipeline construction that dese - ery, and a federal agency mandated to protect Despite his best intentions to make others laugh, crated their ancient burial and prayer sites and both. The film chronicles the efforts to protect lonely software executive Sid Straw’s just can’t threatens their land, water, and very existence. North Atlantic right whales from extinction, the im - seem to connect with the world around him the When the population of their peaceful protest pacts of those efforts on the lobster industry, and way he did back in college. After being named co- camp exceeds 10,000, the women unwittingly find how the National Marine Fisheries Service has chair of the University of Pennsylvania’s reunion, themselves the leaders of a global movement. struggled to balance the vying interests. Sid reaches out to former classmates on social media, including celebrity actress Elizabeth Banks, Featuring exclusive footage including never-before- Preceded by: eager to revisit a time when he felt part of some - seen evidence of police brutality surrendered to the thing. But when nobody believes that they were filmmakers by a disgraced law enforcement officer, friends in college, Sid’s persistent efforts to prove "End of the Line" is both an exploration of the rise that he knew the actress causes his unexceptional of indigenous and feminine power in the areas of but stable life to fall apart. With a restraining order social and environmental justice, and a searing and preventing him from even attending the reunion, deeply personal story of four brave women. To - Sid must fight back and regain control over his life gether, they must face the personal costs of leader - while rediscovering the best version of himself he ship, even as their own lives and identities are left lost along the way. transformed by one of the great political and cul - tural events of the early 21st century. Preceded by: Sat, Jun 12 | 1pm Mary D. Fisher Sponsored by:

Wed, Jun 16 | 7pm UDSAi c| k20 1O9 | g10g m:in F • iDsochumeerntmary aShn ort Mary D. Fisher Director: Cynthia Abbott Total Running Time: 1:27 Producers: Cynthia Abbott, Andrea Leland

Living and fishing in the Bodega Bay area for 55 years, Dick is forced to confront the realities of a warming ocean, the creation of a Marine Projected Area in the local fishing grounds, and derelict crab pots. Dick wants to see organic sustainable fishing practices but daunting challenges are causing local UPSoA |p 20p18i e| 2s 0 min • Narrative Short THANK YOU fishermen to leave the profession. Here Dick faces these challenges with solutions and actions to keep Director/Writer: Myles Yaksich TO ALL OF OUR the local fisheries alive. Producer: Cindy Lu Cast: Matthew Knowles, Cindera Che, Kara Wang, Tue, Jun 15 | 10:10am Jonathan Stanton FESTIVAL Harkins 2

While on a long-haul flight from Shanghai to New Fri, Jun 18 | 4pm York, a despondent, American lawyer becomes se - VOLUNTEERS! Harkins 1 duced by the enchanting stories of a wise, Chinese woman seated beside him; unleashing feelings he Total Running Time: 1:25 had tried to bury deep inside.

Mon, Jun 14 | 4:10pm Harkins 2

Fri, Jun 18 | 10am Enchantment

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Director: Enah Johnscott Director: Herbert Ross Director: Paul Riccio Producer: Kang Quintus Producer: Ray Stark Producers: David Kuhn, Kevin Matusow, Angela Writers: Enah Johnscott, Buh Melvin Writers: Jay Presson Allen, Arnold Schulman Malley, Paul Riccio, Jamie Effros Cast: Kang Quintus, Ramsey Nouah, Faith Fidel, Cast: Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Writers: Paul Riccio, Jamie Effros Cosson Chinepoh, Ndamo Damarise, Nebal Godwill Roddy McDowall, Ben Vereen Cast: Norbert Leo Butz, Jamie Effros, Joanne Tucker, Awantu, Onyama Laura, Prince Sube Louis Cancelmi, Jaden Waldman, Annapurna Sriram, Experience the classic Cheri Oteri A 12-year old girl — Ekah (Faith Fidel) — is inspired by film "Funny Lady" on the story of the youngest Noble Peace Prize Winner the big screen and Martin (Jamie Effros) — a pragmatic FinTech guy in — Malala Yousafzai's. She is determined to go to pay tribute to costume New York City — is crushing life yet feels discon - school in a village of fisherman where the education designer Bob Mackie, nected, especially from his father, Kenneth, a of a girl child is considered to be a taboo. Her burning will host a Q&A distant man Martin could never figure out. Their drive and determination to break this old adage gets discussion following relationship got more complicated when Kenneth her embroiled with her father Solomon's (Kang the screening! — a retired lawyer living on Cape Cod — came out Quintus) past experience with girl child education. after his wife died and quickly found love with a "Funny Lady" was younger man, Ted (Norbert Leo Butz), a local land - Wed, Jun 16 | 7:10pm nominated for five scaper, who eventually moved in. Harkins 2 Academy Awards, in - cluding Best Costume Design (for Bob Mackie and When Kenneth unexpectedly dies, Martin heads up Fri, Jun 18 | 10am Ray Aghayan), Best Original Song ("How Lucky Can to the Cape where he’s forced to finally deal with Harkins 1 You Get"), Best Sound, Best Cinematography and Ted and a house full of memories. After a few Best Original Score. rounds butting heads and sizing each other up, Total Running Time: 2:23 Martin and Ted slowly make space for each other In this sequel to "Funny Girl," Fanny Brice (Barbra and their own grief while reconciling how to Streisand) is now a huge star on Broadway whose remember Kenneth, the different man they both fortunes have taken a hit from the Great Depres - loved, and the significance of what he left behind. sion. After a whirlwind romance, Fanny marries Billy Rose (James Caan), and the two agree to collabo - Sun, Jun 20 | 7pm rate on a show. Despite the show's early struggles, Harkins 1 Fanny makes it a success, but the sudden fame puts a strain on her marriage — especially when Billy Total Running Time: 1:03 learns she still has feelings for her ex-husband, Nick (Omar Sharif).

Wed, Jun 16 | 7pm Sedona Performing Arts Center

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Director/Producer/Writer: Dervis Zaim Cast: Saleh Bakri, Sara El Debuch, Ali Suleiman, Husam Chadat

Ahmet is a soldier in the Syrian government forces. He works as a photographer at a secret military com - pound where the bodies of rebels killed by the Assad regime are catalogued before being destroyed. Ahmet has been unable to speak since suffering an in - jury to his neck earlier in the war. He secretly copies the files to a flashdrive with a plan to make the hor - rors known to the world. Stuffing the original flash drive into his pocket, he picks up his wife Leyla and sets off, hoping to cross through rebel-held territory to the north and seek asylum in Turkey.

Mon, Jun 14 | 4pm Enchantment

Fri, Jun 18 | 1pm Mary D. Fisher Total Running Time: 2:05 DTehnmear kG | 2o02o0 |d 1 1T0 mrian •i tNoarrr ative Feature UGSAr |a 2c02e0 |A 11n5 mdin •G Nrarirtative Feature UTnhiteed K iGngdroema | 2t0 2G0 |r 9e0 emin Wall Documentary Feature Director: Christina Rosendahl Director/Writer: Sebastian Siegel Producers: Jonas Frederiksen, Bo Ehrhardt, Producers: Sebastian Siegel, Eric Brenner Director: Jared P. Scott Birgitte Hald Cast: Mena Suvari, Frances Fisher, Mariel Hemingway, Writers: Jared P. Scott, Alexander Asen, Charly Writers: Kristian Bang Foss, Dunja Gry Jensen, Stuart Townsend , Nick Stahl, Rebekah Graf Feldman, Sarah MacDonald, Pilar Rico Christina Rosendahl Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Burn Gorman, Ross McCall, The true story of iconic philosopher Ken Wilber and Renowned Malian singer Inna Modja takes us on a Zoë Tapper, Denise Gough his wife Treya. Based on the acclaimed book chroni - music-driven journey of hope, hardship, and perse - cling Treya's journals, they fall madly in love in verance across Africa’s ambitious Great Green Wall. April 9, 1940: Denmark is invaded by Nazi Germany 1980s California and are immediately faced with Part musical odyssey and cultural road-trip, part de - with demands for immediate and unconditional challenges that tear them apart. They overcome by sertification and climate justice exploration, Inna surrender. The government surrenders after a few finding connection beyond this world and love sets out on a mission to assemble Africa’s most hours and begins cooperating with the Nazis. On beyond life. thrilling musicians and record a once-in-a-lifetime the other side of the Atlantic is Denmark's ambas - album that captures the spirit of the Wall – the sador to the United States of America, a daredevil budding 8,000km “belt of green” stretching from and a man of the world - Henrik Kauffmann, who is Senegal to Djibouti – providing food, jobs, and a fu - willing to put everything on the line. He refuses to ture for millions of people. follow the German directives and engineers a rebel - lious plan to defeat Hitler and give the Danish peo - Weaving together unforgettable personal stories of ple their freedom back. Sahelian adversity, determination and triumph, Inna leads us on a pilgrimage through the cities and Tue, Jun 15 | 4pm savannahs with a band of artist-activists composing Sedona Performing Arts Center an indelibly eclectic soundtrack for a continent at a crossroads. Once complete, the Great Green Wall Total Running Time: 1:50 will be the largest living structure on earth, three times the size of the Great Barrier Reef, and a new wonder of the world. This is the resilience story of our time, a massive social action project, and a symbol of hope in the resounding African Dream.

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Gerrmaanny |n 2y02 0N | 1a04n mnin y • Narrative Feature This special screening will include a thought- Director: Wolfgang Groos provoking Q&A with special guests Mariel Producers: Jakob Claussen, Ulrike Putz Hemingway (who stars in the film), Marianne Writer: Robert Löhr Williamson (bestselling author, political activist Cast: Maren Kroymann, Heiner Lauterbach, Barbara and spiritual thought leader) and Sebastian Siegel NBigleoriao, UdSA |R 2i0d20e | 1r 7 min • Documentary Short Sukowa (director/writer/producer). Director: Jon Kasbe This isn’t how Karin, Gerhard, and Philippa imag - Fri, Jun 18 | 7pm ined their retirement: instead of enjoying their free Sedona Performing Arts Center Amidst a blood shortage crisis and standstill traffic time they feel bored, useless, and…old! In the most hours of the day in Nigeria, it can take over 24 search for a new perspective, they become Total Running Time: 1:55 hours to transport blood to patients in critical need. “Granny-Nannies" and each gets a family with chil - Joseph, one of the city's motorcycle "blood riders,” dren to take care of. But instead of harmony and can deliver blood to hospitals in under an hour. gratitude, they are soon confronted with overpro - For mothers in labor, this is often the difference tective parents, hyperactive children, and all sorts between life and death. of family problems. Although facing turbulent times, they will find out that it is never too late to Sun, Jun 13 | 10am build a happy retirement! Mary D. Fisher

Sun, Jun 13 | 10am Tue, Jun 15 | 4:10pm Sedona Performing Arts Center Harkins 2 Total Running Time: 1:44 Total Running Time: 1:47 UGSAu |n 20 2a1 |n 5d8 m ain •H Naorrattievel F eBatiubre le UHSAe | 2D01r9 e| 8a3 mins • Doocfu mGenitaryn Fetas ture Healing From Hate: Ba ttle for the Soul of a Nation Directors: Alicia Joy LeBlanc, Raja Gosnell Directors: Keith Fulton, Louis Pepe USA | 2019 | 85 min • Documentary Feature Producer: Chelsea Gonnering Producers: Lucy Darwin, Keith Fulton Writers: Daniel Floren, Bradley Gosnell Director: Peter D. Hutchison Cast: Bradley Gosnell, Daniel Floren "He Dreams of Giants" is the culmination of a tril - ogy of documentaries that have followed film direc - "Healing From Hate" examines the root causes of "Gun and a Hotel Bible" is a provocative dialogue tor Terry Gilliam over a twenty-five-year period. hate group activity through the bold work of those between a man on the verge of a violent act and a Charting Gilliam’s final, beleaguered quest to adapt battling intolerance on the front lines, including Life personified hotel bible. Don Quixote, this is a study of creative obsession. After Hate, now engaged in transforming attitudes of intolerance. Documenting a stunning era of ha - Spend one hour in a desperate man's life as Pete For over thirty years, Terry Gilliam has dreamed of tred in America, the film follows these reformers in comes "face-to-face" with everything he once be - creating a screen adaptation of Cervantes’ master - their work to de-radicalize White Nationalists, and lieved in when confronted by the chipper bible on piece. When he first attempted the production in heal communities torn apart by racism. the table, Gideon. Gideon (being a Bible) doesn't 2000, Gilliam already had the reputation of being a get out much. Still, he has plenty to say...but Pete bit of a Quixote himself: a filmmaker whose stories Established by a group of former neo-Nazis and Skin - has heard it all before and is more than ready to of visionary dreamers raging against gigantic forces heads, Life After Hate was initially envisioned as a spar with the "Word of God." mirrored his own artistic battles with the Hollywood support network for those attempting to transition machine. The collapse of that infamous and ill-fated back into the mainstream. But with hate on the rise, As ideas about morality, the Bible, and God fly, the production only further cemented Gilliam’s reputa - the group began to focus on community engagement clock ticks. Gideon and Pete battle and bond as tion as an idealist chasing an impossible dream. "He and direct interventions as well. These compelling they are forced to deal with their inadequacies. Dreams of Giants" picks up Gilliam’s story seven - “formers”, all with deeply moving stories of their Unfortunately, time is short. Can Gideon sway Pete teen years later as he finally mounts the production own, carry a uniquely personal understanding of the before Pete pulls the trigger? once again and struggles to finish it. roots of hate – and an equally unique approach to working with active “movement” members that’s Festival Double Feature with: Preceded by: grounded in empathy and compassion.

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UWSA h| 2e02n0 | T48h mein •M Narurastiviec F eCathure anges IUcelnannd |u 20r 20 | 19 min • Documentary Short Beneath the Ink Director/Producer/Writer: Lakshmi Devy Director: Chris Burkard USA | 2018 | 12 min • Documentary Short Cast: Lakshmi Devy, Adith Arun, Naveen George Thomas, Shreya Navile, Vignesh Shivasubramanium In this short we catch a glimpse of a father who had Director: Cy Dodson dedicated his life to sharing his passion for the Devy is an Indian American filmmaker who goes to ocean and outdoor adventure with his young As society's belief systems are seemingly changing, India to shoot a documentary and also meet her daughter — against a backdrop that is visually and or even reverting in time, one Ohio artist is chal - long distance boyfriend. Trying to keep her sanity audibly inspiring. Elli Thor is an Icelandic photogra - lenging his community by saying, "bring me your while dealing with elements of toxicity around her pher, surfer, and former kayaker. A decade ago Elli mistakes". Inspired by recent events, Billy Joe Devy is at a crossroads in life. An unforeseen inci - nearly drowned under a waterfall while kayaking a White and his Red Rose Tattoo Studio are promot - dent wipes away her blurry thoughts and brings out challenging Icelandic river. The near death experi - ing one simple concept … ERASE THE HATE. the warrior in her. ence became a catalyst for personal growth and his "Beneath the Ink" is a timely look at hate and professional career. After walking away from kayak - racism in the western foothills of this Appalachian Sun, Jun 13 | 7:10pm ing, a newfound passion for surfing and the birth of region that reveals heartfelt stories of change and Harkins 2 his daughter, Unnur, gave him a new perspective redemption. worth living for. Wed, Jun 16 | 1pm Thu, Jun 17 | 1:10pm Sun, Jun 13 | 4:10pm Mary D. Fisher Harkins 2 Harkins 2

Total Running Time: 1:46 Fri, Jun 18 | 1pm Sat, Jun 19 | 4:10pm Enchantment Harkins 2 Total Running Time: 1:42 Total Running Time: 1:37 UTShA, eIre laHnde | 2a02l1t |h 65c mainr •e D oCcuUmeRntaE ry Feature IHsraeel r| e20 2W0 | 9e2 mAin r• e Narrative Feature

Director/Producer: Chad Murdock Director: Nir Bergman Writer: Nicholas J. Webb Producers: Jonathan Doweck, Eitan Mansuri, Featuring: Nicholas J. Webb, Dr. Ray Power Marica Stocchi Writer: Dana Idisis Healthcare Futurist Nicholas Webb, takes the audi - Cast: Shai Avivi, Noam Imber, Smadi Wolfman, Efrat ence on a journey to the optimistic future of health - Ben-Zur care. The film brings together patients and doctors from both the US and Ireland to discuss the incredi - Aharon has devoted his life to raising his son Uri. ble importance of shifting from a “treatment cen - They live together in a gentle routine, away from tric” model to one of prevention and wellness. In the real world. But Uri is autistic, and now as a order to make this big shift possible, patients and young adult it might be time for him to live in a spe - doctors need to demand that the “healthcare in - cialized home. While on their way to the institution, dustrial machine” remove the wedge between their Aharon decides to run away with his son and hits important relationship. the road, knowing that Uri is not ready for this sep - aration. Or is it, in fact, his father who is not ready? Doctors need more time with patients, better men - tal health and nutrition resources. As a society, we Sun, Jun 13 | 4pm need to make healthcare available to all popula - Enchantment Sponsored by: tions. More importantly, we need to make health and wellness available to underserved populations, Sun, Jun 20 | 10:10am not just interventional care. The beautiful future of Harkins 2 healthcare will be the reestablishment of the time and the relationship between doctors and their pa - Total Running Time: 1:32 tients. The relationship between the doctor and pa - tient, is the enabler of health, not hyper intervention.

“As a healthcare technologist, it became very clear to me that technology was not the enabler of healthcare. It turns out that, reestablishing the rela - tionship between the doctor and the patient is the enabler.” — Nicholas Webb, host and filmmaker

Thu, Jun 17 | 7pm Enchantment

Sat, Jun 19 | 10:10am Harkins 2 NiHorwuaym | 2a01n 9 | 99 min • Documentary Feature Total Running Time: 1:05 Director: Tonje Hessen Schei Sponsored by: "iHuman" follows pioneers at the frontline of the invisible AI revolution to see how this technology is developed and implemented. Through some of the brightest minds in the AI industry, "iHuman" draws the roadmap to where we are going and shows a growing conflict in the tech world. AI now perme - ates every aspect of our lives, but only a handful of people really have control over what it’s doing to us. The true limits of AI remain unknown — as do the extent of the consequences.

Sat, Jun 12 | 7:10pm Harkins 2

Wed, Jun 16 | 10am Enchantment

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Directors: Caren Zucker, John Donvan Directors/Producers: Sarah Foudy, Ben Steele Director/Writer: Warren Sulatycky Producers: Caren Zucker, John Donvan, Ray Conley Writer: Ben Steele Producers: Warren Sulatycky, Caitlyn Sponheimer Cast: Donald Triplett, Mickey McGuinness, Caren Cast: Greg Ellwand, Toni Ellwand, Aixa Kay, Ahmed Zucker "In Memoriam" vividly and shockingly depicts the Muslimani, Melody Mokhtari human cost of the country’s mass shooting epi - A mother tracks down and befriends the first per - demic through point of view of the surviving victims In the rural western Canadian cowboy town of Red son ever diagnosed with autism, now an elderly and communities of three of the deadliest shoot - River, Mac Bagley (a recently widowed rancher in man in rural Mississippi, to learn if his life story ings in U.S history: The school shooting in Parkland, his sixties) opens his home to a fractured Syrian holds promise for her own autistic son. Her journey Florida; The Harvest Music Festival in Las Vegas; refugee family. with side trips through autism's past and present and The Church Shooting in Sunderland Springs, exposes a startling record of cruelty and kindness Texas. It's a gripping story of loss and survival told Withstanding some opposition in the conservative alike, framed by forces like race, money and privi - by the victims, survivors, and family members. town, Layla (a journalist and booza-maker — lege. Ultimately, she finds hope that more of us Arabic ice cream — from Aleppo), her young will begin to have the backs of those who are Followed by: magic-inspired daughter Heba and Salem (Layla's "different." adult gay brother) struggle to gain new footing in this new land. Film scored by Wynton Marsalis. Mac finds himself in similar circumstances as he Tue, Jun 15 | 10am seeks for meaning and hope after the loss of his Harkins 1 wife. While waiting for news of her missing hus - band, Layla introduces Mac to her Muslim culture. Fri, Jun 18 | 4:10pm She proposes they partner in opening a booza ice Harkins 2 cream shop to help them both move forward. The venture may just hold the promise for a new future. Total Running Time: 1:39 Sat, Jun 12 | 7pm Mary D. Fisher

The Children Fri, Jun 18 | 1:10pm Will Lead the Way Harkins 2 Remember to vote USA | 2021 | 5 min • Documentary Short Total Running Time: 2:08 Directors: Beth Gage, George Gage Producer: Peter Yarrow for your Featuring: Sofia Rothenburg, Payton Francis, Marisol Garrido

favorite films! Music, singing, and songwriting combined with the expert guidance of Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) and a group of professional musicians helped student survivors of Parkland’s horrific high school Winning films will be massacre begin to heal. “The Children Will Lead the Way”, written by the students, is at the heart of an announced on Sunday album of songs as well as a video reinforcing the strength and advocacy of youthful activists awaken - morning and brought ing audiences across back for additional America. This special screening screenings. will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with Peter Yarrow (of Peter, Paul and Mary) and a live performance by Sofia Rothenburg and Payton Francis who are featured in the film.

Sun, Jun 13 | 1pm Sedona Performing Arts Center

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Director/Writer: Luis Valdez Directors/Producers: Peter D. Hutchison, Director/Producer: Ted Griswold Producers: Taylor Hackford, Bill Borden Lucas Sabean Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Esai Morales, Rosanna Writers: Jeremy Earp, Jackson Katz Be it for sport, self-defense or just to spend quality DeSoto, Elizabeth Pena, Danielle von Zerneck, Joe time, these parents teach their children to shoot Pantoliano For years, right-wing politicians and pundits have pistols at a firing range. accused the left of playing “the race card” and “the We are proud to present a special 35th Anniversary woman card” and engaging in identity politics. This Mon, Jun 14 | 1:10pm screening of the critically-acclaimed, audience eye-opening documentary turns the tables and Harkins 2 sensation "La Bamba"! The film was nominated for takes dead aim at the right’s own longstanding use a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture — of white male identity politics in American presi - Fri, Jun 18 | 7:10pm Drama. dential elections. Harkins 2

Lou Diamond Phillips plays legendary 1950s rocker Ranging from Richard Nixon’s tough-talking, fear- Total Running Time: 1:24 Ritchie Valens (born Ricardo Valenzuela), in this stoking law-and-order campaign in 1968 to Donald musical biography. Before scoring radio and concert Trump’s hyper-macho revival of these same tactics success with hits like La Bamba, C'mon Let's Go, in 2020, “The Man Card” shows how the right has and Donna , Valens was a 15-year-old migrant employed a deliberate strategy to frame Democrats worker who worked with his mother Connie and Liberals as soft, brand the Republican Party as (Rosanna DeSoto). Valens' musical talents are en - the party of “real men,” and position conservatives couraged by his family — though later various as defenders of white male power and authority in members of his family react to his fame with vary - the face of seismic demographic changes and ing degrees of pride and envy — and he soon earns ongoing struggles for equality. an audition with legendary record producer and former Artie Shaw clarinet player Bob Keane (Joe "The Man Card" pays special attention to how the Pantoliano). When a romance with Donna Ludwig right has used white-male identity politics to chan - (Danielle von Zerneck) is forbidden by her conserva - nel the legitimate, class-based grievances of mil - tive father, Valens pens the famous ballad that lions of white men into unbridled resentment of bears her name. Tours follow his chart success until people of color, immigrants, women, the LGBTQ the fatal plane crash that claimed the lives of community, and so-called “liberal elites.” It also ULSaA n| 2d 02f0 i|l 1l 19 min • Narrative Feature Valens, The Big Bopper (aka J.P. Richardson), and shows how this siege mentality has undercut the Buddy Holly on February presidential prospects of women and undermined Director/Writer: Yesser Laham 3rd, 1959. the nation’s ability to adapt to a changing world. Producers: Furaha Bayibsa, Branden Cobb, Yesser Laham, Leonard Espra Join us as we experience Preceded by: Cast: Linda Blair, Julie Lake, Victoria Clare, Dorsan "La Bamba" on the big Titus screen again and honor director Luis Valdez — When a little girl begins to see the ghost of another who will Zoom in for girl her age shortly after finding a necklace at a the Q&A — with our landfill, she embarks on a journey to help the ghost Lifetime Achievement discover the mystery behind her death. Award! Wed, Jun 16 | 1pm Tue, Jun 15 | 7pm Enchantment Sedona Performing Arts Center Fri, Jun 18 | 4pm Total Running Time: 1:48 Mary D. Fisher Sponsored by: Total Running Time: 1:59 UTShA |e 2 0S20e | e19k mein r• Documentary Short

Director: Lance Edmands Producers: Kyle Martin, Sarah Tihany

A lyrical portrait of an excommunicated Amish woodworker struggling with spirituality, poverty, and life as an outcast from his strict, insular community.

Also preceded by: Medicine Man: UMSA o| 2l0t2o0 | 9B1 emilnl •a Narrative Feature Mission: Joy — The Stan Brock Story Finding Happiness United Kingdom | 2020 | 96 min Director: Alexander Jeffery Documentary Feature Producers: Alexander Jeffery, Paul Petersen, UinSA |T 2r02o1 u| 9b0 mlein d• D oTcuimenetars y Feature Richard Wharton Director: Paul Michael Angell Writers: Alexander Jeffery, Paul Petersen Louie Psihoyos, Peggy Callahan (Co-Director) Producers: Vladimir V Daniel, Victor Buhler, Directors: Cast: Jason Edwards, Elizabeth Stenholt, Paul Producers: Peggy Callahan, Mark Monroe Petersen, Andrea von Kampen A timeless documentary adventure recounting the Featuring: His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Archbishop incredible life story of British-born Amazonian cow - Desmond Tutu, Thupten Jinpa Langri, Mpho Tutu In the Sicilian town of Taormina, an aspiring poet in van Furth, Doug Abrams boy turned U.S. TV star, Stan Brock, who sacrificed search of inspiration meets a folk singer trying to everything to bring free healthcare to people in write a follow up to her breakout hit. Their chem - Academy Award-winning director Louie Psihoyos need. At once a heart-warming tribute to the istry sparks collaboration, challenging each other to unifying power of volunteerism, and an exploration teams up with co-director Peggy Callahan on "Mis - express their thorniest secrets, growing closer all sion: Joy — Finding Happiness in Troubled Times", a of a perennial outsider’s search for meaning the while. through giving of himself. This film is a challenging documentary with unprecedented access to the un - likely friendship of two international icons who and inspirational tale of an unlikely man on an Preceded by: improbable yet unwavering mission to unite a transcend religion: His Holiness the Dalai Lama and nation and resolve one of the biggest social issues Archbishop Tutu. In their final joint mission, these of our time: the U.S. healthcare crisis. self-described mischievous brothers give a master class in how to create joy in a world that was never easy for them. They offer neuroscience-backed wis - Mon, Jun 14 | 7pm Sedona Performing Arts Center dom to help each of us live with more joy, despite circumstances. Thu, Jun 17 | 7:10pm The Book of Harkins 2 Inspired by New York Times bestseller Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World , the film showcases the exchange between these two Sat, Jun 19 | 1:10pm Harkins 2 Nobel Peace Prize winners that led to that book. Consisting largely of never-before-seen footage Total Running Time: 1:36 shot over five days at the Dalai Lama’s residence in Exit Package Dharamsala, the film invites viewers to join these USA | 2020 | 14 min • Narrative Short luminaries behind the scenes as they recount stories from their lives, each having lived through Remember to vote Director/Writer: John Gray periods of incredible difficulty and strife. Producer: Melissa Jo Peltier for your Cast: Kirk Acevedo, Henry Czerny, Tim Griffin, Jason With genuine affection, mutual respect and a Kravits, Kim Wayans healthy dose of teasing, these unlikely friends im - part lessons gleaned from lived experience, ancient favorite films! A black comedy, quarantine-era murder mystery. A traditions, and the latest cutting-edge science re - ZOOM meeting for a corrupt investment company garding how to live with joy in the face of all of life’s goes horribly wrong. Made completely through challenges from the extraordinary to the mundane. ZOOM, with all of the actors working from home. Winning films will be "Mission: Joy" is an antidote for the times. Sat, Jun 19 | 1pm Sun, Jun 20 | 7:10pm announced on Sunday Sedona Performing Arts Center Harkins 2 morning and brought Total Running Time: 1:45 Total Running Time: 1:30 Sponsored by: back for additional screenings. SMwitzyer lWand o| 2n02d0 |e 11r1f muinl •W Narraatinved Fea ature UNSAa |v 20i1g9 a | 8t8i mning • DToHcumRenU tary Feature CTahnadea |N 20e20w | 1 0C6 moinr •p Docurma etntiaory nFeature

Director: Bettina Oberli Director: Lindsay Taylor Jackson Directors: Joel Bakan, Jennifer Abbott Producers: Lukas Hobi, Reto Schärli Producers: Patrice Kincade, Garrett Beltis, Danielle Executive Producer: Joel Bakan Writers: Bettina Oberli, Cooky Ziesche Johnson, Sarah Shufelt Producers: Betsy Carson, Trish Dolman Cast: Gottfried Breitfuss, Agnieszka Grochowska, Writer: Joel Bakan André Jung, Marthe Keller Every year, thousands of people attempt a thru- hike of the Appalachian Trail, but only one in four From Joel Bakan and Jennifer Abbott, filmmakers Winner of awards at Tribeca and Vancouver Film will be successful and just a quarter of those few of the multi-award-winning global hit “The Festivals, "My Wonderful Wanda" is a delightful are women. “Navigating THRU” follows the journey Corporation”, comes this hard-hitting and timely satire of the haves and the have-nots set against of several women as they hike 2,200 miles along sequel. the backdrop of a gorgeous lakeside villa in the Appalachian Trail and discover what it takes to Switzerland. become the "25% of the 25%." The film explores "The New Corporation" reveals how the corporate the everyday struggles any THRU hiker faces as well takeover of society is being justified by the sly At the story’s center is Wanda (Agnieszka as what it means to be a woman on and off the rebranding of corporations as socially conscious Grochowska) a Polish caretaker who has left her trail. entities. From gatherings of corporate elites in own small children in Poland to look after Josef Davos, to climate change and spiraling inequality; (André Jung) the stroke-ridden patriarch of the Preceded by: the rise of ultra-right leaders to COVID-19 and racial wealthy Wegmeister-Gloor dynasty. Wanda is injustice, the film looks at corporations’ devastating adept in navigating the tricky family dynamics power. Countering this is a groundswell of resist - between the two grown (if still childish) offspring ance worldwide as people take to the streets in and the elegant if controlling matriarch Elsa (an pursuit of justice and the planet’s future. amazing Marthe Keller), along with the sporadic intervention of animals stuffed or alive. But an In the face of spiraling inequality, climate change, unexpected turn of events turns everything upside and the hollowing out of democracy, "The New down. Corporation" is a cry for social justice, deeper democracy, and transformative solutions. While "My Wonderful Wanda" exposes present-day realities of class injustice, thanks to writer-director Sat, Jun 12 | 10am Bettina Oberli’s empathetic lens, it is never less Mary D. Fisher than a very human comedy. Tue, Jun 15 | 4pm Sun, Jun 13 | 7pm COannad aF | a20l2l0i |n 1g4 min • Documentary Short Harkins 1 Mary D. Fisher Director: Josephine Anderson Total Running Time: 1:46 Sun, Jun 20 | 10am Producer: Joella Cabalu Mary D. Fisher Three women reflect on their willingness to sustain Total Running Time: 1:51 broken bones, concussions, and organ damage as professional mountain bikers. "On Falling" is a dreamy, unorthodox glimpse into the inner land - scapes of those immersed in a subculture where falling is normal. Blending white-knuckle riding, crashes, and quiet self-examination, the film un - folds as a sensory meditation on the rush of control that comes with completely letting go.

Wed, Jun 16 | 4:10pm Harkins 2

Sat, Jun 19 | 10am Harkins 1

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Director: Nicholas Bruckman Directors: Sky Dylan-Robbins, Ellie Dylan Director/Writer: Deirdre O'Connor Producer: Amanda Roddy Producer: Ellie Dylan Producers: Deirdre O'Connor, Jodi Weiner Writers: Nicholas Bruckman, Amanda Roddy Cast: Ellie Dylan, Sky Dylan-Robbins, Steven Robbins Cast: Danny Aiello, Adria Tennor, Frankie Ingrassia

Ady Barkan and his wife Rachael always said they This remarkable documentary takes a life-affirming "One Moment" is a humorous, heartwarming story were the luckiest people they knew. A rising star in look at the power of true love, even through life’s of a recently widowed aging father and his middle- political organizing and new father, Ady had his most inevitable passage. With "On Our Own Is - age children struggling to redefine their new family whole life in front of him. But four months after his land", award-winning filmmakers Ellie Dylan and roles and responsibilities, while also navigating son Carl is born, Ady is diagnosed with ALS, a deadly Sky Dylan-Robbins capture a universal part of life their own place in the world. Welcome to the disease that will ultimately paralyze his entire body. that’s rarely talked about or seen. Chronicling the "Sandwich Generation." seasons of a relationship from its romantic begin - Despairing at the loss of decades of happiness with nings through its unexpected end, this timely and "One Moment" marks legendary actor Danny his family, Ady decides to return to his roots as an uplifting documentary looks death in the face to Aiello's final film role. activist. Traveling to protest a bill that will cut into discover how to find strength, peace and meaning the healthcare programs he needs to survive, Ady in the present. Fri, Jun 18 | 4pm Sponsored by: chances to meet a powerful Senator on an airplane. Sedona Performing Arts Center The conversation is captured on video, goes viral, Preceded by: and catapults him into the public eye. Total Running Time: 1:55

Capitalizing on the power of his new platform, Ady launches the Be A Hero campaign to fight for healthcare justice. With a diverse group of activists he barnstorms across the country in a wheelchair- accessible RV, building a people-powered move - ment. Along the way they educate and empower others to use the tactic of birddogging—con - fronting elected officials with emotional, personal stories intended to directly impact legislation.

As Ady’s natural voice fades, his influence grows, transforming him into one of the most powerful ac - tivists in America. But as he learns to wield his new - Uninteds Kpingodokme | 2n 020 | 7 min • Documentary Short found power, he must also learn to adapt as a father and husband. As Ady nears the end of his Director: William Armstrong NTohrweay, UPSAa |i 2n02t0 e| 1r0 6a mnin •d D otcuhmen taTryh Feiaeturf e life, he seeks to form a lasting bond with Carl, while Producer: Allan Stenild also creating a better world for him to inherit. Featuring: Paul Lightfoot, Sebastian Haynes Director: Benjamin Ree Producer: Ingvil Giske Mon, Jun 14 | 10am "Unspoken" is a rare window into a contemporary Sedona Performing Arts Center master, renowned choreographer Paul Lightfoot, in - Desperate for answers about the theft of her two terpreting his emotions into physical form and per - paintings, a Czech artist seeks out and befriends the Wed, Jun 16 | 1:10pm formed by dancer Sebastian Haynes. A powerful career criminal who stole them. After inviting her Harkins 2 and moving tribute to Lightfoot’s father, lost during thief to sit for a portrait, the two form an improba - the pandemic, and a beacon of creative possibility ble relationship and an inextricable bond that will Thu, Jun 17 | 4pm in this unprecedented time. Through this film he forever link these lonely souls. Enchantment has created a piece that holds all of the words he was unable to say. “The Painter and the Thief” won the Special Jury Total Running Time: 1:36 Prize for Creative Storytelling at the 2020 Sundance Wed, Jun 16 | 7pm Film Festival. Enchantment Sat, Jun 12 | 10:10am Sat, Jun 19 | 4pm Harkins 2 Harkins 1 Tue, Jun 15 | 7pm Total Running Time: 1:23 Enchantment

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Director/Writer: Grégory Magne Director: James Redford Director: David Garrett Byars Producer: Frédéric Jouve Producer: Karen Pritzker Producer: Jeremy Rubingh Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Gregory Montel Featuring: Hal Herring, Angelo Baca, Terry Tempest "Playing for Keeps" examines the importance of Williams, Bernadette Dimientieff, Joel Clement, Anne Walberg is a master in perfumes. She creates play and downtime for all of us — children, adults, Spencer Shaver fragrances and sells her incredible gift to many seniors, and animals. It is a tapestry of interwoven companies. She is a diva, selfish and temperamen - characters that takes a look at the science behind In a time of growing income inequality in America, tal. Guillaume is her new driver and the only one and health benefits of the play state as well as its there is one asset that remains in the hands of the who dares facing her. This is probably why she does recent decline in our lives. It shows us that staying American people: the 640 million acres of America’s not fire him. playful is a powerful aspect of a happy life. Public Lands.

"Perfumes" is a feel-good tale of friendship with a Preceded by: Given its status as the last large-scale public asset fragrant and very French backdrop! on the planet, powerful forces have aligned to at - tempt the largest land grab in modern history, rob Sat, Jun 12 | 1pm Americans of this unique birthright, and make mod - Sedona Performing Arts Center Sponsored by: ern day vassals of the American people.

Total Running Time: 1:40 Despite support from voters across the political spectrum, our public lands face unprecedented threats from extractive industries and the politi - cians in their pockets. Part love letter, part political exposé, “Public Trust” investigates how we arrived at this precarious moment through three heated conflicts — a national monument in the Utah desert, a mine in the Boundary Waters and oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — and UASAl l| 2o01n9 |a 23 Mmin a• Drodcuim Gentraray Ssh oDrt ay makes a case for their continued protection.

Director/Writer: Michal Pietrzyk Wed, Jun 16 | 10:10am Producers: Michal Pietrzyk, Celeste Caliri, David Harkins 2 Favret, Gabriel Bienczycki Cast: Big Chief Demond Melancon Fri, Jun 18 | 4pm Enchantment In a gentrifying New Orleans, Demond sacrifices to The Most Beau tiful Boy be Big Chief in a secret 200-year culture known as Total Running Time: 1:36 Mardi Gras Indians: African-American men from the iSwne dtenh |e 20 2W1 | o93 rmlidn • Documentary Feature city’s roughest neighborhoods who spend all year sewing feathered suits they’ll wear only once, in a Directors/Writers: Kristina Lindström, Kristian Petri battle to decide who’s “the prettiest.” Producer: Stina Gardell Tue, Jun 15 | 1pm In 1971, at the world premiere of Death in Venice in Enchantment London, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed Björn Andrésen, the teen star of his latest film, "The Thu, Jun 17 | 4pm Most Beautiful Boy in the World.” This is the story of Harkins 1 a boy who was thrust to international stardom for his iconic looks and lived a life of glamour. 50 years Total Running Time: 1:25 later, Björn looks back. A haunting psychologically probing portrait of Bjorn Andresen, the film dwells persuasively on how sudden fame can ruin a young life, bypassing any perks of stardom.

Mon, Jun 14 | 4pm Sedona Performing Arts Center

Sat, Jun 12 | 1:10pm Harkins 2

Wed, Jun 16 | 4pm Enchantment Total Running Time: 1:33 UQSAu | e20e21n | 1B00 emien •s Narrative Feature NRoarwday,i Iorang, rSwaitpzerhlan do |f 2 0a20 F| 8a2 min ily CTahnadea, IRtaley, dUS AV, Uinoiteldi Kn ingdom, Austria | 1998 Documentary Feature 130 min • Narrative Feature Director: Michael Lembeck Producers: Harrison Powell, Dominique Telson, Director/Writer: Firouzeh Khosrovani Director: François Girard Richard L. Jackson, Claudine Marrotte Producers: Fabien Greenberg, Bård Kjøge Rønning Producer: Niv Fichman Writer: Donald Martin Writers: Don McKellar, François Girard Cast: Ellen Burstyn, James Caan, Ann-Margret, Jane A love story, two different beliefs, a family in the Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Oh, Carlo Cecchi, Curtin, Christopher Lloyd, Loretta Devine, Elizabeth turmoil of Iran’s modern history. Irene Grazioli, Anita Laurenzi, Jean-Luc Bideau, Mitchell, French Stewart Christoph Koncz Torn between two parents, the family was split. For While her house undergoes repairs, fiercely inde - a little girl, it was difficult and painful. As her iden - "The Red Violin" won the Academy Award for pendent senior Helen (Academy Award-winner tity developed, she carried both of them inside of Best Original Score and earned a Golden Globe Ellen Burstyn) moves into a nearby retirement com - her. Her story is Iran ́s story of the struggle between nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. munity ― just temporarily. tradition and modernization. Told through brilliant cinematography, archive footage, letters and A red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way Once behind the doors of Pine Grove Senior Com - voices, the home in Tehran becomes a metaphor through three centuries over several owners and munity, she encounters lusty widows, cutthroat of the shifts in her family, hence in modern Iranian countries, eventually ending up at an auction where bridge tournaments and a hotbed of bullying society. it may find a new owner. “mean girls” the likes of which she hasn’t encoun - tered since high school, all of which leaves her Preceded by: In present day Montreal, a famous Nicolo Bussotti yearning for the solitude of home. But somewhere violin, known as "the red violin," is being auctioned between flower arranging and water aerobics Helen off. During the auction, we flash back to the cre - discovers that it’s never too late to make new ation of the violin in 17th century Italy, and follow friends and perhaps even find a new love. the violin as it makes its way through an 18th cen - tury Austrian monastery, a violinist in 19th century Oxford, China during the Cultural Revolution, and back to Montreal, where a collector tries to estab - lish the identity and the secrets of "the red violin."

Film screening will be followed by a reception in the lobby of the Sedona Performing Arts Center and then a performance by Elizabeth Pitcairn on the acclaimed red violin at 7 p.m.

Irnan v| 2i0s2i0b | l2e8 min • Documentary Short These are separate ticketed events.

Director: Shirin Barghnavard Sat, Jun 12 | 4pm Join us for a lively and fun Q&A with award-winning Sedona Performing Arts Center actress and one of the stars of “Queen Bees” The Berlin Wall is a metaphor for the concept of Loretta Devine (in person) and invited guest and separation in this film. While seeing the remnants Total Running Time: 2:10 festival honoree James Caan. of the Berlin Wall today, surrounded by excited Sponsored by: tourists, taking photographs, we hear the voices of Sat, Jun 19 | 4pm several artists from different backgrounds who talk Sedona Performing Arts Center about their bitter personal experiences imposed on them due to their nationalities. These voices Total Running Time: 1:40 express their protest over the emphasis on the term “Nationality”, a very strong but hidden and Sponsored by: invisible wall of today. They believe that stressing on the concept of nationality deepens the bound - aries and separation between people, a separation similar to the one that the Berlin Wall created.

Mon, Jun 14 | 10am Harkins 1

Sat, Jun 19 | 1pm Harkins 1

Total Running Time: 1:50 UTShA |e 2 0R20 o| 9a4 dmi nU • Dp ocumentary Feature BSealgikuma, Nwetha erlands | 2018 | 81 min USSaA |v 2i0n20g | 9P8 mainr •a Ndarirastie ve Feature Documentary Feature Directors: Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel Director: Jay Silverman Producer: Rachel Pikelney Director: Ben Asamoah Producers: Bethany Cerrona, Will Newman, Joe Producer: Peter Kruger Gamache "The Road Up" follows four participants in Cara — a Writer: Van Billet Chicago job-training program — as they seek to Often we receive e-mails from strangers announcing Cast: William Moseley, Johanna Braddy, Mimi make the long journey from rock bottom to stable that you have won the lottery or that an attractive Kennedy, Mary Pat Gleason, Shashawnee Hall, Paul employment. Throughout, they are guided, goaded, woman would like to chat with you … But who are Dooley, Bill Cobbs, James Eckhouse and challenged by their impassioned mentor, Mr. the people that try to deceive us? What human Jesse, whose own complicated past drives him to story lies behind the phenomenon of ‘internet “Saving Paradise” is a drama based on a true story help others find hope in the face of poverty, addic - fraud’? about a ruthless corporate raider on the verge of tion, homelessness, and trauma. making partner at his private equity firm, when he In "Sakawa" we meet a three Ghanaian youngsters is forced to return to his small town roots where he Taken together, their stories create a powerful mo - who, out of desperation, turn to internet scamming suddenly inherits his father’s nearly bankrupt pencil saic of the struggles millions of Americans face through the help of black magic. ‘Ama’ is a young factory, which is the heart and soul of the de - every day in a precarious and unforgiving economy, mother and a newcomer on the scene. ‘OneDollar’ pressed community. With the foreclosure deadline the daunting and often interconnected challenges tries to save the money to travel to Italy. Francis, looming he must decide to either let it close or join that prevent so many from getting — and keeping the most experienced of them all, learns the young - the community's fight to save it. — a job. Because when all that’s behind you is sters the tricks of the trade. What is viewed in the wreckage, and everything in front is an obstacle, West as fraud, is seen by the Sakawa-boys as the Thu, Jun 17 | 1pm how do you find the road up? exploitation of available resources. These resources Enchantment come in the form of electronic waste, dumped in Mon, Jun 14 | 4pm their country by the West. Sat, Jun 19 | 10am Mary D. Fisher Mary D. Fisher Sakawa is not only a criminal practice, but also a Thu, Jun 17 | 10:10am means of survival. By showing their stories, the Total Running Time: 1:38 Harkins 2 viewer participates in a their way of life and discov - ers that none of them are good, but none of them Total Running Time: 1:34 are bad. Just like each of us.

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Director: Tal Amiran

Under Paris' glittering Eiffel Tower, undocumented Senegalese migrants sell miniature souvenirs of the monument, to support their families back home. Far from their loved ones and hounded by the po - lice, each day is a struggle through darkness in the City of Lights.

Sun, Jun 13 | 7pm Harkins 1

Wed, Jun 16 | 10am Harkins 1

Total Running Time: 1:36 LTathviae, C zSecihg Rnep uPbliac, Liinthutaeniar | 2021 | 114 min Sisters: The Summer We USSmA | a20l1l9 |T 1i0m4 mie n • Narrative Feature Narrative Feature FNoorwuayn | 2d02 1O | u77 rm iSn •u Nparreatirvpe Foeawture ers Director/Writer: Niav Conty Director: Viesturs Kairišs Producers: John J.A. Jannone, Niav Conty Silje Salomonsen, Arild Østin Directors/Writers: Cast: Audrey Grace Marshall, Holter Graham, Kevin, Ansis earns his living as a sign painter, a seemingly Ommundsen Dominique innocent occupation. His craft is needed in every Producer: Gary Cranner regime – the authoritarian Thirties, the following Cast: Billie Østin, Vega Østin, Mette Arnstad, It can be brutal enough just growing up a girl. Then Communism, as well as Nazism. Ansis is compelled Kristoffer Joner add poverty, addiction, and God to the mix. Armed to cooperate. He paints the signs of the city green, Two siblings in the woods discover the magic of na - with a gun and a prayer, Emma and her cat bravely later replaced by red and finally brown. But then he ture and the power of sisterhood. Vega (9) and her go where too many girls have gone before. It’s a gets caught up in a love triangle. While in love with wild sister Billie (5) are going on an overnight hike war, and we gotta win it! This is a story about fam - the Jewish girl Zisla — whom he cannot marry for reli - with their Dad in the Norwegian woods. The antici - ily, childhood, and the complex ways in which we gious and social reasons — he falls for a Latvian girl, pated trip is full of sweet adventures and happy are formed as people. Emma navigates a dysfunc - who quickly captures his heart. Historical events turn moments until Dad falls into a mountain crack and tional adult world of addiction, patriotism, faith, the perspective of relationships upside down as Zisla, twists his ankle. Unable to move he asks Vega and and the pervasive sexualization of young girls. Her the daughter of a rich merchant, turns into a class Billie to get help. Initially, the girls feel lost; but challenge is to emerge with a sense of self. enemy – a communist. Ansis’s relationship with both after several magical and mysterious encounters in women becomes explosive after Zisla falls victim to the forest, they embrace the mission. They bravely Sat, Jun 12 | 7pm the Nazis’ persecutions. face their fears, discover their superpowers! Harkins 1

Thu, Jun 17 | 1pm Sun, Jun 13 | 4pm Mon, Jun 14 | 10:10am Sedona Performing Arts Center Sedona Performing Arts Center Harkins 2 Total Running Time: 1:54 Total Running Time: 1:17 Total Running Time: 1:44

FSrainnceg, G eMrmaeny ,a Sw Sitzoerlnandg | 2019 | 100 min RSooma,n iwa | h202a0 t| '1s33 f mrine •e Ndarroatimve F?eature A Starry Sky Above Documentary Feature the Roman Ghetto Director: Andrei Zinca Italy | 2021 | 100 min • Narrative Feature Director/Producer: Thomas Balmès Producers: Calin Papura, Andrei Zinca Director: Giulio Base Writer: Andrei Zinca Producers: Sandro Bartolozzi, Cesare Fragnelli As the Internet finally arrives in tiny Bhutan, docu - Cast: Cuzin Toma, Radu Iacoban, Iulia Lumanare, Giulio Base, Marco Beretta, Israel Cesare mentarian Thomas Balmès is there to witness its Olimpia Melinte, Tunde Skovran Writers: Moscati transformative impact on a young Buddhist monk Alessandra Carrillo, Andrea Garofalo, Giulio Base whose initial trepidation gives way to profound en - A group of people's lives transform when they find Cast: gagement with the technology. true freedom in the confinement of a forced exile. This story of love, survival and thirst for freedom is Past and present meet upon the discovery of an based on true facts that took place in 1951, in a old, mysterious photograph that will end up tying Sat, Jun 12 | 10am together Christian and Jewish students in search of Enchantment country (Romania) recently subjugated by a totalitar - ian regime. Even though that happened 70 years the truth. Trying to unravel the mystery behind the portrait, the boys embark on a journey through a Mon, Jun 14 | 1pm ago, its political implications are as valid in our world today as they were then, under the Iron Curtain. night that cannot be forgotten: the raid of the Mary D. Fisher Roman Ghetto. Retracing these events will give Sun, Jun 13 | 1pm them the chance to take a collective stance towards Total Running Time: 1:40 Mary D. Fisher personal, existential, and cultural commitment.

Thu, Jun 17 | 1pm Wed, Jun 16 | 10am Mary D. Fisher Sedona Performing Arts Center Total Running Time: 2:13 Total Running Time: 1:40 UTShA |e 2 0S20u | 1b19j emicn t• Narrative Feature ISsruaelb, UlSeA |t 2020 | 89 min • Narrative Feature ITtahly |o 2u021 S | 9h6 amilnt • Naroratitv eH Feaatture e

Director: Lanie Zipoy Director: Eytan Fox Director: Mauro Mancini Producers: Megan Kingery, Jess Weiss, Gahlia Eden, Producers: Gal Uchovsky, Micky Rabinovitz, Moshe Producer: Mario Mazzarotto Lanie Zipoy Edery, Leon Edery Writers: Mauro Mancini, Davide Lisino Writer: Chisa Hutchinson Writers: Eytan Fox, Itay Segal Cast: Alessandro Gassmann, Sara Serraiocco, Luka Cast: Jason Biggs, Aunjanue Ellis, Anabelle Acosta, Cast: John Benjamin Hickey, Niv Nissim, Lihi Zunic, Lorenzo Buonora Carra Patterson, Nile Bullock, Caleb Eberhardt Kornowski, Peter Spears, Tamir Ginsburg In a city in the northeast, a Central European non- "The Subject" follows Phil Waterhouse, a successful Michael (John Benjamin Hickey), a New York Times place, a combination of heterogeneous history, dif - white documentary filmmaker as he deals with the travel writer visiting Tel Aviv to research his latest ferent ethnic groups, and with an old Jewish fallout from his last film, which caught the murder article, get some space from his relationship, and community lives Simone Segre (Alessandro of a Black teen on tape. While working on his recharge his batteries amid the thriving gay scene. Gassmann), an established surgeon of Jewish ori - newest documentary project for a major TV net - Intending to sublet an apartment in Israel’s most gin: he has a quiet life, he lives in an elegant apart - work, someone films Phil’s every more, threatening populous city, he spontaneously agrees to share ment and he has no ties to the past. his idyllic life. the modest one-bedroom space when it becomes clear that handsome tenant Tomer (Niv Nissim) has One day, Simone rescues a man who has been the Sat, Jun 12 | 4pm nowhere else to go. victim of a hit-and-run driver. But when he discov - Enchantment ers a Nazi tattoo on his chest, he abandons him to The age gap between the reserved Michael and the his fate. However, Simone feels so guilty for the Thu, Jun 17 | 10am free-spirited Tomer lends the film a subtle humor man's death to the point of tracking down the Enchantment and charm that grows as the pair get to know one neo-Nazi family: Marica, the eldest daughter (Sara another. As Michael shares his wisdom and soaks Serraiocco); Marcello (Luka Zunic), the teenage son Total Running Time: 1:59 up the youthful energy that surrounds them, his also infected by the seed of racial hatred; the guard begins to drop and he finds the inspiration to "little" Paolo (Lorenzo Buonora). The night will embrace his life again. come when Marica will knock on Simone's door, forcing him to face the consequences of his actions. Tue, Jun 15 | 10am Sedona Performing Arts Center Tue, Jun 15 | 1pm Sedona Performing Arts Center Total Running Time: 1:29 Sponsored by: Sponsored by: Total Running Time: 1:36

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Director/Writer: Troy Ruptash Producers: Rosanne Milliken, Sandy Wilde, Troy Ruptash Cast: Troy Ruptash, Ali Liebert, Vera Graziadei, Daniel Mazepa, Alex Feldman

Intergenerational trauma plays a complicating role in newly widowed Roman’s life. If grieving the loss of his wife, Kalyna, isn’t devastating enough, the re - curring nightmares of the selfless last acts of his uncle, a member of the Ukrainian Resistance (UPA), heightens the grief that overwhelms him.

Tue, Jun 15 | 4pm Enchantment

Sat, Jun 19 | 1pm Mary D. Fisher

Total Running Time: 1:29 UTSiAg | e20r20 W | 98i mtihn •i nNarrative Feature ITtahly, eGr eTecre,u USfAf |l e20 2H0 |u 84n mtin ers NTohrweay |T 2u01n9 |n 10e4 lmin • Narrative Feature Documentary Feature Director/Producer: Rafal Zielinski Director: Pål Øie Writer: Gina Wendkos Directors/Producers/Writers: Michael Dweck, Producers: John Einar Hagen, Einar Loftesnes Cast: Ed Asner, Margot Josefsohn, Luke Eisner, Gregory Kershaw Writer: Kjersti Helen Rasmussen Taylor Nichols Cast: Thorbjørn Harr, Ylva Lyng Fuglerud, Lisa "The Truffle Hunters" was shortlisted for the Carlehed, Ingvild Holthe Bygdnes, Mikkel Bratt "Tiger Within" tells the story featuring an unlikely Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Silset, Per Egil Aske friendship between a homeless teen and a Holo - at this year's Oscars. caust survivor, sparking larger questions of fear, A tank truck crashes in a tunnel in the ice-cold Nor - forgiveness, healing and world peace. Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of wegian mountains, brutally trapping families, men, seventy or eighty years young, hunt for the teenagers and tourists on their way home for A young punk who thinks she knows it all. An old rare and expensive white Alba truffle — which to Christmas. man who knows he doesn’t. They strike up a con - date has resisted all of modern science’s efforts at versation, it becomes life-changing. A deepening cultivation. They’re guided by a secret culture and A blizzard is raging outside and the first responders knowledge occurs as they walk the streets of LA. training passed down through generations, as well struggle to get to the scene of the accident. The as by the noses of their cherished and expertly wrecked tanker catches fire and the tunnel is filled He is a Holocaust survivor; she a massage-parlor - trained dogs. They live a simpler, slower way of life, with deadly smoke. worker on the run and a Holocaust denier, though in harmony with their loyal animals and their pic - he doesn’t hold any of that against her. ture-perfect land, seemingly straight out of a fairy Will the help get there in time? tale. They’re untethered to cell phone screens or Newcomer Margot Josefsohn plays angry but stun - the Internet, opting instead to make their food and Wed, Jun 16 | 4pm ningly naïve Casey, living from hand to mouth on drink by hand and prioritizing in-person connec - Sedona Performing Arts Center the streets of LA fending off the frightening ad - tions and community. The demand for white truf - vances of men, having nowhere to go. She trusts no fles increases year after year, even as the supply Total Running Time: 1:44 one. Samuel — played by the sublime, multiple decreases. As a result of climate change, deforesta - Emmy Award-winning actor Ed Asner — trusts only tion, and the lack of young people taking up the a few. mantle, the truffle hunters’ secrets are more cov - eted than ever. However, as it soon becomes clear, The two form an unexpected friendship, which these ageing men may just hold something much gradually blossoms into a new family unit – him more valuable than even this prized delicacy: the providing her the support and guidance that was secret to a rich and meaningful life. lacking in her life, and her offering him the glimpse of the fatherhood that was torn from him many Mon, Jun 14 | 1pm years prior. Sedona Performing Arts Center

Thu, Jun 17 | 4pm Sun, Jun 20 | 7pm Sedona Performing Arts Center Sedona Performing Arts Center

Total Running Time: 1:38 Total Running Time: 1:24

Sedona International Film Festival “The Cultural Heart of Sedona”

Keep It Beating… Make a Legacy Gift to Our Endowment Fund UTSuA |s 2c01a9 l|o 10o1 msia n • Narrative Feature ITsrhaele | 2U018n | o99r mtinh •o Nadrroativx e Feature UVSAo |o 20d20o | o108 M mina • cNabrraetivteh Feature

Director/Writer: Philip Harder Director/Writer: Eliran Malka Directors: Agazi Desta, Dagmawi Abebe, Victor Producers: Patrick Riley, Scott Franklin, Brian Etting, Producer: Ra'anan Gershoni Alonso-Berbel, Roy Arwas, Hannah Bang, Christopher Josh Etting, Jenny Daly, Tate Donovan, Erik Cast: Shuli Rand, Yaacov Cohen, Golan Azulai, Yoav Beaton, Tiffany Kontoyiannis, Zoe Salnave, Ernesto Helgeson, Dan Riley Levi, Or Lumbrozo, Tzahi Grad, Yigal Naor, Shifi Sandoval, Sabina Vajraca Cast: Devon Bostick, Natalia Dyer, March ánt Davis, Aloni Producers: Miles Alva, Jason Phillips, Ivy Xiao Tate Donovan, YG Writers: Agazi Desta, Jennifer Frazin, Morgan When Yakov Cohen’s daughter is expelled from Milender, Molly Miller, Amri Rigby, Joel David 1972. Vietnam war protests and racial tension is school for ethnic reasons, he decides to fight back. Santner, Erica Sutherlin, Chris Tarricone sizzling in the late summer heat of Tuscaloosa, It’s 1983 and Yakov, a printer in Jerusalem, is just a Cast: Inger Tudor, Jewell Wilson Bridges, Jeremy Alabama. Billy Mitchell (Devon Bostick), a recent regular guy. He has no knowledge, no money, no Tardy, Daniel Kuhlman, Wrekless Watson, Ashli college graduate, spends the summer working on the connections and no political experience. But he Haynes, Gary McDonald, June Schreiner lush grounds of an old world mental institution run does have the will and the passion to take action, by his psychiatrist father (Tate Donovan). Billy falls in and a belief that he and and other Sephardic Jews In 1936, America is in the midst of The Great De - love with Virginia (Natalia Dyer), a patient who is should be able to hold their heads up high. pression, and millions of unemployed are struggling possibly crazy, or perhaps she is the only sane person to survive. Still, Harlem’s Lafayette Theater contin - Billy has in his world. Billy’s best friend Nigel Yakov brings two friends along and together they ues operations and is the most active Negro (Marchánt Davis) becomes involved with a radical start the first ethnic political group in Jerusalem, Theater unit of the Federal Theater Project, a New civil rights activist (YG) against Tuscaloosa’s power with an operation characteristic of the people they Deal program funding live artist performance and elite, which includes Billy’s father. Billy is torn represent: not the suit-wearing types, but rather designed to boost employment. Led by Rose between Nigel, his father and his cronies, and Virginia the people working their way up from the bottom. McClendon and John Houseman, the company who is planning her escape with or without Billy. Their operation is informal, full of love for their fel - challenges conventional perspectives of Black low man, animated by a great sense of humor and a theater by producing their first classical production. Sun, Jun 13 | 1pm whole lot of rage. Enchantment Houseman hires the inexperienced, boisterous, and Tue, Jun 15 | 10am Thu, Jun 17 | 10am Sponsored by: arrogant 20-year-old Orson Welles to direct the Enchantment Sedona Performing Arts Center first all-Black cast performing Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Welles, determined to create shockwaves Total Running Time: 1:41 Total Running Time: 1:39 with his first professional stage play, radically adapts Macbeth by shifting the setting from medieval Scotland to 19th century Haiti. Welles struggles to bring his career-launching vision to life while balancing an amateur cast, distressed marriage, political interference, and protests fueled by the skepticism of the Black community.

Inspired by actual events, and created by a group of 8 writers and 10 directors who collaborated as students at the University of Southern California, "Voodoo Macbeth" tells the story of a long- forgotten Black theater landmark that launched a film legend’s directing career.

Wed, Jun 16 | 4pm PTohlaned, GWermaanlyl, Sowiftz eSrlahnda | d20o20w | 9s4 min CVanaadga r| a20n20t | 84 min • Narrative Feature Harkins 1 Documentary Feature Director/Producer/Writer: Caleb Ryan Fri, Jun 18 | 7pm Director: Eliza Kubarska Cast: Luke Oparah, Ana Isabella Piñero Enchantment

Award-winning director Eliza Kubarska returns to Frank – a homeless alcoholic – lives a fruitless exis - Total Running Time: 1:48 the Himalaya. A Sherpa family breaks a taboo and tence. All that begins to change when he finds a climbs Kumbakarna, the most holy of mountains, to puppy that was left to die in a garbage bin. earn money for their son’s education. They accom - pany a European expedition on a wall that has Sat, Jun 12 | 4:10pm never been climbed before. Will they face the Harkins 2 wrath of the mountain Gods? Mon, Jun 14 | 7pm Sun, Jun 13 | 1:10pm Enchantment Harkins 2

Thu, Jun 17 | 10am Total Running Time: 1:24 Harkins 1 Total Running Time: 1:34 Uprooted: The Journey UHSAi p| 2l0e19t |: 9 B mien •c Daocuumseent aWry Sheor t Can GWermiannyt |e 2r02 0J |o 9u0 mrin •e Ny arrative Feature of Jazz Dance USA | 2020 | 94 min • Documentary Feature Director/Producer: Addison Wright Director: Anders Østergaard Producers: Mette Heide, Thomas Kufus Director: Khadifa Wong "Hiplet: Because We Can" was created with the in - Writers: Martin Goldsmith, Anders Østergaard Producer: Lisa Donmall-Reeve tention to inspire young Black women around the Cast: Bruno Ganz, Harvey Friedman, András Bálint, Writer: Zak Nemorin world. This film brings the Hiplet Ballerinas to cen - Dani Levy, Isabella Nagy, Leonard Scheicher ter stage. Hiplet fuses classical pointe technique Jazz in movement and music can be beautiful, puz - with hip-hop and urban dance styles. Hiplet has “Winter Journey” is based on American radio host zling, avant garde, authentic and theatrical. It is for - blossomed immensely since it's creation by Artistic Martin Goldsmith’s book about his Jewish parents, ever evolving. Director Homer Hans Bryant in the early 90s. who fled Nazi Germany. Both were talented musi - cians, but after the Nuremberg Laws were enacted 'Uprooted' is a feature-length documentary cele - "Hiplet: Because We Can" was shot in Chicago on in 1935 they were only able to perform as members brating the history, lineage, and future progressions the South Side at the Grand Ballroom, a hidden of the Jewish Cultural Federation, a bizarre propa - of jazz dance — with a stellar cast of leading indus - gem that opened back in 1923 once known as the ganda organization fully controlled by the Reich try experts, award-winning choreographers, and Cinderella Ballroom. With the unique style of a Chamber of Culture. This film brings to life the real - legendary performers. The film is a ground-break - short film, music video and documentary, this film ity of their beautiful and painful love story, using re - ing look at the roots of jazz dance in Africa and fol - is meant to capture how amazing these young Black markable and ingenuously edited archive material. lowing the evolution of this incredible dance form girls are, how they battle adversity and how they’ve It also includes reenactments of the conversations through every single decade and genre. Exploring elevated their craft in the beautiful city of Chicago. Goldsmith had with his father as preparation for and commenting on political and social influences, the book. "Uprooted" is an honest conversation about jazz Sat, Jun 12 | 1pm dance addressing topics such as appropriation, Enchantment Martin Goldsmith plays himself, as the unseen racism, socialism, and sexism. interviewer, while a vulnerable Bruno Ganz is Mon, Jun 14 | 7:10pm playing his father Georg Goldsmith. This is a story of triumph over adversity, oppres - Harkins 2 sion, and privilege as well as a celebration, because It was Bruno Ganz’ last part before he died in 2019. ultimately, what all people have in common is Total Running Time: 1:43 rhythm and a basic human need to get down! Sun, Jun 13 | 10am Enchantment Special appearances by Debbie Allen, George Faison, Chita Rivera, Camille A. Brown and Thomas F. Sun, Jun 20 | 10am DeFrantz. “Uprooted” also showcases the works of Harkins 1 the Nicholas Brothers, Pespsi Bethel, Jack Cole, Katherine Dunham, Bob Fosse and Gene Kelly. Total Running Time: 1:30 Preceded by: Sponsored by:

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Directors/Producers: Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas

In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, be it on the frontlines of India's biggest issues or within the confines of their homes, redefining what it means to be powerful.

Sun, Jun 13 | 10am Harkins 1

Sat, Jun 19 | 4pm Mary D. Fisher

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Directors: Clément Morin, Franck Courchamp Director/Producer: Laurence Topham Director/Producer: Gareth Gwyn Producers: Arte, Lumento, Duck Factory, Jérôme Cast: Hyppolite Ntigurirwa Bernard, Olivier Lambert A former Guantánamo detainee — whose story Writers: Franck Courchamp, Laurent Mizrahi was chronicled in the feature motion picture "The "Something to Give" serves as a collective grief rit - Mauritanian" — and his American guard form an ual. A journey of reckonings and resilience. Experi - Humanity is only a tiny part of the universe and by unlikely friendship that changes both of their lives ence a celebration of the power of the human heart far not as unique as we think. From the infinite forever. amid the aftermath of atrocities in the 1994 geno - vastness of the universe to microscopic units, from cide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Both survivors and the Earth's ecosystems to the human body, every perpetrators, collectively and individually, source episode of this animation series makes things com - forgiveness and peace from within. prehensible that go beyond our imagination. For man is not the navel of the world. Sat, Jun 12 | 4pm Mary D. Fisher

Mon, Jun 14 | 7pm Mary D. Fisher

Total Running Time: 1:40

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Directors: James Worsley, Pedro de la Fuente

Throughout this challenging, sad and unusual time, we are being forced to face some truths we con - stantly try to avoid. Death, purpose and responsibil - ity were some of the things going through the minds of the friends that we spoke with around the world.

During April we recorded these conversations, and while being on opposite sides of the world, we cre - ated this film using unused shots and personal footage. We confronted many of our own fears and although there isn’t a definitive answer, there were some thoughts that stayed with us.

This film won’t reveal anything new, but it might bring some comfort and ideas, perhaps uniting us in what it means to be human during these uncertain times. Documentary Shorts PROGRAM 2

The Roads Most The Undocumented UASAg |u 20i2l0a |s 1/4 mEina •g Dloecusmentary Short Traveled: Photojournalist LUSaA w| 20y20e |r 19 min • Documentary Short Directors/Producers: Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Don Bartletti Maite Zubiaurre USA | 2020 | 25 min • Documentary Short Directors: Zach Ingrasci, Chris Temple Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Maite Zubiaurre, Writers: Producers: Zach Ingrasci, Jenna M. Kelly, Chris Temple Director/Producer: Bill Wisneski Nico Sandi Lizbeth Mateo is an attorney in Los Angeles-one Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist Don Bartletti Along the scorching southern desert border in Ari - who started a law practice, hired four employees, shares heart-wrenching stories from his forty year zona, it is estimated that only one out of every five and took an oath to uphold the U.S. constitution. career documenting history as it unfolds. missing migrants are ever found. This film is the She also has no legal right to be in the country. story of one group of searchers, the Aguilas del Lizbeth is undocumented. Since crossing the border Internationally recognized for his commitment to Desierto, themselves largely immigrant Latinos. at age 14, Lizbeth hasn't let her immigration status photographing the migration of Central Americans Once a month these volunteers — construction hold her back. Frustrated by a broken system, she's to the United States, Bartletti’s images reveal the workers, gardeners, domestic laborers by trade — drawing from her own experiences to fight for im - never ending saga of illegal immigration by individ - set out to recover missing loved ones referred to migrant rights in the streets and in the courts. Her uals desperate to improve their lives. them by word of mouth, phone calls, or Facebook latest client is Edith Espinal, a woman avoiding de - message. portation by taking sanctuary in a church. As the months turn to years, Lizbeth is running out of legal Amidst rising political repression and cartel vio - options to help. Lizbeth returns to her activist roots lence, as well as the eternal difficulties of travel in and teaches Edith to fight back-because sometimes the Sonoran Desert, the Aguilas carry out their you need to ignore the law in order to change it. solemn task.

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announced on Sunday Director: Benjamin Boult morning and brought Producer: Miki Hellerbach What really happens when the police attempt to back for additional police themselves? "Beyond The Blue Wall" tells the story of Ken screenings. Williams, a former homicide detective and 15 year veteran of the Brockton police force, who decided to take action to combat racist police misconduct THANK YOU within his own department. TO ALL OF OUR FESTIVAL VOLUNTEERS! Documentary Shorts PROGRAM 2

Say His Name: Five Days Death: Through UCSoA |m 202i0n | g5 m Bin a• Dcok cumentary Short for George Floyd a Nurse's Eyes USA | 2021 | 21 min • Documentary Short USA | 2020 | 15 min • Documentary Short Director: Ben Proudfoot

Director: Cy Dodson Director: Alexander Stockton In “Coming Back,” Jasmine recounts her struggles Producers: Cy Dodson, Lindsey Seavert with homelessness and loss growing up in Bessemer, Experience the brutality of the pandemic from the Alabama. Jasmine returns as a substitute teacher to The unfathomable police murder of George Floyd perspective of nurses inside a Covid-19 intensive serve as a role model for students in her hometown. on May 25th, 2020, sparked a global uprising, the care unit. New York Times Opinion Video producer epicenter in Director Cy Dodson's Minneapolis Alexander Stockton spent several days reporting at Sun, Jun 13 | 4pm Sponsored by: neighborhood. “Say His Name" is an immersive the Valleywise Medical Center in Phoenix. Two Mary D. Fisher observation of unrest in the five days between the I.C.U. nurses wore cameras to show what it’s like to murder of Mr. Floyd and the charges filed against care for the sickest Covid patients a year into the Tue, Jun 15 | 7pm police officer Derek Chauvin. pandemic. Mary D. Fisher

So many Americans have died in hospitals without Total Running Time: 1:47 family by their side, but they were not alone. Nurses brush patients’ teeth, change their catheters and hold their hands in their final mo - ments. In just a year, we’ve lost half a million Amer - icans to Covid-19. Vaccinations may be offering some relief, but inside I.C.U.s, nurses continue to contend with the trauma and grief of America’s carousel of death. Documentary Shorts PROGRAM 3

Church and the UTShA |e 2 0L20a | k34o mtina • DDocaumuengtahry tSheort s UMSA e| 2l0t2d0 |o 40w minn • iDnoc uDmeinxtairey Short Fourth Estate USA | 2020 | 33 min • Documentary Short Director/Writer: Victoria Kupchinetsky Directors: Emily Harrold, Seth Gadsden, Producers: Victoria Kupchinetsky, Joy Wagner Kelly Creedon Director: Brian Knappenberger Producer: Emily Harrold "The Lakota Daughters" features the women and Cast: Buzz Braxton, Tommy Daras, Justin Bamberg A reporter uncovers a case file that reveals a shock - girls of the Oglala Lakota tribe living on Pine Ridge ing series of child abuse allegations in Idaho's Boy Native American Reservation in South Dakota. Fol - In the wake of the 2015 Charleston Massacre, a Scouts, which rattle the community and implicate lowing strong matrilineal traditions of the Native battle erupts in Orangeburg, SC between the Sons the Mormon Church. The case ends up revealing American culture, women on the Reservation are of Confederate Veterans (SCV) and an ice cream widespread abuse — crimes that threaten to bank - working to create "a girl society" that will help girls shop owner forced to fly the Confederate flag in his rupt the Boy Scouts. aged 10 to 18 be more resilient and see a brighter parking lot. In doing so, this film explores the future. The film shows the traditional and modern broader role of Confederate symbolism in the 21st life of the Lakota tribe, and the tribe's efforts to century and the lingering racial oppression which empower the next generation of girls and women. these symbols help maintain.

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Total Running Time: 1:47 Documentary Shorts PROGRAM 4

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Director: Ben Proudfoot Director: Alex Sworik Director: Kevin Staake Producer: Ryen Bartlett In the United States, about two-thirds of released "Devil's Gold" follows veteran sulfur miner, prisoners are rearrested within three years. In Selemat, during his daily climb up and down the Abigail Goldman spends her days as an investigator “Beautifully Savage”, Joe takes us on his journey Kawah Ijen mountain. Traversing the narrow path for a public defender’s office. But by night, she navigating the criminal justice system after falling in back and forth into the crater, miners like Selemat dreams up gruesome events, which she then turns with a crowd who dealt narcotics. Upon release, he carry up to 100 kilograms of sulfuric rock through - into tiny, precise dioramas. We follow along as she focuses on rebuilding his life to better serve as a out the night in an effort to earn 4-5 times the brings her miniature worlds of murder to life. role model for his children, and powers through the wages of alternative work like farming or construc - arduous process of starting his own company — tion. However, with toxic gas spouting from the Beautifully Savage — a boxing gym, in Fort Collins, ground beneath them as they work, the life ex - Colorado, to foster community and growth. pectancy of a miner is cut short. Breakwater Studios partnered with Huckberry and lululemon to tell Joe’s story of prison, perseverance, and pugilism in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

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A short documentary about the visionary Japanese UPnoitedr Ktinrgadoimt | o20f21 a| 2n3 m Ain •r Dtiocsumt entary Short artist Azuma Makoto, who has sent his floral sculp - tures into space and sunk them to the bottom of Director: Simon Kreitem the ocean. UCnaitesd Ktinegdlolms | 2020 | 13 min • Documentary Short "Portrait of an Artist" documents the Annual Por - Directors: James Worsley, Pedro de la Fuente trait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, U.K. where more than 2500 "Castells" is a film that looks into the art of human paintings from 84 countries compete for a place towers in Catalonia. It explores the characters and among the 44 final selects and only three Award the communities that are part of this beautiful and winners. mesmerizing tradition. Unravelling the stories behind some of the most Castells are seemingly a simple activity; people evocative portrait paintings “Portrait of an Artist” climb on top of each other to create the highest brings together artist and sitter, who talk about tower. However, under the surface they are a their deeply personal experiences behind the paint - metaphor to how communities interact, everyone ings. Exploring the fabric of their insecurities playing a role, sacrificing oneself for a greater com - around self-doubt, body image, depression, we mon objective. They illustrate how being part of so - learn how the process of portraiture allows both UTShA |a 2t01'9s | M14 myin •J aDozcuz mentary Short ciety is about participation and interaction. the artist and sitter to go on a journey of discovery. Director: Ben Proudfoot Milt Abel II, a world-renowned pastry chef, reflects on his relationship with his deceased father Milton Abel Sr., famed Kansas City Jazz musician.

Thu, Jun 17 | 4pm Mary D. Fisher

Sat, Jun 19 | 7pm Mary D. Fisher Total Running Time: 1:41 Shorts PROGRAM 1

USnaitemd Kiangrdoitma | n2020 | 13 min • Narrative Short UWSA a| 2v02e0 s| 11 min • Narrative Short UOSAn | 2t0h19 e| 1 4R miidn •e Narrative Short

Director/Writer: Dustin Curtis Murphy Director/Writer: Agazi Desta Director: Jen McGowan Producers: Addy Raja, Nicci Brighten Producers: Miles Alva, Anabel Inigo Producers: Rebecca Stone, Jeremy Glazer, AMPLE Cast: Chris Kyriacou, Peter Ormond Cast: Omete Anassi, Jason Dalhouse Entertainment Writer: Jeremy Glazer Rural England. An immigrant doctor fearing depor - A black, deaf teen wants “Waves” for prom night, Cast: Jeremy Glazer, Beverly Todd, Spence Moore II, tation lives off grid. While scavenging in the forest, but his haircut falls into the hands of an inattentive, Brant Rotnem he stumbles upon a man who is barely alive rookie barber. On his morning bike ride, Scott grapples with the mem - The doctor takes the stranger back to his cabin to ories of a trauma he experienced with his husband nurse him. When the stranger awakens, a brief con - Todd. When his route suddenly takes an unexpected versation reveals their opposing political ideals, pit - turn, Scott finds himself on the doorstep of a stranger ting them against each other. The stranger voted to intimately connected to the past he can’t shake. leave. The doctor wanted to remain.

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Directors/Writers: Ashutosh Chaturvedi, Pankaj Mavchi Producers: Navjot Gulati, Ashutosh Chaturvedi, Pankaj Mavchi, Vivek Rangachari, Sethumadhavan Napan FMranuce l |t 2i0 2D0 |a 5 tme in • Narrative Short UPShA |o 20t2o0 | O4 mp in • Narrative Short Cast: Raj Arjun, Jayshree Arora, Vicky Ahuja Director: Guillaume Moreels Producer: Noah Nuer Director: Dava Whisenant Inspired from true stories, Siraj, a righteous, impov - Producers: Dava Whisenant, Steve Young, Dave erished flute maker, resides at the edge of the John has a date with Lisa... Spalding forests of Pilibhit, North India, where man eating Writer: Steve Young tigers thrive. His mounting livelihood pressures and Cast: Steve Young, Erin Eagleton, Audra Rodgers tragedies corner him to take a drastic measure that threatens to tear down his values and a loved one. A humorous cautionary tale about the perils of trusting a stranger with your phone. Written by Steve Young ( Letterman, Simpsons ) and directed by Dava Whisenant (“Bathtubs Over Broadway”), this unsettlingly funny short film was itself shot on an iPhone.

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Director/Producer/Writer: Andy Kastelic Beyond the Line Cast: Jack Forcinito, Calvin Olson Republic of Korea | 2020 | 4 min • Animated Short An escaped convict on his way to Texas strikes a deal with a young misfit. Director: Jinuk Choi Sat, Jun 12 | 1pm There's a wheelchair who dreams of one day being Harkins 1 fast like a racing car. One night, the wheelchair de - cided to do its own race in the hospital hallway. Will Mon, Jun 14 | 7pm the wheelchair be able to fulfill his dream through Harkins 1 racing at this special night? Total Running Time: 1:30 Shorts PROGRAM 2

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Director/Producer/Writer: Keika Lee Director/Writer: Barbara Stepansky Director: Ali Sohail Jaura Producers: Ben Scantlin, Sarah Ivy, Barbara Producer: Dheeraj Jindal A young boy pleads with his mother to get him a Stepansky Writer: Mohammad Belaal Imran dog but his mother prefers a cat. Years later, the Cast: Nicole Brydon Bloom, Timothy Granaderos, Cast: Samina Ahmed, Dr. Durdana Butt boy runs into what looks like a cat on the street. Sharon Lawrence Can the cat win the boy over with his crazy dog-like Zahida arrives at a home for the old, believing her antics and become the boy's "odd dog"? The hour before Jane's nuptials, an unexpected son will take her back after a week. Hesitant and guest from her past arrives to reveal a well-kept apprehensive, she meets Farhat, who is full of hope family secret that threatens to derail her entire but as the story unfolds she realizes that the future wedding and could tear the family apart. might be different from her expectations.

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Director: Marian de Pontes Producer: Mai Bak U2S1A |8 2020 | 17 min • Narrative Short UHSAe |j 2l0e19h | 10 min • Narrative Short Writers: Marian de Pontes, Matthew Rochester Cast: Vivian Nweze, Georgina Okon, Trinity Moriah Director/Writer: Sam Pinnelas Director/Writer: Lauren Merage Producers: Sam Pinnelas, Julie Meghan Brown Producer: Kyle Tekiela A young female soldier, Etana, longs to escape her Cast: Billy Carlos Saleebey, Janet Carter, Matthew Cast: Maia Nikiphoroff, Tip Scarry, Vida Ghahremani life in an African rebel war camp, but when the op - Tarricone, Mitchell Pratt portunity arises her freedom could cost the life of While trying to enjoy her first night of marriage, her closest companion. Eight-year-old Colin and his mother are se - Melinda, a first generation American, feels bur - questered in an apartment under the supervision of dened by her Iranian grandmother's impossible re - two police officers. While she leaves every day, quest that she prove her virginity. Colin is left alone without answers or guidance. Sun, Jun 13 | 1pm Harkins 1

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Director: David Kennedy URSAo |c 2k02 0A | 6 Bmiyn •e N aBrraativbe Sy hort Producer: Cindy Wathen-Kennedy Writer: Kyla Kennedy Director/Writer: Monique Sorgen Producers: Monique Sorgen, Sean Akers, Jessica In this snappy spoken-word short film saturated in Oyelowo primary colors, a woman recites an unrequited Cast: Mo McRae, Scott Krinsky, Jessica Oyelowo goodbye to her ex-boyfriend’s red watch. A drug deal goes wrong when instead of cocaine the dealers find out they have a live baby, and one of them refuses to give it back. Shorts PROGRAM 3

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Director/Writer: Andrew Margetson Director/Writer: GlennThomas Cruz Director: Vickie Rose Sampson Producer: Milos Kvapil Producers: Tracey Moore-Cruz, one8one8 collab Producers: Vickie Rose Sampson, Wendy Fishman Cast: Nicholas Burns, Dunja Stojanović Cast: Ana Tuazon Parsons, GlennThomas Cruz Writer: Wendy Fishman Cast: Philip Guerette, Katherine Flannery, Terri A businessman, staying in a hotel in Eastern Europe, Gaby and Eric, co-founders of a successful produc - Douglas, Janet Bieber strikes up an unusual relationship with the cham - tion company, find themselves in disagreement bermaid. When things go wrong, he discovers she is with the statement they want to release in re - A dark comedy thriller, “You Drive Me Crazy” is a not what he imagines. sponse to the recent killing of George Floyd and the cautionary tale about our obsessive reliance on Black Lives Matter movement. What ensues is a technology. frank and blunt discussion about the Asian Ameri - can experience during a global pandemic in search A seemingly ordinary guy, Glen, is driving when his of common ground. GPS voice gives him directions that don’t quite add up. When he tries to follow his own path, the GPS computer shockingly takes control berating him for some of his life choices. Things go from bad to worse when Glen winds up in the last place he’d ever want to be.

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Director/Writer: Michael Muchnij Producers: Michael Muchnij, Ryan Johnston, Robyn Sturgies, Alex Spiess UMSA e| 2r0m19 |a 11i d min • Narrative Short Cast: Michael Harrelson, James Brunhuber Sr. Director/Writer: Fia Perera Two rugged cowboys, stranded in a barren waste - Producers: Fia Perera, Chris Perera, Dava Krause, land, play chess on a chest full of gold. Winner gets Ryan Lacen, Hilliard Guess the last bullet in a revolver, for all the gold in the Cast: Marik Knight, Harrison Kilian-White world is meaningless when you're stranded in a UTShA |e 2 0A20 s| 1s9e msins •m Narerantivet Short scorching desert with no water. A suicidal nine-year-old boy struggling with his gen - der identity crosses paths with an unraveling but Director: Simon Sager lovable Drag Queen. Producer: Carlos Herrera Trujillo Writers: Simon Sager, Liukura Mariman Cast: Stephen Sherman, Giannina Giombini, Kerry Sullivan, Georgina Okon

Clark, a government assessment agent, is tasked with determining whether or not individuals are worthy of remaining in their current society, or if they should be “relocated.” When he is confronted by Elena, a Mexican-American “subject,” he is forced to redefine his moral standing and decide if he will follow the status quo or risk jeopardizing his own safety. Shorts PROGRAM 3

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Director: Lisa Gold Director/Writer: Jonathan Irwin Directors: Sage Mears, Aaron Pagniano Producers: Meghan Anne Smith, Mike Colon, Phil Producer: Spencer Friend Producers: Jacqueline Jandrell, Sage Mears Fischer Writer: Sage Mears Writer: Terry Rossio In the near future, the problem of domestic chores Cast: Jacqueline Jandrell, Andy Bean Cast: Jeff DeCrosta, Jill Saunders, Jared Lotz, Olivia will be solved by artificially intelligent cleaning Costanho, Taylor Cross, Marilyn Sanabria, Tatiana droids. Every home will have at least one. This short "Transfer" is set in a surrealist reality that revolves Steensma, Jentzen Ramirez tells the story of an old cleaning droid — a ROB around two strangers having the world’s weirdest 9000 domestic model — as he passes a boring Tues - job interview. Each character must come to terms To do today: Eat breakfast, go to work/school, get day alone in an empty house, waiting for his owners with death, the idea of choice, and the inevitable shot. Yawn. to return. truth that not everyone gets a second chance at life. By focusing on the robot’s self-awareness, loneli - ness and dog-like love of his owners, we have cre - Mon, Jun 14 | 1pm ated a beautiful tone poem that makes people feel Harkins 1 sympathy for a humble hunk of metal. Wed, Jun 16 | 7pm Harkins 1

Total Running Time: 1:29 Shorts PROGRAM 4

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Director/Writer: J.P. Brennan Director/Writer: Rick Ross Director/Writer: Josema Roig Producers: Kia Kiso, J.P. Brennan Producers: Trisha Tucker, Rick Ross Producers: Constanza Castro, Domenica Castro Cast: Jarrod Crawford, Cooper Shaw, Emily Cast: Christy St. John, Nick Theurer, Kimia Behpoornia Cast: Travis Myers Mura-Smith, Rob Mathes, Ryan Stuart “Tesla” is a comedy about listening, or more pre - A little girl is scared of a strangely named monster, After a dedicated LAPD officer kills a woman's hus - cisely, not listening. It's the colorful tale of an an older brother can't be bothered and their Dad is band during a domestic disturbance call, his life is earnest engineering student forced to take desper - too overworked to even realize someone might shattered. The only person who can save him from ate action in order to make herself heard by her ag - have trespassed. ending his own life is the widow of the man he onizingly masculine downstairs neighbor — who killed. may or may not be playing the loud music that's keeping her awake at night. The film is an ironic look at what happens when men refuse to listen to women, and ultimately makes an appeal for us all to stop assuming and just ... listen.

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Director/Writer: Rich Webber Suspects Behind Cast: Rich Webber

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Director/Writer: Moisés Martín Moreno UWSA h| 2e02r0e | 1 3i sm inL •o Nvarerati? ve Short Producers: Carlota Amor, Juanjo Amor Cast: Mara Guil, Salva Reina, Diana De María Director/Writer: Evan Draper Producer: Grant Chappell Aurora Harrington, black novel writer in the midst Cast: Jay Lusteck, Arielle Duran, Milly Figuereo, of creative crisis. Just at the precise moment in Sabrina Flowers which she has the inspiration for her next novel, she was attacked by a famous serial killer. Franklin, a man suffering from dementia, struggles to retain his memories. His worried daughter, Vanessa, tries to convince him to move into as - sisted living. Soon, Franklin realizes that he needs to face the reality of his condition. ATuhstreali aM | 20i2r0r |o 22r min • Narrative Short Director/Writer: Joel Kohn Producers: Mike Horvath, Tom Davies, Joel Kohn Cast: Matt Day, Ingrid Torelli, Amelia Westlake When a young girl discovers a mysterious antique mirror in the basement of her ailing grandmother’s house, she accidentally opens a window between time that allows her to cross over into war-torn Nazi-occupied Poland. Tue, Jun 15 | 1pm Harkins 1 Thu, Jun 17 | 7pm Harkins 1 Total Running Time: 1:28 Shorts PROGRAM 5

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Director/Writer: Bob Ahmed Director/Writer: Mike Kravinsky Director/Producer/Writer: Xin Li Cast: Alexander Fox, Alexander Barnett Producer: Sali Dimond Cast: Joan Darling, Mike Shiflett, Anna Fagan, Walking in a snowy forest, a peasant sees an un - An eight-year-old boy befriends a homeless vet - Christopher Kozlowski usual deer and goes to follow it. The deer allures eran, with an unexpected outcome. The film em - him and the peasant even wants to catch it. phasizes compassion for the vulnerable in society. When the perfect life of a pet parrot is suddenly in - terrupted, it has to navigate a new world when it can’t understand the humans around it.

USAn | d20e19r | 1t1h mein •L Niagrrahtivtes Short R1u6ssi/an8 Federation | 2020 | 7 min • Narrative Short Director/Writer: Miles Levin Director: Sasha Paracels UMSA e| 2a01t9s | 11 min • Narrative Short Producers: Miles Levin, Spencer Howson, Nicole Producers: Luca Paracels, Alexander Delvig Jordan-Webber, Ceylan Carhoglu, Greg Grunberg, Writer: Metthew Gilpin Director/Writer: Ashley Williams Steve Chen Cast: Anna Isaeva, Odin Biron Producer: Neal Dodson Cast: Pearce Joza, Alyssa Jirrels, Jenifer Coté, Greg Cast: Ashley Williams Grunberg Chained to a pipe in a dark room, a young woman must fight her way out and discover the dark secret A pregnant vegan struggles with her newfound Sam is a boy with epilepsy so desperate to feel like to her imprisonment. craving for meat. "Meats" is an exploration of the a normal kid, he goes to prom knowing that the ethics of meat-eating and the fears inherent with lights will make him have a seizure. This film serves becoming a parent. to be one of the first authentic, empathetic depic - tions of epilepsy in cinema.

Wed, Jun 16 | 1pm Harkins 1

Fri, Jun 18 | 7pm Harkins 1

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ULSoA |o 2k02s0 |L 14ik mein •N Naorrattihve iSnhog rt UFSoA |r 2 0K20a |t 1e2 min • Narrative Short Director/Writer: Alexander Ullom Producer: Carrie Carusone Director: Claire Imler Cast: Anthony Gonzalez, Collin Pennell Producer: Jessica Stossel Writers: Claire Imler, Amadea Tanner Levi is 18 and a non-active pedophile. Knowing his Cast: Cadence Goblirsch, David Michael Trevino, illness is wrong, he denies any form of self-accep - Adam Sumner, Mark Heron, Hope Goblirsch tance. Fearing his future, he confesses to his best friend. Living in a dysfunctional home, Kate finds comfort in playing piano with her caring neighbor, Alan. However, when she needs him most, he is taken away from her. Shorts PROGRAM 6

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Directors: Zhike Yang, Wenjie Wu, Han Chen Chang Director: Oscar Rene Lozoya Director: Rami Kodeih Producers: Han Chen Chang, Ada Vaughan, Lucas A. Producers: Brian Flaccus, Alex Raines, Ben Dunn, Producers: Rachelle Owen, Joshua Owen, Rubber Ferrara, Jorden Samchok, Brian Chapman Celia Cowles, Oscar Rene Lozoya Duck Films Cast: Florence Dueck, Maxim Maslov Writer: Jeff Locker Writer: Nora Mariana Salim Cast: Jeff Locker, Brian Flaccus Cast: Alia Shawkat, Edin Gali, Rebeca Robles A 3D narrative emotional animation. The theme in - As Nazis separate children from their parents in the vigorates cultural inheritance and the integration of All Eric ever wanted was a friend. He just never Warsaw Ghetto, a gang of women risks everything to dreams, courage, and culture as transformation. By knew how to find one. Eric holds interviews in smuggle their friend's three-month-old baby to safety. artistically interpreting a motif of inheritance and hopes of finding the perfect friend through thick family support, integrating different cultures through and thin. the inspiring story, this film braces strong family love and elder culture in a never-ending chain. The film is adapted from short play "The Forgotten Place" (winner, 2018 Samuel French Off Off Broad - way Short Play Festival, 2019 Short+Sweet Holly - wood.)

UMSA o| 2n02u0 |m 7 meinn • tNarrative Short Director: Joshua James Johnson, Tim Maupin Your Name Producer/Writer: Anthony Nicolau USA | 2020 | 6 min • Narrative Short Cast: Ron Wilkinson, Peggy Billo, Bridgett Powers, Logan Moungo, Grace Barnes Director/Producer/Writer: Lucas Hicks Cast: Bryan McClure, Elise Hicks NSeitlherlnancdse | 2U020n | d16o mnin •e Narrative Short In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, a family takes a trip to an important historical monument. Brandon takes the chance in talking to a girl he is Director: Kristjan Knigge interested in at a party not knowing what the out - Producer: Magdalena Lepczynska come could be. Writer: Linda Jacobsen Cast: Linda Jacobsen, Ayrton Kirchner, Kirsten Knigge, Sytse Faber

When Sophie was a child she was sexually abused by her stepfather. To hide this fact, she keeps peo - ple at a distance. Now, 20 years later, she is in love with Matthijs, but their relationship is on the rocks because she keeps pushing him away. The only way this relationship can be saved is for Sofie to open up, be vulnerable and trust Matthijs. But how? The Pee Pee Monster Sofie enters the abstract, visually captivating world USA | 2020 | 6 min • Narrative Short of memory and the subconscious to confront her Director: Robert Postrozny Dry past and face her inner child. She surrenders and Cast: Henry Postrozny, Robert Postrozny, Annie USA | 2020 | 8 min • Narrative Short re-experiences the moment where it all began and Postrozny comes out the other side well on the way to learn - Director: Cara Consilvio ing to accept herself and trust others. Late for work, a father must get his car-peeing toddler Producers: Alex Charner, Cara Consilvio to tinkle in a toilet before dropping him off to school. Writers: Cara Consilvio, Julie Finefrock Thu, Jun 17 | 1pm Cast: Cara Consilvio, Julie Finefrock, Lauren Harkins 1 Gismondi, Marjorie Cabrera, Salimah Johnson Sat, Jun 19 | 7pm Jenny, a sleepless mother, desperately goes to a Harkins 1 dealer in a suburban basement to regain her sanity. Total Running Time: 1:25