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Run Time: 105 minutes Screening Time: Thursday, Nov 12 at 7:30pm Directed by: George Gallo Cast: Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Zach Braff, Emile Hirsch, Eddie Griffin, Kate Katzman, and Blerim Destani Synopsis: Two movie producers who owe money to the mob set up their aging movie star for an insurance scam to try and save themselves. But they wind up getting more than they ever imagined.
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Blithe Spirit Run Time: 95 minutes Screening Time: Sunday, Nov 22 at 7:35pm Directed by: Edward Hall Cast: Dan Stevens, Judi Dench, Isla Fisher, Leslie Mann, Aimee-ffion Edwards, Emilia Fox Synopsis: Best-selling crime novelist Charles (Dan Stevens) suffers from terrible writer’s block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His séance in his home. He gets more than husband and running her household. picture-perfect new wife Ruth (Isla he bargained for when Madame Acarti Charles finds himself stuck between Fisher) is doing her best to keep him inadvertently summons the spirit of his two wives and their increasingly focused so they can fulfill her dream his first wife: the brilliant and fiery over-the-top attempts to outdo of leaving London for Hollywood. Elvira (Leslie Mann). Ready to pick up one another in this lethally hilarious Charles’ quest for inspiration leads him her life right where she left off, Elvira comedy. to invite the eccentric mystic Madame is shocked to discover the prim and Acarti (Judi Dench) to perform a proper Ruth is now married to her Presented in part by Ira and Myrna Wechter
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After The Murder Of Albert Lima Analog Love - The (Long Lost) Run Time: 95 minutes Art of the Mix Tape Screening Times: Sunday, Nov 15 at 5:05pm • Run Time: 90 minutes Tuesday, Nov 17 at 5:05pm • Saturday, Nov 21 at 7:30pm • Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 2:25pm • Saturday, Sunday, Nov 22 at 2:45pm Nov 14 at 5:20pm • Wednesday, Nov 18 at 2:25pm • Sunday, Directed by: Aengus James Nov 22 at 5:25pm Cast: Paul Lima, Art Torres, Zora Colakovic, Cindy Crim, Directed by: Robert Galluzzo Judy Lima, Kent Crim Cast: Henry Rollins, “Money” Mark Ramos Nishita, Kim Synopsis: After 13 years of legal impasse fails to bring his Shattuck, Jennifer Finch, Jimmy Urine, Chantal Claret, father’s killer to justice, Paul Lima decides to take matters Jude “Rude Jude” Angelini, Zernell Gillie, Mona Lisa Murray, into his own hands. With two bounty hunters in tow, he Christian James Hand, Hazel Many heads to Honduras to capture his father’s killer. There, local Synopsis: Do you remember the long lost era of sharing government corruption and a promise of violence from the your feelings with someone through a “mix tape?” Analog killer threaten to undermine Paul’s quest for justice. Love is an analysis of why this ritual of communication Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friend Len Berger. through music continues to be so important. We’ll get to the bottom of the long lost art of the mix tape. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friends Daniel and Stephanie Davee.
Babysplitters Run Time: 120 minutes Finding Home in Boomtown Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 7:45pm • Sunday, Nov 15 at 12:05pm • Tuesday, Nov 17 at 11:45am • Saturday, Run Time: 80 min Nov 21 at 5:25pm. Screening Times: Saturday, Nov 14 at 2:25pm • Monday, Nov 16 at 11:45am • Friday, Nov 20 at 2:45pm • Saturday, Directed by: Sam Friedlander Nov 21 at 2:25pm Cast: Danny Pudi (“Community,” “Mythic Quest”), Emily C. Chang Matt Maxwell (“Total Recall,” “The Vampire Diaries”), Maiara Walsh (“The Last Ship,” Directed by: “Zombieland”), Eddie Alfano (“Criminal Minds,” “Shameless”), Maya Cast: Briana Echols, John-Mark Echols, Victoria Printz, Stojan (“Castle,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D”), Brian Thomas Smith (“The Big Holly Casselman, Lois Walker Bang Theory,” “The Wedding Party”), and Mark Feuerstein (“Royal Pains,” Synopsis: Finding Home in Boomtown is a vérité “What Women Want”). documentary about the Echols family’s dream to build a Synopsis: When two couples with mixed feelings about tiny house community for the homeless of Midland, TX - having kids hatch a plan to have and share one baby, things the nation’s 2nd wealthiest city. Filmed over two years, spiral out of control. our story starts as the Echols sell their new home and Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friend Anita Feld. their possessions, move into an RV & commit their lives to helping the homeless. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friends Fred and Barbara Palensky. 12 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 THANK YOU
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However Long Seneca Run Time: 80 minutes Run Time: 95 minutes Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 5:25pm • Sunday, Screening Times: Saturday, Nov 14 at 5:05pm • Thursday, Nov 15 at 2:45pm • Thursday, Nov 19 at 2:25pm • Friday, Nov 19 at 5:05pm • Friday, Nov 20 at 11:45am • Saturday, Nov 20 at 5:25pm November 21 at 7:45pm Directed by: Jenny Mackenzie Directed by: Jason Chaet Cast: Lisa Gauchay, Saundra Buys, Patty Patton, Amanda Cast: Armando Riesco, Susan Misner, Shirley Rumierk, Peterson, Barbra Chatfield, Lisa Church and Elaine Elliott Cote De Pablo, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Stephen Adly Guirgis, Synopsis: However Long addresses the question that Tony Plana all human beings need to ask themselves: how do you Synopsis: Seneca is a funny, heartfelt, and ultimately want to live the rest of your life? The film follows four moving story about a struggling Puerto Rican actor living women living with incurable cancer and the support group in New York City grappling with a crumbling marriage, that connects them all. Themes like resiliency, hope, and his own mediocre parenting skills and shifting priorities ferocious honesty emerge as they gain clarity and process in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria’s destruction of his their diagnosis. homeland. Presented in part by a donation from an anonymous Reel Friend. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friend Selma K. Glass.
She’s in Portland Show Me What You Got Run Time: 105 min Run Time: 100 minutes Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 11:45am Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 2:45pm • Wednesday, Saturday, Nov 14 at 5:25pm • Monday, Nov 16 at 2:25 pm Nov 18 at 11:45am • Friday, Nov 20 at 7:45pm • Sunday, Sunday, Nov 22 at 2:25pm Nov 22 at 12:05pm Directed by: Marc Carlini Directed by: Svetlana Cvetko Cast: Tommy Dewey, Fracois Arnaud, Minka Kelly, Joelle Cast: Cristina Rambaldi, Neyssan Falahi, Mattia Minasi, Carter, Lola Glaudini Anne Brochet, Pietro Genuardi, Giusy Frallonardo, Karen Obilom Synopsis: Two old college friends, now in their thirties, admire each other’s lives and feel trapped in their own. Synopsis: In this story of unconventional love that sparks Wes, tied to his demanding corporate career and his with French New Wave energy, three twentysomethings, responsibilities to his growing family, extends a work trip to Christine, Nassim & Marcello, form a wholehearted ménage drag his dispirited artist friend Luke up the California coast à trois. They find joy together - exploring their sexuality, to find Luke’s “one that got away.” joining protests, making art, and falling deeper into their offbeat amour - until Marcello must return to Italy, and their Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friends Bob and Sheila Roe. experience there threatens their relationship’s delicate balance. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friend Brent Stokes.
14 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 COMPETITION FEATURES
Swing Low The Immortal Jellyfish 80 minutes Run Time: Run Time: 130 minutes Saturday, Nov 14 at 7:45pm • Monday, Screening Times: Screening Times: Sunday, Nov 15 at 2:25pm • Nov 16 at 5:05pm • Saturday, Nov 21 at 5:05pm • Sunday, Wednesday, Nov 18 at 5:05pm • Saturday, Nov 21 at 11:45am Nov 22 at 11:45am Sunday, Nov 22 at 4:55pm Teddy Grennan Directed by: Directed by: Dusty Bias Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Robert Longstreet, Cast: Cast: Whitmer Thomas, Rosalyn Coleman, Robert Bruce Dern Longstreet, William Zielinski, Cullen Moss, Esme Hill When a nature photographer explains to the Synopsis: Synopsis: THE IMMORTAL JELLYFISH is a dark comedy police how she fought her way out of the Watchatoomy about an off-the-grid oddball who calls a nurse hotline for Valley, they dismiss her crazed and violent story as a meth- help with his nasty “fire piss” problem. When a dying man induced nightmare. But when they discover that she’s telling washes ashore near Denny’s trailer, he and nurse Linda the truth, it’s too late. become madcap partners in crime-solving. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friend Brienne Chance. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friends Susan and Robert Greenberger.
The MisEducation of Bindu Run Time: 95 min Screening Times: Saturday, Nov 14 at 11:45am • Sunday, Nov 15 at 7:45pm • Thursday, Nov 19 at 11:45am • Friday, Nov 20 at 5:05pm Directed by: Mohan Mohan CHICAGO’S LEGENDARY Cast: Megan Suri, David Arquette, Priyanka Bose, Philip Labes, Gordon Winarick DEEP DISH PIZZA Synopsis: When a bullied Indian teen forges her mother’s HAS COME TO THE VALLEY! signature to test out of school, she discovers she must pay PHOENIX ARCADIA SCOTTSDALE a test fee by 7th period, leaving her no choice but to turn to 100 E Camelback Rd 3431 N 56th St 17787 N Scottsdale Rd the students she desperately wants to leave. 602-892-9998 602-551-8990 480-681-3400 Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friends Barbara and Joseph Philipps.
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Run Time: 80 minutes 1, 2, 3 All Eyes on Me Directed by: Emil Gallardo Screening Time: When a crisis suddenly Saturday, Nov 14 at 4:55pm Synopsis: engulfs an elementary school campus, Monday, Nov 16 at 11:50am a determined art teacher tries Wednesday, Nov 18 at 11:50am everything she can to save her class. Saturday, Nov 21 at 12:05pm New York Rhapsody (You’ll Make It In) Florida (You’ll Make It In) Florida Phil Chernyak Directed by: Irwin Suba Directed by: When a magazine ad Synopsis: On the notes of Gershwin’s The Baker Synopsis: comes to life, a depressed English immortal “Rhapsody in Blue,” New Directed by: Austin Everett teacher (and her dog) embark on a York City wakes up and begins the Synopsis: A killer baker (an assassin wild ride through the wonders of the daily cycle of life, dreams, and their who literally kills with cupcakes) gets Sunshine State. inevitable intersections. We follow into a sticky situation when the man three creatives as they hustle and fight she falls for ends up her next mark. against and within the rhythm of the city to chase their artistic visions. Extra Innings Directed by: John Gray PHX Synopsis: : A reporter interviews the Directed by: Jon Felson manager of the Boston Red Sox in an Synopsis: Short psychological drama attempt to uncover secrets from his about dealing with the fear of flying. past. LIVE ACTION SHORTS B
Run Time: 90 minutes meeting between two strangers becomes an intimate bond between Screening Times: friends, and a nightlong journey that Saturday, Nov 14 at 7:35pm forever changes Tereek. It’s ultimately Tuesday, Nov 17 at 12:00pm someone who can neither see nor hear Wednesday, Nov 18 at 2:30pm Feeling Through Tereek who is able to tune into what he Friday, Nov 20 at 12:05pm is truly struggling with, inspiring Tereek small bathroom gets awkward to realize his own sense of purpose. For Pete’s Sake when Samantha challenges Vicki’s Directed by: Katterina Powers definition of intimacy Synopsis: A determined mother Train Stop Directed by: Auden Bui takes extreme measures to ensure Jane her son’s success. Synopsis: Two busy professionals Directed by: Kathryn Prescott confront their undeniable attraction Repo Synopsis: A young woman, suffering - and their demons - during a chance Directed by: Aaron Rovner from heroin addiction and living in encounter at a train station. one of the downtown Los Angeles’ Synopsis: Michael repossesses many residential Single Room cars on the streets of Los Angeles. Occupancy hotels, receives an invite On the Ride He’s young and he thinks he has Jen McGowan to her estranged 4-year-old daughter’s Directed by: nothing to lose, but will this latest During a bike ride, a man birthday party later that day. Synopsis: repo be just another paycheck, or will grapples with a trauma, leading him to the high-risk nature of his job and his Feeling Through a stranger intimately connected to the lifestyle finally catch up with him Directed by: Doug Roland past he can’t shake. Synopsis: A coming of age story that Feeling Flush follows 18-year-old Tereek, a kind but Every Grain of Sand Directed by: Erin Brown Thomas guarded teen wandering the streets Directed by: Amanda Spencer Synopsis: Vicki idolizes her new of New York, desperate for a place to Synopsis: Bound by blood and girlfriend Samantha, but draws crash, and his encounter with Artie, a tethered by illness, two sisters the line when it comes to her time deafblind man in need of help getting grapple with what is really important on the porcelain throne. Their home. What begins as an awkward to them. 16 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 ANIMATED SHORTS
Run Time: 80 minutes Candy Shop Screening Times: Directed by: Patrick Smith Friday, Nov 13 at 2:40pm Synopsis: There are 11,926 Monday, Nov 16 at 7:35pm pharmaceutical drugs available worldwide, Wednesday, Nov 18 at 12:00pm If Anything Happens I Love you this film shows 2863 of them. Pills and Thursday, Nov 19 at 2:15pm capsules are choreographed into a cacophony of shape, color and size, EXT resulting in a satirical commentary about Calls for Archie Directed by: Adrian Bobb our cultural, recreational, and economic Directed by: Zach Christy dependency on pharmaceutical drugs. Synopsis: In the snow-covered ruins of Synopsis: A man gets mysterious calls 24th century Toronto, AEGIS, a humanoid for years and tries to understand why. war machine, leads a team of five robot- The Phantom 52 bound digital-humans into the real world Directed by: Geoff Marslett Curtains (aka the “E-X-T”) to retake an enemy- occupied server installation vital to the Synopsis: Tom Skerritt stars in this Directed by: Kirsten Vangsness survival of their digital homeworld. animated short film about a lonely trucker Synopsis: Kirsten Vangsness (CBS During an attempt to ambush a large pack of waiting for a reply on the CB radio...a ghost Criminal Minds actor and writer) makes her enemy controlled war-drones, AEGIS recalls that haunts the lonely highways...and a directorial debut in this animated short an interrogation with the enemy’s founder, whale that sings in a voice no other whale adapted from her own personal essay an extremist named KYM MINAMOTO... can even hear. about a feral cat who stars on a network AEGIS’s mother. As AEGIS fights for her life procedural drama, takes ballroom dance in the real world, she recalls the emotional If Anything Happens I Love You lessons, and has an encounter with a fight for her identity in the INT (the digital Michael Govier, predatory tow truck driver. It explores the world), as she and her mother argue over Directed by: idea of vulnerability as a source of power the true nature of humanity and inclusion of Will McCormack and the emotional “curtains” we lay over our digital-persons within it. Synopsis: Grieving parents struggle with essential selves. the loss of their daughter after a school Rag Doll shooting. An elegy on grief. Miles Parents sit numb to each other but in an Directed by: Leon Lee extraordinary moment, the shadow of their Griffin Bajor, Carlo Javier Directed by: Synopsis: Amidst a deadly persecution, deceased daughter returns, and ushers Synopsis: A driverless car, haunted by a a determined orphan tries to bring her the parents’ shadows through a waltz of prior fatal accident, suddenly takes its new mother back to life through the power of art. their once happy life. The daughter is able owners on a terrifying journey. to connect the parents with their grief, and ultimately, to each other. COLLEGE SHORTS
Run Time: 90 minutes fantasy-like soundscape, and its charming club members. Screening Times: Saturday, Nov 14 at 2:40pm Binimoy (Subtitled) Tuesday, Nov 17 at 11:35am Directed by: Tanvi Chowdhary / Srishti Thursday, Nov 19 at 7:35pm Binimoy School of Art and Design Synopsis: Gauri and Amal are about to You and Me, Me and You liquor store that’s known to sell to minors, celebrate their first wedding anniversary Directed by: Joshua Knoller, but when they arrive they discover it may in their little home in North Calcutta. While take more than money to seal the deal. Gauri wishes to find him a special gift, it isn’t University of Michigan, Ann Arbor quite as simple as she thought it would be. Synopsis: After being offered the job of Rite of Passage her dreams, Harper, an aspiring journalist, Friends Like That must go to Skylar, a gifted, but troubled, Directed by: Susannah Joffe, Directed by: Francesca de Fusco, NYU 13-year-old girl whom Harper has looked University of Texas at Austin after for years, and tell her that she must Synopsis: After getting dumped, Maia Synopsis: A young woman explores her seeks solace by crashing with her best ex leave. But, when Harper discovers Skylar’s sexuality while trapped in the toxic confines Alex. life is not what it seems, she is forced of a mother-daughter relationship. to look within herself and reconcile with her past experiences in order to save the Model Citizen Oh Yeah relationship with Skylar, and do the right Lilena Marinou, NYU Directed by: Kristopher Chinander, Directed by: thing. Discovering that the body is Samuel Edwards / Montana State University Synopsis: very much like a playground, a place where No Big Deal Synopsis: A beautiful place exists in the sex can be playful, Oh Yeah is an open letter creative minds of the Livingston Model Directed by: Thomas Mental, from a young woman who explores the joy Railroad Club. This short documentary lulls of giving pleasure to herself and eventually Columbia University the viewer into the serene world of model invites others to join her in doing so too. Synopsis: Natalie and Tyler head to a railroads with immersive cinematography, a
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Run Time: 80 minutes When Atsuko Okatsuka was a child in Japan, she thought America was just Screening Times: a giant theme park. When she was 10, Friday, Nov 13 at 12:00pm her family flew to the States for a “2 Wednesday, Nov 18 at 4:55pm month vacation” and never left. Thursday, Nov 19 at 11:35am Invasion: The Unist’ot’en’s Ashes to Ashes Directed by: Taylor Rees, Renan Fight for Sovereignty Ozturk Directed by: Michael Toledano, Synopsis: Winfred Rembert, the Sam Vinal only living survivor of a lynching, a Synopsis: In this era of Star Wars fanatic and leather artist, “reconciliation”, Indigenous land is still develops a friendship with Doctor being taken at gunpoint. INVASION is Shirley Jackson Whitaker who is on a verité cinematic experience about the mission to memorialize the forgotten Unist’ot’en Camp, Gidimt’en checkpoint 4,000 African Americans lynched and the larger Wet’suwet’en Nation during the Jim Crow era. Together, standing up to the Canadian Ashes to Ashes their journeys of healing intertwine. government and corporations who continue colonial violence against and their improbable journey from Love Nonnie Indigenous peoples. Washington DC to Juba in a bid to Directed by: Lisa Addario bring wheelchair basketball to the No Limits: Wheelchair Synopsis: This 106 year-old woman survivors of war. became a viral sensation at 102, but Basketball in South Sudan we quickly see why she’s so much Directed by: Leandro Badalotti Atsuko’s Story more than that. Synopsis: “No Limits: Wheelchair Directed by: William Johnston- Basketball in South Sudan” portrays Carter the unlikely friendship between two Synopsis: The surprisingly funny disabled athletes – one from the US coming-of-age story of one Japanese- and the other from South Sudan – American undocumented immigrant.
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Silences The Hardest Day
Run Time: 90 minutes Silences The Hardest Day Screening Times: Directed by: Nolan Knight Directed by: Ross Taylor Saturday, Nov 14 at 12:00pm Synopsis: Adia Victoria seeks to Synopsis: The Hardest Day provides Tuesday, Nov 17 at 2:15pm reclaim the Blues as protest music for an unprecedented look into the power Thursday, Nov 19 at 5:10pm those who are silenced. Along the way, and beauty of the human-animal bond this restless artist builds a tight-knit and the last minutes shared between. community of like-minded musicians, artists, poets, entrepreneurs, and family.
18 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL MARCH 26 – APRIL 5, 2020 PHOENIXFILMFESTIVAL.COM 19 WORLD CINEMA FILMS
Ask No Questions (Canada) Run Time: 85 min Body & Bones (Canada) Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 11:30am • Monday, Run Time: 100 min Nov 16 at 11:35am • Wednesday, Nov 18 at 2:10pm • Friday, Nov 20 at 11:30am Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 4:50pm Directed by: Jason Loftus Sunday, Nov 15 at 2:10pm Cast: Chen Ruichang, Lisa Weaver, Tony Bai, Shi Jian, Tuesday, Nov 17 at 2:10pm Karen Parker Saturday, Nov 21 at 2:10pm Synopsis: When Chinese state television blames his Directed by: Melanie Oates faith for a fiery public suicide, Chen Ruichang is detained in a Clockwork Orange-style brainwashing facility, forced Cast: Kelly Van Der Burg, Joel Thomas Hynes to accept the government’s account. But Chen says it Synopsis: Withdrawn from her life, the one thing that was a government plot. A CNN reporter who smuggled comforts Tess is listening to the music of Danny Sharpe. out footage of the event helps untangle an intricate When she wakes one day to find him in her kitchen, it ignites conspiracy, as authorities pressure the filmmaker’s family a spark of life in her that grows out of control. and business associates. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friends at Hepcats Technologies. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friend Patrick Brogan.
Grand Cancan (Russia) (subtitled) Run Time: 135 Min My Dearest Enemy (Israel) (subtitled) Screening Times: Run Time: 105 min Saturday, Nov 14 at 1:50pm Monday, Nov 16 at 4:30pm Screening Times: Sunday, Nov 15 at 4:50pm Thursday, Nov 19 at 7:30pm Tuesday, Nov 17 at 4:50pm Sunday, Nov 22 at 1:45pm Friday, Nov 20 at 2:10pm Directed by: Mikhail Kosyrev-Nesterov Saturday, Nov 21 at 4:50pm Elena Zaytseva, Pavel Ivanov, Yana Ivanova, Anton Cast: Directed by: Yakovlev, Alexandra Kimayeva, Dmitriy Kalyazin, Vasilisa Tzipi Trope Nikolaeva, Vlad Kiryukhin, Dolgor Austermonas, Edgar Adi Gilat, Hanan Hillo, Abeen Safadi Golosnoy Cast: Synopsis: My Dearest Enemy is a powerful drama set Synopsis: The film is divided into two distinct stories with the same setting: the back-stage of the Moscow in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Abu-Tor; a community Operetta theater with the Can-Can metaphor which is that is half-Jewish and half-Arab. It follows the twenty five a high-energy and physically demanding dance. Human years relationship of Maya, a Jewish girl and Alice, an Arab relationships, betrayals, and the relationship between girl. Drawn to each other by their shared love for poetry, parents and children are the common denominators found they develop a deep bond that grows into an impossible in the two parts of the film. friendship. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friends Sharon and Ken Hettick. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friend Luc Leemans.
20 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 WORLD CINEMA FILMS
Old Timers (Czech Republic) (subtitled) Run Time: 90 min The Golden Rule (Italy) (subtitled) Screening Times: Run Time: 95 min Saturday, Nov 15 at 11:30am Screening Times: Monday, Nov 16 at 2:00pm Saturday, Nov 14 at 11:30am Wednesday, Nov 18 at 4:50pm Monday, Nov 16 at 2:40pm Friday, Nov 20 at 4:50pm Wednesday, Nov 18 at 7:30pm Directed by: Martin Dušek, Ondřej Provazník Thursday, Nov 19 at 4:50pm Cast: Jiří Schmitzer, Ladislav Mrkvička, Dušan Kaprálik, Directed by: Alessandro Lunardelli Milena Steinmasslová, Michal Suchánek Cast: Simone Liberati, Edoardo Pesce, Rita Hayek, Synopsis: “You can’t just piss all over the truth,” says 90-year- Barbora Bobulova, Hadas Yaron, Luis Gnecco old, wheelchair-bound Colonel Vlastimil Reiner, who in that Synopsis: After a long imprisonment with his girl in Syria, moment is being helped to wash by his friend Tonda. The final a young soldier comes back home. Is he a real war hero like major operation of their colourful lives awaits the two old- the TV says? timers... Presented in part by a donation from an anonymous Reel Friend. Presented in part by Mark Itkowitz
Untimely (Iran) (subtitled) Zoro’s Solo (Germany) (subtitled) Run Time: 80 Min Run Time: 90 min Screening Times: Monday, Nov 16 at 11:30am Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 2:10pm Tuesday, Nov 17 at 5:10pm Tuesday, Nov 17 at 11:30am Wednesday, Nov 18 at 11:30am Thursday, Nov 19 at 2:10pm Sunday, Nov 22 at 4:50pm Saturday, Nov 21 at 11:30am Directed by: Pouya Eshtehardi Directed by: Martin Busker Cast: Iman Afshar, Mahsa Naroui, Shayan Afshar, Awa Mert Dincer, Andrea Sawatzki, Laurids Schürmann, Azarpira Cast: Hadi Khanjanpour Synopsis: Hamin is a young private doing his military A 13 year-old refugee from Afghanistan living service in a watchtower in the borderline of Iran and Synopsis: in an emergency shelter in Germany joins a Christian boys’ Pakistan. Impatient for a day off to attend his sister’s choir to save his father who was left stranded in Hungary, wedding ceremony, he gets into a fight with his and clashes with the strict choir master. commander. Up in the watchtower, Hamin reviews the past Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friends Wallace Davidson years and the things happened to him and his sister since and Betty Lasker. their childhood. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friend Linda Peshkin.
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Run Time: 80 minutes learned to make herself invisible. This is particularly useful at home, where Screening Times: it’s better not to be seen by her volatile Friday, Nov 13 at 7:30pm father. When new neighbours move in Sunday, Nov 15 at 8:00pm next door, she discovers that her magic Muzzle Tuesday, Nov 17 at 7:30pm powers don’t seem to work on the scary Thursday, Nov 19 at 11:30am dog that lives in their backyard. Despite fragments of religion and the media her fear, and fueled by curiosity, Kayla (Subtitled) through the roles of a Pastor and a Hunger - India dares to befriend the neglected dog. Directed by: Katyayan Shivpurii Reporter this “magic realism” universe Synopsis: Inspired by true events, presents an apocalyptical atmosphere Itsy - United Kingdom Hunger is about a homeless man and with characters that serve as allegories Directed by: Amy Mathieson, his love for food. While light-heartedly between men and the environment, Premila Puri exposing the consequences that follow hero and antagonist. Synopsis: “Itsy” is a fictional narration the man’s weakness in the face of of two neighbours and an unsuspecting greed, Hunger is a universal story of Mamie - Switzerland friend who forges their unique bond. everyman and his unfulfilled desire! (Subtitled) Portraitist - Luxembourg Directed by: Benoît Monney (Subtitled) Food Chain - Brazil (Subtitled) Synopsis: Worried about the health Directed by: Cyrus Neshvad Directed by: Raphael Medeiros of his grandmother who doesn’t Synopsis: A grandfather at the edge Synopsis: Actor Guilherme recognize him anymore, Antoine pays of despair is called to care for his dying Ferraz brings the half-man/half-fish her a visit to attempt to bring her granddaughter. Through art, he kindles protagonist to life. His relationship with memory back. a relationship with her that brings Mateus Solano’s Fisherman character is beauty to the darkness in their lives. infused with oppression, which raises Muzzle - United Kingdom the question: how abusive is men’s Directed by: Adam Etheridge demeanor against nature? Fused with Synopsis: Eleven-year-old Kayla has
22 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 The Donut King Run Time: 95 minutes Screening Times: Sunday, Nov 15 at 5:25pm Thursday, Nov 19 at 2:30pm To the Stars Directed by: Alice Gu Run Time: 115 minutes Synopsis: Ted’s story Screening Time: Thursday, Nov 19 at 7:45pm is one of fate, love, Directed by: Martha Stephens survival, hard knocks, Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Malin Akerman, Tony and redemption. It’s the Cast: Hale, Shea Whigham, Jordana Spiro, Lucas Jade Zumann, rags to riches story of Adelaide Clemens a refugee escaping Cambodia, arriving in America in 1975 and building an unlikely multi-million-dollar empire baking Synopsis: In a God-fearing small town in 1960s Oklahoma, America’s favorite pastry, the donut. bespectacled and reclusive teen Iris endures the booze- induced antics of her mother and daily doses of bullying Ted sponsored hundreds of visas for incoming refugees from her classmates. She finds solace in Maggie, the and helped them get on their feet teaching them the ways charismatic and enigmatic new girl at school, who hones of the donut business. By 1979 he was living the American in on Iris’s untapped potential and coaxes her out of her Dream. But, in life, great rise can come with great falls. shell. When Maggie’s mysterious past can no longer be Presented in part by the Baker Brigade suppressed, the tiny community is thrown into a state of panic, leaving Maggie to take potentially drastic measures and inciting Iris to stand up for her friend and herself. Presented in part by Leslie & Brian Benner
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Fisherman’s Friends Run Time: 115 minutes Screening Time: Saturday, Nov 14 at 7:30pm Saturday, Nov 14 at 8:05pm Directed by: Chris Foggin Cast: Daniel Mays, James Purefoy, David Hayman, Dave The Last Days of Capitalism Johns, Sam Swainsbury, Run Time: 85 minutes Tuppence Middleton, Maggie Steed, Vahid Gold, Christian Brassington, Noel Clarke Screening Time: Monday, Nov 16 at 7:30pm Synopsis: A fast living, cynical London music executive (Daniel Wednesday, Nov 18 at 5:10pm Mays) heads to a remote Cornish village on a stag weekend where he’s pranked by his boss (Noel Clarke) into trying to sign Directed by: Adam Mervis a group of shanty singing fishermen (led by James Purefoy). Cast: Mike Faiola, Sarah Harper He becomes the oultimate “fish out of water” as he struggles Synopsis: : A wealthy man is holed up in a penthouse high to gain the respect or enthusiasm of the unlikely boy band above the Las Vegas strip when…he meets a mysterious and their families (including Tuppence Middleton) who value woman. The two embark on an emotional and intellectual friendship and community over fame and fortune. As he’s drawn deeper into the traditional way of life he’s forced to reevaluate roller coaster that asks us to consider much more than just his own integrity and ultimately question what success really sex high above the glitter of neon lights. means. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friend Ginny Compton. Presented in part by Mary Elizabeth Boyle
24 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 SHOWCASE FEATURE FILMS
Max Reload and The Nether Blasters Run Time: 100 min Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 7:35pm Wednesday, Nov 18 at 7:45pm Planet George Directed by: Run Time: 95 minutes Scott Conditt, Jeremy Tremp Screening Times: Cast: Tom Plumley, Greg Grunberg, Hassie Harrison, Joey Sunday, Nov 15 at 8:05pm Morgan, Martin Kove, Jesse Kove, Lin Shaye, Kevin Smith, Friday, Nov 20 at 2:25pm Lukas Gage Directed by: Cari Frederick A small town video game store clerk must go Synopsis: Cast: Eric-Lee Olsen, Shana Eva, Robert Sherry, and from zero to hero after accidentally unleashing the forces Thomas Pantera of evil from a cursed Colecovision game… Synopsis: Laugh along with George, a trustworthy doorman Presented in part by Paul & Laura DeNegris fed up with a rash of low-level crimes in the luxury condo complex where he works and lives. With pleas for help going unanswered, by management, George enlists the help of his goofy childhood friend and the pretty girl next door. The mission: solve the mystery of break-ins and reinvent his lackluster life. Presented in part by Lizabeth White Radical Obsession Run Time: 95 minutes Screening Time: They Have Names Thursday, Nov 19 at 11:50am 75 minutes Run Time: Directed by: Barry Avrich Screening Time: Cast: Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss Saturday, Nov 14 at 8:00pm February 11, 1979. It would take just 13 months to Sunday, Nov 15 at 7:30pm Synopsis: irrevocably change the course of global history and introduce Directed by: David Wallace the world to a new era of modern terrorism. The Islamic Cast: Mary Jo Pitzl, David Wallace, Nick Oza and Republic of Iran rose up from an unlikely revolution in a country Dianna M. Náñez that had never seen financial crisis, disgruntled military, or Synopsis: There are some 15,000 children in Arizona’s faced defeat in war. foster care system, but who are they? “They Have Names” Radical Obsession explores the transformation of Iran from follows five people and their families over the course of over a western-influenced monarchy to a modern orthodox a year as they navigate Arizona’s child welfare system in theocracy. It investigates how Ayatollah Khomeini’s vision for a group homes, foster homes, courtrooms and prison cells. society shaped by a ruling council of Imams radically upset the These five individuals pose tough questions, and find the balance of power in the Middle East: a vision that reignited an answers aren’t always satisfying. age-old sectarian struggle for dominance of the Muslim world while spreading a deadly current of fear and an unyielding mission of state-sponsored terrorism.
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Billie Zappa Run Time: 96 minutes Run Time: 130 minutes Screening Times: Screening Times: Tuesday, Nov 17 at 8:00pm Thursday, Nov 19 Friday, Nov 20 at 11:35am at 8:00pm Directed by: Directed by: James Erskine Alex Winter Synopsis: Billie Holiday, Synopsis: one of the greatest voices of all time, a woman of breath- With unfettered access taking talent and global popularity, was throughout her to the Zappa family short life a figure of controversy - a black woman in a white trust and all archival man’s world, a victim and a rebel whose infamous Strange footage, ZAPPA explores Fruit, the first protest song, earned her powerful enemies. the private life behind Then in the late 1960’s journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set the mammoth musical out to write the definitive biography of Billie. Over the next career that never decade, she tracked down and tape-recorded interviews shied away from the political turbulence of its time. Alex with the extraordinary characters that populated the iconic Winter’s assembly features appearances by Frank’s widow singer’s short, tumultuous life. With unprecedented and Gail Zappa and several of Frank’s musical collaborators exclusive access to Linda’s astonishing 200 hours of never- including Mike Keneally, Ian Underwood, Steve Vai, Pamela before-heard interviews, “Billie” showcases an American Des Barres, Bunk Gardner, David Harrington, Scott Thunes, legend, capturing her depths and complexity through the Ruth Underwood, Ray White. voices of those who knew her best. Presented in part by the Torosian Foundation Presented in part by Elizabeth Stewart Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President Run Time: 96 minutes Screening Times: Monday, Nov 16 at 2:15pm Thursday, Nov 19 at 5:20pm Directed by: Creem: America’s Only Mary Wharton Featuring: Bob Dylan, Bono, Rock ‘N’ Roll Magazine Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, Gregg Run Time: 75 minutes Allman, Garth Brooks, and others, as well as with former Screening Times: President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter Tuesday, Nov 17 at 2:40pm Synopsis: If it hadn’t been for a bottle of scotch and a late-night Directed by: Scott Crawford visit from musician Gregg Allman, Jimmy Carter might never have been elected the 39th President of the United States. “Jimmy Synopsis: Capturing the messy upheaval of the ‘70s just Carter, Rock & Roll President” charts the mostly forgotten story of as rock was re-inventing itself, the film explores CREEM how Carter, a lover of all types of music, forged a tight bond with Magazine’s humble beginnings in post-riot Detroit, follows musicians Willie Nelson, the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan and others. its upward trajectory from underground paper to national Low on campaign funds and lacking in name recognition, Carter relied on support from these artists to give him a crucial boost in powerhouse, then bears witness to its imminent demise the Democratic primaries. Once Carter was elected, the musicians following the tragic and untimely deaths of its visionary became frequent guests in the White House. The surprisingly publisher, Barry Kramer, and its most famous alum and significant role that music played throughout Carter’s life and in his genius clown prince, Lester Bangs, a year later. Fifty years work becomes a thread in this engaging portrait of one of the most enigmatic Presidents in American history. after publishing its first issue, “America’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll Presented in part by Myron & Jane Picoult Magazine” remains a seditious spirit in music and culture.
26 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 SHOWCASE FEATURE FILMS
The World Without You Collective (Subtitled) Run Time: 110 minutes Run Time: 95 minutes Screening Times: Tuesday, Nov 17 at 11:50am Screening Times: Sunday, Nov 15 at 7:35pm Wednesday, Nov 18 at 5:20pm Thursday, Nov 19 at 12:00pm Directed by: Alexander Nanau Directed by: Damon Shalit Synopsis: In 2015, a fire at Bucharest’s Cast: Radha Mitchell, Chris Mulkey, Perrey Reeves, James Colectiv club leaves 27 Tupper, PJ Byrne, Annika Marks, Lyndie Greenwood, Lynn dead and 180 injured. Cohen, and Suzanne C. Johnson. Soon, more burn victims Synopsis: begin dying in hospitals A Jewish family is from wounds that were brought together not life-threatening. Then a doctor blows the whistle to a for the one-year team of investigative journalists. One revelation leads to anniversary of the another as the journalists start to uncover vast health care death of their son fraud. When a new health minister is appointed, he offers Leo, a journalist unprecedented access to his efforts to reform the corrupt killed while on assignment in Iraq. Old hurts and dark system but also to the obstacles he faces. Following secrets emerge, threatening to tear the fragile threads that journalists, whistle-blowers, burn victims, and government are holding the family together. officials, Collective is an uncompromising look at the Presented in part by Wallace Davidson & Betty Lasker impact of investigative journalism at its best. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friends Chris & Lisa LaMont.
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The Donut Dollies Run Time: 85 minutes Screening Time: Sunday, Nov 15 at 11:45am Friday, Nov 20 at 4:55pm Uncle Frank Directed by: Norm Anderson Run Time: 95 minutes Cast: Dorset Hoogland Anderson, Mary Blanchard Bowe Screening Times: Synopsis: Two women bravely return to Vietnam after Saturday, Nov 21 at 7:35pm & 8:05pm 46 years to remember their intense and transformative experiences as Red Cross Donut Dollie volunteers, Directed by: Alan Ball boosting the morale of battle-worn soldiers on the Starring: Paul Bettany, Sophia Lillis, Peter Macdissi, frontlines of the Vietnam War while negotiating their own Stephen Root, Margo Martindale, Steve Zahn, Judy Greer unforgettable emotional journey. and Lois Smith. Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friend Ruth Wachs. Synopsis: In 1973, teenaged Beth Bledsoe (Sophia Lillis) leaves her rural Southern hometown to study at New York University where her beloved Uncle Frank (Paul Bettany) is a revered literature professor. She soon discovers that Frank is gay, and living with his longtime partner Walid “Wally” Nadeem (Peter Macdissi) -- an arrangement that he has kept secret for years. After the sudden death of Frank’s father -- Beth’s grandfather -- Frank is forced to reluctantly return home for the funeral with Beth in tow, and to finally face a long-buried trauma that he has spent his entire adult life running away from. Presented in part by Linda Peshkin
50 Children: The Rescue Mission of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus Run Time: 65 minutes The Prison Within Screening Time: Run Time: 85 minutes Tuesday, Nov 17 at 5:20pm Screening Times: Directed by: Steven Pressman Wednesday, Nov 18 at 2:40pm Narrated by: Mamie Gummer and Alan Alda Directed by: Katherin Hervey Synopsis: Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus never intended to Synopsis: Prisoners incarcerated for murder inside become heroes. But in early 1939, as conditions were San Quentin Prison transcend the barriers of the punitive worsening for Jews living inside Nazi Germany, the prison system by working with victims of violent crime to Philadelphia couple embarked on a risky and improbable unearth the root cause of their violence. Each character mission – an effort to rescue 50 Jewish children and bring undergoes a radical transformation, revealing how all of them to safety in the United States. us, on both sides of the wall, can break free from our own Presented in part by a donation from Reel Friends Yvette and Bernie Goldstein. personal prisons. Presented in part by Carolyn Wemp
28 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 SKYGATE
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12 Harkins Cine Capri Theatre 7:30pm - Opening Night Film : The Comeback Trail
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13
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Native American So Late So Soon Ask No Questions Horror Shorts A Documentary Shorts A She’s In Portland Directed Shorts 70 min 85 min 80 Min 80 Min 105 Min 100 Min 12:45pm 12:55pm 1:10pm 1:20pm 1:30pm 1:45pm
2:15pm 2:45pm 2:10pm 2:30pm 2:40pm 2:25pm
Breaking Fast Show Me What You Got Zoro’s Solo A Feral World Animated Shorts Analog Love 90 Min 100 Min 90 Min 105 Min 80 Min 90 Min 3:45pm 4:25pm 3:40pm 4:15pm 4:00pm 3:55pm
4:55pm 5:25pm 4:50pm 5:10pm 5:20pm 5:05pm
Class Action Park However Long Body & Bones Bad Witch Arizona Shorts A Two of Us 95 Min 80 Min 100 Min 85 Min 85 Min 95 Min 6:30pm 6:45pm 6:30pm 6:35pm 6:45pm 6:40pm
7:35pm 8:05pm 7:30pm 7:50pm 8:00pm 7:45pm
Max Reload and Teenage Badass World Cinema Shorts Koko Di Koko Da Arizona Shorts B Babysplitters Nether Blasters 100 Min 85 Min 85 Min 85 Min 120 Min 100 Min 9:45pm 8:55pm 7:50pm 9:25pm 9:45pm 9:15pm
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14
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Arizona Student Arizona Student The MisEducation The Golden Rule Sci-Fi Shorts A Documentary Shorts B Film Festival Film Festival of Bindu 95 min 90 Min 90 Min 90 min 90 Min 95 Min 1:05pm 1:20pm 1:30pm 1:05pm 1:35pm 1:20pm
2:15pm 2:45pm 1:50pm 2:30pm 2:40pm 2:25pm
African American Finding Home Huracan Grand Cancan Making Monsters College Shorts Directed Shorts in Boomtown 105 Min 135 Min 85 Min 90 Min 85 Min 80 Min 4:00pm 4:05pm 3:55pm 4:10pm 4:10pm 3:45pm
4:50pm 5:25pm 4:55pm 5:10pm 5:20pm 5:05pm
Max Winslow and the Ocean of Obstacles She’s In Portland Live Action Shorts A Analog Love Seneca House of Secrets 90 Min 105 Min 80 Min 90 Min 95 Min 100 Min 6:20pm 7:10pm 6:15pm 6:50pm 6:40pm 6:50pm
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Fisherman’s Friends Fisherman’s Friends Live Action Shorts B Blood Quantum They Have Names Swing Low 115 Min 115 Min 95 Min XX Min 75 Min 80 Min 9:25pm 10:00pm 9:10pm 7:50pm 9:15pm 9:05pm
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15
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Native American Arizona Shorts B Babysplitters Old Timers Horror Shorts B The Donut Dollies Directed Shorts 85 min 120 Min 90 min 85 Min 85 Min 100 Min 1:00pm 2:05pm 1:00pm 1:15pm 1:10pm 1:40pm
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Arizona Shorts A However Long Body & Bones The Honeymoon Phase LatinX Directed Shorts The Immortal Jellyfish 85 Min 80 Min 100 Min 90 Min 95 Min 130 Min 3:45pm 4:05pm 3:50pm 4:00pm 4:15pm 4:35pm
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African American After the Murder Stray The Donut King My Dearest Enemy To Your Last Death Directed Shorts of Albert Lima 75 Min 95 Min 105 Min 95 Min 85 Min 95 Min 6:10pm 7:00pm 6:35pm 6:45pm 6:45pm 6:40pm
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The MisEducation The World Without You Planet George They Have Names A Living Dog World Cinema Shorts of Bindu 95 Min 95 Min 75 Min 95 Min 85 Min 95 Min 9:10pm 9:40pm 8:45pm 9:25pm 9:25pm 9:20pm
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16
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The Capote Tapes Untimely Live Action Shorts A Ask No Questions Finding Home in Boomtown 95 Min 80 min 80 Min 85 Min 80 Min 1:35pm 12:50pm 1:10pm 1:00pm 1:05pm
2:40pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 2:15pm 2:25pm
Jimmy Carter: The Golden Rule Old Timers LatinX Directed Shorts She’s In Portland Rock & Roll President 95 Min 90 Min 95 Min 105 Min 100 Min 4:15pm 3:30pm 4:05pm 4:10pm 3:55pm
5:20pm 4:30pm 5:10pm 4:55pm 5:05pm
Clementine Grand Cancan So Late So Soon Huracan Swing Low 95 Min 135 Min 70 Min 105 Min 80 Min 6:55pm 6:45pm 6:20pm 6:40pm 6:25pm
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Stray The Last Days of Capitalism Butt Boy Animated Shorts We Are Little Zombies 75 Min 85 Min 100 Min 80 Min 120 Min 9:15pm 8:55pm 9:30pm 8:55pm 9:45pm
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17
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Live Action Shorts B Zoro’s Solo Collective College Shorts Babysplitters 95 Min 90 min 110 Min 90 Min 120 Min 1:35pm 1:00pm 1:40pm 1:05pm 1:45pm
2:40pm 2:10pm 2:30pm 2:15pm 2:25pm
Creem Body & Bones Sci-Fi Shorts B Documentary Shorts B Tu Me Manques 75 Min 100 Min 65 Min 90 Min 105 Min 3:55pm 3:50pm 3:35pm 3:45pm 4:10pm
5:20pm 4:50pm 5:10pm 4:55pm 5:05pm
50 Children: After the Murder The Rescue Mission of My Dearest Enemy Untimely Ocean of Obstacles of Albert Lima Mr. and Mrs. Kraus 105 Min 80 Min 90 Min 95 Min 65 Min 6:35pm 6:30pm 6:25pm 6:40pm 6:25pm
8:00pm 7:30pm 7:50pm 7:35pm 7:45pm
Billie World Cinema Shorts La Llorona Class Action Park Two of Us 100 Min 85 Min 100 Min 95 Min 95 Min 9:40pm 8:55pm 9:30pm 9:10pm 9:20pm
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18
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Animated Shorts Untimely Live Action Shorts A LatinX Directed Shorts Show Me What You Got 80 Min 80 min 80 Min 95 Min 100 Min 1:20pm 12:50pm 1:10pm 1:10pm 1:25pm
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African American The Prison Within Ask No Questions Live Action Shorts B Analog Love Directed Shorts 85 Min 85 Min 85 Min 90 Min 85 Min 4:05pm 3:35pm 3:55pm 3:55pm 3:40pm
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Collective Old Timers The Last Days of Capitalsm Documentary Shorts A The Immortal Jellyfish 110 Min 90 Min 85 Min 80 Min 130 Min 7:10pm 6:20pm 6:35pm 6:15pm 7:15pm
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Max Reload and Teenage Badass The Golden Rule Zombi Child Huracan the Nether Blasters 100 Min 95 Min 100 Min 105 Min 100 Min 9:40pm 9:05pm 9:30pm 9:20pm 9:25pm
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19
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12:00pm 11:30am 11:50am 11:35am 11:45am
The World Without You World Cinema Shorts Radical Obsession Documentary Shorts A The MisEducation of Bindu 95 Min 85 min 95 Min 85 Min 95 Min 1:35pm 12:55pm 1:25pm 1:00pm 1:20pm
2:40pm 2:10pm 2:30pm 2:15pm 2:25pm
Class Action Park Zoro’s Solo The Donut King Animated Shorts However Long 75 Min 90 Min 95 Min 80 Min 80 Min 3:55pm 3:40pm 4:05pm 3:35pm 3:45pm
5:20pm 4:50pm 5:10pm 4:55pm 5:05pm
Jimmy Carter: Native American The Golden Rule Documentary Shorts B Seneca Rock & Roll President Directed Shorts 95 Min 90 Min 95 Min 100 Min 100 Min 6:25pm 6:40pm 6:40pm 7:00pm 6:35pm
8:00pm 7:30pm 7:50pm 7:35pm 7:45pm
Zappa Grand Cancan Blood Quantum College Shorts To the Stars 130 Min 135 Min 100 Min 90 Min 115 Min 10:10pm 9:45pm 9:30pm 9:05pm 9:40pm
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20
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Billie Live Action Shorts B Ask No Questions To Your Last Death The Honeymoon Phase Seneca 100 min 95 Min 95 min 85 Min 90 Min 95 Min 1:15pm 1:40pm 1:05pm 1:15pm 1:30pm 1:20pm
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Finding Home Arizona Shorts B My Dearest Enemy Sci-Fi Shorts A Horror Shorts A Planet George in Boomtown 85 Min 105 Min 90 Min 80 Min 85 Min 80 Min 3:40pm 3:55pm 4:00pm 4:00pm 3:50pm 4:05pm
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Max Winslow and The MisEducation The Donut Dollies However Long Old Timers Making Monsters The House of Secrets of Bindu 85 Min 95 Min 90 Min 85 Min 100 Min 95 Min 6:20pm 7:00pm 6:20pm 6:35pm 7:00pm 6:40pm
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No Man’s Land No Man’s Land Class Action Park Little Fish La Llorona Show Me What You Got 115 Min 115 Min 95 Min 100 Min 100 Min 100 Min 9:30pm 10:00pm 9:05pm 9:30pm 9:40pm 9:25pm
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21
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THEATRE 8 THEATRE 9 THEATRE 10 THEATRE 11 THEATRE 12 THEATRE 13
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Ocean of Obstacles Live Action Shorts A Zoro’s Solo Bad Witch A Feral World The Immortal Jellyfish 90 min 80 Min 90 min 85 Min 105 Min 130 Min 1:05pm 1:40pm 1:00pm 1:15pm 1:45pm 1:55pm
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Finding Home Arizona Shorts A Huracan Body & Bones Horror Shorts B Sci-Fi Shorts B in Boomtown 85 Min 105 Min 100 Min 85 Min 65 Min 80 Min 3:40pm 4:30pm 3:50pm 3:55pm 3:45pm 3:45pm
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Teenage Badass Babysplitters My Dearest Enemy To Your Last Death The Honeymoon Phase Swing Low 100 Min 120 Min 105 Min 95 Min 90 Min 80 Min 6:35pm 7:25pm 6:35pm 6:45pm 6:50pm 6:25pm
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After the Murder Uncle Frank Uncle Frank Butt Boy Zombi Child Seneca of Albert Lima 95 Min 95 Min 100 Min 100 Min 95 Min 95 Min 9:10pm 9:40pm 9:30pm 9:40pm 9:20pm 9:05pm
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22
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Max Winslow and Horror Shorts B Show Me What You Got Sci-Fi Shorts B Making Monsters Swing Low the House of Secrets 85 min 100 Min 65 min 85 Min 80 Min 100 Min 1:00pm 1:45pm 12:35pm 1:15pm 1:05pm 1:40pm
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After the Murder of Bad Witch Grand Cancan Sci-Fi Shorts A Horror Shorts A She’s in Portland Albert Lima 85 Min 135 Min 90 Min 80 Min 105 Min 95 Min 3:40pm 4:00pm 4:00pm 4:00pm 4:10pm 4:20pm
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The Immortal Jellyfish Analog Love Untimely A Feral World A Living Dog Koko Di Koko Da 130 Min 90 Min 80 Min 105 Min 95 Min 85 Min 7:05pm 6:55pm 6:10pm 6:55pm 6:55pm 6:30pm
Harkins Cine Capri Theatre 7:30pm - Closing Night Film : Blithe Spirit
34 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 SHOWCASE FEATURE FILM
So Late So Soon We Are Little Zombies Run Time: 70 minutes Run Time: 120 minutes Screening Times: Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 11:35am • Monday, Nov 16 at 5:10pm Monday, Nov 16 at 7:45pm Directed by: Daniel Hymanson Directed by: Makoto Nagahisa Synopsis: Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden are a half- Cast: Keita Ninomiya, Satoshi Mizuno, Mondo Okumura, century into their marriage, the time they’ve spent creating Sena Nakajima, Kuranosuke Sasaki distinct yet congruous bodies of work. Jackie makes art of Synopsis: Their parents are dead. They should be sad, everything around her. Central to her practice is a recognition but they can’t cry. So they form a kick-ass band. This is of the fragility of materials. This conceptual interest has turned the story of four 13 year-olds in search of their emotions. into a maddening reality for her, as both her body and her most ambitious art project, her canary-yellow Victorian house, start One sunny day, four young teens meet by chance at a to fall apart. Don’s work reveals a mind resigned to death. He crematorium. Hikari, Ikuko, Ishi and Takemura have all lost has always been interested in the rules of nature, which now their parents at the same time. But none of them could manifests in an acceptance of his own declining health. In shed a tear. They were like zombies, devoid of all emotion. exploring Jackie and Don’s art, So Late So Soon becomes a part This is a story about their quest to retrieve their ability to of it, immersing us in their creations – decades of complex, feel. And what they discover at the end of it. interconnected work and a shared life that is uniquely their own. Congratulations on 20 years volunteering with the Phoenix Film Festival Greg Hall Slobodan Popovic
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No Man’s Land Stray 75 minutes Run Time: 115 minutes Run Time: Screening Times: Screening Times: Friday, Nov 20 at 7:35pm and 8:05pm Sunday, Nov 15 at 4:55pm • Monday, Nov 16 at 8:00pm Elizabeth Lo Directed by: Conor Allyn Directed by: STRAY explores what it means to live as a being Cast: Frank Grillo, Andie MacDowell, Jake Allyn, Jorge A. Synopsis: without status or security, following three strays - Zeytin, Nazar Jimenez, Alex MacNicoll, George Lopez and Kartal - as they embark on inconspicuous journeys through
Synopsis: A modern Western inspired by the real-life “no Turkish society that allow us an unvarnished portrait of human man’s land” areas along the Texas-Mexico border. While life — and their own canine culture. Zeytin, fiercely independent, out on a father-son border patrol, Jackson accidentally embarks on adventures through the city at night; Nazar, nurturing kills a Mexican immigrant boy. When his father tries taking and protective, easily befriends the humans around her; while the blame, Jackson flees south on horseback, becoming a Kartal, a shy puppy living on the outskirts of a construction site, gringo “illegal alien” in Mexico. Pursued from either side by finds companions in the security guards who care for her. The disparate lives of Zeytin, Nazar and Kartal intersect when they Texas Rangers and Mexican federales, he journeys across each form intimate bonds with a group of young Syrians who share Mexico to seek forgiveness from the dead boy’s father only the streets with them. Whether they lead us into bustling streets to fall in love with the land he was taught to hate. or decrepit ruins, the gaze of these strays acts as a window into Presented in part by Danita Pirtle the overlooked corners of society: women in loveless marriages, protesters without arms, refugees without sanctuary. STRAY is a critical observation of human civilization through the unfamiliar gaze of dogs and a sensory voyage into new ways of seeing. Presented in part by Laurie Rozendal
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Ocean of The Voyage of the Blind Buccaneers Obstacles Run Time: 90 minutes Screening Times: Saturday, Nov 14 at 4:50pm Tuesday, Nov 17 at 4:55pm Saturday, Nov 21 at 11:35am Teenage Badass Directed by: Louie Duran Cast: Jorge Castro, Roman FERAL LLAMA ENTERTAINMENT AND PUER MEDIO ENTERTAINMENT : “OCEAN OF OBSTACLES” Run Time: 100 minutes kLOUIEDURAN g KEITUMETSE MOKHONWANA p LOUDIN KRUEG + THE FOUNDATION FOR BLIND CHILDREN Robago, Steven Clemens, OCEAN OF OBSTACLES Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 8:05pm • Wednesday, Ethan Roberts, Cesar O3Film.com Nov 18 at 8:00pm • Saturday, Nov 21 at 4:55pm Yanez, Adonis Watt, Isabelle Directed by: Grant McCord Chapman, Kaylee Nielsen, Maggie Lindsay, Elle Dingwell, Evelin Rios-Perez, Morgan Marquis Cast: Mcabe Gregg, Evan Ultra, Madelyn Deutch, Dillon Lane, Elsie Hewitt, Karsen Liotta, Julie Ann Emery, Kevin Synopsis: Ocean of Obstacles is a documentary that Corrigan, James Paxton, Jim Adkins reveals the story of a dozen blind and visually impaired teens as they attempt a life changing voyage. This first-time crew Synopsis: Set in 2006, Teenage Badass follows a band dubbed “The Blind Buccaneers” will learn to navigate and sail that scores a shot to play on the local news. But as all on open water before embarking on a seven day journey from of their dreams start to become a reality, the band’s the Spanish Virgin Islands to the shore of Puerto Rico. egocentric singer/songwriter threatens to make them lose everything.
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38 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 ARIZONA SHORTS A
Run Time: 80 minutes The Legend of Brodan Screening Times: Directed by: Dabney Jackson Friday, Nov 13 at 5:20pm Synopsis: When fate calls upon the Sunday, Nov 15 at 2:15pm mighty Brodan to save a village from a Saturday, Nov 21 at 2:15pm monster, he begins a quest seeking fame and glory. When the villagers learn that Wish You Were There Infertile Hearts Brodan is an idiot, mayhem ensues. Directed by: Kevin R. Phipps Synopsis: : An intimate look into SHK What We Become one couple’s battle with infertility, told Directed by: Bill Wetherill Directed by: Phil Wilson through movement and music. Synopsis: Clyde is down and out on Synopsis: “What We Become” tells the the streets when he meets the girl of story of Glenna, who struggles to survive in June Heist his dreams… who just happens to be a a desolated world. Directed by: Angela Marie Houston hockey stick. Synopsis: The story of a single mother Wish You Were There as she fights for her daughter’s happiness The Evolved Spectrum Directed by: Kieran Thompson while battling the effects of poverty. Directed by: Adolpho Navarro Synopsis: An older couple goes on a Synopsis: A woman discovers a color first date at an art museum. Security Blanket within herself and expresses through Directed by: Chris Blackford her art work when she’s surrounded by Synopsis: A little girl’s only defense negativity. against the monster is her special blanket. ARIZONA SHORTS B
Run Time: 85 minutes that is helping members of a historic Phoenix community to revitalize and Screening Times: rejuvenate their homes. We meet the Friday, Nov 13 at 8:00pm residents of the community and people Sunday, Nov 15 at 11:35am leading the effort within the organization, Friday, Nov 20 at 2:15pm Habitat for Humanity of Central Arizona. Stranger Joe Goes to the Store Directed by: Chloe Caufield Directed by: Keegan Luther Schwerehosen Synopsis: A micro documentary about Synopsis: When your relationship Christian Caufield and his journey ends, is it better to carry your memories with autism. with you or try to leave them behind? System Restore Directed by: Matthew Zavala An everyday shopping trip becomes Bubbled Synopsis: After the death of his wife, an emotional whirlwind and a journey Directed by: Briana Valenzuela Adam uses his computer programming towards hope. Synopsis: An animated short film skills to develop Artificial Intelligence as about a mermaid who finds the courage Be There an attempted distraction from reality. to break out of her bubble. Meanwhile, his sister-in-law, Hannah, fears Directed by: Stephen P. Davis that his new obsession is keeping him from Synopsis: Allen’s fiancé Emily passes Schwerehosen moving on. As Adam’s new creation, “Mia,” away in an accident that he blames Directed by: Josh Kasselman develops, it begins to question its own himself over. He is stricken with grief Synopsis: When Megan receives a and depression, and doesn’t know how existence. surprise social invitation from a higher- to come to terms with this new reality. up at her company, she’s worried her Allen’s half-brother Nick pays him a visit My Sekret War nerves – and her apathetic husband – Directed by: Kevin R. Phipps after not speaking for 3 years, and wants will sink her. Synopsis: A young woman confronts to put their personal issues aside so he the dark decision she was forced to make can be there for him. Revitalization of as a child of war. Central City South Directed by: Lorenzo Cuevas Synopsis: This film takes an in depth look at the efforts of a local non-profit
PHOENIXFILMFESTIVAL.COM 39 The Capote Tapes Run Time: 95 min Screening Times: Two of Us Monday, Nov 16 at 12:00pm Run Time: 95 minutes Ebs Burnough Directed by: Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 5:05pm Synopsis: Answered Prayers was meant to be Truman Tuesday, Nov 17 at 7:45pm Capote’s greatest masterpiece, an epic portrait of New Directed by: Filippo Meneghetti York’s glittering jet-set society. Instead, it sparked his Barbara Sukowa, Martine Chevallier downfall. Through never-before-heard audio archives from Cast: George Plimpton and interviews with Capote’s friends and Synopsis: Two retired women, Nina and Madeleine, have enemies, including Dick Cavett, André Leon Talley, Jay been secretly in love for decades. Everybody, including McInerney and his adopted daughter, Kate Harrington, The Madeleine’s family, thinks they are simply neighbors, sharing Capote Tapes reveals the rise and fall of America’s most the top floor of their building. They come and go between iconic gay writer. their two apartments, enjoying the affection and pleasures of daily life together, until an unforeseen event turns their relationship upside down and leads Madeleine’s daughter to gradually unravel the truth about them.
40 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 UNIFIED BY FILM Clementine Run Time: 95 minutes Screening Times: Monday, Nov 16 at 5:20pm Directed by: Lara Jean Gallagher Cast: Otmara Marrero (Crackle’s “Start-up,”) Breaking Fast Sydney Sweeney (HBO’s Run Time: 90 min “Euphoria,” Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,”) Will Brittain Screening Times: (Kong: Skull Island, Everybody Wants Some!!,) Sonya Friday, Nov 13 at 2:15pm Walger (ABC’s “The Catch” and “Lost”) Directed by: Mike Mosallam Synopsis: A heartbroken woman becomes entangled Cast: Haa Sleiman, Michael Cassidy, Amin El Gamal, with a younger girl after breaking into her ex’s lake house Patrick Sabongui, Christopher Hanke, Rula Gardenier, in the Pacific Northwest. Equal parts psychological drama Aline Elasmar, Veronica Cartwright and sexual coming-of-age story, Clementine is a tense Synopsis: Set in West Hollywood, Breaking Fast is a rumination on who to love and how to let go. romantic comedy that follows Mo, a practicing Muslim still Clementine was developed with the support of the Venice reeling from heartbreak. When an All-American guy named Biennale College-Cinema, the Sundance Institute, Film Kal offers to join him in his nightly Iftars – the traditional Independent, and IFP. meal eaten by Muslims during Ramadan – meal after meal, the two start to discover they have more in common than meets the eye. Their investigation takes them through every social level of the town, with Tibbs making enemies as well as unlikely friends as he hunts for the truth.
Tu Me Manques (subtitled) Run Time: 105 minutes Screening Times: Tuesday, Nov 17 at 2:25pm Directed by: Rodrigo Bellott Synopsis: Jorge, a traditional Bolivian father, receives news of the suicide of his son Gabriel. Weeks after the tragedy he finds his son’s laptop where he discovers he had a romantic relationship with Sebastian, another young countryman who lives in New York City, where his son was studying. After an initial angry confrontation with Sebastian on Skype, Jorge decides to go to New York to look for answers about his son’s death, but what he finds will change his life forever.
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Class Action Park Huracan Run Time: 95 minutes Run Time: 105 minutes Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 4:55pm • Tuesday, Screening Times: Saturday, Nov 14 at 2:15pm Nov 17 at 7:35pm • Thursday, Nov 19 at 2:40pm • Monday, Nov 16 at 4:55pm • Wednesday, Nov 18 at 7:35pm Friday, Nov 20 at 7:30pm Saturday, Nov 21 at 2:45pm Directed by: Chris Charles Scott, Seth Porges Directed by: Cassius Corrigan Cast: Mary Pilon, Jason Scott, Seth Porges Cast: Cassius Corrigan, Yara Martínez, Grégory Choplin, Synopsis: During its 1980s heyday, New Jersey’s Jorge Masvidal, Camila Rodríguez, Steven Spence, Carlos Action Park was known as the world’s most dangerous Guerrero amusement park – a place with bizarre rides and a chaotic Synopsis: Huracán is a psychological thriller about an atmosphere that placed it somewhere between Lord of the aspiring MMA fighter who suffers from Multiple Personality Flies and a Saw movie. For the first time, Class Action Park Disorder. uncovers the true story of a time and place that will never exist again. AFRICAN AMERICAN SHORTS
Run Time: 85 minutes Land of Dry Bones Screening Times: Saturday, Nov 14 at 2:45pm Sunday, Nov 15 at 5:20pm Wednesday, Nov 18 at 2:15pm A Night Out Directed by: Kevin Brooks Synopsis: After a bad breakup, a woman goes out with her friends for a girl’s night out but the night doesn’t end the way she expects, and it may alter the course of her life forever. illness after his condition is severely Mercury in Retrograde triggered while hooking up with his Land of Dry Bones Directed by: Mignon Alexander girlfriend for the first time Mercury In Retrograde Directed by: Darrell Lake Synopsis: tells the story of a young musician Synopsis: An unassuming single Along the Creek Road Rhoni, aspiring to be LA’s biggest father, Emmanuel, struggles Directed by: Russell Reed rockstar. With the help her cousin desperately to keep his life from Synopsis: Along the Creek Road is a Tati (a self-proclaimed filmmaker) unraveling when it is discovered thriller that follows the story of Jenkin, and unsuccessful socialite Matt, the that he was once a child soldier who a persistent and caring reporter trio documents Rhoni’s journey to committed heinous atrocities. covering the 15th anniversary of the becoming legendary. Oaksville Disappearance. While trying Flawd to interview the town’s residences, Jay Snow Directed by: she discovers a haunting hidden An LA Comic is forced Synopsis: secret that reveals the truth about to come clean about his terminal everything.
42 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 LATINX AMERICAN SHORTS
Run Time: 95 minutes Museum of Fleeting Screening Times: Wonders Sunday, Nov 15 at 2:40pm Directed by: Monday, Nov 16 at 2:30pm Tomas Gomez Bustillo Wednesday, Nov 18 at 11:35am Synopsis: The Museum of You and I, Always Fleeting Wonders is a collection Undocumented (subtitled) of reenactments inspired by small the future and takes her for granted, they Directed by: Danny Valezquez and magical moments submitted by real A mother caught between find that goodbye is even harder than Synopsis: people. two countries, risking it all for her expected. daughter’s life. Overkill The Drawings (subtitled) Directed by: Alex Montilla Directed by: José Antonio Ocegueda ¡Come! (subtitled) Synopsis: ‘OverKill’ is a film with a Synopsis: Lorenzo is a Mexican Directed by: Lizette Barrera comedic take on a familiar setup: when undocumented immigrant living in Synopsis: Set in Florida, a 12 year old too-woke-for-their-own-good college Phoenix, Arizona, and is homeless. Puerto Rican girl’s perspective changes kids are terrorized by an unstoppable His only purpose in life is to find his when she brings a popular dessert dish, masked killer, the final girl must family (wife and two children) who was Arroz con Leche, to a thanksgiving event outsmart him to survive. Only in this separated crossing the border from at her school and no one eats it. movie, the killer literally cannot be Mexico to the United States by Trump’s stopped (or killed.) Futbul Kid new immigrations policies. He was Directed by: Pedro Perez You and I, Always deported, but he returned to the United Lencho’s hot summer day Synopsis: Directed by: Ellen Marmol States to look for his son and daughter. changes when he meets a paletero man Synopsis: Camilla, a Brazilian single Lorenzo’s story shows the reality of named Sacarias under the shade of a mother, wants to make this final road trip thousands of undocumented families giant tree. to college unforgettable. But when her who are suffering the separation and daughter Victoria is preoccupied with struggling to be together again. NATIVE AMERICAN SHORTS
Run Time: 100 minutes Interloper Screening Times: Directed by: Lawrence Hennigan Friday, Nov 13 at 12:05pm Synopsis: David Murdoch is a bounty Sunday, Nov 15 at 12:00pm hunter from a dystopian world. He’s Thursday, Nov 19 at 4:55pm tasked to travel back in time to present- Totems Blackwater day Los Angeles in pursuit of a fugitive - one Iris Gilbert. But the mission causes short-lived when Jess vanishes without Directed by: Boise Esquerra him to question his orders and his future. a trace. Suddenly, Marty must deal with Synopsis: Blackwater follows the her past, a system of racism, and false story of Birdie Blackwater, a washed-up Your Name Isn’t English allegations—all while trying to find her Native American country singer from Directed by: Tazbah Rose Chavez friend. These events fundamentally the reservation who found stardom and Synopsis: As drivers struggle to change Marty. She vows to be a voice for fame at an early age. Now on her last leg pronounce her name, a Native American the voices unheard. career-wise and having burnt every bridge passenger offers history lessons from across America, Birdie finds herself alone the backseat. It’s a lesson in American Nice Shirt and broke, returning to her homeland, history they won’t forget. Directed by: Juan C. Ysaguirre trying to cope with her life as it spirals Synopsis: A compliment gone wrong out of control after ten years of reckless, Voice Unheard that asks the right questions. Directed by: Mark Lewis unchecked alcoholism. Synopsis: Marty Coulee, a Native Totems Douk American photographer and Directed by: Justin Deegan Directed by: Michelle Hernandez entrepreneur, lives the good life in New Synopsis: A post-apocalyptic film Synopsis: A Native American family York City. When her Native American about two Indigenous men existing in confronts the harsh reality of being split business partner, Jess, receives an the aftermath of colonial America, when apart from their daughters. unexpected opportunity in the American their spouses kick them out, making Southwest, the two embark on an them homeless in 2019 Seattle. Just like adventure to Arizona. However, the fun is in the old days.
PHOENIXFILMFESTIVAL.COM 43 A Living Dog La Llorona Run Time: 95 min Run Time: 100 min Screening Times: Screening Times: Sunday, Nov 15 at 7:50pm • Sunday, Nov 22 at 5:20pm Tuesday, Nov 17 at 7:50pm Directed by: Friday, Nov 20 at 8:00pm Daniel Raboldt Directed by: Jayro Bustamante Cast: Stefan Ebel, Siri Nase, Nikolai Will Cast: María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz, Synopsis: The war between mankind and intelligent Julio Diaz, María Telón, and Juan Pablo Olyslager machines has begun - and the machines are winning. Synopsis: An aging paranoid dictator, protected by Tomasz is a deserter who tries to hide as far away from a witchcrafting wife, faces death and the uprise of his the battle as possible. In the vast emptiness of northern people in Guatemala. Scandinavia he meets Lilja, the last survivor of a resistance Presented in part in memory of Mark Beierwaltes group, who is determined to fight the superior machines. Presented in part in memory of Mark Beierwaltes
44 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 IHSFF
Zombi Little Fish Child Run Time: 100 min Screening Times: 100 min Run Time: Friday, Nov 20 at 7:50pm Screening Times: Directed by: Wednesday, Nov 18 Chad Hartigan at 7:50pm Saturday, Nov 21 Cast: Olivia Cooke, at 8:00pm Jack O’Connell, Soko, Raúl Castillo, Directed by: David Lennon, Bertrand Bonello Carmen Moore Cast: Louise Labeque, Synopsis: Wislanda Louimat, As a memory loss virus Katiana Milfort runs rampant, one couple Synopsis: fights to hold their relationship together before the disease Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to can erase all memory of their love in this sweeping sci-fi be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, romance. 55 years later, at a prestigious all-girls boarding school, Melissa, a young Haitian teenager, confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends - never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable.
Koko Di Koko Da Run Time: 85 min Screening Times: Friday, Nov 13 at 7:50pm Sunday, Nov 22 at 5:05pm Directed by: Johannes Nyholm Cast: Leif Edlund, Peter Belli, Ylva Gallon Synopsis: A once loving couple decide to go on a trip, looking for one last chance to go back to the way things used to be. Instead they find themselves having to relive nightmarish events of the past, as that day and the horrors it brings repeat themselves infinitely. Together they must overcome their trauma, reconcile with their past and fight for their lives.....Over, and over, and over again.
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Butt Boy Blood Quantum Run Time: 100 min Run Time: 100 min Screening Times: Screening Times: Monday, Nov 16 at 7:50pm Saturday, Nov 14 at 7:50pm Saturday, Nov 21 at 7:50pm Thursday, Nov 19 at 7:50pm Directed by: Tyler Cornack Directed by: Jeff Barnaby Cast: Tyler Cornack, Angela Jones, Tyler Dryden, and Cast: Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Devery Colleen Elizabeth Miller Jacobs, Forrest Goodluck, Kiowa Gordon, and Gary Farmer Synopsis: After a child goes missing, a newly sober Synopsis: The dead are coming back to life outside detective suspects that his sponsor has a superpower that the isolated Mi’gMaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its makes animals, objects, and humans disappear in his butt. Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague. In Loving Memory
Mark Beierwaltes passed away peacefully on November 21, 2019 after a brief battle with cancer. Mark, and his husband Mauricio have been staples of the Phoenix Film Festival for years. They were always at the festival -- usually standing at the very front of the VIP line waiting for the next horror film to seat, or having fun at the Opening Night Event. Mark wasn’t only an attendee, he truly believed in the work done by the Phoenix Film Foundation. Mark was not only a Reel Friend, he donated hundreds of hours of his time as a member of our Festival screening committee. He did all of this without any expectation of recognition -- just because he loved film and wanted the Festivals to be the best they could be. The Phoenix Film Festival won’t be the same without Mark, but he would probably be overjoyed this year’s festival is so close to his favorite holiday -- Christmas.
Mark, you did so much for us. We will miss you. Love, Your Phoenix Film Festival Family
46 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 Bad Witch Making Monsters Run Time: 85 minutes Run Time: 85 minutes Screening Time: Friday, Nov 13 at 5:10pm Screening Times: Saturday, Nov 14 at 2:30pm Saturday, Nov 21 at 11:50am • Sunday, Nov 22 at 2:15pm Friday, Nov 20 at 5:10pm • Sunday, Nov 22 at 11:50am Directed by: Joshua Land, Victor Frank Directed by: Justin Hardking Cast: Chris Kozlowski, Jackson Trent, Clare Lefebure, Cast: Tim Loden, Alana Elmer, Jonathan Craig, Jimmy Hennigan, Jonathan Helwig, Abe Kim, Dom Jarrett Siddall DiMercurio Synopsis: When a celebrity couple famed for their Synopsis: Xander is a witch whose abuse of black magic YouTube scare-prank channel is invited to a friend’s has led him to disaster after disaster. After trying to converted church in the countryside for a weekend go clean of witchcraft, Xander befriends a young loner, getaway, a series of startling events unfold that spiral them helping Roland with bullies, girlfriends, and other teenage into an inexplicable nightmare. atrocities.
To Your Last Death Run Time: 95 minutes Screening Times: Sunday, Nov 15 at 5:10pm Friday, Nov 20 at 11:50am • Saturday, Nov 21 at 5:10pm Directed by: Jason Axinn Cast: Morena Baccarin, Ray Wise, Dani Lennon, Bill Moseley, William Shatner Synopsis: After a troubled young woman barely survives a night of terror arranged by her vengeful billionaire father, which killed her three siblings, she is sent back in time to do it all over again by a race of intergalactic gamblers who wager on human conflicts – but this time with foreknowledge to give her a fighting chance.
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A Feral World Max Winslow and the Run Time: 105 minutes House of Secrets Screening Times: 100 minutes Friday, Nov 13 at 2:30pm Run Time: Saturday, Nov 21 at 12:00pm Screening Times: Saturday, Nov 14 at 5:10pm Sunday, Nov 22 at 5:10pm Friday, Nov 20 at 5:20pm • Sunday, Nov 22 at 12:00pm Directed by: Sean Olson Directed by: David Liban Cast: Chad Michael Murray, Sydne Mikelle, Tanner Buchanan, Cast: Caleb Liban, Danielle Prall, Timothy McCracken, Emery Kelly, Jason Genao, Jade Chynoweth, Marina Sirtis Vivienne Bersin, Kaden Hinkle Synopsis: Five teens are chosen by an eccentric billionaire to Synopsis: An orphaned boy in a post-apocalyptic world compete in a game to win his mansion. The night takes a dark turn meets a woman who is trying to find her lost daughter. A when they become trapped and are forced to face off against an evil mother/son bond is formed as they stumble upon clues of AI entity who controls everything in the house, including their fate. the daughter’s whereabouts. Filmed over four years, the audience will see the characters age over the course of the film.
The Honeymoon Phase Run Time: 90 minutes Screening Time: Sunday, Nov 15 at 2:30pm Friday, Nov 20 at 12:00pm • Saturday, Nov 21 at 5:20pm Directed by: Phillip Carroll Cast: Jim Schubin, Chloe Carroll, François Chau, Tara Westwood Synopsis: Down on their luck and searching for work, Tom and Eve enter THE MILLENNIUM PROJECT, an experiment with the promise of $50,000 for living in research housing while their relationship is analyzed. Over the course of their stay, Eve slowly starts to go mad as she begins to question if her lover really is the man she thinks he is.
48 20TH ANNIVERSARY PHOENIX FILM FESTIVAL NOVEMBER 12 – 22, 2020 HORROR SHORTS A
Run Time: 80 minutes Make Me a Sandwich Asking for a Friend Screening Times: Directed by: Kelsey Bollig Friday, Nov 13 at 11:50am Synopsis: Blake and Q are childhood best Friday, Nov 20 at 2:40pm friends, roommates, and well - soulmates. Sunday, Nov 22 at 2:40pm After a long day trying to maintain her #girlboss status at work, Blake’s one- Make Me a Sandwich track mind is solely set on the nachos Directed by: Denman Hatch The Listening Q has promised to make for dinner. In Synopsis: Marcy and her husband live Directed by: Doug O. Perkins addition to the nachos, however, Q has also together in a constant state of disarray. Her Synopsis: A group of friends are on their unexpectedly managed to kill someone husband continually demands Marcy make way to the proverbial cabin in the woods in their apartment. Through a series of him sandwiches, ad nauseam - but how long when they come across a strange man with heavily graphic and hilarious situations, can she withstand his abuse before she important information. the girls tap into their inner serial killers finally cracks? and decide to handle the body themselves. Chickens Their naivete and inexperience leads to a History of Monsters Directed by: Bryian Keith weekend full of accidental drugs, Saran Directed by: Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz Montgomery Jr. Wrap, and a body that, for whatever reason, will not stop bleeding. So hypothetically Synopsis: Evelyn lives isolated in a Synopsis: Two racist cops try to speaking - how do you get rid of a body? cabin in the woods, haunted every night by cover up killing an unarmed black teen. monsters of unknown origin. One day she Asking for a friend. Things don’t go as planned… finds a dying man in the forest and decides to help him. Unable to trust him to stay or Night Crawl Separation exile him into a certain death, she ties the Directed by: Rebekah W. McKendry Directed by: Gregory Shultz stranger up inside the house and becomes Synopsis: On the final night of a Synopsis: Two inmates tunnel entranced by him, struggling between her heated divorce, a husband and wife through the walls of a hellish prison, safety and her sexual desires. acquire a strange new disease. only to find something more terrifying than death row. HORROR SHORTS B
is just coming from work, the mother gets Run Time: 85 minutes The Hitchhiker up to heat the food, but most importantly, Screening Times: they must not wake up the baby who just Sunday, Nov 15 at 11:50am fell asleep, because things can go wrong Saturday, Nov 21 at 2:30pm beyond imagination. Sunday, Nov 22 at 11:35am Parka The Hitchhiker Adele Vuko Directed by: Marcella Cortland Directed by: Synopsis: Jade is on a wild, prosecco- Synopsis: A beautiful woman makes a Bernard-Henri Escape controversial fashion choice during an fueled road-trip to a Byron Bay music enchanted night out. Will the assurances from Terre festival with her two besties. On the from her BFF protect her from the harsh Directed by: Alfred Mathieu surface, it’s all good times. But Jade is repercussions of her lavish attire? Synopsis: The 4th episode of a comic- hiding something big. Lost off the Pacific gore series featuring the character of Highway, her friends circling slowly around Frank & Mary Bernard-Henri, a young high school student her secret, Jade is forced to take distractive Directed by: Paul Williams confronted with an invasion of the undead. action. Amid howls of protest, she swerves Synopsis: An elderly DIY enthusiast In this episode, Bernard-Henri, who became to pick up an enigmatic Hitchhiker, which reanimates his recently deceased wife in a student of Fine Arts, fully integrated this is so fine, ‘cause she’s a chick. She’s the garden shed. A suburban twist on the cumbersome presence into his daily life. disheveled, super-sketchy and unknown to classic Frankenstein tale. A newcomer will upset this precarious the road-tripping friends, she just dumped a balance. body by the side of the road. Vibes in the car Exterminator start to get super weird and Jade decides Directed by: Duncan Birmingham Shhhh to ditch their new pal in a quiet country pub. Synopsis: An unemployed husband Directed by: Mordechay Jonathan But when the local lad’s hospitality takes a with a mouse problem feels increasingly Synopsis: It was supposed to be just sick twist, the Hitchhiker steps in with the emasculated by his female exterminator. another ordinary evening for the couple who best offer Jade’s had for survival. had a cute baby not long ago. The father
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Run Time: 80 minutes Geneticide Screening Times: Saturday, Nov 14 at 11:50am Friday, Nov 20 at 2:30pm Sunday, Nov 22 at 2:30pm KRIM Directed by: Manuel Hüttner Synopsis: In a dystopian vision of the future, a mysterious secret agent is lost on a mission. When her commanding division picks her up again, they perform a series of tests in a harsh government Geneticide One of Many Mikel Scott Dever-O’Neil facility. They find something’s missing Directed by: Sammy Ofori-Attah Directed by: In an overpopulated world, a from her memories, a new objective that Synopsis: A couple, desperate to conceive Synopsis: man must make a decision: help a woman she is determined to keep to herself. a child, battle the state controls and “Screen who has had a child illegally, or give up his A manipulative game of questions and Law” which prevents couples from having marriage. answers evolves. children who are not “perfect.” Brolga The Last Well Secret Space Filip Filković Directed by: Cameron Mitchell Elmore Directed by: Adrian Powers Directed by: The Year is 2037, Europe is in Synopsis: A twenty-something man Synopsis: In a ravaged future-Australia, a Synopsis: who doesn’t feel that he fits into this world solitary hermit guarding a priceless treasure shambles. The owner of the last well with meets a mysterious young woman at a party, is forced to offer sanctuary to a young girl natural clean water lives in Croatia. After only for her to lead him on an unimaginable who is fleeing murderous scavengers. With one of his sales of clean drinking water ends journey through strange new realities. Along danger around every corner, can they learn in a bloodbath, he becomes a substitute the way, he learns who he really is and finds to survive together? father and a husband. But when the well dries out, he makes one last “trade”... his way home. SCI-FI SHORTS B
Run Time: 65 minutes Bodyhackers Screening Times: Directed by: Dale Metz Tuesday, Nov 17 at 2:30pm Synopsis: A daddy/daughter camping trip Saturday, Nov 21 at 2:40pm takes a turn for the worse. Sunday, Nov 22 at 11:30am iParent The Other Side Directed by: Hugo Duvergey Synopsis: The struggles and journey of an individual in a disturbing, yet somehow very familiar society. iParent Directed by: Patrick Avella Synopsis: : A blue-collar couple’s life is turned upside down when they try to have a baby in a dystopian future where the government controls birthing rights. Progeny Directed by: Justin Daering Synopsis: When a blue-collar man is forcibly implanted with his alien boss’s parasitic offspring, he asks his wife to help him remove the parasite.
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2020 Arizona Student Film Festival Program Started in 2007, the Arizona Student Film Festival is a yearly film festival and competition that celebrates the next generation of Arizona Filmmakers. Grade school and high school students from all over the state of Arizona are invited to submit their best short films under 8 minutes. Following the screening, the awards will be announced in the theatre.
Run Time: 90 minutes Screening Times: Saturday, Nov 14 at 11:35am • Saturday, Nov 14 at 12:05pm
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1, 2, 3 All Eyes on Me 16 Curtains 17 Love Nonnie 18 50 Children: The Rescue Mission Douk 43 Make Me a Sandwich 49 of Mr. and Mrs. Kraus 28 Every Grain of Sand 16 Making Monsters 47 A Feral World 48 EXT 17 Mamie 22 A Living Dog 44 Exterminator 49 Max Reload and The Nether Blasters 25 A Night Out 42 Extra Innings 16 Max Winslow and the House of Secrets 48 After the Murder of Albert Lima 12 Feeling Flush 16 Mercury in Retrograde 42 Along the Creek Road 42 Feeling Through 16 Miles 17 Analog Love 12 Finding Home in Boomtown 12 Model Citizen 17 Arizona Student Film Festival 53 Fisherman’s Friends 24 Museum of Fleeting Wonders 43 Ashes to Ashes 18 Flawd 42 Muzzle 22 Ask No Questions 20 Food Chain 22 My Dearest Enemy 20 Asking for a Friend 49 For Pete’s Sake 16 My Sekret War 39 Atsuko’s Story 18 Frank & Mary 49 New York Rhapsody 16 Babysplitters 12 Friends Like That 17 Nice Shirt 43 Bad Witch 47 Futbul Kid 43 Night Crawl 49 Be There 39 Geneticide 50 No Big Deal 17 Bernard-Henri Escape from Terre 49 Grand Cancan 20 No Limits: Wheelchair Basketball in South Sudan 18 Billie 26 History of Monsters 49 No Man’s Land 36 Binimoy 17 However Long 14 Ocean of Obstacles 38 Blackwater 43 Hunger 22 Oh Yeah 17 Blithe Spirit 10 Huracan 42 Old Timers 21 Blood Quantum 46 If Anything Happens I love You 17 On the Ride 16 Body & Bones 20 Infertile Hearts 39 One of Many 50 Bodyhackers 50 Interloper 43 Overkill 43 Breaking Fast 41 Invasion: The Unist’ot’en’s Fight Brolga 50 for Sovereignty 18 Parka 49 Bubbled 39 iParent 50 PHX 16 Butt Boy 46 Itsy 22 Planet George 25 Calls for Archie 17 Jane 16 Portraitist 22 Candy Shop 17 Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President 26 Progeny 50 Chickens 49 Joe Goes to the Store 39 Radical Obsession 25 Class Action Park 42 June Heist 39 Rag Doll 17 Clementine 41 Koko Di Koko Da 45 Repo 16 Collective 27 KRIM 50 Revitalization of Central City South 39 ¡Come! 43 La Llorona 44 Rite of Passage 17 Creem: America’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll Land of Dry Bones 42 Schwerehosen 39 Magazine 26 Little Fish 45 Secret Space 50
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Security Blanket 39 The Drawings 43 Totems 43 Seneca 14 The Evolved Spectrum 39 Train Stop 16 Separation 49 The Golden Rule 21 Tu Me Manques 41 She’s in Portland 14 The Hardest Day 18 Two of Us 40 Shhhh 49 The Hitchhiker 49 Uncle Frank 28 SHK 39 The Honeymoon Phase 48 Undocumented 43 Show Me What You Got 14 The Immortal Jellyfish 15 Untimely 21 Silences 18 The Last Days of Capitalism 24 Voice Unheard 43 So Late So Soon 35 The Last Well 50 We are Little Zombies 35 Stranger 39 The Legend of Brodan 39 What We Become 39 Stray 36 The Listening 49 Wish You Were There 39 Swing Low 15 The MisEducation of Bindu 15 You and I, Always 43 System Restore 39 The Other Side 50 You and Me, Me and You 17 Teenage Badass 38 The Phantom 52 17 (You’ll Make It In) Florida 16 The Baker 16 The Prison Within 28 Your Name Isn’t English 43 The Capote Tapes 40 The World Without You 27 Zappa 26 The Comeback Trail 8 They Have Names 25 Zombi Child 45 The Donut Dollies 28 To the Stars 23 Zoro’s Solo 21 The Donut King 23 To Your Last Death 47
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