WHEN:
August 4-13, 2023
WHERE:
Regal UA Midway & Forest Hills Library
Forest Hills, Queens
NY
A spokesperson describes the film festival as follows:
"...the film festival embraces the idea of not simply screening our films and celebrating our filmmakers, but underlining the ‘festival’ in 'film festival’, by emphasizing the connection of filmmaker to audience member..."
Film Festival Schedule:
Paris is in Harlem
Director: Christina Kallas
Country: USA; Running Time: 110 min
Herizon
Director: Miguel Gallardo
Country: USA; Running Time: 7 min
Disfluency
Director: Anna Baumgarten
Country: USA; Running Time: 96 min
Floppies
Director: John Cappello
Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min
A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
Director: Dito Montiel
Country: USA, Running Time: 100 min
Fire Bones
Directors: Greg Brownderville, Bart Weiss
Country: USA; Running Time: 90 min
Boys at Twenty --World Premiere
Director: Isaac Dell
Country: USA; Running Time: 76 min
Crash the System
Director: Kamal Ahmed
Country: USA; Running Time: 75 min
D.O.A.
Director: Kurt St.Thomas
Country: USA; Running Time: 82 min
Ghosts of the Void
Director: Jason Miller
Country: USA; Running Time: 91 min
The Goldsmith
Director: Vincenzo Ricchiuto
Country: Italy; Running Time: 89 min
Good Side of Bad
Director: Alethea Root
Country: USA; Running Time: 96 min
Guy Friends
Director: Jonathan Smith
Country: USA; Running Time: 84 minMiss Viborg
Director: Marianne Blicher
Country: Denmark; Running Time: 100 min
Sibel's Silence -- North American Premiere
Director: Aly Yeganeh
Country: France; Running Time: 95 min
The Sound of Southside
Director: Tyrel Hunt
Country: USA; Running Time: 78 min
Stars
Director: Mars Roberge
Country: USA, Canada; Running Time: 108 min
Tales of Babylon --North American Premiere
Director: Pelayo De Lario
Country: UK; Running Time: 126 min
There´s No Place Like Home
Director: Puk Grasten
Country: Denmark; Running Time: 106 min
Waiting for the Light to Change
Director: Linh Tran
Country: USA; Running Time: 89 min
Where Is The Lie?
Director: Quark Henares
Country: Philippines; Running Time: 87 min
Aurora's Sunrise
Director: Inna Sahakyan
Country: Armenia, Germany, Lithuania; Running Time: 96 min
The Book of Harth
Director: Pierre Guillet
Country: USA; Running Time: 63 min
Copyright Infringement
Director: David Sabshon
Country: USA; Running Time: 105 min
Gotham: The Fall and Rise of New York
Director: Matthew Taylor
Country: USA; Running Time: 124 min
The Unseen Crisis: Vaccine Stories You Were Never Told --
Director: Cindy Drukier
Country: Canada; Running Time: 89 min
A Real Adventure
Director: Ingela Ogard
Country: Sweden; Running Time: 17 min
A Tiger in the Subway
Director: James Abrams
Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min
Aaron With 2 A's
Director: Michael Goldburg
Country: USA; Running Time: 17 min
Advantages of NOT Being in the Same Room
Director: Geoffrey Alexander Altrocchi
Country: USA; Running Time: 5 min
Adventures of the Fboys
Director: James C. Watson
Country: USA; Running Time: 10 min
The Ankou, the Child and the Bandits -- World Premiere
Director: Simon Vautier
Country: France; Running Time: 32 min
Another Day On 73rd St
Director: Michael Mendoza
Country: USA; Running Time: 21 min
Art
Director: Alex Martins
Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min
Autumn Leaves Fall Far From Home -- North American Premiere
Director: Matthew Petti
Country: USA; Running Time: 11 min
Bondage on 14th Street -- World Premiere
Director: Jeffrey Johnson
Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min
Brenda and Billy (and the Pothos Plant)
Director: Dave Solomon
Country: USA; Running Time: 15 min
Bring it to the People
Director: Luis Palomino
Country: USA; Running Time: 36 min
Brontë
Directors: Mateo Márquez, Allison Strong
Country: USA; Running Time: 3 min
The Ankou, the Child and the Bandits -- World Premiere
Director: Simon Vautier
Country: France; Running Time: 32 min
The Caddy
Director: Gabriel Beristain
Country: USA; Running Time: 15 min
Can't Get It Right
Director: Cierra Colier
Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min
Cold Eggs, Hot Coffee -- World Premiere
Director: Sam Adelman
Country: USA; Running Time: 3 min
Come Find Me
Director: Nela Wagman
Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min
The Coolest Club
Director: Sheng Ting Shen
Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min
The Coral Reef Chronicles
Director: Zhuoyin He
Country: USA; Running Time: 5 min
Cuando La Rumorosa Calla
Director: Patricia Montoya
Country: Mexico; Running Time: 16 min
Diversion (Politics of)
Director: Simon Heymans
Country: Belgium; Running Time: 17 min
Dogs In The Ocean -- World Premiere
Director: Gareth Francis Williams
Country: USA; Running Time: 3 min
Duane Bruton -- World Premiere
Director: Duane Bruton
Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min
Erik
Director: David Kodheli
Country: Albania; Running Time: 23 min
Events at Hemlock Manor
Director: Katie North
Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min
Faith in Blackness: An Exploration of AfroLatine Spirituality
Director: Charles Reynoso
Country: USA; Running Time: 27 min
Fear of Poetry --World Premiere
Directors: Marla Cotovsky, Nish Nishimura
Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min
Fever
Director: Angele Cooper
Country: USA; Running Time: 19 min
Finding Something You Lost -- World Premiere
Director: Eric Kwasnjuk
Country: USA; Running Time: 3 min
Fog of War
Director: Steven Lundgren
Country: USA; Running Time: 20 min
SHORT FILMS
Forensic Psychologist -- World Premiere
Director: Bizhan Tong
Country: Hong Kong; Running Time: 32 min
Four Walls - Episode 1
Directors: Kgosana Monchusi, Menzi Mzimela, Juvaiś Dunn
Country: South Africa; Running Time: 6 min
From Chile to Canada: Media Herstories
Directors: Sarah Shamash, Sonia Medel
Country: Canada; Running Time: 16 min
Gareth Francis Williams
Director: Kim Hlavac
Country: USA; Running Time: 5 min
Good Grief
Director: Rob Sharp
Country: UK; Running Time: 10 min
Helado
Director: Melissa Rodriguez
Country: USA; Running Time: 15 min
How Did That Happen?!
Director: Laurence Shanet
Country: USA; Running Time: 27 min
Human Nature
Director: Michael Cutrone
Country: USA; Running Time: 15 min
The Hunt
Director: Yann Reuzeau
Country: France; Running Time: 23 min
I Could Eat
Director: Rick Bedrosian
Country: USA; Running Time: 28 min
Interviewing Guillaume Bogaert
Director: Fabrice Chan
Country: België; Running Time: 24 min
Kogershin --
Director: Malik Zenger
Country: Kazakhstan; Running Time: 5 min
LifeQuest
Director: Richard Lounello
Country: USA; Running Time: 26 min
Look Like You
Director: Snigdha Kapoor
Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min
Loved
Director: D.J. Higgins
Country: USA; Running Time: 14 min
Mariposas
Director: Adrian Carey
Country: USA; Running Time: 3 min
Miracle on 74th Street -- North American Premiere
Director: JT Doran
Country: USA; Running Time: 7 min
My First Car -- World Premiere
Director: Wendy Wilkins
Country: USA; Running Time: 7 min
My Foot Hurts
Director: Bjørn Johnson
Country: USA; Running Time: 3 min
My Holographic Heart
Director: Kai Brown
Country: USA; Running Time: 12 min
Naked Men in the Woods
Director: Paul Ploberger
Country: Austria; Running Time: 30 min
Nala
Director: Darshan Singh Bhuller
Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min
Nothing Happened
Director: Katya Yakubov
Country: USA; Running Time: 16 min
The Ocean Listens to No One -- World Premiere
Director: Jasiel Louison
Country: Iceland; Running Time: 19 min
Old T-Shirts
Director: Michelle O'Shea
Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min
The Online Shop
Director: Carsten Woike
Country: Germany; Running Time: 12 min
Overdue
Director: Melissa Skirboll
Country: USA; Running Time: 15 min
Pearly Gates
Director: Loring Murtha
Country: USA; Running Time: 15 min
Pillow Talk
Director: David B. Jacobs
Country: USA; Running Time: 5 min
Radiant Ties
Directors: Conner De Mita, Logan Floyd
Country: USA; Running Time: 3 min
Remain
Director: Kit Reilly
Country: New Zealand; Running Time: 3 min
The Right Thing
Director: Fion Sin
Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min
Rings
Director: Thailer Fox
Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min
Roses in the Night
Director: Pencho Kunchev
Country: Bulgaria; Running Time: 11 min
Salvation
Director: Zane
Country: Canada; Running Time: 3 min
The Scenario
Director: Evan Richards
Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min
Scrawn
Director: Samuel Crow
Country: USA; Running Time: 8 min
Sedition, Seduction, Militia, Production
Director: Michael Franco
Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min
Short Draft
Director: Spyridon Papaspyrou
Country: Greece; Running Time: 23 min
Snail Mail
Director: Jay Stern
Country: USA; Running Time: 6 min
Soldiers --
Director: Zhaoshuai Wu
Country: China; Running Time: 29 min
Static
Director: Jamin Mears
Country: USA; Running Time: 5 min
Sting Ray
Director: Joey Krulock
Country: USA; Running Time: 11 min
Subterranean Love (Olga)
Director: Robert Haufrecht
Country: USA; Running Time: 15 min
Takbir
Director: Jordi Calvet
Country: Spain; Running Time: 14 min
The Third Defector
Director: John Gray
Country: USA; Running Time: 17 min
This City -- World Premiere
Director: Jeff LeBeau
Country: USA; Running Time: 2 min
The Torture Within
Director: Sean Martinez
Country: USA; Running Time: 38 min
Una Carta a Mis Hijas -- North American Premiere
Director: JT Doran
Country: USA; Running Time: 6 min
Whiskey Floats
Director: Rob Douthat
Country: USA; Running Time: 18 min
Why My Room Is Never Clean
Director: Sharice Lacson
Country: USA; Running Time: 4 min
Wicked Image
Director: Caitlin Scherer
Country: USA; Running Time: 9 min
Yellow Lines
Director: Megan Magee
Country: USA; Running Time: 13 min
Your Silent Face -- World Premiere
Director: Anna Capunay
Country: USA; Running Time: 19 min
Ann Arbor Pilot Vagina Dialogue
Writer: Richard Redlo
Dimo
Writer: Cory Choy
Godfor
Writer: Pablo Torroella
Lobby Card: Some Fabulous Rhapsody
Writer: Tom Morgan
Pickleball Killer
Writer: Jim Carroll
Real Heroes
Writer: Richard Hohenrath
The Reflections of Appletree Junction
Writer: Harvest Dawn Bellante
Sadist
Writer: Jennifer Anderson
Searching for Shadow
Writer: Marie Smalley
Shepherds Gone Wild
Writer: Joey Maranto
Skybound
Writer: Jordan Orlando
William LiPera
Writer: William LiPera
Witchblood
Writer: Richard Hohenrath
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