Film Schedule

Saturday December 10th 2011
2:00pm - Midnight

Flysk(Netherlands)

2:00 PM
Official Selection

Director Albert Jan van Rees

A man and wife acquire their romantic dream: their own hotel on their own island. The romance sours when they realize their expectations aren't the same. Unknowingly, the first and only guest is the driving force behind their problems in this Dutch comedy.

At Stage 22

North American Premiere

Réfractaire(Luxembourg)

4:00 PM
Best Production Design

WINNER BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN - Christina Schaffer

Director Nicolas Steil

An epic film about WWII in Europe through the eyes of the young men having to choose between fighting on the front lines, hiding in iron mines for months, or risking their lives fighting their allies. A masterful cinematic achievement in scope and depth. Réfractaire (Draft Dodgers) has direction, production design, editing and cinematography to rival most major independent studio epics.

At Belleverado Studios

North American Premiere

Easy Street (U.S.A.)

Shorts Program  5:00 PM
Official Selection

Director Russel Greene

A young lawyer goes for a job interview with the country's most eccentric and intimidating Federal Judge. After experiencing the weirdest encounter of his life, he is given an ultimatum that pits his morality against his ambition in this comedy short.

At Stage 22

Porn Masala (Singapore)

Shorts Program  5:00 PM
Official Selection

Director Ken Kwek

An amateur actor snags the lead role in Singapore's first 'art-house porno', only to discover that the part requires him to dig far deeper than he ever expected. Featuring Singapore television stars Vadi PVSS and Adrian Pang in the most iconoclastic roles of their careers.

At Stage 22

West Coast Premiere

Suburbia(Australia)

Shorts Program  5:00 PM
Official Selection

Director Antonio Oreña-Barlin

Featuring a 12-minute unbroken steadycam tracking shot! This film is about a man on an Australian suburban street dealing with what seems like the end of the world. Based on true events.

At Stage 22

North American Premiere

Stuck(U.S.A.)

Shorts Program  5:00 PM
Official Selection

Director Martin W. Anderson

Jack, disoriented, awakens in horror to find himself cemented waist deep in an abandon warehouse, accused of an unimaginable crime by an unlikely abductor in the movie short Stuck, one of the most professional student films made this year.

At Stage 22

Checkpoint(U.S.A.)

Shorts Program  5:00 PM
Official Selection

Director Ruben Amar

An eleven-year-old Palestinian boy in the Gaza strip goes with his father to the ruins of a destroyed village every month to participate in ritual he does not really understand.

At Stage 22

Berlinoises (France)

Shorts Program  5:00 PM
Official Selection

Director Robbo Labbé

Four Russian soldiers, led by an exhausted Sergeant, are plundering a civilian building. In the last apartment, they meet with two terrified German girls. The Sergeant locks himself in a room with a radio and finds a peaceful place to rest and dream.

At Stage 22

North American Premiere

Betty I Am(U.S.A.)

7:30 PM
Official Selection

Director Jose Renteria

A dark comedy about a brother and sister reunited after five year due to the suicide death of their father. Filmed in beautiful black and white 16mm film.

At Stage 22

World Premiere

Behind The Light (Canada)

9:00 PM
Official Selection

Director Linda Martin

This documentary shows Hollywood dreams as played out at the edge of a forest. Keith Stata was a construction worker with a dream of a cinema for his hometown of Kinmount, Ontario (Population 300). So he built and operates Highlands Cinema, a five-screen, first-run movie complex.

At Stage 22

West Coast Premiere

SATURDAY NIGHT RECEPTION at 10:00pm

Show times are approximate.

Q&A's subject to time availability.

SHORTS PROGRAM MAY BE SHOWN OUT OF LISTED ORDER & WITHOUT INTERMISSIONS BETWEEN FEATURES.