February 15

Home (USA)	3:00 PM	OFFICAL SELECTION
Director JONO OLIVER
Gbenga Akinnagbe leads an all-star cast including James McDaniel, Tawny Cypress and Danny Hoch in the film HOME. The story of a man, recovering from mental illness, who tries to rebuild his life and reconnect with his estranged son by moving out of the group home where he resides and into an apartment of his own. At Studio 22
HOLLYWOOD PREMIERE

Tokyo Dreams (UK)	5:00 PM	Official Selection
Director NICHOLAS BARKER
A Zen-like film about sleeping commuters on the Tokyo subway. Shooting without the knowledge of his subjects, director Nicholas Barker contemplates the stillness and vulnerability of his fellow passengers and wonders whether they will wake in time for their stop. In a departure from candid filmmaking, Tokyo Dreams deploys a highly formal ‘photographic’ film style. Unable to look through the viewfinder, Barker had to guess both his frame and focus. At Studio 22
HOLLYWOOD PREMIERE

Quiet Please (USA)	5:00 PM	OFFICIAL SELECTION
Director RONNIE CRAMER
HRIFF alumni Ronnie Cramer recently submitted to a one-hour, on-camera interview for a documentary about independent directors. QUIET PLEASE is a film document of the (almost) two minutes of silence that occurred between Cramer's responses. Another brilliant Ronnie Cramer experimental short film, this is the magic you can only find in film festivals. At Studio 22
HOLLYWOOD PREMIERE

Organ (SOUTH KOREA)	5:00 PM	OFFICIAL SELECTION
Director JIN KYU AHN
What makes us exist in this world? The fragments of memories from the poem enter through the window. There are organic relationships between several subjects. One affects another and becomes part of it. That part of another can be whole of one. This experimental film contemplates on the boundary between the essences of several subjects. At Studio 22
HOLLYWOOD PREMIERE

Shy Stripes (SOUTH KOREA)	5:00 PM	OFFICAL SELECTION
Director HEEJIN JANG
Unveiled ghosts wake up and dance in the dark. Shy Stripes explores the visual aesthetics of analog TV broadcast and mimics the texture of black and white films by means of digital glitch. It is an investigation of very different media cultures that surround the artist: South Korean and North Korean pop cultures. Stretched and de-colorized footage not only fuse the separation of both two Korea's cultural identities, but also disclose their secluded beauty. At Studio 22
HOLLYWOOD PREMIERE

Finding Her (USA)	5:00 PM	OFFICIAL SELECTION
Director SEAN M. GILIBERTI
Ready to have your mind blown! This riveting tale of a husband and wife's journey through infertility as told through the use of the directors artistic liquid inventions (Treasure Tanks and Sphere Lamps) will put you in a relaxed state of excitement. At Studio 22
WEST COAST PREMIERE

Vacant Seat (USA)	6:00 PM	OFFICAL SELECTION
Director ADAM GROSSBERG
Welcome to “America's Most Miserable City”! Stockton, California has it all: rampant crime, rising unemployment, record foreclosures, and last year, it became the biggest U.S. city ever to go bankrupt. Now, there's an open seat on Stockton's beleaguered City Council. And the city is accepting applications, follow the City Council race in the great documentary Vacant Seat. At Studio 22
HOLLYWOOD PREMIERE

The Lady in Number 6 (USA,UK,CANADA)	6:00 PM	OFFICAL SELECTION
Director MALCOM CLARKE
Emanating from a modest apartment block in northwest London, strains of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms attract a small audience of listeners on the street outside. Few of them realize that the musician; Alice Herz-Sommer, is a renowned concert pianist, a distinguished music scholar and, at 109, the oldest Holocaust survivor in the world. An inspiring new documentary from Academy Award®-winning director Malcolm Clarke. At Studio 22
HRIFF PREMIERE

The Thingmaker (USA)	6:00 PM	OFFICAL SELECTION
Director JULIEN LASSEUR
For the subject of this documentary, Richard Griggs, art is survival. After narrowly escaping a horrific bicycle hit and run and after a three day comma, Richard had to relearn how to walk, talk and eat. Today, the process of creating art keeps his brain functioning and his body alive. At Studio 22
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Distant Places (USA)	6:00 PM	OFFICAL SELECTION
Director TONY NAHAR
James is a musician and recently divorced from his famous wife. Now that she is gone, he is lost and lacks the motivation to move on with his life and his music. To complicate matters, his ill and previously estranged father has moved in with him. Mia recently graduated college and returns home to Los Angeles from New York City to contemplate her life, recently complicated by an unexpected marriage proposal from her college boyfriend. At Studio 22
HRIFF PREMIERE

Crimi Clowns (BELGIUM)	8:00 PM	OFFICAL SELECTION
Director LUK WYNS
Not so long ago Ronny and his clique stood at the top of the showbizz world as ‘Clown Norry & Co’. Nowadays they have to work as burglars. Amsterdam film school dropout Wesley passionately films their performances and crimes, their nightly escapades and turbulent private lives. It looked like they were headed downhill lately, now they’ve suddenly hit the jackpot. But then the problems really start… At Studio 22
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Son of Scarface (NETHERLANDS)	10:00 PM	OFFICAL SELECTION
Director PAUL RUVEN
Robbie goes to Hollywood in search of his real father: Al Pacino. Robbie has always known that Scarface is his father: during a promotional tour in the Netherlands, Robbie's mother had an affair with him. Now she is dying of cancer, Robbie wants to find his father to reunite him with his mother. With his best friend and manager Raoul, he travels to Hollywood to search for Al Pacino - and fame. They encounter many people, from Robert Loggia to Ron Jeremy, and even crash the Oscars - but will they find Al Pacino in time? At Studio 22
HRIFF PREMIERE