February 18

Dust of War (USA)	6:00 PM	BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - DOUG JONES
Director ANDREW KNIGHTLINGER
Set against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic American Frontier, 'Dust of War' is Star Wars in the Midwest. This Comic-Con selection tells a classic tale of good versus evil, hope versus desperation. Aliens invaded and crushed the earth, leaving unconquered lands to tyrannical opportunists. Will our heroes prevail? Or will hope succumb to the abyss of despair? The dust has far from settled and humanity hangs in the balance. With HRIFF Best Supporting Actor Doug Jones (Hellboy), Crispus Hansen (Final Destination), and Tom Dixie (Alien Nation). At Studio 22
hriff PREMIERE

Mr. Hublot (Luxembourg)	7:45 PM	BEST ANIMATED FILM
Director LAURENT WITZ & ALEXANDRE ESPIGARES
Mr Hublot lives in a world where characters made partially of mechanical parts, driving huge vehicles, rub shoulders with each other. A world where the giant scale of machines and the relentless use of salvaged materials reign supreme. At Studio 22
WORLD PREMIERE

Recalled (RUSSIAN FEDERATION)	7:45 PM	OFFICIAL SELECTION
Director MARIA IVANOVA
This animated film examines the idea of memories existing somewhere like living beings. We can see what we remember, or recall the smell of flowers on a sunny day many years ago, we can hear voices of people long gone... If we can see these, feel these things, doesn't it make it real, just for a moment. What if these forms of life, were to live when recalled. How do they feel when we forget them and they start to fade away... At Studio 22
HRIFF PREMIERE

Paley Whaley Beaches Himself (USA)	7:45 PM	OFFICIAL SELECTION
Director Jose Maldonado
After his parents leave him behind, Paley Whaley chases a shrimp boat until he passes out from exhaustion. He inadvertently beaches himself on the Coney Island beach. He runs from animal control as he is chased through the amusement park, then he goes to Manhattan. At Studio 22
WEST COAST PREMIERE

Hooba Jooba (CANADA)	7:45 PM	OFFICAL SELECTION
Director MAX SWIECKI
Hooba is in the dumps over his ex-girlfriend breaking up with him andit is up to his best friend, Jooba, to help him get back on track and enjoy life again in this charming animated short film. At Studio 22
HOLLYWOOD PREMIERE

Sinsis (SPAIN)	7:45 PM	OFFICIAL SELECTION
Director CARMEN LLORET
This beautiful animated short film is projections exclusively from ideas merged with kinetic rhythm. Its intensive formal synthesis, together with the optical movement designed, it gets to express the synthesis of movement without analogy, but with real movement. Carmen Lloret, director of this film is a multidisciplinary artist and animated film creator. Her fundamental aim is the theoretical research and the plastic expression of movement. She has done 135 individual and collective exhibitions at different countries around the world and has 34 prizes for Plastic Arts and her work. At Studio 22
HOLLYWOOD PREMIERE

Dreamwalking To The Zoo (TAIWAN)	7:45 PM	OFFICAL SELECTION
Director WEN-CHING HUA & WEN-CHING LEE
One night, a blind boy dream walks to the zoo. When he arrives, he discovers the zoo has moved. Only the ghost of an elephant, once the zoo's star attraction, who got sick and died, remains. The elephant also wants to find the new zoo, so the child and elephant begin a journey together in the boy's dream. The poor children of the city leave their beds and dream walk to join them. Then the boy must face his deepest sorrow before they can enter the zoo, a memory he cannot bear to face. At Studio 22
north american premiere

Houston (GERMANY)	8:15 PM	OFFICAL SELECTION
Director BASTIAN GÜNTHER
Clemens Trunschka is not doing so well. With spotty employment and a shaky marriage, he’s pretty much lost any claim to being a “functional alcoholic.” The more accurate term for him would probably be “lousy drunk.” So when an opportunity arises to help a German company recruit an American candidate as its CEO, Trunschka seizes the chance to get back in the black—with both his finances and his family in Houston, in this darkly comedic feature film. At Studio 22
HOLLYWOOD PREMIERE

Third Row Center (UK)	10:00 PM	OFFICAL SELECTION
Director LLOYD HANDLEY
Third Row Centre follows Michael, a lonely telephone operator who struggles to connect with the outside world. Disillusioned by his soul destroying job and repetitive lifestyle, he embarks on a new and unusual obsession, this dark independent film is an HRIFF favorite, and a true example of moving, truly independent, cinema. At Studio 22
world PREMIERE