Monday, November 04, 2019

AIFF 2019 - Films Selected For This Year's Anchorage International Film Festival

The AIFF 2019 website is undergoing a serious makeover I'm told.  Right now it's still out of date.   The Facebook page is also not really active yet.  I've set up an AIFF 2019 Tab above that offers and overview of the festival, some tips about how 'to do' the festival, as well as daily alerts once the festival begins.  It will also index my festival posts.

Festival is Friday Dec. 6 through Sunday Dec. 15, 2019.

But I'm excited that this year's Program Director is Ida Theresa Mycklebost.  Her short film about a 6 year old Syrian refugee in Greece won an award in 2017,   To give you a sense of who she is, here's a short video I did with her then:




She sent me this list of the selections for this year's festival.  I'd note that there is no category "Films in Competition" this year, so I'm going to have to be creative about how I pick some films in different categories to highlight.

This is the first appetizer for the festival.  At this point all the films are just names.  Soon we'll get some samplings here, and December 6 we can start seeing the films and meeting the film makers.  No earthquakes this year!

FEATURES

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
Nae Pasaran by Felipe Bustos Sierra
Northern Travelogues by Kira Jääskeläinen
Kifaru by David Hambridge
Back When I Was Big by Philipp Fleischmann & Lilly Engel
The Condor & the Eagle by Clement Guerra & Sophie Guerra
Follow the River - Searching for freedom in Alaska by Tilo Mahn
Power of Yoik by Paul-Anders Simma
The American War by Dr. Daniel Bernardi
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NARRATIVE FEATURES
The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open by Kathleen Hepburn & Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Banana Split by Benjamin Ben Kasulke
Feral by Andrew Wonder
From The Vine by Sean Cisterna
GUTTERBUG by Andrew Gibson
Inside The Rain by Aaron Fisher
Laugh or Die by Heikki Kujanpää
Straight Up by James Sweeney
Team Marco by Julio Vincent Gambuto
The Ghost Who Walks by Cody Stokes
Those Who Remained (Someone To Live For) by Barnabás Tóth
Vanilla by Will Dennis
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MADE IN ALASKA FEATURES
Attla by Catharine Axley
Immigrant Outpost by John D. Hay Jr.
Felix Pedro - If One Could Only Imagine by Paolo Muran
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SHORTS
NARRATIVE SHORTS
(t)here by Snigdha Kapoor
Clown by Mitchell Hahn & Keeley Giblin
Consent by Sabatier Florent
Cornhusk by Jaiden Mitchell
Dios Nunca Muere (God Never Dies) by Barbara Cigarroa
Eternity by Anna Sobolevksa
Fairy Tail by Justin & Kristin Schaack
Glasgow by Greg Ivan Smith
Hearth by Sophie B Jacques
Helping Hands by Alexander Ray Gustaveson
Just Me and You by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers
Lolo by Paulo Menezes, Leandro Goddinho
Madame by Garth Jennings
Moon Made by Caleb Haydock
Mr. Sam by Zeus Kontoyannis
Road To Her by Jee-hoon Cho
Showan by Bijan Zarin
Sin Cielo by Jianna Maarten
Tank Man by Robert Anthony Peters
The Christmas Bull by Rosie Jones
The Dig by Gerardo Antonio de Leon
The Orchestra by Curtis Matzke
The Proposal by Det Sporadiske Filmkollektivet
The Seahorse Trainer by Babak Bina & Ricardo Bonisoli
The Swimmer by Pablo Barce Orellana
To College by Quinn Halleck
Touchscreen by Arthur Halpern
Zero One by Kirsten Russell
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DOCUMENTARY SHORTS (26)
Ài Bàba (Love Dad) by Connie Huang
American Made: Union Built by Jacinta Filiaci, Spencer Santini & Peng Wang
Asma by Ryan Musto & Aidan Reilly
Carving Space by Annie Dean-Ganek
Class Act: Dance Hall Divas by Michael Holbrook Moss
Getting Off The Streets by Jamila Paksima
Jalil and Khalil by Roholla Akbari
Katie and the Black Robin Hood by Alessandra Giordano & John Richie
Knocking Down The Fences by Meg Shutzer
Love Birds by Ashley Mosher
Res-urgency by Desirée Wallace
The Family Farm by Kim Jansson
The Man of the Trees by Andrea Trivero
The Trolls & I by Charlotte Madvig Schmidt
Tungrus by Rishi Chandna
Wandering in the White by Otto Heikola
When Pride Came to Town by Julie Lunde Lillesæter & Julia Dahr
Without A Scratch by Samantha Farinella
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MADE IN ALASKA SHORTS
12:34 by Quinton Oliver Smith
Alaskan Furry Friends by Garrett Wilson
Dasher by James Kendall
Eskimo Inc. by Mr M M Baring
Games of Survival: A Culture Preserved in Ice by Nicholas
Natale
How to Say Goodbye by Ryan Cortes Perez & Christy NaMee Eriksen
Kevin, Dear by Joshua Albeza Branstetter
Let the Blonde Sing by Rachel Knoll
Mythomanes by John Kendall
The Naughty List by Alex Popov
The Sacred Place Where Life Begins by Jeremy Là Zelle &
Kristin Gates
The Dying Of The Light by Benjamin Walter
Trampoline On Flattop by Ian Borowski
Welcome to Gwichyaa Zhee by Len Necefer & Greg Balkin
Wolf Trackz by Stefan Wanigatunga
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ANIMATED SHORTS
A Recipe for Tofu Scramble by Alex Fink
Armor del Amor by Kirk Kelley
Black or White by Mohammad-Ali Soleymanzadeh
Feedback by Michal Zadok
Gum and Sauce Go to Skill School by Chadwick
Whitehead
Heliocentric by Mike McCraw
Maintain Yourself by Ellie LaCourt
Monsters in the Dark by Apollonia Thomaier
Mountain Valley Episode 3 – The Earthquake by Ruby Thain, John Thain
Museum by Pedram Habib Piran
Nothing to Say by Aubry Mintz
Oh Baby! by Meghann Artes
Preheated by Sarah Heinz, Luke Snedecor
The Earthquake by Gavin Jones
The Phantom 52 by Geoff Marslett
Tiffany by Christina Christie

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