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  Right now it's still out of date.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