I started thinking about the Anchorage International Film Festival late this year, so I'm not as organized as I have been in past years.
My sense, from reading the online program, was that there are a lot fewer films, turned out to be correct. Just 75. But the positive spin is that none are shown in conflict, so you can see them all.
Friday night's Turkish film The Last Birds of Passage, was a poignant narrative feature on a Turkish minority group that travels 400 kilometers with its goats and camels to the summer grazing grounds and 400 back. The migration in the film is faced with lots of obstacles - from within the family and from changes in the landscape they have to cross. The filmmaker was there for a charming Q&A by Zoom after the film and is scheduled to be in Anchorage Wednesday.
I haven't figured out how to find a page on the website that shows all the films for one day AND when they are playing. So I've tried to put that altogether here.
But here's the Saturday lineup - all at the Anchorage Museum Auditorium
Saturday
10am Shorts - Kids A Bonanza
Birthday Wish •
Footprints in the Forest •
Rain •
Santa Doesn''t Need Your Help •
Snowflakes •
SPIRIT: A Martian Story •
The Social Chameleon
12pm Big Crow -
"Born in 1974 on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SuAnne had become one of the state’s best basketball players by age 14. By the time of her tragic death in a car accident at age 17, her wisdom, leadership, and determination had made her a household name across the Great Plains. 27 years later, SuAnne’s legacy has proven legendary - everyone you meet on “the Rez” has a story about how SuAnne’s spirit continues to galvanize the Lakota in their fight to reclaim their language and save their culture, embracing what Su called “a better way”. From AIFF website
2pm Shorts - Made in Alaska
Kakiñiit • I talked to the director Patrick Hoffman at the opening. His film is about traditional Alaska Native tattooing.
Sabor Ártico: Latinos En Alaska (Arctic Flavor: Latinos in Alaska) •
Safe Enough
4pm Crows are White - Museum
"For over a thousand years, a secretive Buddhist sect has lived in an isolated monastery in Japan performing acts of extreme physical endurance in their pursuit of enlightenment. In CROWS ARE WHITE, filmmaker Ahsen Nadeem is struggling to reconcile his desires with his faith and sets off to the strict monastery in search of answers. Ahsen is not immediately welcomed and the only monk who will speak with him is an outcast who prefers ice cream and Slayer to meditation. Together they forge an unlikely friendship that leads them to higher truths and occasionally, a little trouble. Shot over five years on three continents, CROWS ARE WHITE is an exploration of truth, faith and love, from the top of a mountain to the bottom of a sundae." From AIFF2022 site.
6pm - SHORTS: Different Kind of Love Stories
Burros •
Honeymoon at Cold Hollow •
Jelly Bean •
Lead/Follow •
Peanut Factory •
Star-Crossed •
The Body is a House of Familiar Rooms • T
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8pm You Resemble Me - Museum - This one got strong reviews from people I spoke to.
"Cultural and intergenerational trauma erupt in this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris. After the siblings are torn apart, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity, leading to a choice that shocks the world. Director Dina Amer takes on one of the darkest issues of our time and deconstructs it in an intimate story about family, love, sisterhood, and belonging." From AIFF website.
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