AIFF2024: Monday's Offerings; Tuesday Is A Day Off

 Alaska Experience Theater

333 W. 4th Avenue (NW corner of 4th & C St. – enter on C), Anchorage, Alaska 99501

9:00 AM: Documenting Reality: The Truths and Trials of Non-Fiction Filmmaking

There are a lot of shorts programs today.  Sunday had some excellent shorts that I'll try to highlight in a later post.  I'll be doing my elementary school volunteer time in the morning so I'll miss the morning shorts programs.  

E Street Theater

315 E Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Other Worlds Shorts 

• At The Riverbank – 15:00
• Terms and Conditions – 5:59
• Into The Thicket – 12:13
• I Know There’s Something Here For You – 16:58
• Syncing Sinking – 17:55

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Cinematic Variety Pack #1 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM: Cinematic Variety Pack #1 – Event Tickets

• Nena – 15:00
• Neither Donkey Nor Horse – 28:29
• Buckets – 6:40
• Safety State – 15:37
• Seafoam – 6:00

Still at the E Street Theater

2pm-4pm  Documentary Feature  The Empathizer plus the short Bear Guardians 

 

From the Seed and Spark - what appears to be a crowdfunding site for films

"This project shines a light on the often fraught relationships and opposing perspectives that are still so prevalent between 2nd-gen Vietnamese and their immigrant parents. I was inspired to make this film after comparing my own connection to Vietnam with my mother's, who still refuses to go back. . ."

I find this kind of cross-cultural films fascinating.  Looking at the kids of immigrants going back to the country their parents fled from 30 or 40 years later.  Maybe because I went to Germany as a student 25 years after my mother fled Germany which was 30 years after my father had gotten out.  

Bear Guardians    -  "Bear Guardians is a portrait of a father and daughter wildlife rescue team that cares for sun and moon bears in Cambodia. Follow their work with two amputee bears who have lost limbs from being caught in snare traps."

Now switching to the Bear Tooth Theatrepub

5:30 pm:  SPOTLIGHT SELECTION SHORTS #1

• Ripple - 14:27
• Mecanica - 16:00
• Why Dogs Howl - 4:51
• Esperance to Fremantle  17:45
• The River 14:10
• Revenge of the Language Master 6:50
• Black Silk - 16:02

8:00 PM: Narrative Feature: The Way We Speak – Event Tickets

The teaser for this has been shown before a lot of the programs this weekend, and it's a bit cryptic.  It feels like it was put together by people who knew what the film was about, but it left me scratching my head and not sure I wanted to see it.  

So I've found this interview with one of the actors, Peter Fabian. (He was  Howard Hamlin in Better Call Saul.)