To Be Free
In a tiny after-hours club, Nina Simone finds a way, for one moment, to be free.
12 minutes
Directed by Adepero Oduye
Narrative Shorts Block: “To Be Free”
11:00 am Saturday, October 20, 2018
Big River Theater
The Traffic Separating Device
A traffic separating device is installed in the middle of Stockholm, Sweden, intended to keep cars out and only let buses pass. It turns into a tragicomic disaster as cars continue to go there and get destroyed every week.
14 minutes
Directed by Johan Palmgren
Documentary Shorts Block: “In Our World”
1:30 pm Saturday, October 20, 2018
Minema
TransMilitary
Around 15,500 transgender people serve in the U.S. military (notably the largest transgender employer in the U.S.), where they must conceal their gender identity because military policies ban their service. This personal, emotionally compelling documentary, which received the 2018 SXSW Audience Award, chronicles the lives of four individuals defending their country's freedom while fighting for their own. Minnesota native Jamie Coughlin produced the film.
93 minutes
Directed by Gabriel Silverman and Fiona Dawson
4:00 pm Saturday, October 20, 2018
Big River Theater
*Director attending!
We Are In A Dream
Based on personal recordings of people narrating their nightmares, we race through their unconscious desires and fears.
6 minutes
Directed by Henna Välkky & Eesu Lehtola
Late Night Shorts Block: “We Are In a Dream”
9:00 pm Saturday, October 20, 2018
WideSpot Performing Arts
*Directors attending!
Wild Nights with Emily
Olnek’s dramatization of the little-known side of writer Emily Dickinson's life, in particular her relationship with another woman, has been heralded as “entertaining and thought-provoking” (IndieWire) and “warmly funny” (Hollywood Reporter). It stars Molly Shannon as Dickinson and Minneapolis native Susan Ziegler as her beloved sister-in-law. Ziegler will attend the screening for a Q+A, along with other special guests.
84 minutes
Directed by Madeleine Olnek
6:30 pm Saturday, October 20, 2018
WideSpot Performing Arts
*Special guests attending!
Woodpecker
Flyway is pleased to present a reprise of Alex Karpovsky’s 2008 mockumentary, which screened during the inaugural Flyway Film Festival eleven years ago. In this tragicomic blend of fact and fiction, fanatical birdwatchers have descended upon a small town in the Arkansas bayou in hopes of finding the extinct Ivory Billed Woodpecker, resulting in a film that “will have you simultaneously laughing and performing mental gymnastics to unravel its many layers" (Austin Chronicle).
87 minutes
Directed by Alex Karpovsky
4:00 pm Sunday, October 21, 2018
Big River Theater