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Friday March 17, 2023
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--Block of Shorts # 1 - Family/ Adoption (1h)
Q & A with the directors
--Ctrl+Z (53)
Q & A with the director - Italy
--Voices of Canada
Only Child (70)
Q & A with the director - Canada
--THE ANXIETY OF LAUGHING (1h44)
Q & A with the director
--Maya Land: Listening to the Bees (1h15)
Q & A with the director
--THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD (1h16)

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Farm to Families Farm to Families

Farm to Families

One in four families with children in the United States is struggling to put food on the table. COVID-19 increased this number. Restaurants and other markets for food closed, initially hurting farmers. Farm to Families tells the story of the creative collaboration between Rogue Valley Farm 2School, Fry Family Farm, local schools and community volunteers- joining forces to feed families in Southern Oregon's Rogue Valley.
10 minutes
Little Bird Little Bird

Little Bird

Fionna, a plucky kid in the foster system, fights for a home and an interrupted adoption threatens to break hopeful parents Olivia and Lynn. Foster mom Agnes, and biological mom Madeline battle invisible illnesses and Karen is the caseworker that runs through it.
17 minutes
Pills Pills

Pills

A desperate man is looking for a meaning for his life and after Encountering a homeless child everything changes.
14 minutes
Through the Barricades Through the Barricades

Through the Barricades

In the midst of the treacherous social protests that have paralyzed Haiti for months, a modest couple must face blocked roads and murderous gangs in the hope of finding a place to give birth safely.
21 minutes
TRIBE TRIBE

TRIBE

Ruben and Gio have been recently adopted by Evelyn and Memo. The four of them try to create a home where the past, the bad and good memories, and the dreams in common for the future blend all together.

19 minutes
Ctrl+Z Ctrl+Z

Ctrl+Z

D, DA, A and M are between 16 and 28 years old. They are hikikomori, they never leave the house, two of them not even their rooms. I have never met them in person, nor will I ever.
We begin to exchange life experiences, words, videos, photos, in a period in which I am constantly wondering and feeling those expectations that everyone, at a certain point in life, feels, because, like M rightly says, “by your 30s, something HAS to happen”.
They propose to me to try to live like them, to better understand why they have decided to isolate themselves. We got closer and closer, and I end up becoming almost obsessed with their presence/absence and their life choices. Theirs is a refusal, it is a resounding NO they scream silently from their rooms, where they lock themselves up because they cannot bear the performance anxiety that social standards make us feel, thus demonstrating a sort of “resistance”.
55 minutes Due to geographic restrictions, this content is available only in United States.
Only Child Only Child

Only Child

Only Child is a feature documentary about adult adoptee, Dubliner Marise Keane, embarking on a courageous search for her identity.
The film chronicles her 20-year journey navigating the hypocrisy of a society that prohibited access to birth control while condemning unwed mothers and their children. The mothers were institutionalized, and the children sold to other countries, largely North America, by the church and state.
Records were hushed, kept secret.
With only her birth mothers name and place of birth in hand, Marise navigates a series of roadblocks and dead ends.
An insider’s view regarding Ireland’s shameful backstory and current political landscape is revealed through Marise’s journey combined with stories and revelations by many others affected by the church-controlled state.
Philomena Lee (the inspiration behind the Oscar nominated film Philomena) sets the stage of what it’s like to have a child adopted from you against your will. Politicians, historians, a show-band leader, as well as a little-known woman’s rights movement called The Contraceptive Train illuminate how Ireland’s misogynistic history came to be. Some stories are heartbreaking, some humorous.
Eventually, an agency locates Marise’s birth mother, but is denied access.
A year goes by as Marise tries to find her father in Canada. No luck. Marise gives up.
Ten years later, while on Google, Marise discovers that she has cousins in Dublin. She decides on one last ditch effort.
After an emotional connection, she then finds out that her parents married and had five children in Canada. Marise nervously agrees to call.
After the initial shock has settled, 3 of her new sisters travel to Ireland to find an exuberant meeting full of unconditional love.
Marise's story is one of joy and struggle, good versus evil,
and ultimately a story of hope.
69 minutes
The Anxiety of Laughing The Anxiety of Laughing

The Anxiety of Laughing

When Joey, a young man disabled with Cerebral Palsy, is about to marry his able-bodied fiancee Leah--against the objections of her mother--their lives take a drastic turn when Leah is in a serious car accident.
105 minutes
Maya Land: Listening to the Bees Maya Land: Listening to the Bees

Maya Land: Listening to the Bees

Maya Land: Listening to the Bees tells the story of the conflict that erupted between Maya beekeepers and the Mexican government in 2011, fomented by the planting of genetically modified soy in the Yucatan peninsula. The film focuses on the role that Mayas’ pre-colonial and ongoing relationship with the bees and the bees themselves had in this conflict and how in the end the struggle has transformed thinking about development in the region.
76 minutes
There Goes The Neighborhood There Goes The Neighborhood

There Goes The Neighborhood

New York City is currently undergoing a period of Hyper-Gentrification. This is a portrait of the communities fighting back. A documentary by Ian Phillips.
74 minutes

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