FILM FOR PEACE schedule

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3:00 p.m.

• Tagline: Control is never absolute.
• Director: Jalaladdin Gasimov
• Running time: 01:35:00
• Country of origin: Ajerbaijan
• In the USSR, a police chief investigates a string of crimes that seem directly linked to a prisoner who is already on death row. 
• # 4753 

4:35 p.m.

• Tagline: The truth isn’t what they want you to believe.
• Director: Colin Scheyen
• Running time: 23 minutes
• Country of origin: Canada
• A sheep farmer recounts his turmoil that resulted in a decades long battle with his next door neighbour, the world’s largest nuclear complex.
• Tagline: The truth isn’t what they want you to believe.
• # 5023 

5:00 p.m.

• Tagline: Break free.
• Director: Jonathan Galland
• Running time: 4:25
• Country of origin: United States
• A young girl enters a beautiful fantasy world, but is prevented from exploring further as the long ribbon of her dress gets caught.
• # 4702 

5:05 p.m.

• Tagline: Revenge has never been sweeter.
• Director: Elena Fazio
• Running time: 2 minutes
• Country of origin: United States
• A pinata makes a stand against birthday party pinata murder.
• # 5167 

5:10 p.m.

• Tagline: What is our place in the cosmos?
• Directors: Thida Nathalie, Diego Roa, Rheana Jackson, Igor Gontcharov
• Running time: 3 minutes
• Country of origin: United Kingdom
• A poetic account of Earth’s past, destruction, and future rebirth.
• # 5161

5:15 p.m.

• Director: Andrea Simonetti
• Running time: 20:00
• Country of origin: Italy
• Having moved on from their adventures in Oz, Dorothy’s three companions reunite when they learn that she has fallen terminally ill.
• Tagline: Adventure lives forever.
• # 4821 

 5:35 p.m. 

• Tagline: Where do you find love?
• Director: Samantha Sharpe
• Running time: 01:11:24
• Country of origin: United States
• A young woman is caught in a series of never-ending bad dates, and seeks advice from her relationship expert mom to break out of the cycle. 
• # 4911 

5:45 p.m.

• Tag Line: War is never a solution.
• Director: Aydya
• Running time: 18:18
• Country of origin:  India
• A sad, tragic and yet hopeful reminder that nobody wins in war! This film indicates a truth and reconciliation to the Palestinian Crisis can only be realized from a diplomatic solution and a two-party state! 
• # 5057 

6:10 p.m.

(Special Award: Best Student Film)

• Tag Line: Dance deals doses of “happy hormones”
• Director: Hongtao Guo
• Running time: 14 min.
• Country of origin: Canada
• A ballet dancer suffers an injury. Understandably depressed, she encounters a girl who has lost her hearing and they heal together, as friends. 

Special Add-On:  Q& A with Director, Hongtao Guo

12:00 p.m.

• Tag Line: Truth is the enemy of evil.
• Director: John Hughes
• Running time: 28:00
• Country of origin:  Australia
• A gutsy and interesting exposition of ‘big brother’ hiding the truth from the everyday people who rebel against the exclusion from our government!
• # 5159 

12:30 p.m.

• Tag Line: The most important topic in this world is “peace”.
• Director: Holger Klussmann
• Running time: 20:00
• Country of origin:  Germany
• A sensitive meditation and lovely cinematic message about the eternal search for love and peace! 
• # 5056

12:50 p.m.

• Tag Line: Music heals the soul.
• Director: James Kicklighter
• Running time: 01:29:14
• Country of origin: United States
• Breathtaking cinematography and musical score about the professional acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community in the arts and more!
• # 4708   

2:25 p.m.

• Tag Line: The Earth nourishes humanity!
• Directors: Francois Legrand, Marc-Antoine Boyer, Ludovic Bollette
• Running time: 01:26:07
• Country of origin:  Belgium
• This film is truly a ‘movable feast for the eyes and stomach’ teaching us how to make local production of nutritious food possible and economical.
• # 5164 

3:55 p.m. 

• Tag Line: Magic is wherever we seek it. 
• Director:  Alexandra Meneghini
• Running time: 47:46
• Country of origin:  France
• Wow; a cinematographer’s dream and a viewer’s paradise! A beautiful journey into the soul of man and woman with all of the magic and struggle to find happiness!
• # 4914

4:45 p.m. 

• Tag Line: The wonders of life.
• Director:  Thida Nathalie
• Running time: 7:15
• Country of origin:  United Kingdom
• A must see about the spiritual and mystical journey toward an ‘invisible gate’ into another world! An enchanting boy teaches us about where we came from, who we are and where we’re going!
• # 5160 

4:55 p.m. 

• Tag Line: The search for truth can be fascinating.
• Director:  Hans Starlife
• Running time: 30:00
• Country of origin:  Sweden
• One of our favourites. A cute story about an enchanting boy who travels across intergalactic space to earth, searching for existential meaning and the truth about our humanity, leads him to an everlasting wisdom!
• # 5204

5:25 p.m. 

• Tag Line: Never underestimate the wisdom of a child.
• Director:  Lolita Naranovich
• Running time: 12:46
• Country of origin:  Russian Federation 
• A wonderful story about loyalty and duty to an unjust cause, the horrors of mob rule and the long road back towards forgiveness and redemption seen through the eyes of a son’s love for his father! 
• # 5003

5:40 p.m. 

• Tag Line: Through tragedy, a father’s gift to his family.
• Director:  Joey Medina
• Running time: 12:32
• Country of origin:  United States
• Great story with emotional twists and turns that brings on the tears in the end. 
• # 4818

5:55 p.m.

• Tag Line: Wisdom comes in strange places.
• Director:  John Armstrong
• Running time: 14:42
• Country of origin:  United Kingdom
• A lively discussion about global warming and the environmental apocalypse in a pub, is given poetic justice by a phantom ogre who lurks in the shadows!
• # 5144 

6:15 p.m.

• Tag Line: Power corrupts. The poor suffer.
• Director: Francesca Stangoni
• Running time: 6:22
• Country of origin: Italy
• A superbly emotional photographic essay scored with wonderful dance and music! A social indictment against the indifference of the power-crazed elites that marginalize the innocent poor!
• # 5100 

6:25 p.m.

Note: If we have time