The Dryden Theatre will host a screening in the 59th Annual Rochester International Film Festival (RIFF) a.k.a. Movies on a Shoestring (MoaS) featuring:

• Molasses & Lemon (Robert Sickel, USA , 4 min.) "The ways people experience love and heartbreak are often eerily and intimately related."
• Promise (Tian Xie, USA/China , 16 min.) "A young boy in a remote village forges an unexpected bond after his parents leave to find work in Canton."
• An Average Story (Yaniv Segalovich, Israel , 18 min.) "When Avi is named The Most Average Man by the Central Bureau of Statistics, his life changes forever."
• Early Mourning (Ben Hartley, USA , 14 min.) "A photographer and her lover live an idyllic life, moving in harmony with one another."
• All the World's a Stage (Hannes Rall, Germany , 2 min.) "From infancy to old age, this adaptation expands on the opening of Shakespeare's As You Like It."
• Maria (Afro de Falco, Italy , 15 min.) "For Maria, the notion of becoming a mother is one of life's most awe-inspiring events."
• Contrapelo (Gareth Dunnet Alcocer, USA/Mexico , 20 min.) "A proud Mexican barber comes face-to-face with the leader of a local drug cartel."
• Fanny Pack (Uttera Singh, USA , 10 min.) "A young Indian-American woman wants to follow her own dreams, to her father's dismay."

[source: Rochester International Film Festival website, 2017-Apr-17]