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Rochester International Film Festival screening (2016-Apr-16 @ 8 p.m.)
2016-Apr-16 @ 20:00 - 21:47
FreeA screening of the Rochester International Film Festival will be in the Dryden Theatre at the George Eastman Museum featuring:
- Remember When (Swati Srivastava, Bayshore, NY, 23 min.): "'You can't seem to remember. I can't seem to forget.' – a perspective on Alzheimer's disease."
- 59 Days of Independence: With the Children of Galloya (Njogu Touray, Ian Massry, and Lawrence Williams, The Gambia, 7 min.): "An artist makes 59 kites to celebrate the independence days of 59 countries that gained freedom from British colonization."
- Anrath (Gregor Hoeppner, Germany, 19 min.): "October 1944. When a 60-year old Jewish woman is being deported by an elderly village policeman, fate seems to throw obstacles in the way of their journey to the train that she must take."
- Chip (Pete Ireland, Australia, 3 min.): "From the summit of the rock god mountain, through the iconic pop culture milestones of the 70s, there have been two constants: time and Chip Monck. But time waits for no rock god."
- Business Ethics (Nick Wernham, Canada, 23 min.): "Deciding that the rewards of fraud could outweigh the eventual costs, Zachary runs a Ponzi scheme, in spite of the knowledge that he will eventually face the consequences."
- It Had Wings (Ellen Hemphill and Jim Haverkamp, Chapel Hill, NC, 10 min.): "An old widow, alone at home, sees something heavenly and wounded fall into her backyard. Kindness becomes what might save us yet.."
- The Apology (Yu Shibuya, Japan, 22 min.): "What if an apology took 100 years to reach you?"
[source: Rochester International Film Festival website, 2016-Apr-4]