WFA 2019 Film Guide

A boy, caught between awake and asleep, struggles to keep terms with reality.

When Sheriff Rodgers returns with more questions, it becomes obvious that the suicide of Lester’s father is not an open-and-shut case.

<< a land shaped by women >> is an inspirational depiction of the journey of two snowboarding world champions across Iceland. Anne-Flore Marxer and Aline Bock explore the country in a van through their beloved adventure sports -- snowboarding and surfing. As their travel unfolds, playing in the mountains, in the waves or under the spectacular northern lights, they introduce the viewers to the iconic Icelandic women they met along the way. This film is empowering women and bringing a feminine narrative to the outdoor practice; it encourages all of us to be part of creating the world that will make sense and bring gender equality in the front of the debate.

A young scientist in the midst of groundbreaking research is thrown into free-fall when she becomes pregnant with her dead husband’s child and is suddenly confronted by the unknowable — absorbed into a realm of mystical female consciousness both terrifying and transcendent.

Adam Adamson is a homeless Real Estate Agent. This is his promotional video.

Alice wakes up in the real world like a grown up woman. She finds out that magic doesn't actually exist and rabbits stop being cute animals.

An Optometrist opens her first clinic with five files and her faith, in the dangerous Stapleton area of Staten Island. Bryant Pearson has just been released from prison as a felon but asks for a job. After some polishing up, Bryant helps Doc grow the clinic to nearly 20,000 patients until a sudden "people, places and things" incident threatens to destroy Bryant's dream of the unthinkable – to become a professional. When the past gets in the way of your future, there is only one thing left to do.

Pearl Simmons, an aging jazz singer in brownstone Brooklyn, fights the early stages of Alzheimer's. While she presents a strong front to her daughter Cynthia, her sense of place and time begin to slip, and her memories of her days as a jazz singer in 1970s New York clash with the present. Cynthia, struggling to care for her mother, considers an offer to sell the family's home. If you or a loved one is experiencing memory problems contact the Alzheimer’s Association today, 1-800-272-3900. There, you’ll connect with education programs and support services, available throughout the five boroughs, to all New Yorkers free of charge.

The Back to Berlin cameras follow eleven modern-day Jewish bikers on an epic journey from Tel-Aviv to Berlin, crossing nine European countries and 4,500km in twenty-four days. Their mission: to deliver the Maccabi torch to Hitler’s infamous 1936 Olympic stadium for the opening ceremony of the 2015 European Maccabiah Games.

The community hotline Bobo Touch get a call from a family locked out of their bathroom by their teenage niece, which unfolds to broken water pipes connected to major MTA lines. This upsets the local transit authority and lawyer Tedd G who is not having it.

An American border patrol officer is forced to choose between duty and compassion when he apprehends two refugees fleeing the US into Canada.

Burkinabè Bounty chronicles agricultural resistance and the fight for food sovereignty in Burkina Faso—a small, landlocked country in West Africa. Showcasing activist farmers, students, artists, and leaders in the local Slow Food movement, the film looks at how the Burkinabè people are reclaiming their land and defending their traditions against the encroachment of corporate agriculture. From women gaining economic independence by selling 'dolo' beer, to youth marching in the streets against companies like Monsanto, to hip-hop musicians reviving the revolutionary spirit of Thomas Sankara, Burkinabè Bounty shows the creative tactics people are using to take back control of their food, seeds, and future.

A man cruises around late at night looking for something. He pulls in to ask two young girls for directions - only to flash them to get a cheap thrill. Unfortunately, he has picked the wrong girls. They are also out hunting tonight and they will stop at nothing to get their kill.

Chanel doesn’t live in New York like she has led all her family to believe. A voice message puts in danger the double life she has built for her baby daughter and herself.

Constance is a 40-year old professor with a cooking problem. Rather than use her PhD to pay off her crippling student loans, she slings cocktails and dreams of hosting a cooking show featuring New York artists in her tiny Chelsea apartment. Will Constance's culinary quest lead to a recipe for life, or will she fall flat on her face like a bad soufflé? Constance Cooks is a single-camera comedy hybrid crossed with a cooking show and reality talk show. The story follows Constance's quest to change her life and create a web show and introduces viewers to contemporary artists as well as time-lapse recipes to follow at the end of each episode.

Control was choreographed by Jenny Vause at Evolve Dance Company and filmed in the haunted Maddox theater at Rockford University.

Set against the backdrop of contemporary Tunisia, Dachra revolves around female journalism student Yasmin and two male classmates who set out on a university assignment to solve the cold case of Mongia, a woman found mutilated 25 years ago and now imprisoned in an asylum, suspected of witchcraft. As they pursue their investigation, the three friends stumble into the archaic and ominous world of Dachra, an isolated countryside compound filled with goats, silent women, mysterious drying meat and steaming pots, which is home to a cult.When the cult’s jovial but menacing leader invites them to stay overnight, Yasmin is drawn into Dachra’s dark secrets and a desperate attempt to escape alive.

Abballati Abballti/Dance, Dance brings Mediterranean multiculturalism to life offering a new twist on an old Italian folk song. Performer Amine Hachem and his brother Andrew believe that their rich Mediterranean multicultural tradition needs to be seen, shared and enjoyed. And so, they embarked on a labor of love to embrace everyone in their community. Shot in a documentary style with no actors, Amine appears alongside his family and the people he encountered in his travels; people who live and breathe the Mediterranean life, and those visiting from around the world. All the while singing about their love to dance and joie de vivre!

This is a music video that seamlessly expresses the ambiguity of human senses, the mind and space perception.

A few young men express themselves in a way in which each thinks he is the one who is right and all of the others are wrong. No one sees any others and all deny their very existence.

Don’t Think of a Pink Elephant enters the world of a teenage girl fighting daily against compulsive thoughts and urges. Layla is terrified by her potential to do harm, until challenged to face her darkest fears.

Zee, an 86-year-old retired teacher decides to go back to the happiest time of her life in order to make peace with the path she has chosen and reconnect with her students from the early 90’s in East Harlem. Most of her students were non-readers, but through her non-traditional methods, they produced a pretty significant body of poetry, which she has kept all these years. Finding the kids will give Zee the closure she needs and also a sense of what her legacy is, as a teacher and as a human being.

In the cold, lost in the forest on a snowy mountain, three resistance fighters witness a life-changing event.

A stop-motion film about a man’s endless hunt for elusive energy sources in a decaying world.

Based on a true story, Extreme Number blends real and fiction to tell the story of a young refugee from Chechnya who comes to Germany in 2004 and is immediately thrown into prison in Berlin. He enlists the help of a translator to escape and then joins a terrorist group in Berlin that gives him a very special order. Authentic war documentation is embedded in the film as flashbacks - this is real coverage of war, shot by a Chechen rebel from 1996-2000 in Chechnya.