18th Stony Brook Film Festival
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- DirectorEran RiklisStarsStephen DorffAbdallah El AkalAlice TaglioniBeirut, 1982: a young Palestinian refugee helps an Israeli fighter pilot escape from PLO captivity because he wants to visit his ancestral family home. En route through war-torn Lebanon their relationship develops into a close bond.
- DirectorKarolina LewickaStarsElín Perla StefánsdóttirÁsgeir SigurðssonErla Ruth HarðardóttirA nine-year old girl finds courage to stand up against bullies.
- DirectorAte de JongStarsJan SmitRoos van ErkelMike WeertsIn 1940, a struggling poor young man falls for a girl who must pay a terrible price to save her mentally disabled brother by marrying a powerful shrewd businessman. Then Rotterdam Blitz, a devastating German bombardment, begins.
- DirectorAlex CallerosMichael TuckerStarsMikie BeattyDan BecknerSasha Darren BoghosianWhen Adam wakes up in a childhood memory, he figures he must be dreaming. But as his girlfriend leads him deeper into his subconscious, he begins to realize the truth.
- DirectorTjardus GreidanusStarsEscher HollowayRachel BrosnahanEric RobertsSpider, a young gang leader, gets in over his head when he robs a notorious gangster. On the run, he's taken in by a sheltered young woman and her reclusive uncle, a legendary mobster gunned down by the same gangster now pursuing Spider.
- DirectorDouglas J. SloanStarsWalter AndersonPeter ArnettHal BuellThe story underlying the most influential and electrifying photograph to come out of the Vietnam War, and how the picture transformed the lives of Eddie Adams, who captured the moment on film, and Nguyen Ngoc Loan, the man who pulled the trigger.
- DirectorMichaela KezeleStarsZrinka CvitesicMisel MaticevicAndrija NikcevicA moving love story in a time of hatred: During the civil war in Kosovo, the young Serbian widow Danica falls in love with Ramiz, a Albanian soldier who, wounded in battle, seeks refuge in her home on the Serbian side of the River Ibar.
- DirectorJohn SalcidoStarsMichael NathansonKatie ParkerDana PowellAn awkward dinner party reveals one man's inability to let go of the past.
- DirectorJohn BurgessStarsShane McRaeAubrey DollarDaniel J. TravantiJosh's girlfriend wants to get married. Molly's boyfriend is married. Josh and Molly fly to the wedding in Chicago together and pretend to be engaged to make their parents happy. Comedy follows...does romance?
- DirectorHarrie VerbeekStarsErik van der HorstNicole van NieropA woman answers the phone at night. She learns something terrible happened on Phuket to her boyfriend David. Her world collapses.
- DirectorOmar MullickBassam TariqStarsShehr AliQayyum BhaiAbdul Sattar EdhiA poor runaway boy and a reluctant ambulance driver in Karachi. Their two lives come together through a dying humanitarian upon whom so much of their daily lives depend.
- DirectorSpencer GillisStarsAshley Morgan BloomLisa Marie CasoGabe FazioRoy and Karen, new parents living in suburbia, have a terrifying break-in. Buying a handgun for home defense, Roy gets obsessed with a newfound sense of power he feels carrying the concealed weapon. Roy steers away from protecting his family and heads down a reckless path that may have tragic consequences.
- DirectorHiam AbbassStarsHafsia HerziHiam AbbassYussuf Abu-WardaAs a new conflict opposes Israel and Lebanon, Hajar, a young Palestinian student, returns to her native village in Galilee on the occasion of a wedding in the family. Just before the ceremony, she goes to see her father, patriarch Abu Majd, who has always encouraged her to learn and to discover the world. It is with confidence that she tells him about the man she loves, Matthew, an English art teacher at the university of Haifa. His negative reaction upsets her...
- DirectorJosecho de LinaresStarsMargarita CalatayudCarmen FloresÓscar LaraZurdo maintained a special relationship with his grandmother. Since he went away to study they have lost contact. On the last day of summer Zurdo decides to visit her with the intuition that he might not see her again.
- DirectorDustin MorrowStarsNoah DrewKate TuckerJoe HomesA young professor has become a shell of a person following the death of his wife. Crippled by a numbing grief, he's shut himself off from the world. At the same time, a young singer-songwriter has lost faith in the struggle to make a name for herself as a musician. Bogged down by the pressures of turning her art into commerce, she's lost sight of why she wanted to make music in the first place. This deeply moving film chronicles the budding friendship between the professor and the singer, as the energy and beauty of her music begins to bring him back to life, and the value of her music to this man reawakens her to the merits of making music.
- DirectorGert EmbrechtsStarsJelte BlommaertPeter Van den BeginBarbara SarafianThe eleven year old cycling talent Freddy is the son of a butcher in an idyllic village in no man's land. His isolated life is turned upside down completely in 1975 when the first supermarket in the village opens its doors. To mark the opening the supermarket organizes a cycling race and the winner of that match will meet Eddy Merckx. Freddy's father is a fervent opponent of the supermarket and the competition, but Freddy subscribes behind his back. By participating in the race a new world opens, not only for Freddy, but also for all those around him.
- DirectorArnaud BaurStarsYannick RossetInès PlancherNelly UzanOne night, Nathan gives a ride to a young hitchhiking girl named Marie. During the trip, she tells Nathan he is about to die; just as a car approaches fast in the opposite direction.
- DirectorMarcin KrzysztalowiczStarsMarcin DorocinskiMaciej StuhrSonia BohosiewiczLate autumn 1943. Wydra (Otter), a Polish partisan, catches an informer in a nearby village and brings him to his starving unit in the forest. A thrilling adventure finds desperate times calling for desperate measures in wartime...
- DirectorChristoph SchulerStarsSamira El OuassilPatricia HirschbichlerChris MancinThree soldiers return home from their tour of duty in Afghanistan.
- DirectorPelin EsmerStarsOlgun SimsekNilay ErdönmezLaçin CeylanA man and a woman seeking refuge from the world: Nihat at a remote forest fire tower, Seher in her room at a rural bus station. When their lives collide, each now has to fight their battle of conscience before the other.
- DirectorFred BurdyStarsKatie McGrathA bereft widow forces a Banshee to take her to the underworld to rescue her husband.
- DirectorNina GrosseStarsSebastian KochSylvester GrothKatja RiemannAfter being released from prison, former RAF terrorist Jens Kessler spends his first weekend in freedom with friends from the past; among them are his former lover Inga and her husband. As the tension mounts, it takes only one spark to trigger an eruption of hostility.
- DirectorJustin Plummer IIIMartin StraussStarsMonica BarbaroJohn S. BolesRowan BrooksWhen the nascent romance between a mid-twentieth century repair shop owner and his charming young customer falters, he struggles to find a solution for his most daunting task-- repairing himself.
- DirectorAlexandra BéginGuillaume CollinJesse KrayStarsAlexandra BéginJesse KrayFélix BrassardA disillusioned 20-something from Montreal decides to go see her cousin Jesse in Georgia and convinces him to join her on a spontaneous trip throughout the southern U.S.A.
- DirectorDonatella AltieriStarsTeresa AmendolaRossella CaianiMariangela CaliaThe tragic experience of a child's death is explored through the quintessential mythical script, the Genesis, and the recalling of an ancient rural ritual, the friend tree. Giovanni's way to cope with grief is delicate and silent. That way memories arise, the heart calms down and the cry becomes speech.
- DirectorChristian SchwochowStarsJan Josef LiefersSebastian UrzendowskyClaudia MichelsenA look at Communist East Germany in its final decade. The story unfolds in 1982, when the cracks in the repressive police state's facade are beginning to surface. Despite the restrictions, the educated few still enjoy some advantages under the system. The Hoffmans gather often with family and friends for warm dinner parties rich with derisive political banter, live classical music, and spirited discussions, holding out for a better future. But even as Richard has high hopes and strict demands for studious Christian, he hides a passionate double life and shocking secrets that come back to haunt him. Against this tense climate of fear and mistrust, with the secret police lurking ominously in the background, choices are made and actions taken that have devastating repercussions.
- DirectorGabriela CowperthwaiteStarsTilikumDave DuffusSamantha BergA documentary following the controversial captivity of killer whales, and its dangers for both humans and whales.
- DirectorGreg 'Freddy' CamalierStarsRick HallAretha FranklinKeith RichardsA documentary that celebrates Rick Hall, the founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the signature sound he developed in songs such as "I'll Take You There", "Brown Sugar", and "When a Man Loves a Woman".
- DirectorMo OgrodnikStarsHaley BennettJohn MagaroColby MinifieWhen a teen from the wrong side of the tracks falls in love with a wealthy girl at the local boarding school, he agrees to help her smuggle drugs from Ecuador for the benefit of her upper crust friends. But when the plan unravels and he becomes the fall guy for their crimes, he is forced to decide how far he will go for the girl he loves.
- DirectorM. BlashStarsJena MaloneChloë SevignyLuke GrimesTwo sisters decide to keep their deceased mother in their home after being informed that she will come back to life.
- DirectorGeorg MaasJudith KaufmannStarsJuliane KöhlerLiv UllmannSven NordinAs the Berlin Wall crumbles, Katrine, the daughter of a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier, finds her idyllic life disrupted as she refuses to testify a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of her fellow "war children."