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Friday, October 1

Friday 1:30, 4:30 and 7:00 PM The Allen Theatre

Maria Full of Grace, by (101 minutes)

This is the critically acclaimed harrowing story of a (not quite) typical mule: Maria Alvarez (Moreno), an intelligent and fiercely independent 17-year-old girl from Colombia who agrees to smuggle a half-kilo of heroin into the United StatesStarring: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Guilied Lopez, Patricia Rae, Orlando Tobon

Admission prices for Maria Full of Grace:

Regular Admission: $7.00-- Seniors 55 and older and children 12 and under: $5.00.

Matinees (all screenings before 5:00 PM) all seats $5.00

Additional Times

Saturday, October 2:  1:30, 4:30, 7:00 and Sunday, October 3:  4:30, 7:00, 9:00

 

Friday 7:30 PM Leedy Theater

The Watershed, by Mary Trunk (78 minutes)

The Watershed is a moving documentary of survival and forgiveness that shows how tragedy and deprivation can have transforming effects on individual identity. When a father leaves his family for another woman and a lonely mother becomes an extreme alcoholic, seven children experience the shock of what it means to go from riches to rags. Interviews with family members detail how seven siblings learned to pay the bills, feed themselves and keep outsiders in the dark.

Friday 9:30 PM The Allen Theatre

Lamour en lui Meme, by Andrew Ker (19 minutes)

Traces of surrealist montage render a glimpse into a chance encounter of childhood love lost and ultimately heartfelt rekindling amongst the backdrop of familial compassion.

Easter, by C. C. Webster (13 minutes)

Agnes Finnen finds her cat dead on Easter Sunday. When her grandmother is too busy to bury it herself, and she's being shuffled off to her aunt's house for supper, she decides to take matters into her own hands-- or basket.

Kill Your Darlings, by Sarah Sophie Flicker and Maximilla Lukacs (25 minutes)

Kill Your Darlings isolates the moment when a woman not only loses love by herself. Her story is told visually and poetically through the neglected dialogue with her lost love. At once a celebration of true love and love of self, "Kill Your Darlings" explores the dangers of romantic myth and the idealistic fantasies they create that often ensure a tragic ending.

The Offering, by Paul Lee (10 minutes)

The Offering is an elegiac meditation about the passing of life, told through the story of love and friendship between a Japanese monk and the novice who came into his life, from their initial encounter to their final parting.

Gothic Nightmare, by Albert Halstead (7 minutes)

A young woman finds a mysterious object that has washed up on a beach one night. The object inspires her to proceed to an eerie mansion wherein she discovers clues to her past and the answer to what she has been searching for.

Ganesha and the Mango, by Brian Schmoyer (5 minutes)

In the mystical and enchanted land of India, two young gods hold a race over the world's most perfect fruit.

La Llorona, by Jose Luis ZuaZua (2 minutes)

A dark origin tale of a popular Latin myth, a young woman's newborn child becomes a victim of her father's anger.

Awkward, by Cesar Kuriyama (3 minutes)

Three friends. Couple of beers. One awkward moment.

Friday 9:30 PM Leedy Theater

Steam Cloud Rising, by Eric Spaar (90 minutes)

Popular and athletic, Hugh struggles with containing his homosexuality while attending high school in the 1970's. At the same time, he fights to get the town's nuclear power plant to disclose the truths of its releases. Ultimately, both have a meltdown.

 

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