A recently widowed, 83 year old British woman decides to fulfill her dream of scaling the imposing Mount Suilven in Scotland. With little training or proper gear, Edie heads for the Highlands and meets Jonny, who offers to serve as Edie’s guide for a price. After a rough start the two form an unlikely bond, as Jonny helps Edie prepare for her capricious quest.
For over 80 years in Galax, Virginia at the the Old Fiddler's Convention, passing on the music from one generation to the next is as important as the lively performances by fiddlers and pickers, young and old. Fiddlin' is as much a celebration of a place and its people as it is a celebration of music. Every performance and every story in this small town festival fascinates and entertains.
The story of Waxtrax! Records, the famed record store turned recording label who launched industrial music icons Ministry, Front 242, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, and many more. Join Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher on a trip through the '80s underground as their revolutionary Chicago record store transforms into the pioneering label. A rise and fall story with lasting influences on the music landscape.
HHM Jury Nominations, Best Short: Teenage Threesome & Botanica
In this Program
- Distress
- Lane Lyle18mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
- GODDAMMIT
- Ryan Moser8mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
- Meryem
- Reber Dosky17mSyriaEnglish Documentary Short
- House Rules
- Sean Robinson12mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
- Nightshade
- Shady El-Hamus14mNetherlandsEnglish Narrative Short
- Teenage Threesome
- Arkadij Khaet4mGermanyGerman Narrative Short
- Botanica
- Noël Loozen13mNetherlandsEnglish Narrative Short
- Hair Wolf
- Mariama Diallo12mUSAEnglish Narrative Short
Anthony’s awkwardness is the kind that results in him saying odd things at inappropriate times, which ultimately has consequences. In the wake of personal and professional failure, Anthony retreats to a vacation home where he encounters a friend from his past who may just be avoiding his own issues. Current frustrations claw at old tensions forcing the two men to deal with each other and themselves.
Seven-year old Adrian lives with his loving mother Helga in a world populated by a rotating cast of layabouts. Yet Helga and her friends’ never-ending party is fueled by an addiction that her young child struggles to comprehend. As they dodge confrontations with social workers and creepy dealers, it’s an open question whether Helga and Adrian can remain together or survive at all.
It’s 1971 and a Toronto performance troupe ventures out to Ontario’s countryside to research a theater project. Miles, a young actor, befriends two aging farmers, a gruff workhorse named Morgan and his lifelong friend Angus, who suffers from memory loss. As Miles observes their daily rituals and learns their secret stories, he comes to suspect that Morgan is a less reliable narrator than he lets on.
Owen is a jobless, deadbeat drunk reduced to squatting under his brother’s bar. Lacie is a homeless pill-popping hooker who’s just been fired by her pimp. When fate brings them together at their lowest, they set aside their hatred for each other to scam, steal or scrounge $98 for bus tickets to leave the city for a small town where they hope to start new, less shitty lives.
Jim is a police officer who tries to come to grips with his mom’s death while giving a heartfelt eulogy at her funeral. It’s not pretty. Focused on trying to do what’s right and failing, his only comfort is his daughter whom he may lose in a custody battle to his ex-wife. It seems like no one is on his side and no one understands what he’s going through, not even himself.
Two strong Native American women, both chief judges in their tribe's courts, strive to reduce incarceration rates and heal their people by restoring rather than punishing offenders, modeling restorative justice in action.