Wednesday, October 17, 2018, 3:00pm @ Smitty's Cinema (1327 Main St., Sanford)
The Sanford International Film Festival
Mixed Genre

NOTE: Our rating system is only a suggestion made by SIFF staff to help families make the best decision about which films they should watch. All films are officially unrated. Please familiarize yourself with the programming before sending your children to the theater for SIFF2018.

3:00 PM
WHAT WEEE ARE: WEEE Cutter Ants (2 minutes)
Italy (all ages)

Sculptures made from electronic waste are turned into disturbing insects. This mesmerizing stop-motion animation leads to deeper questions regarding the balances between the planet, people and technology.

Directed by Alessandra Turcato.

Nominated for Best Animated Film.

3:05 PM
Farewell, My Friends! (14 minutes)
Russia (all ages)

A young woman, frustrated with her job and life, attempts to reconcile reality with her dreams and fantasies. 

Directed by Mikhail Nilov.

Nominated for Best Cinematography (Ivan Kryuchkov).​

3:20 PM
Comments (5 minutes)
Germany (ages 13+)

How carefully do you consider your words online? Does the anonymity of the internet change your tone? Actual hateful commentary from YouTube is interpreted and dramatized. 

Directed by Jannis Alexander Kiefer.

Nominated for Best Student Film (College and Post-Grad).

3:25 PM
Franca (3 minutes)
Italy (ages 13+)

A woman reflects on past sexual violence​.

Directed by Antonella Barbera.

​3:30 PM
Stuart Sleuth (7 minutes)
United States (all ages)

An old detective takes on a new case, but not all is as it seems. A secret lies beneath the surface. And, perhaps, yet another secret under that.

Directed by ​Edward Loupe.

​3:40 PM
Ukiyo (4 minutes)
United States (all ages)

A young woman is trapped in a dull dystopian world where only business is tolerated. She must escape this monotonous existence through her imagination.

Directed by Sophie Gilmour.

​Nominated for Best Sound (Sophie Gilmour) and Best Student Film (Primary and HS).

​3:45 PM
The Curse of the Sad Mummy (4 minutes)
United States (all ages)

A music video based on the League of Legends online multiplayer game. A mummy named Amumu is lost and tries to find friendship, but is cursed to be alone until the end.

Directed by ​Natalia Nikkhoo.

​​Nominated for Best Student Film (Primary and HS).

​3:50 PM
Night (10 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

An encounter with a club bouncer and a small but arguably racist gesture alters the relationship between four young women from different backgrounds.

Directed by Joosje Duk.

​​Nominated for Best Student Film (College and Post-Grad).

​4:00 PM
Kennebunk Savings presents:
Local Maine Youth Block
United States - MAINE (all ages)

A selection of shorts and music videos from Maine:
 The Toast Off (4 min, by Charlotte Brugman and Stephen Stutz)
 The Pride of the Fools (4 min, by Mathieu Daley and Jayden Galeno)
 Our Candidates (5 min, by Collier Coleman and Garrett Wallingford)
 Embrace the Absurd (4 min, by Derrick Butler and Gracie Vincente)
 Sad Clown (5 min, directed by Ralph Anderson)
 Unhappy (3 min, directed by Madalynn Gagne)
 Momma Can I (4 min, directed by Gage Baker)
 Hank Hill - Radio Edit (4 min, directed by Hollis Stanley)
 Here's to the One (4 min, directed by Collier Coleman and Mathieu Daley)
 Nostalgia (4 min, desmo. and Jared Wilbur)
These films are followed by a Q&A with filmmakers.

Embrace the Absurd, The Pride of the Fools, and The Toast-Off are nominated for Best Student Film (Primary and HS).

Hank Hill, Nostalgia, Sad Clown, and Unhappy are nominated for Best Music Video.

5:00 PM
Omahattawa County Little Legends (14 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

Two young boys make an unexpected connection during a little league baseball game.
​
Directed by Edward Loupe.​

Nominated for Best Screenplay (Edward Loupe), Best Acting Ensemble, and Best Student Film (College and Post-grad).

​5:15 PM
FIFO (13 minutes)
Belgium (ages 13+)

Stephan stocks shelves at a grocery, placing the freshest products behind the oldest ones and destroying items nearing their sell-by date. When heading to the dumpster, he must face those who could still benefit from this food – and must confront his own past and moral code.

Directed by ​Sacha Ferbus.

​5:30 PM
Schoolyard Blues (17 minutes)
Sweden (ages 13+)

John's big brother Mika shows up unexpectedly to walk him to his first day of school. Mika sees it as his mission to teach John the hard facts of the world, starting with the merciless demands of the schoolyard.

Directed by ​Marla Eriksson-Hecht.

​Nominated for Best Actor (Ollie Frelin), Best Screenplay (Pelle Rådström), and Best Director (Marla Eriksson-Hecht).

​5:50 PM
Danke (4 minutes)
United Kingdom (ages 13+)

When a British soldier runs away from the battlefield, he finds an injured German soldier begging for mercy. He must decide to kill him or help him, unaware of the consequences his action will have for the future.

Directed by ​Antonio Sequeira.

​5:55 PM
Growing Alice (4 minutes)
Ireland (all ages)

A girl’s changing relationship with her mother is observed from the point of view of her bedroom mirror.

Directed by Danilo Zambrano.

​Nominated for Best Student Film (College and Post-grad).

​6:00 PM
The Wish & The Wisp (15 minutes)
United States (all ages)

Two bickering siblings learn the true value of friendship and the magic of believing when they find a real wish – and encounter the menacing creature who wants it back!

Directed by Vashmere Valentine.

Nominated for Best Visual Effects.

​*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.

​6:25 PM
Padded (5 minutes)
United States (all ages)

A shy young woman closes herself from the world as a defense mechanism. Can the delivery man who visits her daily pop the bubble in which she's living?​

Directed by Hannah Benson.

Nominated for Best Short Film and SIFF Audience Award.

​6:30 PM
With My Own Two Hands (4 minutes)
France (all ages)

A man's life story - from birth to death - is told through images of his hands and the hands around him.

Directed by Michaël Barocas​.

Nominated for Best Editing (Tony Bertrand​).

6:35 PM
Rag Dolls (4 minutes)
United States (all ages)

Playtime turns into uncontrolled shenanigans when a child discovers rag dolls in an antique chest. Her imagination runs wild, but for the dolls' real-life doppelgängers, self-control is out of their hands.

Directed by Justin & Kristin Schaack​​.

Nominated for Best Acting Duo (Andy Rocco Kraft and Lauren Masiello​) and SIFF Audience Award.

6:40 PM
Split Ticket (20 minutes)
United States (all ages)

In 1947, newly-minted congressmen John F. Kennedy (age 29) and Richard Nixon (age 34) travel to Pennsylvania, where they encounter the supernatural and must make a fateful decision that will impact a nation.

Directed by Alfred Thomas Catalfo​​.

Nominated for Best Acting Duo (Graham King and Nathaniel Glein Scott) and Best Local Film.

​*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.​

7:10 PM
Cubeman (19 minutes)
Hungary (all ages)

An elderly man's obsessively-regimented routine and life's work are upended when he is forced to retire early from a toy factory.

Directed by Linda Dombrovszky​​.

Nominated for Best Cinematography (Dávid Hartung), Best Actor (Zsolt Kovacs), Best Director (Linda Dombrovszky), and Best International Film.

7:30 PM
Down and Yonder (86 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

Two friends in a small Southern town are having a belated coming-of-age in their mid-twenties. When one of them decides to move away, they both begin to examine their futures as their friendship becomes tested by time and distance.​

Directed by Christopher Flippo.

Nominated for Best Feature Film.

​Join us for an ice cream social at
Shain's of Maine (1491 Main St.)
immediately following the screenings.

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