• SIFF Saturday, October 19, 2019, 11am-6:00pm @ Sanford Performing Arts Center (100 Alumni Blvd., Sanford)
• Tommy Awards Ceremony 6:00pm-9:00pm @ The Town Club (6 Washington St., Sanford)
• After party Glow-Bowl until midnight @ Bowl-a-Rama (1217 Main St., Sanford)​

​Sanford International Film Festival

NOTE: All start times are approximate. 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.

Music Videos (all ages)

Be My Rebel (Nena & Dave Stewart)
Directed by Virgil Widrich.

Falling Through the Cracks (Locksaw Cartel)
Directed by Valerie Rinder.

I Owe You One Banana and Two Black Eyes (Futuristic Wrist Watch)
Nominated for Best Music Video.
Directed by Jim McDonough.

Imagination (Jordan Corey)
Nominated for Best Music Video and Best Technical Achievement.
Directed by Roth Rind.

Outside (Daniel Laurent)
Nominated for Best Music Video.
Directed by Jeffrey Palmer.

Over Before It Begins (John Nolan)
Nominated for Best Music Video.
Directed by Anthony Natoli.

Surreal

11:30 AM
Remission (7 minutes)
USA (all ages)

Three creatures are manifestations of an unknown soldier’s war trauma and his vast, lonely pilgrimage to emerge from a purgatory loop. Inspired by the co-creator’s real-life struggle with PTSD and attempt to reconnect with his daughters.

Directed by John Charter.

11:40 AM
Umbilicus Desidero (4 minutes)
USA (all ages)

Learn more about Neal Jones, whose life forever changed when he lost his belly button.

Directed by Michael J. Epstein.

11:45 AM
Your Last Day on Earth (13 minutes)
Spain (ages 13+)

A man dressed as a fox travels through time with only one goal: to spend some time with his wife. However, there’s a far more complex and ambitious plan behind all of this...

Nominated for Best Screenplay and Audience Choice award.

Directed by Marc Martínez Jordan.

12:00 PM
Emergency First Aid Hacks with Rach (9 minutes)
Australia (all ages)

An upbeat food blogger attempts to make a first aid video - accidentally sparking a year-long journey of grief, self-discovery, and improbable twists.

Nominated for Best Comedy Film and Audience Choice award.

Directed by Claire Coe & Alastair Craig.

12:10 PM
Winkville (12 minutes)
USA (ages 13+)

Jeff and Molly have just moved to a new town. The locals are friendly, but very strange. Something is off. Or is it all in Jeff's head?

Nominated for Best Local Film, Best Director, and Audience Choice award.

Directed by Seth Chatfield.

Sci-Fi

​12:30 PM
The Bumbry Encounter (15 minutes)
USA (all ages)

A mixed-race couple have a paranormal encounter with a bright light in the sky in 1961. But when they report their experience to local law enforcement, they come to realize that there may be ulterior motives at play.​

Directed by Jay K. Raja​.

12:45 PM
Proxima-b (27 minutes)
Germany (all ages)

On their way to the exoplanet Proxima-b for a mission, Captain Sternberg shares her aspirations with the android Phintia SX-3, unknowingly creating a conflict.

Nominated for Best Short Film, Best International Film, Best Actress (Lena Schmidtke).

Directed by Stefan Bürkner.

Comedy (presented by Cold Bee Gone)

1:15 PM
Bighorn (15 minutes)
United States (all ages)

Parallel universes, Custer’s last stand, and the 2002 New England Patriots intersect in a fantastic tale of General Custer's bandmaster, Felix Vinatieri –great-great-grandfather of Super Bowl-winning kicker Adam Vinatieri.  

​Nominated for Best Local Film and Best Screenplay.

Directed by Alfred Thomas Catalfo.

1:40PM
He's Isis (7 minutes)
Australia (ages 13+)

It's Omar's first day acting in the role of a terrorist when an actual ISIS terrorist takes over the film set. It’s Omar’s job to save the crew – if they could only tell the good guy from the bad.

Directed by Mansoor Noor.

1:50 PM
Ladylike (7 minute)
Australia (ages 16+)

Maya and Cassie are going to rob a house. It should be one of their easiest scores ever, if only they can keep their existential crises in check...

Directed by Tel Benjamin.

2:00 PM
Sac de Merde (14 minutes)
USA (ages 16+)

An unlucky-in-love, yet irrationally -optimistic, New Yorker thinks her luck has changed when she spends the night with the man of her dreams. As it turns out, he might just be full of shit. Literally.

​Nominated for Best Comedy Film.

Directed by Greg Chwerchak.

2:15 PM
Adult A.D.R. (29 minutes)
USA (ages 18+)

A home recording studio takes on a job helping a local actress and winds up being forced to sound design an adult film.

Nominated for Best Comedy Film and Best Acting Ensemble.

Directed by Topher Hansson & Chris Goodwin.

Drama

3:00 PM
Beyond the Tide (15 minutes)
Germany (all ages)

​When her long-forgotten mother washes up ashore mysteriously claiming her loving dad is about to die, a bright little girl decides to investigate a dark, tragic mystery. 

Nominated for Best International Film.

Directed by Jan Mocka.

3:15 PM
The End of the World (31 minutes)
Canada (ages 13+)

A young woman attempts to reconnect with her father on everyone’s last day on earth.

Nominated for Best International Film.

Directed by Maxime Gilbert​​.

3:45 PM
'Till the End of the World (27 minutes)
Germany (ages 13+)

A young girl fights for the love of her single, alcoholic father.

Nominated for Best Student Film and Best Actress (Linde van der Storm).

Directed by Florence Bouvy.

4:15 PM
A Boy, a Man, and a Kite (20 minutes)
USA (ages 13+)

A dying man contemplates his younger self as he floats in the blackness of a coma, coming to terms with the abuse he suffered as a child.

Nominated for Best Drama Film, Best Actor (Jerome Wright), Best Acting Ensemble, Best Director, and Best Music.

Directed by Adam Matalon.

Documentary

4:40 PM
Unitil presents
The Grey Zone (16 minutes)
USA (all ages)

A 20-acre island in the Gulf of Maine and the 277 square-miles of ocean surrounding it serve as a low-key battleground as Mainers navigate the sole remaining land dispute between the US and Canada.
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Nominated for Best Local Film and Best Documentary.
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Directed by Brian Gersten.

5:00 PM
Where There Is Darkness (90 minutes)
USA (ages 13+)

Having devoted his life to the less fortunate, Fr. Rene Robert was regarded as a "living saint" in his tight-knit Florida community. But when he began helping ex-convicts get their lives together after prison, people worried that he was putting his life at risk. When he disappeared, it quickly became apparent, that Fr. Rene was not just missing—someone had taken him against his will.

Nominated for Best Documentary.

Directed by Sean Bloomfield and Cimela Kidonakis.

Head to The Town Club (6 Washington Street - 4th floor)
for our annual Tommy Awards Ceremony from 6-9 PM!
(Presented by Engine)

Don't miss our Glow-Bowl after party with music, games, and fun
after the awards ceremony until midnight (1217 Main St., Sanford)