Saturday, October 21, 2017, 11am-5pm @ Smitty's Cinema (two screens!)
6pm-9pm Tommy Awards Ceremony @ The Town Club (6 Washington Street, 3rd Floor)
Sanford International Film Festival

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 SIFF2017.

​Screen 1 @ Smitty's Cinema:
1327 Main St, Sanford, ME 04073

​11:00 AM
Silent Encounter (28 minutes)
Germany (ages 13+)

The boundaries between reality and imagination dissolve as Justus awakes in a deserted alley behind a nightclub after a night of heavy partying. There, in the dead of night, he encounters a silent boy. Initially irritated, his mood changes as the boy follows him through the streets of the city. Attempting to elude his pursuer and driven by his need to get home, Justus soon loses himself in a nocturnal odyssey which transforms into a psychological road trip. 

Directed by Emanuel Luca Fusillo.

Nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Student Film (Post-Secondary), Best Actor (Daniel Heck), Best Short Film, and SIFF Audience Award.

11:30 AM
Not Staying Overnight (27 minutes)
Russia (ages 16+)

Zhenya comes to his former village to sell the old house and meets up with his old love Katya. When he reluctantly meets some locals and old friends at a get-together, a simple and quick trip turns into a serious challenge.  

Directed by Kirill Makarenkov and Yuliana Koshkina.

Nominated for Best Acting Duo (Anna Kovtun and Pavel Parhomenko).

12:00 PM
Caput Mundi (21 minutes)
Italy (ages 13+)

The misadventures of a foreign woman who, fascinated by Rome, searches for a room to rent while discovering the lively sublease market in the "Caput Mundi" ("Capital of the World").

Directed by Clelia Di Briggido.

12:20 PM
Close (14 minutes)
Germany (all ages)

During a dance rehearsal, Jonas is instructed to kiss his partner and secret crush Mira. He is so busy hiding his insecurities, that he doesn’t even notice how Mira experiences the situation.

Directed by Lisa Reich.

Nominated for Best Screenplay.

12:35 PM
Memory of You (12 minutes)
Sweden (ages 13+)

Adam is going to dinner with his wife when he is disrupted by something from his past. A story about a love that never was, shot in a single take.

Directed by Nils Janlert.

Nominated for Best Cinematography and Best Short Film.

12:50 PM
Close Your Eyes...Well (12 minutes)
Iraq (all ages)

Hamoody is a teenager who plays the violin, living in poverty with dreams that someday he will play in a concert. His little sister joins up with the local kids to make his dream come true.

Directed by Ali Albayati.

1:05 PM
The Beautifully Drowned (24 minutes)
Canada (ages 13+)

A maritime fairy tale about a woman who longs for the day her husband will drown at sea.

Directed by Jon Dewar.

Nominated for Best Music, Best Cinematography, Best Actress (Ariana Marquis), and Best Short Film.

1:30 PM
Lullaby (14 minutes)
Germany (ages 13+)

Judith visits her elderly mother after a very long absence and brings along her own child, Milena. But the emotional reunion takes an unexpected turn...  

Directed by Selcuk Zvi Cara.

Nominated for Best Music.

​1:45 PM
Wintry Spring (15 minutes)
Egypt (ages 13+)

Nour, a schoolgirl who lives alone with her father, goes through a crisis on the arrival of puberty and cannot tell her dad. Her father struggles with the changes she's going through and the resulting tension between them.

Directed by Mohamed Kamel.

Nominated for Best Acting Duo (Ahmed Kamal and Eman Moustafa), Best International Film, and SIFF Audience Award.

​2:00 PM
The Best of Intentions (14 minutes)
Sweden (ages 13+)

A vengeful father suspects that his mentally disabled daughter has been the victim of sexual abuse and confronts the caregiver he believes to be guilty.

Directed by Emil Jonsson.

Nominated for Best Sound, Best Screenplay, Best Acting Duo (Emil Jonsson and Per Ragnar), Best Director (Emil Jonsson), and Best International Film.

​2:15 PM
The Red Millennium (11 minutes)
United States - MAINE (ages 13+)

It is the turn of the new millennium. Two strangers meet in a small empty church, where fate leads them to connect with an unfortunate past.

Directed by Breanna Penney.

​*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.

2:30 PM
The Deja Vuers (8 minutes)
United States (all ages)

A man experiences deja vu when he spots a woman sitting on a park bench - a woman he remembers from a dream but has never met. When their paths finally cross, a portal opens which takes each of their lives in unexpected directions.

Directed by Chris Esper.

​*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.

​Nominated for Best Music.

2:50 PM
Fugazi (29 minutes)
Belgium (ages 13+)

The year is 2039. Adele has been working for more than 3 years on Orbit Defense, a space station in charge of Earth security using drone technology. Today is her last routine mission before she returns home to her daughter.

Directed by Laurent Michelet.

Nominated for Best Special Visual Effects, Best International Film, and SIFF Audience Award.

​3:20 PM
On the 7th Date (81 minutes)
United States (ages 16+)

Tara and Shawn find that their relationship is going nowhere. So they decide to come to terms with it and spend their last night together being their true selves and sharing what each of them really wants from another person. But as the evening unravels and things spiral out of control, the two realize that their ideal selves may not be who they imagined.

Directed by Chris Goodwin.

*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.​

Nominated for Best Screenplay, Best Acting Ensemble, Best Actress (J.D. Achille), Best Actress (Anna Rizzo), Best Feature Film, and SIFF Audience Award.

4:50 PM
Journey (8 minutes)
Australia (all ages)

Alone in space, an astronaut drifts through the empty void. After finding another astronaut in the same predicament, she gives him an image of the Earth. Will these star-crossed lovers find home?

Directed by Radheya Jegatheva.

Nominated for Best Special Visual Effects and Best Animated Film.

Screen 2 @ Smitty's Cinema:
1327 Main St, Sanford, ME 04073

​11:00 AM
Thanks for Everything (29 minutes)
Norway (ages 13+)

After a series of coincidences, two strangers meet on a deserted bridge at night. They have little in common, but they do share one thing.

Directed by Frank Aron Gårdsø.

Nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Acting Duo (Jan Fredrik Grøndal Henriksen and Hans Jacob Sand), and Best International Film.

​11:30 AM
The Buzzer (2 minutes)
Spain (all ages)

John comes home after a long vacation... to a surprise.

Directed by Sergi Marti.

11:35 AM
Pickup (16 minutes)
United States (ages 18+)

A dissatisfied stay-at-home mother develops an addiction that threatens her relationships and her “perfect life.”

Directed by Jeremiah Kipp.

*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.​

Nominated for Best Editing, Best Actress (Mandy Evans), and Best Short Film.

11:50 AM
Sundown (95 minutes)
United States (ages 16+)

When a free-spirited gambler returns home to help his family with their dementia-addled patriarch, he finds being a caretaker a lot more complicated than he bet on.

Directed by Brendan Boogie.

​*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.

Nominated for Best Screenplay, Best Acting Ensemble, and Best Feature Film.

1:45 PM
A Whole World for a Little World (15 minutes)
France (ages 13+)

A woman tells a great tale to her baby of princes and princesses, true love, and living life to the fullest.

Directed by Fabrice Bracq. 

​2:00 PM
The Checkout Line (10 minutes)
United States (ages 16+)

In a dystopian American future, two young adults decide to end their hopeless existence at a center for government-sanctioned suicide, commonly known as The Checkout Line. But once they meet, fate may have other plans.

Directed by Cornelius Broderick.

​2:10 PM
The Visitant (5 minutes)
Australia (ages 13+)

Jack watches his wife kiss another man goodnight. He enters the family home, unsure what he'll confront.

Directed by Nic Barker.

2:15 PM
Marc Chung Protects His Address (10 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

Marc recounts a story to his friends Stan and Kyle about the events that led him to purchase a pellet gun to protect his address. He encounters Robert, who he believes is the man behind the scheme. Is Marc telling the truth? 

Directed by Michael Chan.

Nominated for Best Actor (Robert M. Lee) and SIFF Audience Award.

​2:25 PM
Icky (6 minutes)
Iran (all ages)

In a world of people with Rubik's Cube heads, there is a kid who is different from the others...

Directed by Parastoo Cardgar.

Nominated for Best Animated Film.

​2:35 PM
Symptoms (15 minutes)
United Kingdom (ages 13+)

Sam, a medical student, is taking his final practical examination, surrounded by bad actors with fake illnesses. Ben wants to talk about "the thing in his pants." Inept Jenna can't keep her fake wound stuck on. But then everything changes when he has to diagnose Amy. Hostile and intense, what is she hiding?

​Directed by Marianna Dean.

​2:50 PM
Slipping Time (9 minutes)
United States (all ages)

A jazz musician sheds her personal belongings as she rides through the streets of Chicago towards the river.

Directed by James Freeman.

Nominated for Best Music Video.

3:00 PM: D& J Home & Hearth Presents
Einstein-Rosen (9 minutes)
Spain (all ages)

Summer of 1982. Teo claims he has found a wormhole. His brother Óscar does not believe him... at least not for now. 

Directed by Olga Osorio.

Nominated for SIFF Audience Award.

​3:10 PM
Mic & Me (11 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

Cadence finds that dating a microphone is not without its costs.

Directed by Jacob Shao.

​*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.

3:20 PM
On the Rocks (8 minutes)
United States - MAINE (ages 13+)

An award-winning Maine short showing life through the eyes of a closet alcoholic.

Directed by Alexander Balzano.

​*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.

Nominated for Best Sound.

3:35 PM
(Romance) In The Digital Age (85 minutes)
United States (ages 13+)

A former emo musician invites his ex-bandmates to his Christmas-themed wedding, but when they sing a karaoke version of their biggest hit at the rehearsal dinner, the impromptu performance spawns a viral video that opens a door to the past. 

Directed by Jason Michael Brescia.

*Filmmakers plan to be in attendance.

Nominated for Best Music and Best Feature Film.

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

This year's Tommy Awards are sponsored and printed by:

Don't miss our Glow-Bowl after party with music, games, and fun from 9 PM-12 AM at:

1217 Main St, Sanford, ME 04073

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