Film Selections for 2009:
Below is the complete 2009 Cucalorus film list. To buy tickets select the film of your choosing, and hit 'Click Here to Purchase Tickets'. See you at the show!
Dramatic Feature
 | Americatown (work-in-progress) | Director: Kenneth Price | 77:00 Godspeed, and welcome to Americatown, home of head mountain, letter sign on the hill and giant gap in earth. Known for locally made above ground cars,...Read More |
 | Big Fan | Director: Robert Siegel | 102:00, 35mm Pal Aufiero, 35-year old parking garage attendant from Staten Island, is the self-described "world's biggest New York Giants fan." His family berates ...Read More |
 | Billy Was a Deaf Kid | Director: Rhett & Burke Lewis | 89:00, BetaSP The classic, I hate your guts, no wait, I like you, my brother is deaf, let's ride a couch down the street love story. Billy is Archie's brother. Arch...Read More |
 | Bitch Slap | Director: Rick Jacobson | 104:00, 35mm "Bitch Slap" is a modern throwback to the "B" Movie/Exploitation films of the 1950s-70s, mixing hot girls, fast cars, big guns, nasty tongues, outrage...Read More |
 | Bomber | Director: Paul Cotter | 84:00, Digibeta A bittersweet comedy about love, family, and dropping bombs on Germany. An 83 year-old man returns to Germany for a long planned journey of atonement....Read More |
 | Calvin Marshall | Director: Gary Lundgren | 93:00 Junior college student Calvin Marshall is determined that he's going to have a huge career in major league baseball. What everyone else realizes and C...Read More |
 | Deep Dark Water (work-in-progress) | Director: Terry Linehan | On the lam from a botched pawn shop robbery, Angie and her boyfriend Trey head for the beach where Trey takes a job commercial fishing. While he’s aw...Read More |
 | Dogtooth (Kynodontas) | Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | 96:00 Dogtooth focuses on three teenagers confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listen...Read More |
 | Easier with Practice | Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez | 100:00 In an attempt to promote his unpublished novel, Davy Mitchell sets out on a road trip with his younger, looser brother Sean. However, the idealism of...Read More |
 | Entre Nos | Director: Paola Mendoza & Gloria La Morte | 81:00 Mariana (Paola Mendoza) is determined to keep her family together. Her children, Gabriel (Sebastian Villada Lopez), 10, and Andrea (Laura Montana Cort...Read More |
 | Fish Eyes | Director: Zheng Wei | 75:00 Set in the months between the Sichuan earthquake and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but far from the latter's hype, this debut film is the story of a fath...Read More |
 | Ghosts of the Sharpanova (work-In-progress) | Director: Austin Jennings | In 1979, the lightship Sharpanova vanished off the coast of Port Clyde, Maine. Over the next 15 years, a gruesome murder, various sightings along the...Read More |
 | Half Empty | Director: Troy Carlton & Marcus Mizelle | 90:00 When a corrupt executive must cover up a coke deal, he must fire his best employee, Adam, and hire a patsy, Sam. By strange coincidence, these two mee...Read More |
 | Harmony and Me | Director: Robert Byington | 74:00 (a physical comedy about yearning) Robert Byington's endearing twentysomething crisis movie blends familiar elements to original and sat...Read More |
 | In/Significant Others | Director: John Schwert | 98:30 A follow-up to the festival hit Among Brothers, John Schwert's second feature In/Significant Others is a multi-narrative drama that navigates through ...Read More |
 | Mississippi Damned | Director: Tina Mabry | 120:00 Wanting to escape was the easy part. Taking place in 1986 and 1998 and based on a true story, three poor, Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the con...Read More |
 | Port City | Director: Andy Brown | 102:53 David, a bored and lonely waiter in Wilmington, NC, finds his life turned upside down when he starts an affair with Hannah, a mysterious older woman w...Read More |
 | Precious: Based on the Novel | Director: Lee Daniels | 109:00, 35mm Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireese "Precious" Jones is a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for t...Read More |
 | Splinterheads | Director: Brant Sersen | 93:51 Justin Frost might think he’s good at kung-fu, but he also might be a loser who lives at home and mows lawns for a living. Grandpapa gets t...Read More |
 | St. Nick | Director: David Lowery | 86:00 St. Nick is the story of a brother and sister on the run. He's eleven, she's eight. They've left their home for some unknown reason, and are living in...Read More |
 | Storm (Sturm) | Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | 110:00 When a key witness in a Yugoslav war crimes trial is discredited, the prosecutor must try to find a new way to win the case. Stately and thoughtful, H...Read More |
 | Surrogate | Director: Tali Shalom Ezer | 56:00 Eli is a 32 year old man who has problems with relationships with women. Hagar is a surrogate, an alternative partner for practical, sexual therapy. T...Read More |
 | Terribly Happy (Frygtelig Lykkelig) | Director: Henrik Ruben Genz | 92:00 Robert Hanson is a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously...Read More |
 | That Evening Sun | Director: Scott Teems | 110:00 Abner Meecham, an aging Tennessee farmer discarded to a nursing facility by his lawyer son, flees the old folks' home and catches a ride back to his ...Read More |
 | The House of the Devil | Director: Ti West | 93:00 In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her client...Read More |
 | The Messenger | Director: Oren Moverman | 112:00, 35mm Ben Foster stars as Will Montgomery, a US Army officer who has just returned home from a tour in Iraq and is assigned to the Army's Casualty Notificat...Read More |
 | The Square | Director: Nash Edgerton | 101:00, 35mm A stylistic, twist-filled film noir, The Square centers on an adulterous couple whose scheme leads to arson, blackmail, and murder. The Square is the ...Read More |
 | TiMER | Director: Jac Schaeffer | 99:00 What if a clock could count down to the moment you meet your soul mate? In this alternate version of present day Los Angeles, a revolutionary device ...Read More |
 | Tony Manero | Director: Pablo Larrain | 98:00 As Augusto Pinochet holds Chile in the grip of dictatorship, a fifty year old man obsessed with John Travolta's character from Saturday Night Fever im...Read More |
 | True Adolescents | Director: Craig Johnson | 88:00 "Craig Johnson's poised and poignant first feature follows Sam (Mark Duplass), an, unbeknownst to him, washed-up rocker in the early stages of haggard...Read More |
Documentary Feature
 | All Tomorrow's Parties | Director: Jonathan Caouette, All Tomorrow's People | 82:00 All Tomorrow's Parties is a DIY concert film featuring performances from an eclectic mix of artists including: Battles, Sonic Youth, Iggy and the Stoo...Read More |
 | Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same | Director: Jody Lee Lipes | 79:00 Brock Enright follows the emerging artist Brock Enright and his girlfriend Kirsten Deirup, as they travel to the Redwoods of Mendocino, CA to prepare ...Read More |
 | Burma VJ | Director: Anders Østergaard | 85:00 Anders Østergaard's award-winning documentary shows a rare inside look into the 2007 uprising in Myanmar through the cameras of the independent journa...Read More |
 | Crude | Director: Joe Berlinger | 105:00 Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother's Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of...Read More |
 | Currently Untitled by Arin Crumley (work-in-progress) | Director: Arin Crumley | TBD There is beauty in the creation and beauty in the destruction. Relationships are formed, couples crumble, the dust slips through your finge...Read More |
 | Divorcing God (work-in-progress) | Director: Luis Gurgitano, Maggie Sargent | 87:00 This documentary follows two young, evangelical worship leaders from their engagement to the unraveling of their relationship exploring the role of mo...Read More |
 | FBI KKK | Director: Micheal Frierson | 82:00 "FBI KKK is a personal documentary about my father, Dargan Frierson, an FBI agent, and the intersection of his life with George Dorsett's. Both men h...Read More |
 | Follow the Master | Director: Matt Hulse | 73:00 Following the death of his 96 year old grandfather, Edinburgh filmmaker Matt Hulse embarks on a reflective pilgrimage, walking the 100 mile South Down...Read More |
 | God Went Surfing With The Devil | Director: Alexander Klein | 84:00 Since the year 2000, over 4,300 Palestinian and 1,000 Israeli lives have been claimed by the escalating conflict in the region. The situation grew mar...Read More |
 | Off and Running: An American Coming of Age Story | Director: Nicole Opper | 75:00 With white Jewish lesbians for parents and two adopted brothers — one mixed-race and one Korean—Brooklyn teen Avery grew up in a unique and loving hou...Read More |
 | Playground | Director: Libby Spears | 79:30 At the heart of the story is Michelle, whose first encounter with sexual abuse began at five. Having run away from a foster care system that left Mic...Read More |
 | Revenge of the Mekons (work-in-progress) | Director: Joe Angio | Political provocateurs. Social agitators. Punk's reigning contrarians. The Mekons have been called all this and more. REVENGE OF THE MEKONS chronicles...Read More |
 | Shadow Billionaire | Director: Alexis Manya Spraic | 86:41 In 1995 billionaire Larry L. Hillblom, one of the founders of the international courier service DHL, disappeared when his WWII seaplane crashed into t...Read More |
 | The Good Soldier | Director: Lexy Lovell & Michael Uys | 79:50 'The Good Soldier' follows the journeys of five combat veterans from different generations of American wars as they sign up, go into battle, and event...Read More |
 | The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court | Director: Pamela Yates | 95:00 Late in the 20th century, in response to repeated mass atrocities around the world, more than 120 countries united to form the International Criminal ...Read More |
 | The Ukrainian Time Machine | Director: Naomi Uman | 55:00 This poetic documentary combines personal, experimental and non-fiction approaches to capturing life in the Ukrainian town of Uman. Director Uman imme...Read More |
 | Trust Us, This Is All Made Up | Director: Alex Karpovsky | 81:00, DVD Described by the New York Times as "Second City-seasoned masters of long form improv", TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi have become living legends in ...Read More |
 | Waiting for Armageddon | Director: Franco Sacchi, Kate Davis, David Heilbrner | 74:00 Waiting for Armageddon explores America's 50-million member Evangelical community, a group convinced that the world's future is foretold in Biblical p...Read More |
Shorts Block
 | Bonchester Shorts | 100:00 Read More |
 | Buxton Blue Shorts | 80:00 Read More |
 | Cornish Pepper Shorts | 90:00 Read More |
 | Dragon's Breath Shorts | 90:00 Read More |
 | Duddleswell Shorts | 100:00 Read More |
 | Gorgonzola Shorts | 80:00 Read More |
 | Lincolnshire Poacher Shorts | 90:00 Read More |
 | Mimolette Shorts | 100:00 Read More |
 | Port-Salut Shorts | 90:00 Read More |
 | Raclette Shorts | 90:00 Read More |
 | Stinking Bishop Shorts | 80:00 Read More |
Short Film
 | A Film From My Parish - 6 Farms | Director: Tony Donoghue | 07:10 There is more to farm life than the world of crop rotation and animal husbandry. Here six Irish farmers from a small community talk about farm life an...Read More |
 | A Liar and A Thief | Director: Joshua Lim | 11:32 A documentary filmmaker conducts a series of interviews with Molly, a pick pocket disguised as a college student. Over the course of these encounters,...Read More |
 | A Traditional Christmas at Small Birds Singing | Director: Linda McCarthy | 3:20 Join the Unbelievable family – Spandisman, Consommé and Delphinium – for this darkly festive look at Christmas. Yuletide is celebrated in the time-hon...Read More |
 | Aanaatt | Director: Max Hattler | 04:45 The ever-shifting shape of analog Futurism. Screening in Gorgonzola Shorts....Read More |
 | Aliki | Director: Richard Wiebe | 05:00, MiniDV An encounter with a flamingo at an ancient salt lake in Cyprus. Screening with Crude...Read More |
 | Andy Biscuits | Director: Hank & Jed | 05:30, DVD Andy doesn't have many friends, but he has lots of opinions. Screening in the Racle...Read More |
| Apocalypse Lane | Director: Jon Etheridge | A woman with tentacles for arms. A gay zombie. A preacher with a sock puppet. A three-legged cat with a knife. A guy named Steve with two heads who's ...Read More |
 | Autoplastic | Director: Jordan Stone | 04:06 "Autoplastic" intimately explores perceived psychosis in store front manikins. Gorg...Read More |
 | Badewanne zum Glück (Bathtub to Happiness) | Director: Nadine Keil & Norbert Keil | 26:30 An enchanted comedy about romantic evenings gone wrong, true love and magical bathtubs. Sounds familiar? You've planned this one special date to perfe...Read More |
 | Balance | Director: Debra Sea | 03:46 Life is about balance. Gorgeous images captured with a $200 Flip MinoHD camera. Harm...Read More |
 | Betty Banned Sweets | Director: Michelle Savill | 14:00 While Benjamin obsessively dreams of escaping to South America, his mother plans his unwanted birthday party-but sometimes the best parties are the on...Read More |
 | Big Pussy | Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson | 8:15 A neurotic nice guy struggles to find the confidence to tell the girl he loves that her vagina has an...odor. Screening in Read More |
 | Birth | Director: Signe Baumane | 12:00 Amina is 17 and pregnant. Afraid that giving birth might destroy her, she goes to older women for consolation and advise. Their stories scare her ev...Read More |
 | Bits and Pieces - A Short from Jordan | Director: Jacki Sawiris, Ben Mandell | 4:38 Bits and Pieces is a short film inspired by the powerful need to confront distorted perceptions of Jordanians in particular and Arabs in general. Afte...Read More |
 | Block B | Director: Chris Chong Chan Fui | 20:00 A building becomes a living painting. The concrete homes and contradicting soundscapes frame the lives of an expatriate Indian community in Malaysia. ...Read More |
| Blue Boy | Director: Alex Jablonski | 16:00, 35mm 17 year-old Kenny lives in a rundown track home with his father, but every morning he rides his bike into the wealthier part of town for his lifeguard...Read More |
| Camp Diaries | Director: William Noland | 14:30 Japanese-American internment is still shocking today, more than 65 years after the fact, and its relationship and relevance in a post 9/11 context are...Read More |
 | Charades | Director: Ann Steuernagel | 07:00 The creation of “Charades” was compelled by California’s passage of Proposition 8 which eliminated same-sex couples' right to marry. This found footag...Read More |
 | Children For A Day | Director: Glenn Pack | 11:25 After his mother's death, eight-year-old Alex has been waiting for her to haunt his house like she should. He sets out to find her ghost, only to disc...Read More |
 | Chronicle Re-Constructions | Director: Steven Woloshen | 03:00 "I believe that filmmakers in the future will have to establish an archeological approach to their subject matter. Instead of photographing images we ...Read More |
 | Crossing Borders | Director: 15 Youth | 19:18, DVD In the spring of 2008, a team of high school students traveled to the border cities of Douglas, Arizona in the United States and Agua Prieta, Sonora i...Read More |
 | Cry of the Banshee | Director: Bennett Pellington | 15:57 Dan has been told his entire life that his father passed away when Dan was only 5 years old from a heart attack. Now, just before his 30th birthday, h...Read More |
 | Danse Macabre | Director: Pedro Pires | 07:54, 35mm For a period of time, while we believe it to be perfectly still, lifeless flesh responds, stirs and contorts in a final macabre ballet. Are these spas...Read More |
 | Deconstruction Workers (Bygningsarbeidere) | Director: Kajsa Naess | 06:00, 35mm Two construction workers having an everyday conversation about an existential question. They keep on building while the world around them falls apart....Read More |
 | Dig | Director: Robert Todd | 02:40 ...The sweet music of jackhammers raging throughout - with Intermission. "After nearly seven years of constant construction on my street, the road in...Read More |
 | El Ataque de los Robots de Nebulosa-5 | Director: Chema Garcia Ibarra | 6:20 El Ataque de los Robots de Nebulosa-5 (The Attack of the Robots from Nebula-5) Almost everybody is going to die. Very soon. Screening i...Read More |
 | Fatal Flaw | Director: The Olson Brothers | 22:00 Jonathon Ridecher is an average man living beyond his means and addicted to gambling. His wife knows he gambles but is unaware of the addiction. He co...Read More |
 | Flights | Director: Jamie Stone | 03:00 Within a winding Edinburgh stairwell, a frail old man struggles to make his way up the many flights of stairs to reach the summit. Screenin...Read More |
 | Four | Director: Erin White | 18:00 Free love, friendship, family and fondue. Two couples with troubled marriages embark on a plan for enlivening their relationships. Together. They s...Read More |
 | Future Islands - The Happiness of Being Twice | Director: Joel Fernando | 3:36 A psychedelic hodgepodge of fantasy and color, featuring 65 + people from the Baltimore, New York City, Chicago and North Carolina areas, filmed one b...Read More |
 | Give It Up | Director: Bo Webb | 10:30 A movie about telling jokes. It begins like this: "Two guys are sitting at a bar... " Starring Cory Howard and Matt Hosmer. Filmed in Wilmington, N...Read More |
 | God and Moses BFF | Director: John Gray | 20:00 We join these two best friend figures from history at a most historical moment when God gives Moses the 10 Commandments. Unfortunately God's relying ...Read More |
 | Hold Me Now | Director: Michael Robinson | 05:00, DVD A haunted sing-a-long made for the PDX film festival's 2008 Karaoke throwdown. Screening in Read More |
 | Home | Director: Matt Faust | 05:55, DVD This film is a touching portrayal of the essence of home and the feeling of loss that occurs when home becomes a memory. Director Matthew Faust convey...Read More |
 | Horn Dog | Director: Bill Plympton | 04:30 “Horn Dog” is the fourth film in the famed Oscar nominated “dog” series. Here are more misadventures from our plucky canine, as he fends of an obese ...Read More |
| I Don't Sleep I Dream | Director: J.P. Chan | 14:51 A woman discovers she can't run from her fears without leaving a part of herself behind. Screening in Read More |
 | I'm Sorry, Sterling | Director: Jared Mitchell & RM Vaughan | 4:00 Poet RM Vaughan muses on his relationship to 50s film noir tough guy hunk Sterling Hayden, and why he cannot make his life more like a 50s film noir m...Read More |
 | Immersion | Director: Richard Levien | 14:00 10 year old Moises has just immigrated to California from Mexico, He doesn't speak English, but he's good at math, so he hopes to do well on his first...Read More |
 | Irma Vep | Director: Jong Wook Choi | 4:00 Stars the bride of quietness In a flowery tale, Who will transform thy shape Leaving behind unanswered questions: What maidens loath? What mad pu...Read More |
 | James | Director: Connor Clements | 17:00 Focusing on a boy in Northern Ireland isolated by his sexuality and alienated from his family due to his parent's marital troubles, "James" reaches ou...Read More |
 | Joel Stein's Completely Unfabricated Adventures | Director: Walter Robot | 3:00 An animated exploration of Orange County's waste treatment plant with journalist Joel Stein. Screening with Read More |
 | Kanizsa Hill | Director: Evelyn Lee | 08:00, Digibeta Another person is shot. He can only survive as a head and a body who exist independently from one another. The forgetful body desperately collects sou...Read More |
 | Keeping Up With The Jetsons | Director: Michael Kennedy | 4:12 After designing a rocket-ship out of a shopping cart in his laboratory, Odoms realizes he must carry on with his space journey. With the help of mecha...Read More |
 | Lake Hartwell | Director: Clay Weiner | 12:23 Local actors Sandy Fountain and Cullen Moss team up with former Wilmington actor, Jason Davis, in this funny, character driven portrait of southern la...Read More |
 | Lies | Director: Jonas Odell | 13:13, DVD Three perfectly true stories about lying. In three episodes based on documentary interviews we meet the burglar who, when found out, claims to be a...Read More |
 | Lola | Director: Michael Rollo | 2:45 Through the eyes of pure content in light and darkness, to objects strange and shifting, a cat's curiosity of all things moving. Screening ...Read More |
 | Lost Paradise (Paradis Perdu) | Director: Mihal Brezis & Oded Binnun | 9:50 A man and a woman are tenderly making love in a one star hotel room. A moment later when they are both dressed up, the idyll that seemed authentic is...Read More |
 | Ma Bar | Director: Finlay Pretsell, Adrian McDowall | 11:48 Bench pressing isn't a hobby for 73 year old Bill McFadyen - it's a way of life. Scotland's very own bench press champion is on a quest to be the best...Read More |
 | Miracle Fish | Director: Luke Doolan | 17:55 Eight-year-old Joe has been granted his birthday wish: that everyone would just go away. Now he must deal with the consequences. Screening...Read More |
| Morning Echo | Director: Hope Dickson Leach | 15:00 Today it's Christmas everywhere but in the Moffatt household. The Moffatts are in trouble. Their sick young daughter Franny almost died in October,...Read More |
 | Myth Labs | Director: Martha Colburn | 7:30 'Myth Labs' interweaves Puritan visions, folk art, religious allegories and victims of the current Methamphetamine epidemic. It is a film about fear,...Read More |
 | Nar-Co-Lap-Sy | Director: Benedict R. Fancy | 6:22 A comedic look into the day in the life of a suffering narcoleptic. Screening in Read More |
 | No One Wants to Eat the Parsley | Director: Sharon A. Mooney | 06:00 Part coffee klatch, part baking party, a visit with Meredith in her Brooklyn apartment leads to talk of 'happy endings' and the horrors of getting old...Read More |
 | Notes | Director: Marc Russo | 03:24 Frame by frame, stop motion, and pixilation animation all happening at the same time, oh yeah - and a lot of post it notes. Screening with ...Read More |
 | Notes on Liberty | Director: John Scott | 08:26 On a boy's visit to the Statue of Liberty, this film playfully signals the difference between the ideals of the stature with the culture of fear and x...Read More |
 | Nowhere Kids | Director: Eric Juhola | 19:00, DVCam A teen runaway's search for her biological mother is derailed when she meets a group of crust-punk street kids on their way to Mesa, a mysterious plac...Read More |
 | Omelette | Director: Nadejda Koseva | 07:00 There's a country where people wake up poorer and poorer every morning. Inflation grows by the hour... September 1996. Sofia, somewhere in Europe. <...Read More |
 | On This Day | Director: Naomi Uman | 4:00 This film tells the true story of one day in the life of the filmmaker, Naomi Uman. Screening in Read More |
 | Open House | Director: Brad McWaters | 2:30 Another flavor from Corporatainment Headquarters. RE/MAX Agent checks in on his friend's open house. Screening in Read More |
| Our Neck of the Woods | Director: Rob Connolly | 16:58, DVD Bob Underwood's mundane life manufacturing plastic lawn ornament deer is disrupted by an enchanting Georgian refugee whom Bob decides he has to save w...Read More |
 | Oversized | Director: Matilda Tristram | 4:09 This playful music video for the band Omo includes animated edibles and light lunch romance. Screening in Read More |
 | Parabola | Director: Lexi Lefkowitz | 16:30 Parabola follows Lyle, a High School freshman who is trying to survive a world of math tests, family dysfunction, and a few relentless bullies. Winsto...Read More |
 | Pat's First Kiss | Director: Pat Mills | 4:40 The sad-but-hilariously-true story of the filmmaker's first kiss with an undesirable stranger he met overseas. Screening in Read More |
 | Pets in Pots (Vogel op Sterk Water) | Director: Simonka de Jong | 15:00 Marth's fascination with preserving her deceased pets may seem an unhealthy obsession, but this delicate unfurling of the Dutch teenager's life reveal...Read More |
 | Phantogram | Director: Kerry Laitala | 9:30 Shivery bits of elusive emulsion, refractive light sprays ignite the depths of two dimensions to expand the terrain of undulating forms. Vertical mot...Read More |
 | POSTALOLIO | Director: Marv Newland | 5:02 An animated journey to the music of Joe Venuti. Every 2D pencil drawing used to animate POSTALOLIO was traced onto blank postcards, painted, stamped...Read More |
 | Prayers for Peace | Director: Dustin Grella | 07:38 Prayers for Peace is a narrative stop-motion animation confronting the memory of the artist's younger brother killed in the current conflict in Iraq. ...Read More |
 | Pro Golf | Director: John Gray | 05:55 The men at Wilmington Production Services found a Golf Pro Shop whose owner was kind enough to let them shoot there at the discounted rate of $0, so w...Read More |
 | Receive Bacon | Director: James M. Johnston | 03:30 A raunchy bathroom tryst is interrupted by an unfortunate case of the giggles. Screening in Read More |
 | Roller Girls | Director: Dylan Linehan | 09:54 Sexy bruiser babes put aside day jobs and identities to moonlight as rough and tumble roller-skating gladiators with a soft camaraderie off the rink. ...Read More |
 | Sapsucker | Director: Christopher Holmes | 12:20 One man's determination to track down and dispatch with a rare woodpecker wreaking havoc on his house puts him on the warpath. What he discovers in hi...Read More |
 | Section 44 | Director: Daniel Wilson | 4:40 Richard walks out of his house and his world is turned upside down as he is stopped in the street, handcuffed, hooded and thrown in a van. Under the ...Read More |
 | She's a Fox | Director: Cameron Sawyer | 17:32 It's 1987, and sixth grader, Cameron Sawyer, is infatuated with Talia Alden, Cambridge Elementary's hottie. Cameron wants desperately to make Talia hi...Read More |
| Short Term 12 | Director: Destin Crelton | 22:00 A film about kids and the grown ups who hit them. Screening in Bonchester Shorts...Read More |
 | Small Change | Director: Anna McGrath | 07:30 A man struggles without his wife, a little girl loses a tooth and a boy reacts the only way he knows how... Small change can make all the difference. ...Read More |
 | Small Collection | Director: Jeremiah Crowell | 6:00 “Small Collection” is a love story caught in the corridors of memory. Through fragments of conversations still echoing in now empty places, we piece t...Read More |
 | Socarrat | Director: David Moreno | 10:00 We all have secrets. We all have family. We all search for happiness. What if we share our secrets and search for happiness together? Scree...Read More |
 | Space Travel According to John | Director: Jamie Stone & Anders Jedenfors | 3:00 In this short soap-powder animation, ten-year-old John theorizes on the miracle of space travel and speculates as to what the future might have in sto...Read More |
 | Sylvia & George | Director: Cara Clark | 5:56 For nearly sixty years, Sylvia Gray sold furniture, army surplus and thrift at 606 and 608 South Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina. For Sylvia,...Read More |
 | Tender As Hellfire | Director: Jason Stone | 18:00 Set amidst the sweeping, rural landscape of a small American town, TENDER AS HELLFIRE tells the story of two brothers trying to move forward four year...Read More |
 | The Bake Shop Ghost | Director: Lorette Bayle | 16:30 Based on a best-selling and much-loved short story by Jacqueline Ogburn, this film tells the story of the talented but reclusive baker Miss Cora Lee M...Read More |
 | The Conservatory | Director: Matilda Tristram | 2:20 What to do on a quiet afternoon when you are upset, but you don't know why. Screening with Read More |
 | The Funk | Director: Cris Jones | 07:00 Jack woke up in a Funk one day. No one really knows how it started. Shot entirely on digital stills and animated using a variety of digital techniqu...Read More |
 | The Gynaecologist | Director: Alfonso Camarero | 10:00 A gynecologist works at her hospital just like any other day. However, the next patient is a boy! The gynecologist throws out the joker, but he return...Read More |
| The Late Mr. Mokun Williams | Director: Kenneth Price | 05:00, Digibeta This pre-technological fable mirrors a modern day spam email in a handwritten letter by a frantic African girl on the run. Her urgent letter ends up i...Read More |
 | The Snake Mountain Colada | Director: Calvin Lee Reeder | 12:00, DVD Two road-weary travelers experience the supernatural and the refreshing taste of Miller Lite. Screening in Read More |
 | The Solitary Life of Cranes | Director: Eva Weber | 27:00 This short British film focuses on the solitary yet unexpected and rewarding life of crane operators in London. Focusing on the unique beauty and pea...Read More |
 | The Wilmington Ten: Justice Denied... Lives Interrupted... (work-in-progress) | Director: Francine DeCoursey | 25:08 Ten promising student leaders took a peaceful stand against unfair treatment and injustice. When violence erupted, they were wrongly accused, unjustl...Read More |
 | Titan | Director: Matt Delman, Jayson Barber, Alex Elfner, Josh Prindiville | 12:49 Titan Cement plans to build a half a billion dollar plant in New Hanover County. This film explores the economic, environmental, sociological, and hea...Read More |
 | Tom's Creation Plantation | Director: Cyrus Sutton | 23:00 Serene design meets scenic surf in this part surf film, part shaping tutorial about the ancient surfboards known as Alaias. Screening with...Read More |
 | Too Bare or Too Bush | Director: Shannon Silva | 5:45 There was a time when refusing to shave your legs was an act of rebellion, but oh how times have changed. Keep an eye on the latest beauty rag and ev...Read More |
 | Trece Años | 07:27, Digibeta A son returns home to his family in Cuba for the first time in 13 years from the United States and experiences a divide greater than geographical dist...Read More |
| True Adventures of Ghost Tank | Director: John E. Goras | 5:30 The True Adventures Of Ghost Tank will nauseate, irritate, humiliate, decapitate, and create nervous, uncomfortable laughter in the viewer. This is th...Read More |
 | Two Hours in the Dark | Director: Chip Hackler | Based on a true story~ Blindsided by the success of his comedy, It Happened One Night, which swept the 1935 Oscars, director Frank Capra became cripp...Read More |
 | Us | Director: Olivier Hems | 12:00, 35mm A police officer carries out a search of a man's apartment and enters the life of someone forgotten by everyone. Screening in Read More |
 | What Might Have Been | Director: Jessica Ledoux and Carolyn Burns | 6:22 An experimental found footage short that conveys a fictional tale of a man's encounter with aliens that is accompanied with a multi-layered, dream...Read More |
 | Wheels | Director: Tracy Martin | 11:51 When she learns that her car has been towed, the recently paralyzed Bianca heads out on a mission to reclaim her car, and her sense of worth. |
| Where Are You Going, Elena? | Director: Josephine Decker | 05:00 Elena is fed up with bringing customers their tater tots but when she runs away from her waitressing job the diner's silverware chases her down. Wil...Read More |
 | Whirligig Farm: The Legend of Acid Park | Director: John Marshall | 10:16 A strange place in Lucama, North Carolina sets the stage for local rural myth. Screening in Read More |
 | Wine Tasting | Director: Andrew Lund | 13:00 Waiting in a bistro for his Internet date to show, Zak, an English professor, bristles at the incessant chatter of Jon, the boat salesman at the next ...Read More |
| Without You | 04:50, HD Inspired by a poem by Josef Albers, Without You is a visual exploration of London's industrial suburbia, where the natural and man made environments l...Read More |
 | Young American Bodies | Director: Joe and Kris Swanberg | Young American Bodies is an episodic web series focusing on the intertwining love lives of several 20-somethings in Chicago. The series is produced b...Read More |
Special Events
 | Blue Velvet Tour | 90:00 Tour conducted by: Benedict R. Fancy Step into the strange world of David Lynch's cult classic Blue Velvet with an informative and detai...Read More |
 | Global Perspectives: Fest Shorts For High Schoolers | A savvy selection of shorts collected especially for area high school students. Teens have a chance to ask questions to the filmmakers who brought the...Read More |
 | Kickoff Party @ The Soapbox | To start things off right, we'll screen a selection of innovative music videos at one of downtown's coolest spots. There'll also be performances by ba...Read More |
 | Kids-a-lorus | KIDS-A-LORUS! - a family friendly event geared toward the younger set... Saturday, November 14, 2009 Doors open at 9:00AM! 9:3...Read More |
 | Media Literacy for Elementary Schoolers | 120:00 Our annual media literacy screenings introduce area youth to the art of film with special appearances by North Carolina filmmakers. The event for elem...Read More |
 | Midnight Brunch @ The Dixie Grill | This traditional Southern brunch satisfies late-night munchies after days of intense movie watching. It closes the festival and hits the spot. Open mi...Read More |
 | State of the State | A discussion with leaders from the North Carolina film-making industry. The panel includes Senator Julia Boseman, Johnny Griffin (Wilmington Regional ...Read More |
Experimental Event
 | Dance-a-lorus | The Dance Cooperative does Cucalorus. One of the festival's most popular traditions is a communion of dance and film. Filmmakers pair with ...Read More |
Workshop
 | 3D Camera Demo | 60:00 Silicon Imaging, the company that enabled the digital shooting of Slumdog Millionaire, is changing the face of stereo production with SI-3D. SI-3D is ...Read More |
 | Cameraless Film | Cameraless filmmaking, or direct film manipulation, involves using the physical filmstrip as a canvas on which to draw, paint, paste objects, etc. In ...Read More |
 | Dealing With Real Sound | 60:00 Alexander Markowski uses two films, Roller Girls and Two Hours in the Dark, as examples of documentary and narrative sound design. There are many ways...Read More |
| Distribution Solutions | 60:00 You finished your feature--now what? This informal workshop demystifies the process of independent film distribution. What does a distributor do? How...Read More |
 | Don't Quit Your Day Job | 120:00 Keeping a day job may be the best way to make real art and pay the rent. In this age of dwindling arts funding, filmmakers who can fund their own proj...Read More |
 | Legal Tool Kit | Now that you’ve made a film, is your intellectual property protected? Thom Goolsby, a sought-after trial lawyer and professor of Entertainment Law, wi...Read More |
 | Resources for Social Change | 120:00 Inspired by Francine DeCoursey’s in progress documentary on the ‘Wilmington 10’ about members of a non-violent movement being unjustly jailed, and Pau...Read More |
 | Stop By. Shoot Film. | 90:00 Anyone interested in discovering how to use motion picture film should Stop By & Shoot Film. Work with a top cinematographer and learn how to use a 16...Read More |
| The Anatomy of a VFX Shot | 60:00 Did you ever watch a movie and wonder, How did they do that?!? Special effects wizard, Rajeev Dassani dismantles common VFX shots, revealing how they ...Read More |