Bahamas Film Festival Announces Line-Up

The Bahamas International Film Festival has announced its official line-up. The festival will open on December 1st with “The Rum Diary” and close December 4th with “Breakaway.” This year, Bahamian audiences will see 68 films from 33 countries, including “A Dangerous Method,” “Yelling To The Sky,” and “Toast.” Actress Zoe Kravitz will receive the festival’s Rising Star award.

Full lineup follows:

SPIRIT OF FREEDOM (NARRATIVE)

MOTHERS (Macedonia) / Director: Micho Manchevski

MAYA (Albania) / Director: Pluton Vasi

WHERE THE ROAD MEETS THE SUN (USA/Singapore/Indonesia) / Director: Mun Chee Yong

BETTER MUS’ COME (Jamaica) / Director: Storm Saulter

VIPS (Brazil) / Director: Toniko Melo

 

SPIRIT OF FREEDOM (DOC)

MARATHON BOY (USA/UK/India) / Director: Gemma Atwal

ZERO PERCENT (USA) / Director: Tim Skousen

FAMBUL TOK (USA) / Director: Sara Terry

GIVE UP TOMORROW (USA / UK) / Director: Michael Collins

DONOR UNKNOWN (UK) / Director: Jerry Rothwell

 

NEW VISIONS

BRINGING UP BOBBY (USA) / Director: Famke Janssen

YELLING TO THE SKY (USA) / Director: Victoria Mahoney JE T’AIME I LOVE YOU TERMINAL (Israel) / Director: Dani Menkin

RESTLESS CITY (USA) / Director: Andrew Dosunmu

WITHOUT (USA) / Director: Mark Jackson

LOVE.NET (Bulgaria) / Director: Ilian Djevelekov

 

WORLD CINEMA

FACE TO FACE (Australia) / Director: Michael Rymer

SAVAGE (Sweden) / Director: Martin Jern, Emil Larsson

SWEET LITTLE LIES (USA) / Director: William Saunders

THE WEDDING PARTY (Australia) / Director: Amanda Jane

TIRZA (Belgium/The Netherlands/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya) / Director: Rudolf van den Berg

CAPSULAS (Guatemala) / Director: Verónica Riedel

TOAST (USA) / Director: SJ Clarkson

Y-NING? (Trinidad & Tobago) / Director: Emilie Upczak

BOMBAY BEACH, CALIFORNIA (USA) / Director: Alma Har’el

THE CREATORS (South Africa) / Director: Laura Gamse, Jacques de Villiers

BIG IN HOLLYWOOD (India/USA) / Director: Bill Bowles, Kenny Meehan

DO WOMEN KNOW WHAT THEY WANT (USA) / Director: Michael Baisden

REAL VOODOO (Canada) / Director: Sandra Whiteley

SENNA (UK) / Director: Asif Kapadia

 

SPECIAL SCREENING

THE RUM DIARY (US) / Director: Bruce Robinson BREAKAWAY (Canada) / Director: Robert Lieberman

A DANGEROUS METHOD (Germany/ Canada) / Director: David Cronenberg

 

FIRST LOOK

ON THE WINGS OF MEN (USA/The Bahamas) / Director: Calvin Dwight Harris

ISLANDS OF LIFE (USA/The Bahamas) / Director: Bo Boudart

COCOON (The Bahamas) / Director: Giovanna Swaby

TALL TALE OF AN ACCIDENTAL TOURIST (The Bahamas) / Director: Jason Evans

FIVE BONES (The Bahamas)  / Director: Tyler Johnston

DEVOTEE (The Bahamas)  / Director: June Collie

AMOS (The Bahamas)  / Director: Karen Arthur, Thomas Neuwirth

 

SHORTS

ANYTHING FOR YOU (USA) / Director: Laura Belsey

SEXTING (USA) / Director: Tim Harms

THE SEA IS ALL I KNOW (USA) / Director: Jordan Bayne

THIEF (USA) / Director: Julian Higgins

15 SUMMERS LATER (Norway) / Director: Pedro Collantes

ALAMBAMENTO (Angola/Egypt/USA) / Director: Mario Bastos

AUGENBLICKE (Germany) / Director: Martin Bargiel

HOMECOMING (USA) / Director: Gursimran Sandhu

CHRISTMAS PIGGY (Denmark) / Director: R.S. Soderstrom

GOOD MORNING BEAUTIFUL (USA) / Director: Todd Cobery

MERCY GRACE & CRAB MEAT (USA) / Director: Jonathan Thompson

MI HATICE (Turkey) / Director: Denis Metin

MISH MUSH (Syria/Canada) / Director: Amar Chebib

KILL BRASS (Canada) / Director: Michael Kandinsky

THE SHORE (Northern Ireland) / Director: Terry George

LAN (USA/China) / Director: Taylour Chang

POST-NUP (USA) / Director: Katharine Woodman-Maynard

TELL-TALE (UK) / Director: Greg Williams

MY BIG RED PURSE (USA) / Director: Giancarlo Iannotta

NORTH ATLANTIC (Portugal/UK) / Director: Bernardo Nascimento

THE BURNT CORK (Australia) / Director: Alexandra Edmondson

THE HAYMAKER (Canada/USA) / Director: Daniel D’Alimonte

TORA (Canada) / Director: Glen Samuel, Wendy Ord

TOY SOLDIER (Australia/France/Israel) / Director: Jeremy Bliss

10 AVE MARIA (Aruba) / Director: Ryan Oduber, Juan Francisco Pardo

INCEST! THE MUSICAL (USA) / Director: Grant Reed

BOFFIN & BOFFIN (USA) / Director: Ed Blythe

MUMBIA CHARLIE (UK/ INDIA) Director: Deepak Verma

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