The Nashville Film Festival (NAFF) has announced its full line-up of feature films, including special presentations. NAFF programmers combed through more 31,000 submissions.
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Besides the traditional narrative, documentary and first time director competitions, NAFF features a separate competitions for music and horror films. The festival also dedicates a competition exclusively to films with a focus on the state of Tennessee.
Special presentations include Fox Searchlight’s “Calvary” and Radius-TWC’s “The One I Love,” both of which premiered at Sundance back in January.
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The Robin Williams drama “Boulevard” will also screen as a special presentation on the heels of its Tribeca premiere.
NAFF runs from April 17-26 at the Regal Green Hills Cinema and Downtown Nashville.
For the full line-up, care of the press release, see below:
Special Presentations
American Commune
Directors: Rena Mundo Croshere, Nadine Mundo. USA. 90 minutes.
Boulevard
Director: Dito Montiel. USA. 100 minutes.
Calvary
Director: John Michael McDonagh. Ireland / United Kingdom. 100 minutes.
Dom Hemingway
Director: Richard Shepard. United Kingdom. 93 minutes.
Field of Lost Shoes
Director: Sean McNamara. USA. 94 minutes. WORLD PREMIERE.
Happy Christmas
Director: Joe Swanberg. USA. 78 minutes.
Ida
Director: Pawel Pawilkowski. Poland. 80 minutes.
Locke
Director: Steven Knight. United Kingdom. 85 minutes.
Lucky Them
Director: Megan Griffiths. USA. 97 minutes.
Obvious Child
Director: Gillian Robespierre. USA. 83 minutes.
The One I Love
Director: Charlie McDowell. USA. 91 minutes.
Words and Pictures
Director: Fred Schepisi. USA. 111 minutes.
World Cinema
The Amazing Catfish
Director: Claudia Sainte-Luce. Mexico. 89 minutes.
Bethlehem
Director. Yuval Adler. Israel / Belgium / Germany. 99 minutes.
Butter on the Latch
Director: Josephine Baker. USA. 63 minutes.
Long Way Home
Director: Måns Nilsson. Sweden / USA. 87 minutes. N. AMERICAN PREMIERE
Manakamana
Director: Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez. Nepal / USA. 117 minutes.
Metro Manila
Director: Sean Ellis. United Kingdom / Philippines. 115 minutes.
A Story of Children and Film
Director: Mark Cousins. United Kingdom / France. 101 minutes.
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
Director: Denis Côté. Canada. 95 minutes.
When the World’s On Fire
Director: James Clauer. USA. 70 minutes. WORLD PREMIRE.
Narrative Competition
The Animal Project
Director: Ingrid Vininger. Canada. 90 minutes.
Buzzard
Director: Joel Potrykus. USA. 97 minutes.
Club Sandwich
Director: Fernando Eimbcke. Mexico. 82 minutes.
The Enemy Within
Director: Yorgos Tsemberopoulos. Greece. 107 minutes.
Grace
Director: Heath Jones. USA. 95 minutes. WORLD PREMIERE.
The House That Jack Built
Director: Henry Barrial. USA. 90 minutes.
The Identical
Director: Dustin Marcellino. USA. 88 minutes. WORLD PREMIERE.
The Invisible Collection
Director: Bernard Attal. Brazil. 89 minutes.
Little Brother
Director: Seric Aprymov. Kazakhstan. 97 minutes.
Love Me
Directors: Maryna Gorbach, Mehmet Bahadir Er. Turkey | Ukraine. 90 minutes.
Maryan
Director: Ganapathy Bharat. India | Namibia. 150 minutes.
Noble
Director: Stephen Bradley. Vietnam | United Kingdom. 101 minutes.
Peace After Marriage
Director: Ghazi Albuliwi. USA. 86 minutes.
Something Necessary
Director: Judy Kibinge. Germany | Kenya. 85 minutes.
Test
Director: Chris Mason Johnson. USA. 89 minutes.
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely
Director: Josephine Decker. USA. 94 minutes.
Undiscovered Gyrl
Director: Allison Burnett. USA. 100 minutes. WORLD PREMIERE.
New Directors Competition
1982
Director: Tommy Oliver. USA. 80 minutes.
9 Full Moons
Director: Tomer Almagor. USA. 103 minutes.
As It Is in Heaven
Director: Joshua Overbay. USA. 86 minutes.
Before I Disappear
Director: Shawn Christensen. USA. 94 minutes.
Chasing Ghosts
Director: Josh Shreve. USA. 93 minutes.
Congratulations!
Director: Mike Brune. USA. 90 minutes.
Drunktown’s Finest
Director: Sydney Freeland. USA. 95 minutes.
Forty Years from Yesterday
Director: Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck. USA. 76 minutes.
I Believe in Unicorns
Director: Leah Meyerhoff. USA. 80 minutes.
Medeas
Director: Andrea Pallaoro. Italy, Mexico, USA. 97 minutes.
OJ: The Musical
Director: Jeff Rosenberg. USA. 90 minutes.
The Resurrection of a Bastard
Director: Guido van Driel. Netherlands. 89 minutes.
Trap Street
Director: Vivian Qu. China. 93 minutes.
White Shadow
Director: Noaz Deshe. Tanzania / Germany. 117 minutes.
Documentary Competition
Art War
Director: Marco Wilms. Egypt, Germany. 84 minutes. NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE.
Besa: The Promise
Director: Rachel Goslins. Albania / USA. 90 minutes.
Blackout: On Swan Pond
Director: Scott Colthorp. USA. 95 minutes. WORLD PREMIERE.
Butterfly Girl
Director: Cary Bell. USA. 76 minutes.
The Case Against 8
Directors: Ben Cotner, Ryan White. USA. 112 minutes.
Farmland
Director: James Moll. USA. 70 minutes.
Fight Church
Director: Daniel Junge, Bryan Storkel. USA. 84 minutes.
Freedom Summer
Director: Stanley Nelson. USA. 113 minutes.
Happy Valley
Director: Amir Bar-Lev. USA. 98 minutes.
The Human Experiment
Director: Dana Nachman, Don Hardy Jr. USA. 80 minutes.
Kidnapped for Christ
Director: Kate S. Logan. USA / Dominican Republic. 85 minutes.
The Overnighters
Director: Jesse Moss. USA. 100 minutes.
Point and Shoot
Director: Marshall Curry. USA / Libya. 83 minutes.
SlingShot
Director: Paul Lazarus. USA. 97 minutes.
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness
Director: Ben Rivers, Ben Russell. France / Germany / Estonia / USA. 98 minutes.
The Starfish Throwers
Director: Jesse Roesler. USA. 83 minutes.
Stream of Love
Director: Agnes Sós. Hungary / Romania. 70 minutes. NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE.
This Time Next Year
Director: Jeff Reichert, Farihah Zaman. USA. 83 minutes.
WHITEY: The United States of America v. James J. Bulger
Director: Joe Berlinger. USA. 130 minutes.
Music Films / Music City Competition
The 78 Project Movie
Director: Alex Steyermark. USA. 98 minutes.
Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory
Director: Michael Rossato-Bennett. USA. 73 minutes.
The Ballad of Shovels & Rope
Director: Jace Freeman. USA. 72 minutes.
Béla Fleck: How to Write a Banjo Concerto
Director: Béla Fleck. USA. 97 minutes. WORLD PREMIERE.
Brasslands
Director: The Meerkat Media Collective. USA / Serbia. 84 minutes.
A Film About Kids and Music
Director: Ramon Tort. Spain. 101 minutes.
Glen Campbell…I’ll Be Me
Director: James Keach. USA. 116 minutes. WORLD PREMIERE.
I Lay Where I Fall
Director: Andrew Stubbs. USA. 88 minutes. WORLD PREMIERE.
Johnny Winter: Down & Dirty
Director: Greg Oliver. USA. 80 minutes.
Led Zeppelin Played Here
Director: Jeff Krulik. USA. 90 minutes.
The Road to Fame
Director: Hao Tu. China / Netherlands / Denmark / United Kingdom. 80 minutes.
Take Me to the River
Director: Martin Shore. USA. 95 minutes.
The Winding Stream
Director: Beth Harrington. USA. 90 minutes.
Tennessee First
Banjo Romantika: American Bluegrass Music & The Czech Imagination
Director: Shara Lange. USA. 65 minutes.
Beautiful Jim
Director: Rex Jones. USA. 53 minutes.
Closer to God
Director: Billy Senese. USA. 84 minutes. WORLD PREMIERE.
A Decade With an Unsigned Rock Band
Director: Criss Cheatham. USA. 81 minutes. WORLD PREMIERE.
Riser: Dierks Bentley
Director: Wes Edwards. USA. 45 minutes.
Something, Anything
Director: Paul Harrill. USA. 88 minutes.
Graveyard Shift
Blood Tokoloshe
Director: Jordan Harland. South Africa. 72 minutes. NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE.
Borgman
Director: Alex van Warmerdam. Netherlands. 113 minutes.
The Congress
Director: Ari Folman. Israel / France. 122 minutes.
Proxy
Director: Zack Parker. USA. 120 minutes.
The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears
Director: Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani. Belgium. 102 minutes.
Wetlands
Director: David Wnendt. Germany. 105 minutes.
Wild Domestic
Director: Kyle Komline. USA. 74 minutes.
You and the Night
Director: Yann Gonzalez. France. 98 minutes.
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