The Bahamas International Film Festival has announced their lineup and competition programs for their 12th year, which will run from December 1-12. More than 130 films are represented in the lineup, which includes competition categories for Spirit of Freedom: Narrative, Spirit of Freedom: Documentary, New Visions, Carribean Spotlight Narrative, Carribean Spotlight Documentary, Comedy and non-Jury Short Films.
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Below is the list of films.
SPIRIT OF FREEDOM (NARRATIVE) |
“Eadward” (Canada) / Director: Kyle Rideout |
“Showing Roots” (USA) / Director: Michael Wilson |
“Sin and Illy” (Germany) / Director: Maria Hengge |
“The Sleeping Tree” (Bahrain) / Director: Mohammed Rashed BuAli |
“UnIndian” (Australia) Director: Anupam SHarma |
“Wildlike” (USA) / Director: Frank Hall Green |
SPIRIT OF FREEDOM (DOCUMENTARY) |
“All Eyes All Ears” (China, USA) / Director: Vanessa Hope |
“Gazelle” – THE LOVE ISSUE (Brazil) / Director: Cesar Terranova |
“I Am Thalente” (South Africa) / Director: Natalie Johns |
“India’s Daughter” (India) Director: Leslee Udwin |
“My Life in China” (USA) Director: Kenneth Eng |
“Queen Mimi” (USA) Director: Yaniv Rokah |
“Speed Sisters” (Iran) Director: Amber Fares |
“Madina’s Dream” (Sudan) Director: Andrew Berends |
“Crocodile Gennadiy” (Ukraine) Director: Steve Hoover |
NEW VISIONS (Sponsored by JetBlue Airways) |
“A Beautiful Now” (USA) / Director: Daniela Amavia |
“After the Wedding” (USA) / Director: Claudia Cifuentes |
“Bad Moon Rising” (Japan) / Director: Hiritaka Asano |
“Empirica” (USA) / Director: Patrick Shanahan |
“Golden Kingdom” (Myanmar) / Director: Brian Perkins |
“Jackrabbit” (USA) / Director: Carleton Ranney |
“Johnny Walker” (USA) / Director: Kris De Meester |
“The Preppie Connection” (USA) / Director: Joseph Castelo |
“Somewhere in the Middle” (USA) / Director: Lanre Olabisi |
“The Ambassador to Bern” (Hungary) / Director” Attila Szasz |
“The Center” (USA) / Director” Charlie Graik |
“Singapore Sling” (Brazil,USA) / Director: Marcus Sigrist |
“La Extrana” (Dominican Republic) / Director: César Rodríguez |
WORLD CINEMA NARRATIVE (Sponsored by CornèrTrader) |
“Anti Social” (UK) / Director: Reg Traviss |
“Ombre” (Bulgaria) / Director: Zachary Iliev Paunov |
“Jasmine” (Hong Kong, USA), / Director: Dax Phelan |
“Meet Pursuit Delange” (UK) / Director: Howard Webster |
“North vs South” (UK) / Director: Steven Nesbit |
“Remittance” (Singapore, USA) / Director: Joel Fendelman |
“Weepah Way For Now Sound” (USA) / Director: Stephen Ringer |
“Why Do You Smell the Ocean” (USA) / Director: Kevin Baggott |
“Let’s Dance to the Rhythm” (India) / Director: Bardroy Barretto |
WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY (Sponsored by CornèrTrader)
“Gored” (USA, Spain) / Director: Ido Mizrahy |
“Hydro” (USA) / Directors: Rafa G. Sánchez, Xavi Tello |
“New Cambodian” (Cambodia) / Director: Isabella Astengo |
“When Voices Meet” (South Africa) / Director: Nancy Sutton Smith |
“Every Child Counts” (Canada) / Director: Wendy Loten |
CARIBBEAN SPOTLIGHT NARRATIVE |
“Battle Dreams Chronicles” (Martinique) / Director: Alain Bidard |
“Bazodee” (Trinidad & Tobago) / Director: Todd Kessler |
“Stone Shacks” (Bahamas) / Director: Tyrone Burrows |
“Trafficked” (Trinidad & Tobago) / Director: Sean Hodgkinson |
CARIBBEAN SPOTLIGHT DOCUMENTARY |
“Congo Beats the Drum” (Israel, Jamaica) / Director: Ariel Tagar |
“Dreadlocks Story” (Jamaica) / Director: Linda Aïnouche |
“Exuma” (Bahamas) / Director: Colin Ruggiero |
“Vanishing Sail” (The Grenadines) / Director: Alexis Andrews |
COMEDY |
“Art Ache” (USA) / Director: Berty Cadilhac |
“Dependent’s Day” (USA) / Director: Michael David Lynch |
“Driving While Black” (USA) / Director: Paul Sapiano |
“It Had to Be You” (USA) / Director: Sasha Gordon |
“The Funeral Guest” (USA) / Director: Matthew Kohnen |
“The Right Juice” (UK, Portugal) / Director: Kristjan Knigge |
A complete list of the short films screening at BIFF is available here.
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