Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

FILMS+EVENTS - SCHEDULE

Cinema 1

Cinema 3

Fletcher Hall

Cinema 4

DAC / PSI

Cinema 2

9:00

10:00

11:00

Noon

1:00

2:00

3:00

4:00

5:00

6:00

7:00

8:00

9:00

10:00

11:00

12:00

1:00

4:45-5:43

A Time for Burning

A Time for Burning

An earnest glimpse at race relations during the civil rights era, this film chronicles a midwestern pastor’s attempts to engage his all-white congregation in conversation with members of an African American sister church.

Barbara Connell, Bill Jersey

4:45-6:40

Black Journal

Excerpts from St. Clair Bourne's first filmmaking work as a producer at Black Journal, the first monthly public affairs program on public television by, for, and about African Americans.

St. Clair Bourne

12:30-14:00

RANK

Welcome to the saddle-busting, bone-breaking world of bull riding, where only the toughest cowboys can make it through a season to the final competition and its purse of one million dollars.

12:30-3:05

Maletilla

Three up-and-coming bullfighters introduce us to the existential mysteries of the revered, violent, and intoxicatingly graceful relationship between man and bull.

Victoria Clay-Mendoza

4:00-5:30

Hair India

A story about beauty in our globalized world, this film follows the journey of a young Indian girl’s hair as it transforms from a religious offering to a movie star’s accessory.

Raffaele Brunetti, Marco Leopardi

1:30-3:00

Wounded Knee

A gripping account of the dramatic 71-day standoff between federal agents and members of the Oglala Lakota Tribe who seized the village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

10:45-12:20

John Henrik Clarke

John Henrik Clarke

This film brings to life the visionary scholarship of Africanist John Henrik Clarke.

St. Clair Bourne

10:00-12:20

This Sporting Life

This Sporting Life

Down-and-out coal miner Frank Machin, masterfully played by Richard Harris, rises to rugby league glory but fails at love in Lindsay Anderson’s first narrative film.

Lindsay Anderson

7:00-9:15

OPENING NIGHT
Sons of Cuba

OPENING NIGHT
Sons of Cuba

A rare behind-the-scenes look at the legendary Havana Boxing Academy, where young boys train to be champions and bring honor to their country.

3:45-5:35

Art & Copy

Where’s the Beef? Got Milk? Just Do It. Here are the creative people behind our most iconic ads.

1:00-2:50

Rough Aunties

A close-knit, multi-racial group of women activists help find justice and healing for victims of child rape in South Africa.

UK/South Africa

10:00-11:40

STUDENT SCREENING
Shooting Beauty

STUDENT SCREENING
Shooting Beauty

A photographer works to enable a group of people living with severe disabilities to take their own pictures, revealing the powerful effects of self-expression.

George Kachadorian

9:30-11:25

We Live In Public

We Live In Public

A provocative look at the life of Josh Harris, internet pioneer, social engineer and artist who made it big in the 1990s but went bust when the dotcom bubble burst.

4:30-5:53

Milking The Rhino

Milking The Rhino

Africa’s Maasai and Himba -- two of the oldest cattle-herding tribes on earth -- are vying to get a piece of the wildlife-tourism pie. But when your culture is ancient, change is hard, and some within their communities see wildlife conservation as a remnant of Western colonialism.

David E. Simpson

4:30-6:30

Eden End

This hypnotic compilation film pairs a lush Chopin score with archival footage from mid-century travel films to stage a cinematic fall from grace: here, fossil-fuel-powered machines and the desire to encounter the exotic, rather than apples and demon reptiles, conspire to destroy the Garden.

Enrique R. Baixeras

1:45-3:25

Voices from El-Sayed

Voices from El-Sayed

The Israeli village of El-Sayed is home to the largest population of deaf people in the world, but how will a community in which deafness is only natural respond when one young boy receives a cochlear implant?

Oded Adomi Leshem

10:30-12:35

War Against the Weak

War Against the Weak

A cinematic adaptation of Edwin Black's book of the same name, this film unveils chilling examples of American eugenics, presenting a disquieting analysis of an obscured history.

Justin Strawhand

9:45-10:37

O' Er The Land

An experimental filmmaker weaves emblematic images of patriotism and of the American experience into an evocative essay on freedom as defined by The American Way.

Deborah Stratman

9:45-10:55

Merely A Smell

The haunting, infernal beauty of this depiction of rescue workers digging through rubble and of empty coffins being loaded onto a truck makes the horror of the 2006 bombing of Beirut all the more palpable.

Maher Abi Samra

4:15:-6:05

24 City

As an ode to China's transforming economy, a factory morphs into an apartment complex while communism gives way to capitalism in this hybrid film.

1:15-3:05

7915 KM

An unflinching look at the landscapes, both human and topographical, along the route of the infamous 7,915-kilometer Dakar Rally.

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

10:15-11:40

Mechanical Love

Mechanical Love

Exploring the possibility of love between humans and robots, Mechanical Love challenges conceptions of companionship and loneliness in the modern age.

Career Award
NEW DOCS
This Sporting Life
Special Programming
Conversations

Opening Night Party
Thursday, April 2 | 9PM-11PM
American Tobacco Campus, Bay 7
Tickets available here.

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