Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

FILMS+EVENTS - SCHEDULE

Cinema 1

Cinema 3

Fletcher Hall

Cinema 4

DAC / PSI

Cinema 2

Elsewhere

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

9:00-11:00
OPENING NIGHT PARTY
ATC Bay 7

PREMIUM EVENT

OPENING NIGHT PARTY

At the American Tobacco Campus, Bay 7

4:30-5:30
Diary of a Times Square Thief

Diary of a Times Square Thief

This intriguing film documents the search for the author of a diary whose account of life at a dive hotel in pre-Giuliani Times Square includes many memorable characters, some of whom are tracked down and interviewed here.

The Netherlands

4:30-6:15
Photo & Copyright

Photo & Copyright

Friends and former models fondly recall Gerard Petrus Fieret, the eccentric Dutch photographer whose life’s work is now hotly desired by the art market.

Frank van den Engel

The Netherlands

10:30-12:00
The Farm: Angola, USA

The Farm: Angola, USA

Life at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, the largest maximum security prison in the United States, as seen through the eyes of both its prisoners—most of whom will die there—and its wardens, bears a disturbing resemblance to plantation life.

Liz Garbus, Jonathan Stack

1:30-3:05
American Hollow

American Hollow

It's a hardscrabble existence that many would flee, but the Bowling clan of Mudlick Hollow in Eastern Kentucky feels the gravitational pull of family, and especially of its tenacious matriarch, Iree Bowling.

4:40-6:15
Generation Exile

Generation Exile

The tales of five displaced characters, including the filmmaker, intermingle in this boldly paced film to evoke, both through narrative and poetic technique, the exile’s experience of alienation and moral dilemma.

Rodrigo Dorfman

10:00-12:15
Racing Dreams

FREE TO PUBLIC

Racing Dreams

FREE TO PUBLIC

Meet Annabeth, Brandon, and Josh, pre-teens from different regions and circumstances sharing a common goal: to win a World Karting Championship. Street Fight director Marshall Curry follows the exceptional young drivers and their families during a season of challenges and surprises.

1:00-2:35
Last Train Home

Last Train Home

Every year Yang and Suquin Zhang take part in the world’s largest human migration, traveling alongside another 130 million Chinese migrant workers to return home to their family for the New Year’s Holiday.

4:00-5:50
Thunder Soul

Former members of Houston’s renowned Kashmere Stage Band, arguably the nation's best high-school jazz and funk band in the 1970s, get together for a reunion concert in honor of beloved band director Conrad Johnson in this fast-paced, toe-tapping funk celebration.

7:00-9:10
OPENING NIGHT
Kings of Pastry
PREMIUM EVENT

OPENING NIGHT
Kings of Pastry
PREMIUM EVENT

Concocting all manner of sweet delights, from gold foil-bedecked chocolates to towering sculptures of blown sugar, sixteen chefs compete for the French pastry world’s highest honor–the Meilleur Ouvrier de France–in a contest of unbelievable artistry and tension.

Chris Hegedus, DA Pennebaker

9:50-11:16
The Thorn in the Heart

The Thorn in the Heart

Acclaimed and endlessly inventive director Michel Gondry trains the camera on his own family—in particular, his aunt Suzette—in this personal and unconventional charm bracelet of a film, crowded with tokens of curious affection and bittersweet reminiscence.

9:50-11:30
The Poodle Trainer

The Poodle Trainer

Irina Markova loves training poodles, large and small, under the circus big top, creating a glittery symbiosis between herself and her fluffy cream and caramel colored dogs.

10:10-12:15
Louis Sullivan

A sumptuously filmed chronicle of the rise and fall of architect Louis Sullivan, known variously as “the father of the skyscraper” and “the prophet of modern architecture."

Mark Richard Smith

1:10-2:03
Promised Land

This film presents the struggles of black and white South Africans involved in two land claims cases, documenting the efforts of the descendants of those who were dispossessed under apartheid to reclaim their inheritance from current landowners.

1:10-3:05
Sun Come Up

When climate change causes the ocean to slowly consume their idyllic South Pacific island life, residents of the Carteret Atoll must make a painful choice whether to evacuate or cling to the land they love - and time is running out.

Jennifer Redfearn

4:10-6:10
Enemies of the People

Enemies of the People

A Cambodian reporter investigates who gave the order to kill millions during the Khmer Rouge regime. After ten years, he gains the trust of the only person who knows the truth.

Rob Lemkin, Thet Sambath

9:40-11:00
Disco and Atomic War

Disco and Atomic War

Western TV infiltrates Estonia during the Cold War and sparks a quiet revolution—the threat of hegemonic capitalist imperialism has never looked so fun!

Estonia, Finland

9:40-11:30
Photograph of Jesus

Photograph of Jesus

Stop-motion animation whisks viewers through card catalogs and filing cabinets to reveal the bizarre and impossible photo requests that cross an archivist’s desk.

10:20-12:15
The Wobblies

Members of the Industrial Workers of the World, now in their eighties and nineties, reminisce about their union’s heyday—the textile strikes, free-speech battles, life in the lumber camps—in this meticulously researched history of the Wobblies.

Stewart Bird, Deborah Shaffer

1:20-2:27
My Enschede

In May 2000, a fireworks storage room exploded in the east Netherlands city of Enschede. The tragic accident killed twenty-three people and injured another thousand. Filmmaker Astrid Bussink, who was living there at the time, returns to the city, gauging the many ways the explosion continues to resonate within the community.

The Netherlands

1:20-3:10
Hanasaari A

In this experimental short, time-lapse photography transforms the demolition of a coal-fired power plant into a stunning work of art.

Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen

4:20-5:08
Los Trabajadores

Los Trabajadores

Immigrant day laborers in Austin perform some of the city’s most critical jobs but find themselves at the center of a town battle over the location of their depot, which nobody wants in their backyard.

Heather Courtney

4:20-6:30
The Global Assembly...

The Global Assembly...

From Mexico to the Philippines to Tennessee, this remarkably prescient film, completed in 1986, examines the consequences both at home and abroad of the then relatively new American business practice of outsourcing manufacture and assembly jobs.

Lorraine W. Gray

9:30-10:57
Man Push Cart

A much-lauded independent fiction film about a former Pakistani rock star, now selling coffee and bagels on the streets of Manhattan and struggling to reclaim his life.

9:30-11:35
Coal Miner: Frank...

Coal Miner: Frank...

From the Appalshop archive, a rare trip down a 1970s Virginia coal mine with an expressive, engaging miner to tell us about union organizing, prejudice, and the coal-mining way of life.

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