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

4:00-6:00

Career Award Ceremony

8:00-9:30
Pelada

CENTRAL PARK

This is a free screening @ Durham Central Park - no ticket required

10:00-12:00
Funding Workshop

Funding Workshop

12:30-1:15
Alpha Cine

Everything you always wanted to know about digital to film transfers.

2:00-3:00
Garrett Scott Grant

Garrett Scott Grant

Work-in-progress screening of 2010 grant recipients' first feature documentary projects.

4:50-6:50
Reality TV vs. Documentary

Reality TV vs. Documentary

7:50-9:35
Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Through a series of in-depth interviews with American guards who engaged in torture, higher-ranking officers, and detainees, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib reveals that far from the dissenting action of a few, the abuses perpetrated there were inextricably linked to U.S. government policies enacted after 9/11.

10:10-12:05
The Kids Grow Up

The Kids Grow Up

A personal documentary about the emotional reality of having your only child grow up and leave home, this film is also a window into modern-day parenting made possible by the age of digital videography.

1:40-3:35
Family Affair

Chico David Colvard untangles a deep and disturbing family mystery in this profound, unflinching tale of sexual abuse and forgiveness.

4:40-6:40
China Blue

Shooting clandestinely, with smuggled equipment and under threat of arrest, director Micha Peled gains extraordinary access into life at a blue-jeans factory in China to give us an unprecedented look at the current state of Chinese labor.

4:40-6:40
Hammer and Flame

Hammer and Flame

In a surreal, unending cycle, workers at the shipbreaking yards of Gujarat in India take monstrous ships apart, bolt by bolt, using only the simplest of tools.

Vaughan Pilikian

7:40-9:10
Regretters

Born men, once women, and now men again, Orlando and Mikael dig deep into the psychology behind the one regret they share, offering a thoughtful exploration of identity and expectations.

7:40-9:10
Notes on the Other

Notes on the Other

Every summer a surprising number of bearded men flock to Key West to take part in the annual Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, imitating a famous author who himself donned the persona of fearless adventurer.

10:40-11:40
Divine Pig

In this ode to a seemingly bygone era of local butchers and home-raised pork, Gerard Zwetsloot must decide whether to slaughter his product-turned-pet Dorus, a dilemma that shows how complicated and personal our relationship to our food can be.

The Netherlands

10:40-12:45
The Poot

A pure visual treat, The Poot traces the production of beautiful, handmade Persian rugs from sheep to market.

1:30-3:30
Summer Pasture

At once exotic and oddly familiar, this is a deeply satisfying, visually compelling story of a young nomadic Tibetan family struggling to survive on the revenues of caterpillar fungus and yak herding.

Lynn True, Nelson Walker Co-director: Tsering Perlo

US, China, Tibet

4:30-6:15
Stonewall Uprising

Stonewall Uprising

This essential history of gay rights in America centers on the night the patrons of a Greenwich Village bar stood up and refused be arrested just for being themselves.

Kate Davis, David Heilbroner

7:30-9:20
Restrepo

An unblinking look at American soldiers on a long deployment in the dangerous Korengal Valley of Afghanistan, where they exchange fire with the Taliban almost every day.

Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger

10:30-12:20
The Player

Spurred by his own father’s gambling, filmmaker John Appel deftly traces the overlapping psychology and compulsions of three characters: a bookie, a poker player, and an incarcerated swindler.

10:10-12:20
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

This beautifully crafted portrait of the extraordinary pianist Glenn Gould delves deep into his work and beyond his public persona through never-before-seen footage and interviews with those who knew him best.

Michele Hozer, Peter Raymont

1:20-3:20
Waste Land

Brazilian artist Vik Muniz embarks on a new project, collaborating with recyclers who work in the world’s largest landfill as he constructs their portraits entirely out of garbage.

4:20-6:15
Garbo: The Spy

Did a Catalonian double agent almost single-handedly divert Nazi troops from Normandy on D-Day to secure Allied victory? Decide for yourself if the man whom the British code-named Garbo was truly the greatest actor in the world.

7:20-9:25
CENTER FRAME
And Everything is Going Fine
PREMIUM EVENT

CENTER FRAME
And Everything is Going Fine
PREMIUM EVENT

Spalding Gray made a living from revealing himself. Collaborator Steven Soderbergh honors the monologist’s literally storied career with a fitting tribute comprised of performance excerpts and interviews that further reveal the varied shades of Gray.

Steven Soderbergh

10:20-12:10
Strange Powers

A captivating film about one of America’s greatest (and most reclusive) songwriters, Strange Powers is the film you never thought you’d see about the band you’ve always loved - or the film you absolutely must see about the band you’ve always meant to check out.

Kerthy Fix, Gail O'Hara

10:20-11:33
Today is Better than Two Tomorrows

Today is Better than Two Tomorrows

Inseparable eleven-year-old cousins and best friends, Leh and Bo, face a harsh reality: one will go to a monastery and one will go to school, sequestered from each other and their families. Filmmaker Anna Rodgers spent four years in Laos with the boys as they grew up and apart.

10:20-12:25
Born Sweet

Vinh is a Cambodian boy sick from arsenic poisoning who knows he may not have long to live but dreams of falling in love and becoming a karaoke star.

1:10-2:12
In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee

In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee

Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem arrived in the U.S. at the age of eight under another girl’s name, and so began a tale of deception and amnesia that led her back to South Korea forty years later in search of the “real” Cha Jung Hee.

Deann Borshay Liem

US, South Korea

1:10-3:05
Book of Miri

A tender meditation on identity and the search for belonging, this is a portrait of Miri, a Korean-Swedish librarian who finds refuge in her blog, where she diligently records her fashion adventures and intimate thoughts.

4:10-5:23
The Edge of Dreaming

The Edge of Dreaming

When one of filmmaker Amy Hardie's disturbing dreams manifests in real life, she is left to wonder if her most recent premonition - that she will die in the upcoming year - will also come true.

4:10-6:20
Albert's Winter

Albert's Winter

A young Danish boy spends the winter balancing the whimsy of childhood play, the demands of his education, and the omnipresence of his mother’s cancer.

Andreas Koefoed

7:10-8:55
12th & Delaware

12th & Delaware

At a single intersection in Fort Prince, Florida, sits a microcosm of America’s most intractable ideological battle: on one side of the street an abortion clinic, on the other the pro-life Pregnancy Care Center.

Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing

10:10-12:00
Videocracy

What happens when a nation’s leader also owns its most popular television stations? Director Erik Gandini exposes the startling effects of Silvio Berlusconi’s generation-long influence on Italian politics and culture.

Sweden, Denmark, UK, Finland

10:30-12:10
Shouting Fire

A compelling story about the First Amendment's past and future shown through several gripping case studies about the limits of free speech in today's America.

1:00-2:12
The Border

The residents of Slemence wake up one morning to find half their village in Slovakia and the other half in the Ukraine, the random new border dividing family members and friends for the next 60 years.

Jaroslav Vojtek

1:00-3:10
The Fence

A $3.1-billion, 700-mile fence built along our Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants, drugs, and terrorists proves absurdly ineffective.

7:00-9:05
Ito - A Diary of an Urban Priest

Ito - A Diary of an Urban Priest

Follow Fujioka, boxing-champion-turned-Buddhist-monk, as he takes a hypnotic journey through Tokyo’s underbelly, hearing confession from all quarters.

Pirjo Honkasalo

10:00-11:10
H-2 Worker

Each year thousands of Jamaicans spend six months cutting sugar cane by hand in Florida. They arrive with hopes of decent wages and a better life, only to find themselves exploited in ways that recall the shameful days of slavery.

Stephanie Black

10:00-12:00
The Sixth Section

The Sixth Section

A weekly Saturday night gathering of fellow immigrants in chilly upstate New York turns into an exercise in serious philanthropy and the chance to make a significant difference in their hometown in Mexico.

Career Award
NEW DOCS
Thematic Program
Invited
Conversations

Films: List All

Films: Category (Sort)

Venues and Services