Friday-October 5-Voorhees Hall #105-7PM $10; $9; $8
Free Movie Posters will be given out to the first 30 patrons at this screening of the New Jersey International Film Festival!
The Bench - Gabriel Ash (Plan les Ouates, Switzerland)
This silent short is a film fable reduced to its crystalline essence. Five minutes, four acts, three characters, and a surprise ending. 2011; 5 min.
Broken Wing - Amos Sussigan (Burbank, California)
In this heartfelt short animation, a boy uses a Rubiks cube to motivate his sad friend to see the brighter side of life. 2012; 6 min. With an in-person appearance by director Amos Sussigan!
The Grand Design - Samuel Bartlett (Sydney, Australia)
A metaphysics student must decide between sacrificing his own life or the life of a stranger. 2012; 9 min.
One Brooklyn Boat - Megan Hessenthaler (Brooklyn, New York)
A few short blocks from the teeming sidewalks of New York City, a man lives on a houseboat built as an experiment in urban sustainability. He builds fires for heat and catches rainwater for showers. This is the story of a boat and the man who chose to remove himself from the rat-race, to strike a balance between urban and rural habitation. 2011; 9 min. With an in-person appearance by director Megan Hessenthaler!
99% Solution – Leigha Cohen (Lawrenceville, New Jersey)
This insightful documentary connects the dots between the world’s water crisis, global warming, and the privatization of water worldwide, to local water battles in New Jersey and the relentless expansion of hydraulic fracking A call to save our most precious and increasingly endangered resource: the water without which we cannot survive. 2012; 21 min. With an in-person appearance by director Leigha Cohen!
They're in the River - Bruce Byker James (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
This short documentary film investigates the connections among animals, people, and the culture of the Delaware River by following the fishermen and scientists who are committed to reviving the stock of a migratory fish known as the American shad. Spending most of its life in the ocean, this largest member of the herring family, remarkably, comes back to its river of birth when it is 4-6 years old. The spring migration of the American shad was a large part of the economy of the Delaware Valley as recently as the early twentieth century, when overfishing and pollution began to have a devastating impact on the fish and the river. 2012; 30 min.
