2023 FILMS T - V Go here for Passes
Terra Somnus: Dreamland
In a distant town a mysterious troubadour performs every night, soothing the daily heartache of the people. Nobody knows where he comes from, but he's the bearer of a unique art that turns dreams into a collective happening.
9 min. | SPAIN | Animation
PSCC April 1, 5:00 pm
Daniel Othon M. Gallardo
The Beatles Vs. The Stones
Two bone-fide giants of music attempt to outdo each other with trickery, silliness and cake fights. With a specially made music track that takes from both bands to make something brand new. Why don't we do it in the road?
3 min. | UK | Animation
PSCC March 31, 4:00 pm
Andrew Kelleher (Dog&Rabbit)
Taxing The Sun
Why are Alabama's neighboring states so far ahead of Alabama when it comes to renewable energy? For decades Alabamians have “thanked God for Mississippi”, but that sentiment ends when we consider our right to choose our own sources of electricity.
24 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 1, 6:30 pm
Gillian Harrill
The After: A Chef's Wish
After Chef Fatima Ali - Fan Favourite Winner of 'Top Chef: Season 15' - faces a tragic turn of events in her life, her brother Mohammad must take up the mantle to continue her legacy of bridging cultures through food and providing the joy of it to the underprivileged in Pakistan.
26 min. | PAKISTAN | Documentary Short
PSCC March 31, 1:30 pm
Edward Frumkin
Ten By Ten
With the help of her husband Dongseop, Jessica opened an American-style diner out of her home on Jeju Island, South Korea in 2018. But after being featured on one of the country’s most popular television shows, the couple must now adapt to the shock of their newfound TV fame.
29 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC March 30, 12:00 pm
Jami L. Bennett
The Bare You
An accomplished acrobat from Lisbon flies half way around the world to Yosemite Valley to take a nude photograph with an old homeless climbing photographer she's never met. Identity crisis? Or is she onto something?
11 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 1, 2:30 pm
Eric Alexander Foss
The Egret River
Among the tall buildings of the city, the lonely guard hides a beautiful field that no one knows, and meets an egret there; but the expansion of the city never stops, one day the field is destroyed, the egret escapes without a trace, he begin to see mysterious illusions…
20 min. | TAIWAN | Animation
PSCC March 31, 9:00 pm
Wan-Ling Liu
The Healer
Having been raised amongst a traditionally conservative Christian community, Dr. Ebtesam Islam, an American Muslim pulmonologist in Lubbock, Texas, leans on her faith and community to cope with stress and anxiety, while saving lives and staying hopeful.
10 min | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 1, 7:30 pm
Justin Mashouf
The Man Of The Wind
Marco is a talented kite-surfing instructor who decides to leave everything behind in Venice, his home town, to live a simple life in the beautiful island of Sardinia, Italy.
In the movie he talks us through his struggles and inspiring motivations that led him where he is today.
9 min. | ITALY | Documentary Short
PSCC April 9, 1:30 pm
Bruno Santinoli
The Recall: Reframed
20 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 1, 7:30 pm
Rebecca Richman Cohen
The "Recall" came at the height of the #MeToo movement, some hailed it as a victory against rape culture, white privilege, and a system stacked against survivors of sexual violence. Who bears the burden when we demand harsher punishment for a privileged white defendant?
The Social Chameleon
10 min. | USA | Animation
PSCC April 2, 11:30 am
Alex Ross
Cosmo the chameleon doesn't fit in with the other animals. No matter how hard he tries, he just can't seem to find his place in the jungle. Then, everything changes when he meets another chameleon who shows him how to live by his own true colors!
The Sticklet Weaver
8 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC March 30, 2:30 pm
Jim Hollenbaugh
Brent Brown is a self-taught artist with lifelong mental health challenges. Intuitive and deeply talented, in recent years he has started building complex, highly fanciful "puppets" constructed from dozens of cardboard elements with fully moveable joints.
This Is National Wake
66 min. | USA | Documentary Feature
PSCC April 2, 11:00 am
Mirissa Neff
Join us recounting the story of a multiracial South African punk band, dubbed "the band that defied apartheid," whose members risked everything to taste freedom—and documented themselves doing so on brilliant Super 8.
TWO: The Story Of Roman & Nyro
71 min. | USA | Documentary Feature
PSCC April 1, 2:00 pm
Heather Winters
Desmond Child and Curtis Shaw are a testament to the universal power and ultimate triumph of love– a love that makes a family, affirming modern families may be modern in their making, but timelessly human at their core. (accompanied with music.)
The Record
9 min. | USA | Animation
PSCC April 2, 11:00 am
Jonathan Laskar
Obsessed by this endless record, an antique dealer listens to it again and again, and the memories reemerge until one last and most painful memory is revealed: how he got separated from his mother on the Swiss border during World War II.
The Source Of Life
10 min. | SPAIN | Documentary Short
PSCC April 1, 5:00 pm
Eduardo Soutullo
An international supercomputer installed in a satellite, was programmed to put an end to a virus that is destroying life on Earth. Its success starts a new era of perfect ecological balance for the planet, but with unsuspected consequences for the human species.
The Stolen De Kooning
8 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC March 30, 2:30 pm
Christopher Sprinkle
Cut from its frame, ripped from its backing, rolled up, and stolen from a museum in Arizona, Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre has been through a lot. When the painting was discovered in an antique store in Silver City, New Mexico 30 years later, it needed extensive repairs. In 2017 conservators at Getty got to work mending the torn canvas, and painstakingly restoring the composition.
The Ruth Brinker Story
23 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC April 2, 1:30 pm
Apo Bazidi
At the age of 63, retired food-service worker Ruth Brinker became a pioneer
of HIV care in her community and would become a legend among San
Franciscans. Providing meals with love became the hallmark of her mission.
Her goal was to not only provide meals.
Unconfined
Confined to his room during Covid and on a breathing machine 24 hours a day, Victor Pineda, filmmaker, urban planner, internationally renowned activist, UC Berkeley professor, and a two-time presidential appointee in the Obama Administration, searches for what makes a life worth living.
38 min. | USA | Documentary Short
PSCC March 31, 2:00 pm
Victor Pineda