Friday,
June 10
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7
pm |
Keynote Address and Kick-Off Reception
MacArthur "genius" Award Recipient, law professor
and author Patricia Williams will discuss the relationship
between art and social change. |
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Saturday,
June 11
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4
pm |
ALL FALL AWAY by Said Sayrafiezadeh
Directed by Isis Saratial Misdary
A strange and surreal tale of a single mother and her son
in New York City struggling against eviction and their unique
relationship with an exterminator.
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7
pm |
MATKA KING by Anosh Irani
Directed by Margarett Perry
When a deeply indebted gambler makes an unexpected wager
the stakes become life and death. |
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Sunday,
June 12
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4
pm |
MOTHER IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE by Taniya
Hossain
Directed by May Adrales
When a Bengali ex-pat surprises his American girlfriend
with a
brownstone and a ring, he leaves out one important detail-his
traditional Bengali mother's moving into the basement apartment. |
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7
pm |
JOYS OF LIPSTICK by Layla Dowlatshahi
Directed by Stephanie Gilman
An Iranian-American teenager and her cousin who is visiting
from Iran
struggle to create their own destinies in this play about
freedom,
tradition and displacement. |
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| Monday,
June 13 |
7
pm |
GOOD HOPE by August Schulenberg
Directed by Gia Forakis
In 1856 South Africa, the Xhosa, an indigenous people suffering
from
seven long wars against colonialists, follow the apocalyptic
visions of a 16 year-old girl. |
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| Tuesday,
June 14 |
7
pm |
SOUTHERN CROSS by Dan O'Brien
Directed by Michael John Garces
Two women who have moved south to seek spiritual re-birth
tell their
stories in haunting and evocative monologues exploring faith,
religion and the supernatural. |
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| Wednesday,
June 15 |
7
pm |
COUNTER OFFENSE by Rahul Varma
Directed by Gita Reddy
When an Iranian immigrant to Canada is arrested for beating
his wife he
becomes a pawn in a battle between a race-rights activist,
a women's
rights activist and two cops trying to keep their jobs. |
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Thursday,
June 16
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7
pm |
BILLY DILLAN PRAYS by Ken Hanes
Directed by David Hilder
An author, in hiding after writing a controversial book
about what the
world might have been like if Jesus had never existed, reaches
out to a
discredited journalist to tell his story. |
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| Friday,
June 17 |
7
pm |
SMART by Robert Fieldsteel
Directed by Linnet Taylor
For his thesis, a sociology student interviews a high school
'A' student who helped kill two university professors in
a brutal and senseless murder |
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| Saturday,
June 18 |
4
pm |
THE
DEATH OF A CAT by C. Denby Swanson
One by one, members of a family have succumbed to a mysterious
disease. Now their only hope lies in the hands of the modest
family Doctor. But is the Doctor the Devil?
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7
pm |
THE RUBY VECTOR by Karla Jennings
Directed by Connie Grappo
Former Soviet bioweapons scientist Demyan Voronin negotiates
his
family's rescue from strife-torn Yahadistan.
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9
pm |
Post-Festival Mixer
Celebrate the end of the festival with us! |
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