Featuring
- SHAUNAK SEN’S All That Breathes
- GEETA GANDBHIR & SAM POLLARD’S Lowndes County And The Road To Black Power
- NEHAL VYAS’S Dapaan
- SOHIL VAIDYA’S Murmurs Of The Jungle
- SHRUTIMAN DEORI’S My Courtyard (Ne Sotal)
- KAVITA PILLAI’s Weckuwapok (The Approaching Dawn)
The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) for its 18th edition presents feature and short films and documentaries. The festival takes place in person from September 15-18 at venues in Camden and Rockland, Maine, and online from September 15-25 for audiences across North America.
A program of the Points North Institute, CIFF remains widely recognized as a major platform championing the next generation of nonfiction storytellers and one of the hottest documentary and industry festivals on the festival and awards calendars. This year’s edition is the most international and formally adventurous to date and includes 34 features and 37 short films from over 41 countries. Over 60% of the entire program is directed or co-directed by BIPOC filmmakers and this is the 6th consecutive program the festival has reached gender parity within the program and across all competitions. Nearly half of the feature program will be US or North American premieres, including several new titles fresh from Venice, Locarno, and TIFF premieres, alongside award-winning films from Sundance, Rotterdam, Cannes, and Visions du Reel.
This year’s program celebrates the diversity of voices and forms in documentary and cinematic nonfiction,” says Ben Fowlie, Executive and Artistic Director of the Points North Institute, and Founder of the Camden International Film Festival. “These films help us make sense of an ever-changing world, and do everything we expect from great art – they ask provocative questions and interrogate the form. This year’s program emphasizes the international that represents the ‘I’ in CIFF, and reminds us time and again of the limitless creative potential and potency of the documentary form. Just as we have been for each of the past seventeen years, we are grateful to the filmmakers who have made these works of art and shared these stories.”
CIFF 2022 FEATURES
5 DREAMERS AND THE HORSE
Dirs: Aren Malakyan & Vahagn Khachatryan | Armenia, Georgia, Germany |
US Premiere
A COMPASSIONATE SPY
Dir: Steve James | USA, United Kingdom
AFTER SHERMAN
Dir: Jon-Sesrie Goff | USA
ALL OF OUR HEARTBEATS ARE CONNECTED THROUGH EXPLODING STARS
Dir: Jennifer Rainsford | US Premiere
ALL THAT BREATHES
Dir: Shaunak Sen | India, USA, UK
BURIAL
Dir: Emilija Škarnulytė | Lithuania, Norway | US Premiere
COWBOY POETS
Dir: Mike Day | UK, Scotland, US | World Premiere
CROWS ARE WHITE
Dir: Ahsen Nadeem | Japan, Ireland, USA
DAY AFTER…
Dir: Kamar Ahmad Simon | Bangladesh, France, Norway
DESCENDANT
Dir: Margaret Brown | USA
DETOURS
Dir: Ekaterina Selenkina | Russia, Netherlands | US Premiere
DOS ESTACIONES
Dir: Juan Pablo González | México, with France, USA
EAMI
Dir: Paz Encina | Paraguay, Argentina, Mexico, USA, Germany, France, The Netherlands | North American Premiere
FORAGERS
Dir: Jumana Manna | Palestine | North American Premiere
GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE
Dir: Jacquelyn Mills | Canada
Dir: Carlos Pardo Ros | Spain | North American Premiere
HERBARIA
Dir: Leandro Listorti | Argentina, Germany | North American Premiere
I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE
Dir: Reid Davenport | USA
IN HER HANDS
Dirs: Tamana Ayazi, Marcel Mettelsiefen | USA, Afghanistan | US Premiere
IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA (É Noite na América)
Dir: Ana Vaz | Italy, Brazil, France | North American Premiere
LOWNDES COUNTY AND THE ROAD TO BLACK POWER
Dirs: Geeta Gandbhir, Sam Pollard | USA
MATTER OUT OF PLACE
Dir: Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Austria | North American Premiere
MY IMAGINARY COUNTRY (Mi País Imaginario)
Dir: Patricio Gúzman | Chile, France | Sneak Preview
NOTHING LASTS FOREVER
Dir: Jason Kohn | USA
POLARIS
Dir: Ainara Vera | Greenland, France | North American Premiere
REWIND & PLAY
Alain Gomis | France, Germany
Dir: Chris Smith | USA
SUBJECT
Dir: Jennifer Tiexiera, Camilla Hall | USA
TERRANOVA
Dirs: Alejandro Alonso & Alejandro Pérez | Cuba | North American Premiere
THE AFTERLIGHT
Dir: Charlie Shackleton | UK
THE TERRITORY
Dir: Alex Pritz | Brazil, Denmark, USA
THIS MUCH WE KNOW
Dir: Lily Frances Henderson | USA | World Premiere
WHAT WE LEAVE BEHIND (LO QUE DEJAMOS ATRÁS)
Dir: Iliana Sosa | USA, Mexico
CIFF 2022 SHORTS
ARALKUM
Dirs: Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhluktenko | Germany, Uzbekistan |
North American Premiere
THE ARK
Dir: Amira Louadah | Algeria, France | North American Premiere
THE ARTISTS
Dirs: Noah David Smith, Elizabeth L. Smith | USA | World Premiere
BELONGINGS
Dir: Alex Coppola | USA
BIGGER ON THE INSIDE
Dir: Angelo Madsen Minax | USA | Sneak Preview
BRAVE
Wilmarc Val | France | US Premiere
CALL ME JONATHAN
Dir: Bárbara Lago | Argentina | US Premiere
CONGRESS OF IDLING PERSONS
Dir: Bassem Saad | Lebanon, Germany
CONSTANT
Dir: Beny Wagner, Sasha Litvintseva | Germany, United Kingdom
DAPAAN
Dir: Nehal Vyas | USA
DEERFOOT OF THE DIAMOND
Dir: Lance Edmands | USA | World Premiere
ECHOLOCATION
Dir: Nadia Shihab | USA
EVERYTHING WRONG AND NOWHERE TO GO
Dir: Sindha Agha | USA, United Kingdom | World Premiere
THE FAMILY STATEMENT
Dir: Grace Harper, Kate Stonehill | USA
FIRE IN THE SEA
Dir: Sebastián Zanzottera | Argentina | North American Premiere
THE FLAGMAKERS
Dirs: Cynthia Wade, Sharon Liese | USA | World Premiere
LA FRONTIÉRE (THE BORDER)
Dirs: Katy Haas, Megan Ruffe | USA, Canada | Sneak Preview
HANDBOOK
Dir: Pavel Mozhar | Germany, Belarus
IRANI BAG
Dir: Maryam Tafakory | Iran, Singapore, United Kingdom
LA FRONTIÉRE
Dirs: Katy Haas & Megan Ruffe | USA | work in progress
LIFE WITHOUT DREAMS
Dir: Jessica Bardsley | USA, France
LUNGTA
Dir: Alexandra Cuesta | Mexico, Ecuador | North American Premiere
MASKS
Dir: Olivier Smolders | Belgium | North American Premiere
MOUNE
Dir: Maxime Jean-Baptiste | Belgium, French Guiana, France
MURMURS OF THE JUNGLE
Dir: Sohil Vaidya | India
MY COURTYARD (NE SOTAL)
Dir: Shrutiman Deori | India | North American Premiere
NAZARBAZI
Dir: Maryam Tafakory | Iran
ONE SURVIVES BY HIDING
Dir: Esy Casey | USA, Philippines
PACAMAN
Dir: Dalissa Montes de Oca | Dominican Republic
PARADISO, XXXI, 108
Dir: Kamal Aljafari | Palestine, Germany | North American Premiere
SEASICK
Dir: João Vieira Torres | Brazil, France | North American Premiere
SOLASTALGIA
Dir: Violeta Mora | Cuba, Honduras | North American Premiere
SOMEBODY’S HERO
Dir: Morgan Myer | USA
THE SOWER OF STARS (EL SEMBRADOR DE ESTRELLAS)
Dir: Lois Patiño | Spain | US Premiere
SUBTOTALS
Dir: Mohammadreza Farzad | Poland, Germany, Iran | North American Premier
SWERVE
Dir: Lynne Sachs | USA
UNSINKABLE SHIP
Dir: Lamia Lazrak, Josie Colt | USA | North American Premier
WECKUWAPOK (THE APPROACHING DAWN)
Dirs: Jacob Bearchum, Taylor Hensel, Adam Mazo, Chris Newell, Roger Paul, Kavita Pillay, Tracy Rector, and Lauren Stevens | USA
WECKUWAPASIHIT (THOSE TO COME) Weckuwapasihtit (Those Yet to Come)
Dir: Geo Neptune, Brianna Smith | USA
WHEN THE LAPD BLOWS UP YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
Dir: Nathan Truesdell | USA
TICKETS
For Tickets and Passes, visit pointsnorthinstitute.org/ciff/box-office
Online registration for pass holders began on September 1. General tickets for screenings will open on September 8.
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(Mabel Pais writes on Social Issues, The Arts and Entertainment, Health & Wellness, Cuisine and Spirituality.)