Sarasota Film Festival / Sunscreen Film Festival 2020 – Her Place
A 1950s housewife awakens to a future far removed from mid-century nostalgia.
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Read MoreWhile backpacking through Europe, an American tourist sprays a hapless British jobseeker with mace after he accidentally attacks her. They try to part ways but fate keeps throwing them together so they grab a drink and see where this connection takes them.
Read MoreA prop assistant desperately tries to make the director happy on a challenging day at the set of an Ottoman soap opera.
Read MoreEmerging from years in isolation to an enraptured crowd, a transgender, septuagenarian musical genius finally finds his place in the world. Part biopic, part tour documentary, Keyboard Fantasies tells the mystical tale of cult musician Beverly Glenn-Copeland.
Read MoreThe storm took everything...
and everyone...
but, now, the pieces have begun to wash ashore.
Through the perspective of a 15th-century book, Bound explores the way in which people throughout history have valued objects that are not from their own time.
Read MoreAfter years of treatment, Fairfax decides to come clean to her therapist and reveal a sad but not-so-dark truth.
Read MoreIn Louie’s shop, antique objects get a second life–- and come to life. An unusual antique dealer, Louis Farrick, provides a tour of his richly laden little store in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Read MoreMadeline, a young journalist covering the trial of an old friend, can't stop thinking of all the events that brought them there.
Read MoreFilmmaker Derek Ho’s journey investigating how his gay brother’s adoption of Christianity impacted on his sexuality. A story of brotherly love and betrayal, it reveals it was Derek who outed his brother thirty years earlier.
Read MoreConfronted with doubt and feelings of emptiness, drunk with unhappiness and seeking to drown his sorrow, Barnabé experiences a curious metaphysical visitation; lightning strikes the spire of his church and a mysterious bird appears, forcing him to reconsider his life. What is his truth pointing him towards? What is the deeper meaning of his life on earth? In I, Barnabé, director Jean-François Lévesque deploys a spectacular arsenal of animation techniques to bring the character to life and illustrate his spiritual quest, achieving an extraordinary level of visual refinement in both the puppets and the settings. Perhaps Barnabé will have to be as light as a feather in order to move confidently toward still-unknown horizons …
Read MoreTold he only had a short time to live, Joshua Belinfante sought out dedicated talents around the world striving their best at what they always wanted to do as kids; trying to find what he would do if given a second chance.
Read More2014. Israel is at war in Gaza again. Uri, an Israeli soldier wounded on the battlefield, finds himself turned into a war hero by the visitors in the hospital. Now he and his family have to deal with his rehabilitation as well as newfound stardom. One family’s hardship turned public spectacle offers an inside look into Israeli society and the way war as a state-of-mind is shaping it as a nation.
Read MoreThe diaries and letters of two people living through the Second World War come to dramatic life, affirming the power of conscience amidst political supremacy.
Read MoreThe Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre is a Melbourne institution and world leader in cancer research, treatment and diagnostics. Our award-winning Peter Mac biomedical animation reveals the invisible molecular world within cells and how this can become disrupted, leading to cancer.
Read MoreAn oceanic songline across the Pacific & Indian oceans.
Read MoreThe secret history of an Australian Jewish family.
The true story of a Polish Holocaust survivor who led a double life in Melbourne, and her daughter Eve, a psychologist and filmmaker, who discovered the deception that upended her life.
Read MoreThousands of survivors of the 2015 Nepalese earthquake are still forced to live in temporary housing, survivors of the tragedy show you how they live, how they survive.
Read MoreA look at the role of an obsessive collector in an increasingly pop culture-centric world.
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