2012 Stony Brook Film Festival
All films featured in 2012 Stony Brook Film Festival, both in and out of competition. Includes features, shorts, and documentaries. July 19-28 2012.
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- DirectorTerry GreenStarsDavid StrathairnRay WiseSam WitwerWhen a series of package bombs shows up on the doorsteps of prominent politicians and businessmen in the summer of 1919, U.S. Bureau of Investigation Agent William Flynn (Strathairn) is assigned the task of finding those responsible. He becomes immersed in an investigation that uncovers an anarchist plot to destroy a corrupted government. Inspired by true events of the 1920s.World Premiere - USA - Out of competition.
- DirectorBrent HuffStarsAisha ArmerJodi BarberGeoff BlaylockBehind the Orange Curtain is a documentary that delves into the staggering problem of teenage drug abuse in one of the most affluent counties in the country. Young, privileged teenagers are dying of drug overdoses in record numbers in Orange County, California. This documentary film will set out to ask the question.....why?East Coast Premiere - USA - In Competition
- DirectorTanya MeessmannStarsJames DoddJackie KaneRoss MullanA chance encounter between a homeless street performer and a young boy reignites long-forgotten passion for entertaining, while in turn offering promise of a connection that will influence the course of their lives.UK - short film - In Competition
- DirectorAriel WinogradStarsNatalia OreiroDaniel HendlerImanol AriasIn "My First Wedding" ("Mi primera boda"), Jewish-born Adrián and Catholic-born Leonora have finally reached their wedding day. Instead of gracefully embracing matrimony, Adrián spends the hours leading up to the ceremony trying to postpone it, not because he's got cold feet (or does he?), but because he's clumsily lost both his and his bride-to-be's sacred wedding rings. Disaster ensues in director Ariel Winograd's winning comedy about the politics of the proverbial "Big Day."New York Premiere - Argentina - In Competition
- DirectorVincent GarenqStarsPhilippe TorretonWladimir YordanoffNoémie LvovskyA family man battles to prove his innocence after being accused of a heinous crime.France - Winner Outstanding Achievement in Acting
- DirectorDaniel HsiaStarsLe GengDaniel HenneySean GallagherA New York attorney is sent to Shanghai on business, where he finds himself in a legal mess that threatens his career. With the help of a relocation specialist and her contacts, he soon learns to appreciate the wonders of Shanghai.East Coast Premiere - USA - In Competition
- DirectorPaul YoungStarsMaya BeresfordVirge GilchristMichelle AugustinA young girl looks to the past to remember a promise she once made.New York Premiere - UK - Short film
- DirectorKurt KuenneStarsT.J. ThynePaula RhodesChris StoneA man begins to experience his life out of order: each time he falls asleep, he wakes up on a different day of his life, at a different age, and he never knows where or when he will be "tomorrow."New York Premiere - USA - Winner Jury Prize
- DirectorStephanie BürgerJule OttManal AbdallahEr war Pazifist und Humanist, kämpfte für Verständigung und glaubte an den Dialog zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern am 31. März 2002 kommt der Israeli Dov Chernobroda bei einem Selbstmordattentat in Haifa ums Leben. Der 24-jährige Palästinenser Shadi Tobassi aus dem Westjordanland sprengt sich in dem arabischen Restaurant in die Luft, in dem Dov gerade zu Mittag isst. Warum geht ein junger Mann morgens aus dem Haus wie an jedem anderen Tag, sagt, er käme nicht so spät zurück von der Arbeit und zündet ein paar Stunden später den Sprengstoffgürtel unter seinem Shirt? Acht Jahre nach dem Attentat versuchen die zwei jungen Regisseurinnen Stephanie Bürger und Jule Ott zu verstehen, was unvorstellbar scheint. Wie leben die Menschen in diesem Konflikt? Was weiß der eine von den Tragödien des anderen? Die beiden Filmemacherinnen treffen die Israelin Yaël Chernobroda, Dovs Witwe. Dov hat an die Möglichkeit der Versöhnung zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern geglaubt. Wofür er Zeit seines Lebens eingestanden ist, das möchte Yaël acht Jahre nach seinem Tod fortsetzen: Sie bringt den Mut auf, die Familie des Attentäters in den besetzten Gebieten zu besuchen. Die Familie Tobassi traut sich, die Israelin in ihr Wohnzimmer nach Jenin einzuladen. Der Film erzählt die schrittweise Annäherung beider Familien, die getrennt durch eine Mauer und zahlreiche Checkpoints das gleiche Schicksal teilen: Sie müssen ein Leben nach dem 31. März 2002 führen, nach dem Tod, nach dem Schock, nach der Stille. Nach der Stille wurde durch das Projekt Cinema Jenin ermöglicht.US Premiere - Germany - In Competition
- DirectorFaren HumesStarsSabrina AlashiDasie ThamesJosef UrbanIn 1937, under the Third Reich, Germans of mixed race were located, identified and admitted into clinics. Hundreds were rendered sterile. Two sisters fought back.New York Premiere - USA - Short film
- DirectorMarcus O. RosenmüllerStarsGedeon BurkhardGudrun LandgrebeCatherine FlemmingThree musically talented children look to the future, but their hopes crumble when Germany and Russia enter into war.New York Premiere - Germany - Winner Audience Award: Best Feature
- DirectorDrew AntzisStarsRenee AlbertReno BehnkenJudy Ben-AsherAfter waking from a coma, Amanda leaves her husband, Doug, because he didn't honor their agreement: should either of them slip into a coma, the other would pull the plug.New York Premiere - USA - short film
- DirectorIshai SettonStarsMircea MonroeJace McleanRichard RiehleA hot, young starlet with a flair for bad behavior finds herself stuck in a small New England town with a rigid, yet endearingly traditional police officer. Sparks fly.East Coast Premiere - USA - In Competition
- DirectorDanelle EliavStarsDanelle EliavMicha LazareJillian PearsonA girl falls in love with a Spanish boy. Theirs was a beautiful love, until a twist of fate forces the girl to start anew.U.S. Premiere - Canada - short film
- DirectorWilliam HechterPeter MillerStarsWilli BurkeMarshall ChapmanShawn ColvinDoc Pomus was the unlikeliest of rock and roll icons. Paralyzed by polio as a child, Jerome Felder reinvented himself first as a blues singer, choosing the blues name Doc Pomus, and then as one of American popular music's greatest songwriters, creating "Save the Last Dance for Me," "This Magic Moment," "A Teenager in Love," "Viva Las Vegas," and a thousand other songs. A.K.A. DOC POMUS brings to life Doc's joyous, heartbreaking, romantic, and extraordinarily eventful journey. Packed with incomparable music and rare archival imagery, its cast includes Dr. John, Ben E. King, Joan Osborne, Shawn Colvin, Dion, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, B.B. King, and Lou Reed, who also reads from Doc's powerful private journals. Doc's was a life of disability and possibility, tragedy and romance, and some of the greatest music ever recorded.U.S. Premiere - USA - Winner Grand Jury Prize
- DirectorMichael D. SternStarsCatherine GoodrichJessica MossLauren Nicole PaigeOne of Edgar Allan Poe's hidden gems, 'Berenice' is a macabre tale of loss and obsession. Egaeus is the heir to a vast estate. The only light in his life is his beautiful cousin, Berenice, and while he has no feelings for her, she secretly pines for him. After summoning the courage to confess her love, Berenice is struck down by a disease that wilts her beauty and spirit, sending Egaeus further into depression and triggering obsessive compulsive episodes. Desperate to overcome them, Egaeus proposes marriage to Berenice, hoping her happiness will restore his own, but it only creates a new nightmare as Egaeus fixates on Berenice's last surviving trace of beauty and becomes determined to possess it at any price.World Premiere - USA - short film
- DirectorLeander HaußmannStarsMichael HerbigJürgen VogelThekla ReutenIn 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run its course.New York Premiere - Germany - In Competition
- DirectorJuan Montes de OcaIn Palma de Mallorca, through 5 year old kid innocence, and common life coincidences, an Afro-American homeless remember his non-sense life going back 45 years in New York. All together makes his life change to find at last the way to happiness.U.S. Premiere - Spain - short film
- DirectorJob GosschalkStarsPaul de LeeuwKarina SmuldersLineke RijxmanWhen Molly, the 21 year-old sister of Maarten, departs the family home, she leaves her older brother with empty nest syndrome.U.S. Premiere - The Netherlands - In Competition
- DirectorGal ZivStarsAskaf AbrahamKobi FaragLiat HarlevLiat (Liat Harlev) and Kobi (Kobi Faraj), a young Israeli couple, live in the city of Tel Aviv with their dog, Rickey. Without telling Liat, Kobi takes Rickey to participate in illegal dog fighting, after winning the first fight, Rickey gets away. Kobi tells Liat that their dog ran away, but fails to mention what occurred before. Soon enough they receive a phone call from a guy who claims he found their dog. The guy doesn't give too many details about the find and leaves the young couple unsure whether the dog was really found. Kobi feels uneasy about the guy and decides to go and meet him by himself. But then, a mysterious phone call turns everything upside down. Findher, directed by Gal Ziv, is a short paranoid thriller which showcases a strong Tel Aviv city vibe and quick turnaround scenes, in a very tense urban setting.New York Premiere - Israel - short film
- DirectorMegan PetersonJohn Douglas SinclairStarsAndrew SimpsonGwendoline YeoDon SwayzeIn the Old West, lawmen, drifters, and hired gunman converge on an isolated ranch, believing its Chinese owners possess stolen gold.East Coast Premiere - USA - In Competition
- DirectorShachar LanglevStarsOmer BarneaGeorge BartenieffEdgar NicholsonA powerful and unexpected character-driven drama, the story of FOLKSWAGON will grab you and hold you. Stifled by the army service he just completed, and desperate to get away from the looming pain of his grandmother's recent death, Gill leaves Israel for a new start in New York City. He finds himself living with Jacob, an elderly holocaust survivor whose odd habits include hoarding compulsively and anonymously attending funerals. Living with Jacob, a survivor like his grandmother, forces Gil to confront his unresolved feelings against the German people. Things only get worse when the one girl he takes interest in turns out to be German.East Coast Premiere - USA - short film
- DirectorDiederik Van RooijenStarsBarry AtsmaSusan VisserRoos DickmannA young Dutch couple vacationing in Argentina unwittingly witness a murder and end up going on the run from the perpetrator, who just happens to be a cop.U.S. Premiere - The Netherlands - Winner Jury Prize: Best Feature
- DirectorRene RhiStarsJ. Francisco RodriguezJesus BernalJuan Jose CortezMiguel Canales learns that his 3-year-old daughter has a brain tumor and needs surgery. Running out of options, he decides that his only choice to pay for her operation is to work in the United States. After paying a considerable fee, a smuggler agrees to guide him through the perilous Texas wilderness where they come across a disoriented 9-year old girl. The girl brings them to the sight of a grizzly car accident where her mother is pinned inside the vehicle. Miguel wants to help the girl and her mother, but is threatened at gunpoint by his companion. He must make a choice: continue his journey or stay with the girl and risk his and his daughter's life.East Coast Premiere - USA/Mexico - Winner Audience Award: Best Short
- DirectorEmmanuelle MilletStarsChrista ThéretJohan LibéreauMaud WylerSarah is a twenty years old hard working woman who learns that she is six month pregnant. But she doesn't want to have a child at this moment: she will try to find a balance between the life she wants and the steps she has to go through.East Coast Premiere - France - In Competition
- DirectorZach WechterStarsJordan JacintoLexi SakowitzAri StidhamOn the day of the election for senior class president at Lyndon Johnson High School, popular candidate and charming socialite Michael Fabrizio discovers that Leah Riteman, Michael's girlfriend and vice presidential running mate...is pregnant. What's more, they're being blackmailed by one of their rivals and Michael's former best friend, Kevin Stone- if Michael doesn't drop out of the race, Kevin will tell the school about the baby. Election Day is a dramatic tale of responsibility of honor told as a political thriller set in a high school student government. The film chronicles Michael's journey to save both his shot at the presidency, and his pregnant girlfriend's reputation.USA - short film - In Competition
- DirectorRobert ThalheimStarsFriederike BechtLuise HeyerFranz DindaWhile training for sculling championship at summer camp in Hungary in 1988 East German teenage twin sisters meet young guys vacationing from Hamburg. In the meeting of east and west the bond between sisters is tested.U.S. Premiere - Germany - In Competition
- DirectorAlexander GaetaStarsPamela BowenRachel GrateZachary HavenMarcy Meyers is down on her luck. Faced with piling bills, the remnants of a failed marriage, and now an imminent home foreclosure, she has nowhere to turn but to the hope of a miracle. That miracle she finds in Shoot the Moon, a national game show that promises a one in a lifetime chance to win it all. But Marcy's faith in the show comes with a price. As her relationship with her daughter Alice is put to the test, the clock ticks towards a seemingly inescapable fate. Shoot the Moon tells the story of miracles and the extraordinary place they are found.New York Premiere - USA - Winner Jury Prize: Best Short Film
- DirectorKaat BeelsStarsGeert Van RampelbergSara de RooNatali BroodsIn a luxurious hotel, the lives of 6 people cross. A story about love, life and the search for happiness.East Coast Premiere - Belgium - In Competition
- DirectorChristopher KenneallyStarsDerek AmbrosiMichael BallhausAndrzej BartkowiakThe documentary investigates the history, process and workflow of both digital and photochemical film creation.USA - Out of Competition
- DirectorJulie DelpyStarsBernadette LafontEmmanuelle RivaEric ElmosninoIn July 1979, during the Summer holidays, in a house somewhere in Brittany, a whole family (parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and other relatives) are gathered to celebrate Granny Amandine's sixty-seventh birthday. Albertine, who was ten years old at the time, vividly recounts this brief but life-changing experience.East Coast Premiere - France - Out of Competition
- DirectorBryce Dallas HowardStarsLiz BeebeKarley Scott CollinsMichele FischerA young boy asks his pregnant mother if he will like his baby brother, and he asks her if she has a brother. This sends the mother, Lisle, on a reverie of her relationship with her older sister, Aurora, when they were kids and their mother was dying. Flashbacks show the contrasting reactions of the two girls, Aurora's anger and Lisle's innocent determination to find her mother. The boy's questions also prompt Lisle to visit Aurora and to tell her a story.USA - Out of Competition
- DirectorJennifer DevoldèreStarsMélanie LaurentMichel BlancFlorence Loiret CailleJustine, a defiant young woman, navigates the madness of love and family in fast-paced contemporary Paris and flits from one boyfriend to the next while her immature father secretly befriends them all.New York Premiere - France - Out of Competition