THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
6:00 PM
Opening Night Gala!
The opening Gala includes the festival's welcoming, a catered evening with local goodness by Fork Full of Earth, and three short films.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
Dinner, live music and show!
5:30 PM Coast Cafe Dinner
7:00 PM Film at the Calvary Starlight Theatre
FRIEDA
2024 ‧ R ‧ Documentary ‧ 1 h27m
Directed by Carla Gutierrez
A raw and magical journey into the life of iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, told through her own words from diaries, letters, essays, and interviews.
"To know Frida with the intimacy this documentary offers is to absolutely fall in stupid, irrational, head-over-heels love with her." The Decider
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20
1:00-3:00 PM
OCEANIA: Journey to the Center
2024 ‧ Documentary
Followed by a Panel Discussion with
filmmaker Natalie Zimmerman in person!
OCEANIA: Journey to the Center is a visual elegy, a story of cultural survival, and a profound cry to the world. It’s an experiential opportunity to ponder upon the need to take action to save a community that struggles to stay afloat.
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4:00-6:00 PM
RATIFIED
2024 ‧ Documentary
With filmmakers Sabaah Folayan and Deborah Riley Draper
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RATIFIED is a feature documentary about the 100-year struggle for constitutional gender equality, an inspiring story of a multi-racial, multi-generational, bi-partisan effort to make Virginia the 38th and final state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Most Americans believe the US Constitution protects gender equality. It does not. The 100 year fight for an Equal Rights Amendment requires tending old wounds to build a truly inclusive movement. This film is about the brave women trying to do just that.
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Art by Chuck Sperry
6:00 PM
THE LEGEND OF OCHI
PG ‧ 2025 ‧ Family/Fantasy ‧ 1h 36m
Written and directed by Isaiah Saxon
In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy girl is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when she discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him home.
8:00 PM
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
2024 ‧ 1h 58m
Directed by Payal Kapadia
In Mumbai, Nurse Prabha's routine is troubled when she receives an unexpected gift from her estranged husband. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a spot in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1:00-5:00 PM
