Bahamas Film Festival - Films

CLICK THREE TIMES by Victoria Rose Simpson
Isabel Sanford starts in this magical tale of a mentally challenged young woman who escapes
her parents' incessant arguing by retreating to the garage where she draws rainbows...  
Followed by PULSE: A STOMP ODYSSEY
Sunday, December 12 / 12.30pm / Atlantis Theatre

COCOMON AND THE FRUITYTOONS by Delano A. Johnson, Bahamas/USA
The first Bahamian animated cartoon, COCOMON AND THE FRUITYTOONS is the story
of a musical singing group starring Cocomon the Bahamian Coconut and six fruit characters... 
Preceded by FLY AWAY, Followed by LOLITA
Friday, December 10 / 10.00am / Atlantis Theatre

 

THE CORPORATION by Mark Achbar, Canada Taking recent corporate accounting scandals as a point of departure, the filmmakers trace the origins of the corporation as a publicly regulated institution to its present-day social predominance, dwarfing and influencing governments worldwide. Along the way, corporations' ideals and benefits are weighed side-by-side with their abuses and harms by speakers ranging from CEO's and marketing professionals to economists, activists, and social critics. Saturday, December 11 / 10.00am / JFK Galleria 6–Theater A

CRAZY MAMA by Jonathan Demme, USA Jonathan Demme directs this joyous, unrelentlessly kitchy celebration of 1950's America: opportunity, rock'n'roll, and the road. He follows three generations of women and the men they pick up... Sunday, December 12 / 9.30pm / JFK Galleria 6-Theatre A

CUBA LIBRE by Juan Gerard, Cuba A coming of age love story set in the small town of Holguin, Cuba in 1958, with the Castro Revolution as backdrop.  Shot in the Dominican Republic with talent from Cuba, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Miami.   Preceded by LIONS ARE GREEN -Saturday, December 11/3.30pm/JFK Galleria 6 – Theater A

DEAD CANARIES by Robert Santoll, USA A small-time mobster enters the witness protection program and is quickly in danger of being assassinated when he realizes that several others in the program have already been killed.  One man attempts to uncover the mob and government conspiracy behind it all. -Friday, December 10/5.15pm/JFK Galleria 6 – Theater C

DOG GONE LOVE by Rob Lundsgaard, USA A romantic comedy about a man, a woman, and their dogs. Steven Merritt, a research obsessed writer is mistaken for being gay by Rebecca, a young veterinarian assistant... Preceded by TEF  *Director Rob Lundsgaard to attend.   Friday, December 10/3.00pm/ Atlantis Theatre

DOMESTIC by Charles W.V.Kemp III, BAHAMAS
A group of friends get together every Friday to have lunch, however this Friday one of the guys sees his boy girlfriends going into a store with another man.  He rushes to tell his friends what he saw. But what he actually saw was nothing more than a girl planning a surprise party for her boy friend. The boy friend accepted what his friends said as truth by acting out his anger and shooting the girl at his surprise party. 
Followed by SHE HATE ME – Saturday, December 11/6.00pm/Atlantis Theatre

DORIAN BLUES by  Tennyson Bardwell, USA A funny, quirky comedy that adds freshness to a coming of age story. Angst is the main course for Dorian, a cute, somewhat awkward teenager going through his senior year of high school hell, while beginning to explore his sexuality. Preceded by Getting In  *Director Tennyson Bradwell to attend  -Friday, December 10 / 6.45pm/ JFK Galleria 6–Theater A

EAT RICEby Angela How
In this tale about a Chinese immigrant family, the distinct worlds of men and women are exposed
and examined through subtle comparisons...
Followed by THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL

ELEPHANT PALM TREE
Director/ Screenwriter: Kara Miller
One day, Martha, a menopausal Miss Bahamas has a dream where she and her estranged husband, Hubert, are sitting like royalty under a palm tree. They are sitting under this palm tree with locals fanning them, when all of a sudden, a great big elephant just walks right up to them and plops on their heads. When Martha wakes up from this dream she decides something has to change. Unbeknownst to her husband, she decides to give him one last chance: either she stays, and he makes her happy, or she gets a divorce, a plane to The Bahamas and half of his sizable fortune… Followed by “ Love Me If You Dare"

FLY AWAY by Danny L. Oakley, John M. Cernak
A little wooden plane, despite the price it must pay, does the impossible and joins
a world it could only dream of.
Followed by COCOMON and LOLITA

THE GOSPEL OF THE CREOLE PIG>by Michelange Quay
I am the Créole Pig
I am that I am
I am the hog of your ancestors
Followed by SEOUL TRAIN

GREEN BUTCHERS by Anders Thomas Jensen, Denmark Fed up with working for the local butcher, Svend and Bjarne decide to start their own butcher shop. After dismal beginnings, an unfortunate accident happens which coincides with a large order of meat. One hasty decision leads to another and soon the business thrives.  *Actor Mads Mikkelsen to attend  -Friday, December 10/9.00pm/Atlantis Theatre

HATLEY HIGH by Phil Price, Canada Tommy Linklater is an eighteen-year old magician. The magic he performs is often minor - re-directing croquet balls, making cards appear in closed purses - it is always genuine... Saturday, December 11 / 4.00pm / JFK Galleria 6 – Theater B

HEAD IN THE CLOUDS by John Duigan, Canada, United Kingdom A sweeping romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain... *Director John Duigan and Producers Andre Rouleau, Maxime Remillard to attend Sunday, December 12 / 7.00pm / Atlantis Theatre

JONATHAN GREEN AT WORK
Director/ Producer: Charles Allan Smith
Jonathan Green at Work is remarkable documentary film of a day in the life
and work of the celebrated and charismatic American painter, Jonathan Green...
 Followed by CHATTEL HOUSE

KAMCHATKA by Marcelo Pinyero, ARGENTINA, SPAIN In 1976, a coup d'état installed a military regime in Argentina that lasted until 1983. Kamchatka, offers a new perspective from which to view the effects of this political crisis: through the eyes of a ten-year-old. -Saturday, December 11/10.30am/JFK Galleria 6 – Theater B

THE KIDNAPPING OF INGRID BETNACOURT by Victoria Bruce, USA/Colombia The true story of a Colombian presidential candidate held hostage by leftist guerrillas, and her family's desperate quest to free her and keep her campaign alive.  -Friday, December 10/10.00am/JFK Galleria 6 – Theater C

LIONS ARE GREENby David Bond
Rick, a seven-year-old boy, discovers that he is colour blind at school
when he accidentally paints a lion bright green, rather than yellow...
Followed by CUBA LIBRE

THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS by Roger Corman, USA Seymour is a young man who works in a flower store. He manages to create a carnivorous plant that feeds on human flesh. Nobody knows about it, so Seymour and the plant become good "friends". The plant needs food to grow up, so it convinces him to start killing people. A very young Jack Nicholson also appears in a small role. Saturday, December 11 / 8.45pm / Atlantis Royal Deck

LIVING ‘TIL THE END by Amanda Goodwin, USA Told by a psychic of his imminent death on his next birthday, Jack lives out the year as a hopeless agoraphobic, until he meets a young woman... Preceded by TACKLE BOX  *Director Amanda Goodwin to attend Saturday, December 11 / 4.30pm / JFK Galleria 6–Theater C Sunday, December 12 / 3.45pm / JFK Galleria 6 – Theater A

LOLITA: SLAVE TO ENTERTAINMENT by Timothy Gorski, USA This provocative and revealing grass-roots documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife.  Filled with rare footage and painful sound bites, the film is the tragic life story... Preceded by FLY AWAY and COCOMON *Director Tim Gorski to attend Friday, December 10 / 10.00am / Atlantis Theatre

LOVE ME IF YOU DARE (Jeux d'enfants) by Yann Samuell, France As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts... Preceded by ELEPHANT PALM TREE Sunday, December 12 / 4.15pm / JFK Galleria 6 – Theater B

MARY POPPINS by Robert Stevenson, USA Two banker's children lose their nanny due to her frustration with them. A change in the wind blows in an assertive nanny who matches the qualifications of the children and not the father. As she helps them magically explore the world around them the father grows increasingly disapproving of her methods, and must eventually deal with his own distance from his children. Saturday, December 11 / 6.00pm / Atlantis Royal Deck

MEAT
by Slava Ross
The action takes place in the period right after the World War II.
A lonely mother is trying to raise her little son. But love is too much of a luxury for her... 
Followed by 20 FINGERS

MY PURPLE FUR COAT by Kathryn Ann Busby
Eleven-year-old Elizabeth Bartlett greets every day with a different outfit
and a master plan to get past the discerning eye of her mother....
Followed by BROTHER TO BROTHER

NEWS FOR THE CHURCH
Director: Andrew McCarthy, Producer: John Scaccia
Set in a small Irish village, in the middle of the last century, News For The Church, based on renowned Irish writer Frank O'Connor's short story, follows the lives of two young people as they struggle for dignity only to meet with shocking results.
Followed by “Dead Canaries"

PALOMOS by Mercedes Jimenez- Ramirez
In Latin America, over 40 million children live on the streets, and 20 million,
consume over 20 million gallons of solvents monthly in order to survive... 
Followed by THE FRIENDSHIP VILLAGE

PILLOW GIRL by Ronnie Cramer
Originally a sound-art work created for the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver,
by musician/artist Ronnie Cramer, who scanned the covers and inside pages of...
Followed by THE BREAKUP ARTIST

RUMBLE by Dahlia Wilde
RUMBLE is the story of a beaten down woman who becomes a champion named Muhammad Dali.
The short film was produced by Dahlia Wilde and Fox Searchlab
Followed by SANTA SMOKES

STEALING INNOCENCE
Director/ Screenwriter: Nancy Stein
Stealing Innocence is a gripping portrayal of the ongoing hostilities in the Middle East seen through the eyes of two girls - Rachel and Ayat. Rachel and Ayat are best friends even though one is Israeli and one is Palestinian. Unfortunately events spin out of their control, testing their friendship to destruction. This is a tragedy that leaves its victims without dignity and hope and gives a human dimension to the violence in the Middle East.
Followed by CAMPFIRE

TACKLE BOXby Matthew Mebane
An elderly couple have fished the Low country waters for decades.
When they are separated by death, the story turns on the strange...
Followed by LIVING TIL THE END

TEF
Director: Cristian YoungMiller
An art heist short with the backdrop of the most beautiful art work in the Bahamas. An art thief breaks
into the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas and has to stay one step ahead of a suspicious security guard.

WITHIN THE WALL by Paula Neiman
A gap in the far wall of the neighborhood front store hosts
anonymous drug transactions. Through his poetry, Eddie, 12, depicts the lives of those...
Followed by THE UNTOLD STORY OF EMMETT TILL