2024 FESTIVALApr 10-20, 2024Lansing, MI

Documentary Shorts Block (Encore Presentation)

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  • Keeping Balance
  • Kim Madrid
  • We Would End the Paintings
  • The Champion
  • A Passion of Gold and Fire
  • Skips Stones for Fudge

Keeping Balance

*Denise, a 20-year-old girl, visits nearly every day the Viennese ‘Prater’ amusement park to take some rides with the electronic ‘Tagada’ carousel because it helps her to get over her difficult past.

  • DIRECTOR
    Bernhard Wenger
  • YEAR
    2015
  • RUNTIME
    5 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Austria

Kim Madrid

A slice of life of US Majors Formula Vee racer Kim Madrid as she competes at Buttonwillow Raceway
  • DIRECTOR
    Brian Petillo
  • YEAR
    2015
  • RUNTIME
    8 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    USA

We Would End the Paintings

The use of music and art belong together. Taking time for both has been pushed to the background in the fast paced times of the world wide web. Alexander Hanke creates screen prints and gigposters under the pseudonym „Zum Heimathafen“ sin

  • DIRECTOR
    Matthias Fritsche
  • YEAR
    2105
  • RUNTIME
    5 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • COUNTRY
    Germany

The Champion

From 1968 to 1976, Estaifan Shilaita was the boxing champion of Iraq. Despite his success, Estaifan was barred from representing the Iraqi national team. After this defeat, and with the encouragement of his family, he risked everything to leave his home country. He traveled to Greece where he faced constant struggle. Everything seemed hopeless until he met his wife Hannah who brought a joy into his life that has lasted almost 40 years.

  • DIRECTOR
    Brett Garamella, Patrick McGowan
  • YEAR
    2015
  • RUNTIME
    19 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    USA

A Passion of Gold and Fire

A beekeeper shares his worries about the future of his apiary school. A passion of gold and fire which definitely helps our environment to keep on living.
  • DIRECTOR
    Sébastien Pins
  • YEAR
    2104
  • RUNTIME
    6 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    French
  • COUNTRY
    Belgium

Skips Stones for Fudge

For over a decade, Russ “Rock Bottom” Byars and Kurt “Mountain Man” Steiner have endured a rivalry that lifted competitive stone skipping to unthinkable heights. Tested by physical ailments, emotional hardships and the rise of young talent, these obscure legends fight to cement their place in the record books.

  • DIRECTOR
    Ryan Seitz
  • YEAR
    2015
  • RUNTIME
    52 Minutes
  • LANGUAGE
    English
  • COUNTRY
    USA
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