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Freeload
MICHIGAN premiere! Director in attendance. Freeload is a portrait of the modern train-riding culture. The film follows Blackbird, a lost teenager searching for the answers to life. Young lovers Ponyboy and Rachel attempt to settle down in Texas, but the freedom of the road lures them back. Brothers Skrappe and Christmas – separated most of their lives – try to rekindle their distant brotherhood. Dice, the soft-spoken mystic will risk everything to ride the rails.
Une lettre ne s’écrit pas
MICHIGAN premiere! Julien and Nina sign a pact with the universe: they must enjoy life, whatever the cost. Will that decision lead them to happiness, or to their disappearance?
Whitewash
MICHIGAN premiere! In the harsh, wintry woods of rural Quebec, Bruce, a down-on-his-luck snowplow operator accidentally kills a man during a drunken night joyride. Stricken with panic, he hides the body and takes to the deep wilderness in hopes of outrunning both the authorities and his own conscience.
Coherence
MICHIGAN premiere! On the night of an astrological anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, COHERENCE is a tightly focused, intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with tension and mystery.
Stealing Home
Director in attendance. To the City of Detroit, it’s a nine-acre abandoned lot. But to generations of baseball fans, it still feels like home. After Tiger stadium was demolished in 2009, blight sprung up. A group of citizens took action – chopping down weeds, mowing the grass and lovingly maintaining the ball field.
One Good Year
WORLD premiere! Director in attendance. ONE GOOD YEAR chronicles a season in the life of Humboldt County’s back-to-the-land, marijuana farming community.
Project: Ice
Filmmaker in attendance. Formed by ice, filled by ice, often covered by ice, the Great Lakes encapsulate human exploration, migration, development and where we’re headed. PROJECT: ICE views North America’s fresh water inland ocean through the prism of ice, from the crossroads of history, science and climate change.
My Neighbor Totoro
FREE & family friendly! Miyazaki’s superbly animated tale is considered one of the best-loved family films of all time. The story follows Satsuki and Mei, two young girls who find their new home is by a mystical forest inhabited by a menagerie of fantastical creatures.