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- 'What do you do when the spark touches down-brief and hot?' So begins award-winning director Rob Nilsson's (Permission to Touch, MVFF 2015; A Bridge to a Border, MVFF 2014) provocative meditation on the Möbius relationship of fiction to reality, and the notion of creative control. In Love Twice, Luz and Ken are star-crossed lovers in screenwriter Sal's script, until their desire takes shape, inscribing itself into a movie of their own design. Risking his sanity to save the screenplay, Sal struggles to regain control of his characters and satisfy the demands of his producer Lester (legendary Velvet Underground founder John Cale), driving a wedge between the lovers with a desperate attempt to seduce Luz. Veteran actor Carl Lumbly appears as Rodrigo, another controlling interest in Sal's film, who imposes his own designs on the production. In Love Twice, the pulls of competing desire may be difficult to bear, but impossible to give up.
- The historic Cliff House stands perched on a headland atop the cliffs on the northwestern edge of San Francisco, California. Originally built in 1863, it is now a key part of the Sutro Historic District. That district included the lavish gardens and structures of Sutro Heights, the home of Adolph Sutro, entrepreneur, real estate developer and populist mayor of San Francisco, now a park. The ruins just north of the Cliff house housed the world-class swimming pool and museum complex called Sutro Baths. A major amusement park, San Francisco's Playland at the Beach once spilled over more than five city blocks south, across from Ocean Beach. The Cliff House has been rebuilt or remodeled many times through its century and a half of operation.
- Kids Comedy. A recently immigrated 2nd grader struggles with his new life that only becomes more challenging when his dance teacher casts him in the class play.
- A full length documentary film about San Francisco's privately owned swimming, ice skating and museum complex built in the late 19th century.
- The recounting of a nightmare creates results that are both humorous and disturbing.
- We explore the link between Afro-Peruvian traditional performance arts and Latin jazz and, through interviews and performance (in Peru and on stage), get background information on the community and its parallels to African Americans.
- A young woman leaves behind her husband and their comfortable life in San Francisco for the raw world of Tomales Bay. Once there, she becomes entwined with two drifters, forcing everybody to face hard truths long hidden.
- In 1827, Anton Sukorov and his young daughter were expelled from Fort Ross for their pagan beliefs. All thought they had been committed to oblivion within the sky-devouring California redwood groves...but families survive. Present day, Jasmine is a commercial real estate agent scouting unincorporated land for a resort project. Amid the silent decay of the forest she finds Sukorov's descendants consumed by raging fear and murderous hysteria. Once inside their universe she may never be able to return home.
- Why the Fools Dance is a documentary exploring a group of performers who use a 17th century Japanese dance to express themselves and invoke their culture.
- A lazy worker at a creepy motel is woken by a strange phone call.
- In November 2006, two friends - Lucas Atkins and Shane Patterson - competed in NanoWrimo.com's annual novel writing contest, where the goal is to write 50,000 words in one month. This short documentary follows the trials, tribulations and outside influences as both friends struggle to keep up the work over the course of the longest month ever. As the novels become increasingly awful content-wise, Lucas and Shane find it difficult to find both time and energy to complete their novels. Who finishes and who doesn't? What does this mean for their motivation in life?
- Set amidst the light instrumental music of a supermarket, "muZak." chronicles a son's attempt to live his life and become a Techno DJ.
- Once Beautiful Past tells the story of Henry Hall, a reclusive librarian in 1980 Berkeley California who discovers that he has the onset of Alzheimer's disease on the eve of his second marriage. Set at a time of national distress over the Iran hostage crisis and the impending election of a new president, the story parallels feelings of separation and captivity as personalized through the relationship of a father and daughter who are in their own right hostages of their past. Henry's quiet life is turned upside down when details of his wife's death fourteen years prior compound growing tension between his fiancé and estranged daughter. Preparations for Thanksgiving preceding a hasty marriage in Reno prove disastrous as Henry's condition worsens and his daughters abusive relationship with an older man reaches the point of no return. Risking everything for one more chance to be a good father, Henry reveals a secret about the car accident to his daughter that he hopes will mend their broken relationship. But Henry's unsympathetic and selfish girlfriend stands in the way of a happy reunion and he is forced to choose between the daughter he left behind and a new marriage without her. Henry embarks on a journey of self discovery to settle ill feelings before time runs out.
- A husband is driving his wife home after their anniversary celebration when he apparently runs down a man on a darkened street. The couple returns to the scene but can find no evidence of the man they thought they hit. Reluctant to go to the police because the husband had been drinking that night, they hire Mannix to make sure that no one was injured. Mannix approaches the only witness to the incident posing as the driver of the vehicle, but the witness suddenly claims that he saw nothing. Then the mystery deepens as Mannix is visited by two men who accuse him of having been hired to kill the hit-and-run victim.
- After coming out as gay, a 15-year-old boy must fight for his life when his parents react with otherworldly acceptance.