Director: Barbara Ettinger
Host: Barbara Ettinger
Synopsis: A Sea Change is the first documentary about ocean acidification. Chock full of scientific information, the feature-length film is also a beautiful paean to the ocean world and an intimate story of a Norwegian-American family whose heritage is bound up with the sea.

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Screening: Sunday, September 26 • Avalon Theatre • 9:30am • Q&A to follow

Director: Andrzaj Wajda
Host: Tom McCall, CFF Program Director
Synopsis: On the last day of World War II in a small town somewhere in Poland, Polish exiles of war and the occupying Soviet forces confront the beginning of a new day and a new Poland.

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Historical Society • 5:00pm

Director: Tamra Davis
Host: Tamra Davis
Synopsis: Centered on a rare interview that director and friend Tamra Davis shot with Jean-Michel Basquiat over twenty years ago, this definitive documentary chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of the young black artist.

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Screening: OPENING NIGHT FILM
Friday, September 24 • Avalon • 6:30
Sunday, September 26 • Cambridge Gallery 447 • 4:00pm

Director: Sultan Sharrief
Host: Micah Bartelme - co-producer
Synopsis: The film focuses on the life of a Detroit high-school senior, Bílal, and his family’s long-owned taxi stand.

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Academy Art Museum • 10:00am • Q&A to follow
Sunday, September 26 • Cambridge Gallery 447 • 10:30am • Q&A to follow

Director: Victor Fleming
Host: Michael Sragow, movie critic, Baltimore Sun
Synopsis: Harvey Cheyne is a spoiled brat used to having his own way. When a prank goes wrong onboard an ocean liner, Harvey ends up overboard and nearly drowns. Fortunately he's picked up by a fishing boat just heading out for the season.

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Screening: Sunday, September 26 • Avalon Theatre • noon • Q&A to follow

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Host: Linda DeLibero, JHU Film and Media Studies
Synopsis: A hyper-stylized mixture of physical violence and verbal comedy, Dogtooth is a darkly funny look at three teenagers confined to their parents’ isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen.

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Academy Arts Museum • 5:30pm

Director: Chico Colvard
Host: Chico Colvard
Synopsis: At 10 years old, Chico Colvard shot his older sister in the leg. This seemingly random act detonated a chain reaction that exposed unspeakable realities and shattered his family.

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Academy Art Museum • 8:00pm • Q&A to follow

Director: Stanley Nelson
Host: Laurens Grant, producer
Synopsis: Award winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s latest documentary, “Freedom Riders,” is a powerful, harrowing, and ultimately inspirational story of eight months in 1961 that changed America forever.

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Avalon Theatre • 11:30am • Q&A to follow
Saturday, September 25 • Cambridge Gallery 447 • 3:30pm • Q&A to follow

Director: Lawrence Michael Levine
Host: Kati Kirtz, co-writer
Synopsis: A portrait of young New York and the misguided hopefuls who can't afford to live there but do anyway, Gabi on the Roof in July is an ensemble comedy about ex-girlfriends, sibling rivalry, and whipped cream in a city that's constantly in flux.

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Historical Society • 11:30am

Director: Josh Fox
Host: Linda DeLibero, JHU Film and Media Studies
Synopsis: The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of "fracking" or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a "Saudia Arabia of natural gas" just beneath us. But is fracking safe?

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Historical Society • 7:30pm • Q&A to follow

Director: John Cassavetes
Host: Doug Sadler, CFF Artistic Director
Synopsis: This classic 1970 release explores marital manners, morals, and sexual identity by focusing on a trio of middle-class husbands—played by John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, and Peter Falk—who confront their own mortality when a friend dies.

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Academy Art Museum • 12:15pm • Q&A to follow

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Historical Society • 9:30pm

Director: Francine Cavanaugh and Adams Wood
Host: Francine Cavanaugh and Adams Wood
Synopsis: Coal River Valley, West Virginia, is a community surrounded by lush mountains and a looming toxic threat. The film follows four longtime residents as they confront a notorious coal company, their local school board, and state government.

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Screening: Sunday, 9/26 • Avalon Theatre • 3:30pm
followed by Q&A and reception featuring Jay Smar at Bartlett Pear Inn

Director: Matt Porterfield
Host: Matt Porterfield
Synopsis: A young man dies of a heroin overdose in an abandoned house in Baltimore. On the eve of his funeral, family and friends gather to commemorate his life. Their shared memories paint a portrait of a community hanging in the balance, skewed by poverty, city living, and a generational divide, united in their pursuit of a new American Dream.
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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Avalon Theatre • 3:30pm • Q&A to follow

Director: Shashanka Ghosh
Synopsis: A western spoof with attitude, featuring outlandish songs, outrageous melodrama and crazy action sequences, including a classic duel in a traffic jam. The film tells the story of Quick Gun Murugan - a South Indian karmic cowboy whose duty is to protect vegetarianism and cows.

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Screening:
‘Night In India’ Benefit • Wed., August 25th • Avalon Theatre • 6:30pm • Movie at 7:30
Saturday, September 25 • Cambridge Gallery 447 • 7:30pm

Director: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington
Synopsis: Chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley. The film focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, “Restrepo,” named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military.

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Easton Premier Cinemas • 4:00pm • Q&A to follow

Director: Floria Sigismondi
Synopsis: A music-fueled story of the ground-breaking, all girl, teenage rock band of the 1970s: The Runaways. The film follows two friends, Joan Jett and Cherie Curie, as they rise from rebellious Southern California kids to rock stars of the now legendary group that paved the way for future generations of girl bands.

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Easton Premier Cinemas • 7:00pm

Director: Tomm Moore
Synopsis: Adventure, action and danger await 12-year old Brendan who must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells.

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Cambridge Gallery 447 • 10:30am
Sunday, September 26 • Academy Art Museum • 10:00am

Director: Nick Whitfield
Host: Nick Whitfield
Synopsis: An offbeat comedy about a pair of salesmen who wander in and out of people’s lives, performing a “procedure” whereby hidden secrets and lies are exposed. When they arrive at a remote family home, and can’t seem to get the usual job done, they discover that you can’t always get away from your skeletons.

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Avalon Theatre • 6:00pm • Q&A to follow

Director: Henrik Ruben Genz
Synopsis: Robert Hanson is a Copenhagen police officer who, following a nervous breakdown, is transferred to a small provincial town to take on the mysteriously vacated Marshall position and subsequently gets mixed up with a married femme fatale.

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Screening: Sunday, September 26 • Easton Premier Cinema • 3:00pm

Director: Emmanuel Laurent
Host: Jean-Louis Marchand, PhD, Professor, Chesapeake College
Synopsis: The French New Wave crashed onto international shores when François Truffaut’s debut feature, The 400 Blows, premiered at Cannes in 1959, followed quickly by Jean-Luc Godard’s equally thrilling Breathless, based on a Truffaut story.

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • Historical Society • 9:00am • Q & A to follow

Director: Jeff Phillips
Host: Jeff Phillips and Lily Holleman, lead actress
Synopsis: A realistic drama about the lives of teens, their families, and the draw and discord of social networking sites. When depressed and withdrawn Catharine meets a secretive boy online, she begins to come out of her shell. But is he a suitor or a stalker, a friend or foe?

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Screening: Saturday, September 25 • St. Michaels Library • 1:00pm • Q & A to follow
Sunday, September 26 • Cambridge Gallery 447 • 1:00pm • Q&A to follow

Director: Debra Granik
Host: Linda DeLibero, JHU Film and Media Studies
Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.

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Screening: Sunday, September 26 • Easton Premier Cinema • noon • Q & A to follow