Schedule Day 3: Sunday, 27 May 2018

The Sunday Day pass includes the following events and film screenings of the IFFNY festival, taking place at Producers Club Theaters, located on 358 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036.  The following films will screen on this day: Operation Wedding, Ceremonial Tattoo, Parivara, Terraza 7, House no. 57, 10424, Tide, Forgive Me, The Beginning, Cookie Heart, Easter, Desir Pastel, and One Bedrom. To reserve your ticket visit EventBrite to purchase the Sunday Night Pass.

Sunday, 27 May 2018

Time Event Description Location
2:00 pm Operation Wedding Dir. Anat Zalmanson Kuznetsov, Israel Producers Club Theaters
 4:30 pm  Ceremonial Tattoo

Parivara

Terraza 7

House no. 57

10424

Dir. Giuseppe Lo Fiego, Italy

Dir. Alex Lora & Alex Kruz, US

Dir. Carlos Freire, US

Dir. Festim Rexepi, Kosovo

Dir. Tatsuki Imaji, Japan

Producers Club Theaters
6:00 pm Tide

Forgive Me

The Beginning

Cookie Heart

Easter

Desir Pastel

Dir. Margareta F. A. Orkan, Norway

Dir. Besim Ugzmajli, Kosovo

Dir. Agim Abdula, Macedonia

Dir. Charles Xiuzhi Dong, US

Dir. Chih CHieh Wu, Czech Rep.

Dir. Mathieu Rivolier, France

Producers Club Theaters
 8:00 pm One Bedroom Dir. Danien Sills-Evans, US/ Q&A Producers Club Theaters
 After Party Producers Club Theaters


2:00 pm:

Operation Wedding/ Anat Zalmanson Kuznetsov/ ISRAEL/Doc. 01:03:00.

Synopsis: Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents who were denied exit visas, plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. 45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents, leaders of the group, “heroes” in the West but “terrorists” in Russia.

It started as a fantasy, Operation Wedding, as outrageous as it was simple: Under the disguise of a trip to a local family wedding, the hijackers would buy every ticket on a small 12-seater plane, so there would be no passengers but them, no innocents in harm’s way. The group’s pilot, who once flew for the Red Army, would take over the controls and fly the 16 runaways into the sky, over the Soviet border, on to Sweden, bound for Israel.

Director: Anat Zalmanson Kuznetsov, Producer: Sasha Klein & Guntis Trekteris & Anat Zalmanson Kuznetsov


4:30 pm:

Ceremonial Tattoo/Giuseppe Lo Fiego/ITALY/Doc. 5:00.

Synopsis: Is the story of Sanya, an artist tattoo that lives in the jungle of Palenque, Chapas in Mexico. She is a pioneer of the revival of ancient tattoo in Mexico. The video shows her admiration and love for Mexican cultural heritage, the handmade tools she makes for her tattoos, the differences between electric and hand tattooing, the geometry she uses in her tattoos, as well as the “therapeutic” tattoos she has done from times to times.

Director: Giuseppe Lo Fiego

Cast: Sanya Youalli


Parivara /Alex Lora & Alex Kruz /US /Doc. 11:01.

Synopsis: Based on the true life stories of the children at the Goldungha Orphanage for the Blind in Nepal, Parivara is a positive and hopeful story following young Kopila through a fateful day in her life after the 2015 earthquake. It is a universal story demonstrating the beauty and resilience of the human spirit.

Director Writer: Alex Lora & Alex Kruz, Producer: Alex Kruz

Cast: Shiva Sapkota

 


Terraza 7 / Carlos Freire US /Doc.12:22.

Synopsis: Terraza 7 is a bar located in Jackson Heights, New York. It opened its doors in 2002, always with the promise of bringing us a show case of different cultures. Here the customers can find not only drinks and music, but Terraza 7 also opens its customers’ eyes to a wide arrange of artistic expressions like music, poetry, paintings, and film. Also, Terraza 7 is a political platform for the Latino community in New York City. After 14 years, Terraza 7 is about to shut its doors. Jackson Heights is a growing and developing community and it makes it harder for Terraza 7 to survive and to continue with its legacy. The community members are in denial to the resolution of closing Terraza 7’s doors.

Director Writer: Carlos Freire, Producer: Carlos Freire & Mariella Perez

Cast: Carlos Freire


House no. 57/ Festim Rexepi/ KOSOVO /Doc.15:00.

Synopsis: Ferdonije Qerkezi shows how the members of the family kidnapped them on March 27, 1999. She tells the things she keeps from her beloved 4 boys and her husband as a reminder for them. Today, she has decided that her home, be a museum house.

In the House No. 57, 11 men are been kidnapped, the bones of two boys are found in mass graves, but not the bones of two boys and mates whose fate is unknown for 18 years after the kidnapping of masked people.

Director: Festim Rex, Writer: Florentina Shala

Cast: Ferdonije Qerkezi


10424 / Tatsuki Imaji /JAPAN/Short. 09:40.

Synopsis: Currently in Japan, more than ten thousand dogs are being culled each year. When compared to other developed nations in Europe, this number is considerably high. This is a grim reflection of Japan’s current lack of shelters. Even within so called ‘animal welfare facilities,’ dogs are actually being put down. The naming of these places deceives the public from the reality that takes place there.

Director Producer: Tatsuki Imaji.


6:00 pm:

Tide / Margareta F. A. Orkan /NORWAY /Short. 9:46.

Synopsis: At the line between tall mountains and the always moving sea a father works on his unusual boat. All the work he puts into it he does for his family. The anticipation of completing it is just as high as it is a burden. He must succeed.

Director Writer: Margarta F. A. Orkan, Producer: Rasmus Bergli

Cast: Espen Østman


Forgive Me /Besim Ugzmajli /KOSOVO/Short. 15:00.

Synopsis: Bujar, a youngster, is manipulated by a kosovar Imam in joining terrorist groups fighting in Syria. He secretly joins the war and then asks his older brother Agron to send Bujar’s wife Mimoza to Syria too. Agron horrified by his brother’s actions confronts Bujar and asks him to return to Kosovo. Agron tries to prevent Mimoza from going to Syria hoping to convince his brother to return.

Bujar threatens Mimoza by marrying a war widow should she not join him in Syria.

Director & Writer: Besim Ugzmajli, Producer: Besim Ugzmajli & Agron Shala

Cast: Agron Shala, Semira Latifi, Kushtrim Asllani, Ekrem Sopi.


-The Beginning /Agim Abdula / MACEDONIA /Short.13:00.

Synopsis: The world is full of lies and deception. People doubt in everything; everything seems suspicious to them. They even doubt in their own existence. They are not sure whether what they see is real or imaginary, while the reality is completely different. Insecurity prevails.

Is death the end or the beginning? That’s the question.

Director Writer: Agim Abdula, Producer: Bunjamin Kurtishi

Cast: Naser Rafuna, Mirsad Abazi, Amernis Nokshiqi, Fatmire Sherifi


-Cookie Heart/ Charles Xiuzhi Dong /US /Short. 16:05. 

Synopsis: Innocent Lisa flies from Germany to New York to birthday surprise Fabian – her childhood crush. Once loyal and caring friend, he turns out to have lost his moral compass as a result of the omnipresent American college culture. Lisa discovers that Fabian seems to have developed two personalities: he’s still kind during one to one interactions with Lisa, but seems to have lost all decency when surrounded by his new friends, who do not even know when his birthday is. After coming out from the club, Fabian asks Lisa to wait outside as he wants to have sex with a barely conscious and extremely drunk girl.

Director: Charles Xiuzhi Dong, Writer: Charles Xiuzhi Dong & Stefan Nachmann, Producer: Jenny He, James Qiu, Gabriela Naumnik

Cast: Norah Hoffmann, Anders Geipel, Smitty Chai, Arianna Williams


-Easter / Chih CHieh Wu/CZECH REP./Short. 10:00.

Synopsis: In order to offer a better future to her daughter, a Vietnamese mother migrated to Czech Republic. She even hired a Czech nanny to help her daughter integrate with Czech society. However, she starts to feel alienated from her daughter. How can she deal with it?

Director Writer: Chih Chieh Wu.

 

 


Desir Pastel /Mathieu Rivolier /FRANCE /Short. 13:38.

Synopsis: This story is about an angel coming down to Earth. A mute and attractive young woman, who is going to furiously turn upside down the daily life of a middle-class family…

DirectorWriter & Producer: Mathieu Rivolier.

 

 

 

 


8:00 pm:

One Bedroom/Danien Sills-Evans/US/ Feature. 01:23:00.

Synopsis: Breaking up is easy. Moving out is hard. After five years of ups and downs, an African American 30-something couple in a gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood spends their final afternoon together arguing and remember better days, as one of them moves out and hopefully on with her life.

Director Writer: Darien Sills-Evans, Producer: Darien Sills-Evans &Devin Williams.

Cast: Devin Nelson, Darien Sills-Evans, Amber Reauchean Williams, Stephen Hill, Jon Laster

Followed by Q&A

(After party PC Club)

 

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