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\u00a0<\/span>OPENING NIGHT – 2nd Feature<\/b><\/p>\n Thurs. March 16, 2023 –\u00a0 <\/span>9:30 PM – Waler Rade Theater, Lincoln Center\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Boudy Sfeir | Lebanon | 2022 | 86 mins<\/p>\n After the August 4th Beirut Port explosion a judicial reform brings about the first trial by jury in Lebanon where 12 citizens are about to decide the fate of an illegal Syrian refugee accused of brutally killing a social activist known for helping the damaged community after the blast, but will they be able to put aside their pre-existing issues to offer an impartial verdict? TRAILER<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Fri. March 17, 2023 – 7:15 PM – Cinema Village<\/b><\/p>\n Robin Uriel Russin | United States | 2021 | 104 mins<\/p>\n When Joey, a young man disabled with Cerebral Palsy, is about to marry his able-bodied fiancee Leah–against the objections of her mother–their lives take a drastic turn when Leah is in a serious car accident. TRAILER<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Q&A with the director.<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sat. March 18, 2023 – 7:30 PM\u00a0 <\/span>– Cinema Village<\/b><\/p>\n Charlotte Madsen | Denmark | 2022 | 81 mins<\/p>\n Lasse is a disillusioned truck driver from Jutland. He lives his life like he drives his truck straight ahead with his hand on the steering wheel and the other hand around the secret bottle. Until the instant, a young woman jumps in front of his truck. Lasse pulls the brakes at the last minute and to his surprise, he realizes that the woman is his daughter, Ren\u00e9, who he hasn\u2019t seen in 15 years. A journey begins that afternoon that will turn their lives upside down as they get the chance to restore a family while trying to abandon the hope of starting a new one. TRAILER<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Q&A with the director & lead actor.<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sat. March 18, 2023 – 9:30 PM – Cinema Village\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Jason Winn | United States | 2022 | 99 mins<\/p>\n A z-list actress connects with a fan who has opposing political views, will they come together or prove we’re too far apart? When Andi and Mason\u2019s inevitable confrontation goes viral, it leads to consequences for them that ripple far beyond her quiet southern street. Andi, a minor actress who has moved to Atlanta with her inattentive fiance, Zach, starts vlogging while stuck inside during the pandemic. In doing so, she connects more deeply with her fan, Mason, and is tempted by his attention. TRAILER<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Q&A with the director.<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sun., March 19, 2023,\u00a0 <\/span>7:15 PM – Cinema Village<\/b><\/p>\n Roman Musheghyan | Armenia | 2022 | 105 mins<\/p>\n Aram Amatuni is a retired special forces spy who has devoted his entire life to serving and protecting his country. His son, Gnel, is a successful businessman who hasn\u2019t forgiven his father for putting the needs of his country before those of his own family. This conflict between father and son reaches its climax when Amatuni\u2019s grandson, a talented violinist who has the opportunity to study in one of the best European music academies, inspired by his grandfather\u2019s ideology goes against his father\u2019s wishes and enlists in the mandatory military service.TRAILER<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Q&A with the director and lead actor.<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Screens online only<\/b><\/p>\n Hoho Liu | Taiwan | 2021 | 85 mins<\/p>\n Yu-ting, a 16-year-old high school student, came home to find a sister of her age. In fact, the \u201csister\u201d was her cousin from Vietnam, her mother\u2019s hometown. Her uncle had broken his leg, so her mother promised to get the underage girl to work in Taiwan in the name of her adopted daughter. Was Yu-lan her sister or a migrant worker? Yu-ting thought that the fake sister stole her life. She couldn\u2019t help but deny the equality of them and report to the police that Yu-lan was an illegal migrant worker\u2026 TRAILER<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n NOTE:<\/b><\/p>\n SR Socially Relevant Film Festival NY – SRFF 2023<\/b><\/p>\n DOCUMENTARY FEATURES in Competition<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n OPENING NIGHT Feature – First Film – <\/b>RED CARPET 5:30 PM<\/b><\/p>\n March 16, 6:00 PM Walter Reade Theater – Lincoln Center<\/b><\/p>\n Shamira Rapha\u00ebla | The Netherlands | 2021 | 75 mins<\/p>\n Fourteen-year-old Shabu is a good-natured, creative, and street-smart boy from the south of Rotterdam. When he wrecks his grandmother\u2019s car on a joyride, his whole family is angry with him. He has a summer to make amends before his grandmother returns from a vacation in Suriname. He then spends a summer trying to make money for the car while pursuing his passion: making music. TRAILER<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Fri. March 17, 2023 – 3:30 PM – Cinema Village<\/b><\/p>\n Patrick Sharkey, S\u00e9an Doupe | Ireland | 2022 | 52 mins<\/p>\n On 10 May 1943, something came ashore on Ballymanus strand in rural Donegal, Ireland. The next day, nineteen people, mostly children, were dead. A generation of the small townland was lost. Calls for answers were silenced by the authorities. No one has been held accountable. The disaster is unknown outside of the close-knit community, and barely spoken of within it. Ballymanus tells the story of one of the worst tragedies in modern Irish history, through the words of the victims\u2019 descendants and the memories of the few remaining survivors. TRAILER<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Fri. March 17, 2023 – 5:30 PM – Cinema Village<\/b><\/p>\n Andy Ames | Canada | 2021 | 70 mins<\/p>\n With only her birth mother’s name and her town of birth in hand, a 60-year-old adoptee from Dublin navigates the misogynistic landscape of Ireland’s past in a relentless search to find her. The film chronicles her 20-year journey navigating the hypocrisy of a society that prohibited access to birth control while condemning unwed mothers and their children, leading her to reframe her identity in light of what and who she finds. TRAILER<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sat. March 18, 3:00 PM – Cinema Village<\/b><\/p>\n Bushra Azzouz | United States | 2022 | 100 mins<\/p>\n “It’s almost like for three hours we weren’t in prison,” says Zeb, one of the prison inmates in rural Eastern Oregon who arrives at the transformative possibility of re-imagining his life story, past and future, while putting on Shakespeare’s comedic tale,\u00a0 <\/span>A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Prison, under lock-down.\u00a0 <\/span>As the journey unfolds, themes of gender identity and the challenges faced by BIPOC prisoners are deftly explored, and the power of the arts to challenge and heal, even under the most difficult circumstances, is affirmed and celebrated. TRAILER<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sat. March 18, 4:30 PM – Cinema Village<\/b><\/p>\n Brian Seifferlein, David Koehn | United States | 2021 | 53 mins<\/p>\n This documentary film follows 8 students as they work toward perfecting a message for the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Youth Rally and March. 5th grade students and their families confront the racist history of the United States and find their voices to share with the world. TRAILER<\/b><\/p>\n Q&A with the director.<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sat. March 18, 5:30 PM – Cinema Village<\/b><\/p>\n Karin Louise Lee | Canada | 2021 | 45 mins<\/p>\n In 1939 Velma Demerson was jailed for falling in love with a Chinese man. Pregnant and without legal counsel, Velma was sentenced to one year in a Toronto prison where she was tortured by a eugenicist doctor who attempted to abort her child. 60 years later she sued the Canadian government for wrongful incarceration, and until her death at age 98 in May 2019, continued to fight for the rights of the thousands of women imprisoned on the grounds of \u201cincorrigibility\u201d until 1964. Gemini Award-winning director Karin Lee has made a documentary film about her life. TRAILER<\/b><\/a> Q&A with the director. <\/b>Voices of Canada series<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Sun. March 19, 3:30 PM – Cinema Village<\/b><\/p>\n Julia Newman | United States | 2019 | 79 mins<\/p>\n He was not the remote genius of present day myth. Still A Revolutionary – Albert Einstein, tells the real story of his life long firebrand activism. TRAILER<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Q&A with the director – moderated by NYWIFT.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Sun. March 19, 7:30 PM – Cinema Vill<\/b>a<\/p>\n Il\u00e1n Lieberman | Mexico | 2022 | 102 mins<\/p>\n Il\u00e1n, a fifty-two-year-old visual artist, takes his family on a musical road trip, trying to reconstruct the chaotic, creative life and tragic death of his father, Beno Lieberman, a pioneer of folklore research in Mexico. Revisiting remote mountain and jungle villages, they listen to local musicians \u2013 some of whom Beno recorded in the 1960s and \u201870s \u2013 who continue to play the very same music today. As Ilan confronts the mystery and pain of his father\u2019s suicide, his son and two daughters pose difficult questions that address the reasons for the silence that often surrounds the act of suicide. And, while exploring the richness, intensity and variety of authentic Mexican folk tradition, Il\u00e1n comes to terms with his feelings about his father by sharing Beno\u2019s enduring musical legacy. TRAILER<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Q&A with the director & producer.\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Sun. March 19, 9:30 PM – Cinema Villag<\/b>e<\/p>\n Karen kramer | United States | 2022 | 72 mins<\/p>\n Scenes of ground-breaking subversive poetry, radical music and activism that started more than 50 years ago in small cafes in New York City and went on to help change the political and social nature of the US. are interwoven with current scenes of today’s contemporary poets, protest singers, and activists who are using their work for social change. With Iconic legends, this documentary celebrates creativity, protest, ways to fight conformity. TRAILER<\/b><\/a> Q&A with the director.<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Tues. March 21, 7:00 PM – Columbia Maison Fran\u00e7aise<\/b><\/p>\n Adnane Tragha | France | 2022 | 79 mins<\/p>\n The Gagarin housing project is an iconic symbol in Ivry Sur Seine in the inner suburbs of Paris, which was destroyed in 2020. The film brings it back to life through the words of its former residents and the lens of Adnane Tragha who grew up across from it and evokes memories of the housing project. Daniel, Lo\u00efc, Karima, Yvette, Foued, Samira, and Mehdy tell their stories and relive their feelings. Difficulties, as well as solidarity, stigmas as well as mutual aid, and good memories, as well as bad ones across time and experiences, are touched upon. “We grew up together” paints, in small personal touches, the history of a housing project like so many others, and becomes a hymn to working-class neighborhoods. TRAILER – Q&A with the director.<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span>Wed. March 22, 7:00 PM – Columbia Maison Fran\u00e7ais<\/b>e<\/p>\n Olivier Morel | France | 2018 | 116 mins<\/p>\n Ever, R\u00eave traces the steps to the creation of an African & French feminist legend, a 1968 activist, a famous playwright, and a poet who participated in all the \u201cwars of liberation\u201d of our time. It is the poetic journey of H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cixous. The characters are depicted through a cinematic language that privileges a sequential progression whose goal is to unveil the mysteries of an intellectual artist\u2019s creative search, of her intimate inspirations, and of her anti-racist and anti-sexist political involvements.<\/p>\n The film flows like a work of fiction featuring the Algerian-born philosopher Jacques Derrida and artist Adel Abdessemed, Ariane Mnouchkine, and her cosmopolitan theatre company as H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cixous’s entourage. Cixous explores the wounds of our time and allows us to hear the cry of literature. The history of dozens of members of her German-Jewish family who were assassinated in the death camps, and the trauma of the recent wars of decolonization in Africa are part of the life of this major figure of French literature born in Oran, Algeria shortly before the start of the Second World War. TRAILER<\/b><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>Q&A with the director.<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Closing Award Night Film<\/b><\/p>\n Thurs. March 23, 5:00 PM – JCC Harlem\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Elia Moutamid | Italy | 2022 | 51 mins<\/p>\n Maka presents Genevi\u00e9ve Makaping\u2019s life in Italy and perilous migration journey. By sharing Makaping\u2019s experience as the first Black news editor in Italy, Maka speaks out against the media representation of immigrants and offers an evocative examination of the intersection between sexism and racism in Italy. From Moroccan-born Italian director Elia Moutamid, this riveting documentary offers a poignant exploration of displacement, identity, and belonging. TRAILER<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n Q&A with the producer.<\/b><\/p>\n NOTES:<\/b><\/p>\n Early Bird $7 single tickets and $100 all-access passes are now on sale for a limited time only, <\/b>here<\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n For outreach information and partnerships contact:<\/p>\n outreach.srff@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n Trailers are al on the festival YouTube Channel<\/a> and on the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SR Socially Relevant Film Festival NY – SRFF 2023 Six NARRATIVES FEATURES in competition \u00a0OPENING NIGHT – 2nd Feature Thurs. 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