Official Film Selections for the 2015 New Hampshire Film Festival
We’re so pleased to announce our film selections for the 15th Annual New Hampshire Film Festival!
The four day festival, which kicks off Thursday, October 15th, will screen over one hundred films at five downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire venues: The Music Hall, The Music Hall Loft, the Moffatt-Ladd House and 3S Artspace.
The festival is made up of two major competitions—the New Hampshire Night competition held on Thursday, October 15th, and the International competition held Friday, October 16th through Sunday, October 18th.
*Films with an asterisk denote an NH connection.
New Hampshire Film Festival International Competition
The International competition has five major categories: Feature Narratives, Feature Documentaries, Short Narratives, Short Documentaries and Animation.
Feature Narratives
Anomalisa, directed by Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman
Band of Robbers, directed by Aaron Nee and Adam Nee
*Bob and the Trees, directed by Diego Ongaro
Boy Upside Down, directed by Juha Lehtola
Bridgend, directed by Jeppe Rønde
Chicken, directed by Joe Stephenson
Digging for Fire, directed by Joe Swanberg
Experimenter, directed by Michael Almereyda
I Dream Too Much, directed by Katie Cokinos
*Hotel Transylvania 2, directed by Genndy Tartakovsky
*A Light Beneath Their Feet, directed by Valerie Weiss
*Manglehorn, directed by David Gordon Green
Mississippi Grind, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Oliver’s Deal, directed by Barney Elliott
Out of My Hand, directed by Takeshi Fukunaga
The Preppie Connection, directed by Joseph Castelo
The Second Mother, directed by Anna Muylaert
The Stanford Prison Experiment, directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez
They Look Like People, directed by Perry Blackshear
Touched with Fire, directed by Paul Dalio
Wildlike, directed by Frank Hall Green
*The Witch, directed by Robert Eggers
Feature Documentaries
A Ballerina’s Tale, directed by Nelson George
Best of Enemies, directed by Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville
*Brew Hampshire, directed by Bryant Naro
Cartel Land, directed by Matthew Heineman
Crocodile Gennadiy, directed by Steve Hoover
Dreamcatcher, directed by Kim Longinotto
Frame by Frame, directed by Alexandria Bombach and Mo Scarpelli
Harry & Snowman, directed by Ron Davis
Imber’s Left Hand, directed by Richard Kane
Indian Point, directed by Ivy Meeropol
Jiaolian [Coach], directed by Esteban Arguello
Killing Them Safely, directed by Nick Berardini
Lost Conquest, directed by Mike Scholtz
Omo Child: The River and the Bush, directed by John Rowe
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, directed by Alex Gibney
Sunshine Superman, directed by Marah Strauch
The Wolfpack, directed by Crystal Moselle
Short Narratives
Arc, directed by Amartei Armar
*Basilisk, directed by Nikolai Hamel
Burned, directed by Jaime Valdueza
*Deliá, directed by Thomas Scott Stanton
The Foreigner, directed by Clancy Chassay
Guest Room, directed by Joshua Tate
*Haunted, directed by Katie Ennis
Hole, directed by Martin Edralin
In Honor Of, directed by Ben Mears
In the Clouds, directed by Marcelo Mitnik
In the Night, directed by Joshua Erkman
Last Base, directed by Aslak Danbolt
Love Comes Later, directed bySonejuhi Sinha
*Nature Rx, Part 1, directed by Justin Bogardus
Open 24 Hours, directed by Henry Chaisson
Pink Grapefruit, directed by Michael Mohan
*Salvation, directed by Jeremy S. Collins
*The Smell, directed by Jesse Ruuttila
Stop, directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green
Sunday, directed by Jake Peterson
*Total Moon, directed by Sophia Savage
Volta, directed by Stella Kyriakopoulos
Short Documentaries
Bad Boy of Bowling, directed by Bryan Storkel
*Blacksun, directed by Jon Bougher
Body Team 12, directed by David Darg
Diver, directed by Caroline Losneck & Christoph Gelfand
*Gaunshahar 2071, directed by Sophia Savage
*Go Jackson Doll, directed by Ben Severance
The House is Innocent, directed by Nicholas Coles
Ron Taylor: Dr. Baseball, directed by Drew Taylor and Matt Taylor
Spearhunter, directed by Luke Poling and Adam Roffman
Unmappable, directed by Diane Hodson and Jasmine Luoma
*What Will Time Think of Me?, directed by Kyle Turgeon
Animation
Beach Flags, directed by Sarah Saidan
Brewed Awakening, directed by Brendan Kirschbaum
Hands of Flame, directed by Steven Markowitz
Palm Rot, directed by Ryan Gillis
Perfect Houseguest, directed by Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter
The Present, directed by Jacob Frey
teeth, directed by Tom Brown and Daniel Gray
Two Films About Loneliness, directed by Will Bishop-Stephens and Christopher Eales
New Hampshire Night Competition
The New Hampshire Night competition is made up of all NH Films and the NH Program. The New Hampshire Program consists of films that highlight the year’s uniquely NH productions, and up-and-coming NH filmmakers, producers, actors, and writers. NH film criteria: subject or story about NH, significant portion of film is filmed in NH, major cast or crew from NH, director/producer/writer from NH; from NH means the person involved has spent over 1 year in New Hampshire.
New Hampshire Program
*Almost There, directed by Aidan Payne
*Approval, directed by Andrew Sevigny
*The Bridge, directed by Joi Smith
*Celling Your Soul: No App For Life, directed by Joni Siani
*CI: A TEDD Talkumentary, directed by Martin Sweeney
*Debt U, directed by Casey LaMarca
*Finding Forever, directed by Alex Knuuttunen
*For Those Forgotten, directed by Nancy Vawter
*Frenemy, directed by Skylar Burke
*Growing Local, directed by Bridget Besaw
*I Don’t Want To Rest, directed by Michael Mooney
*I Regret to Inform You, directed by Philip St. Gelais
*The Invitation, directed by Jon Bougher and Tommy Chavannes
*Jef Needs Ice Cream, directed by Dave Conte
*John, directed by Russell Creak
*La Noche Buena, directed by Alex Mallis
*Lambing Season, directed by Jeannie Donohoe
*Marsha Hunt’s Sweet Adversity, directed by Roger C Memos
*Moonlight Drawbridge – Don Gorvett, directed by Steven Galante
*The Morning of Everything, directed by Jeff Stern
*The Power of Place, directed by Jerry Monkman
*Run, directed by Maxwell Auger
*Signing, directed by Gina Catalfo Nelson
*The Soul of That Place, directed by Sophia Savage
*Winter Light, directed by Julian Higgins
*Wolf Man, directed by Peter Dubois, Patrick Mulhern, Jake Aldrich and Conrad Dundorf
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