NHFF Releases 2017 Accepted Films List
The New Hampshire Film Festival is excited to release the list of more than 100 films accepted in to the 17th annual film festival.
Each film featured on the list will be shown at various locations and times throughout the four-day film festival, which this year takes place Oct 12-15th in historic downtown Portsmouth.
We are once again excited to have the following community partner venues for this year’s festival: The Music Hall, The Music Hall Loft, 3S Artspace, and Moffatt-Ladd House. A schedule of show times will be released in the coming weeks.
FILM LIST
FEATURE NARRATIVES
*And Then I Go, directed by Vincent Grashaw
Automatic at Sea, directed by Matthew Lessner
*Dayveon, directed by Amman Abbasi
Dr. Brinks & Dr. Brinks, directed by Josh Crockett
The Florida Project, directed by Sean Baker
Golden Exits, directed by Alex Ross Perry
The Last Poker Game, directed by Howard L. Weiner
Lucky, directed by John Carroll Lynch
Marjorie Prime, directed by Michael Almereyda
Sollers Point, directed by Matthew Porterfield
The Square, directed by Ruben Östlund
The Strange Ones, directed by Lauren Wolkstein & Christopher Radcliff
Sundowners, directed by Pavan Moondi
Sweet Virginia, directed by Jamie M. Dagg
Sylvio, directed by Kentucker Audley & Albert Birney
Thirst Street, directed by Nathan Silver
*Tormenting the Hen, directed by Theodore Collatos
Walking Out, directed by Andrew J. Smith & Alex Smith
Werewolf, directed by Ashley McKenzie
*Woodshock, directed by Kate Mulleavy & Laura Mulleavy
FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES
The Cage Fighter, directed by Jeff Unay
City of Ghosts, directed by Matthew Heineman
Dealt, directed by Luke Korem
The Departure, directed by Lana Wilson
Flames, directed by Zefrey Throwell & Josephine Decker
For Ahkeem, directed by Jeremy S. Levine & Landon Van Soest
Frank Serpico, directed by Antonino D’Ambrosio
In the Waves, directed by Jacquelyn Mills
Maineland, directed by Miao Wang
Manlife, directed by Ryan Sarnowski
PACmen, directed by Luke Walker
The Reagan Show, directed by Sierra Pettengill & Pacho Velez
Resurrecting Hassan, directed by Carlo Guillermo Proto
*Sacred Cod: The Fight for a New England Tradition, directed by David Abel, Andy Laub & Steve Liss
The Sensitives, directed by Drew Xanthopoulos
Spettacolo, directed by Jeff Malmberg, Chris Shellen
SHORT NARRATIVES
The Backseat, directed by Joe Stankus & Ashley Connor
Creswick, directed by Natalie Erika James
Cul-De-Sac, directed by Damon Russell
Don’t Think About It, directed by Niv Klainer
*Five Minutes, directed by Justine Bateman
Fry Day, directed by Laura Moss
Great Choice, directed by Robin Comisar
Houseplants, directed by Prashanth Kamalakanthan
I Was There Too, directed by Joey Izzo
*I’m in Here, directed by Willy Berliner
Lance Lizardi, directed by Xander Robin
The Law of Averages, directed by Elizabeth Rose
*Love Never Dies, directed by Ryan Berry
Lovewatch, directed by Harrison Atkins
Möbius, directed by Sam Kuhn
Mrs. Drake, directed by Caitlin Fitzgerald
Pet Friendly, directed by Catherine Licata
Pet Monkey, directed by Eric Maira
The Phantom Menace, directed by Charlotte Barrett & Sean Fallon
*The Privates, directed by Dylan Allen
*Rabbits, directed by Patrick Clement
Sketch, directed by Mariama Diallo
Skid, directed by Savannah Magruder
Snowy Bing Bongs Across The North Star Combat Zone, directed Rachel Wolther & Alex H. Fischer
Strays, directed by Lance Edmands
True Blue, directed by Chris Osborn
Whiskey Fist, directed by Gillian Horvat
*Yeah, So I’ve Got This Searing Pain, directed by Chris Ohlson
You and Me and Her and Them, directed by Jon Branden
SHORT DOCUMENTARIES
*Andy Wooff’s Birthday, directed by William Bentley
The Collection, directed Adam Roffman
Commodity City, directed by Jessica Kingdon
The Duel, directed by Sean David Christensen
*Where There Is Trout, directed by Dave Jackel
I Have Something to Tell You, directed by Ben Joyner
The Illumination, directed by Dan Honan & Tom Scott
Mickey’s Pets, directed by Ashley Brandon
Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt, directed by Yoni Brook & Pacho Velez
*No. 7 on the List, directed by Meagan Frappiea, Bryant Naro
The Rabbit Hunt, directed by Patrick Bresnan
*Where’s the Butter?, directed by Keper Connell
*Winter’s Watch, directed by Brian Bolster
ANIMATION
And the Moon Stands Still, directed by Yulia Ruditskaya
I Like Girls, directed by Diane Obomsawin
Intruder Man, directed by Peter Nelson
Meeting MacGuffin, directed by Catya Plate
Mountains, directed by Laurie Berenhaus
Negative Space, directed by Ru Kuwahata
The Talk: True Stories About the Birds and the Bees, directed by Alain Delannoy
NH PROGRAM
*404 Not Found, directed by Jasmine Inglesmith
*An American Solo, directed by Bob Bear & Jay MacNamee
*An Allegedly Good Swimmer, directed by Harry McCoy
*Back to Camp, directed by Ashley Mosher
*The B-Movie, directed by Laina Barakat
*Between Leos, directed by Jeremy Collins
*Bisque, directed by Briana Demers, Jenna-Rae Macy, Nathanial Magoon & Grace Lumley
*Bringing Back Bodrik, directed by Robert Glowacky
*Disconnect, directed by Samuel Ebbner
*Dr. Truscot: The Balboa Health Clinic, directed by Jonathan Olson
*The Dream Still Is, directed by Zachary Zalman
*Family Tree, directed by Vic Roxas
*It’s Criminal, directed by Signe Taylor
*From Hurricane to Climate Change: A Region Responds, directed by Douglas Challenger
*Game, directed by Jeannie Donohoe
*Glowworm, directed by Laina Barakat
*Graham: A Dog’s Story, directed by Paul Lazarus
*The Heroin Effect, directed by Michael Venn (Work in Progress)
*In the Thicket – The Tony Bosco Story, directed by Nick Czerula
*Kids Conspire, directed by Jeremy Collins
*A Living Memorial: New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery, directed by Meagan Frappiea & Bryant Naro
*The Mars Generation, directed by Michael Barnett
*The Melancholy of Leftovers, directed by Nikolai Hamel
*Molly Mayor, directed by Nicholas Weiss-Richmond
*Mr. Connolly Has ALS, directed by Dan Habib
*Namaste: The Film, directed by Christine Altan
*The Oyster Revival: Restoring Our Waters, directed by Allison Keir
*Sun Valley, directed by Brian Paison
*Sunset, directed by Katie Ennis & Gary Jaffe
*Taken By Request, directed by Richard Margarit
*Texture, directed by Mark Billeci & Eric Stern
*Venturous Voices, directed by Jessica Davis
(*NH-affiliated films)