Sunday, April 30, 2017
4:00 PM
Uptown Cinema 1
What's better than a film based on a true story? An actual true story, of course! NFFTY's phenomenal variety documentary screening highlights real stories around our globe that showcase incredible humans and the peculiar, poignant lives that people live. Get real or get lost!
Patrick Gillespie - 19, Ana F Taboada - 21, Sam Carter - 19, Joe Crouch - 19, Jake Desmond - 20
United Kingdom
A look into the lives of a Welsh Dairy Farming family and their struggle as dairy prices drop, threatening their livelihood and family farm.
Stories Of Us
Dylan Quesnel - 22
Trinidad & Tobago
The capital of Trinidad & Tobago, Port-of-Spain, took part in the People's Climate Marches standing alongside over 2000+ events around the world, in 2014 and 2015 during the COP21 Climate Summit in Paris. Take the conversation on climate change forward.
Leah Galant - 23
New York
A personal documentary about a mother and her daughter who challenge the media narrative of fear through art.
Ceylan Carhoglu - 22, Nicole Jordan-Webber - 22
California
For generations, Laos was known as the Land of a Million Elephants. Today, there are around 400 elephants left in Laos.
Rabea Rahmig - 24
Germany
The film is about the multi-faceted Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen who is searching for a cosmopolitan chicken.
Reid Antin - 21
New York
A middle-aged woman explores the complicated relationship she has with her mentally-deteriorating mother.
