The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has announced the slate of feature and short films for its 11th edition, which will take place September 17-20, 2015 throughout Camden, Rockport and Rockland, Maine. CIFF will present over 60 features and short films from across the globe, the country and the state, with filmmakers attending nearly every screening. This year’s program includes more international titles than ever.
The Camden International Film Festival presents a snapshot of the cultural landscape through the year’s best nonfiction storytelling. The festival is recognized as one of the top documentary film festivals in the world and one of the 12 best small-town film festivals in the US. Highlights of this year’s program include Locarno titles Machine Gun or Typewriter, The Ground We Won and Locarno winner Olmo and the Seagull, fresh from TIFF: climate change doc This Changes Everything; and Points North alums Containment and Drawing the Tiger. In addition to the titles below, CIFF will screen a sidebar program of historic ethnographic films with support from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a program celebrating the home movie archives of Charles Norman Shay in collaboration with Northeast Historic Film, and the Cinema Eye Honors for Nonfiction Filmmaking Shorts List, whose titles will be announced at the festival next month.
“We couldn’t be more thrilled with this year’s festival program,” says Ben Fowlie, Founder and Executive Director of the Camden International Film Festival. “This complex, diverse and engaging lineup is yet another reminder that the documentary form is both thriving and continuously evolving. We’re honored to share the vision and voices of this remarkable group of American and international filmmakers.”
The Camden International Film Festival will announce their Points North Documentary Forum lineup of films, speakers and panels on Thursday, August 27. Passes are on sale at camdenfilmfest.org/attend. Purchase yours before they are sold out!
2015 CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FEATURES
ABOVE AND BELOW
Nicolas Steiner | Switzerland, Germany | 2015
ALL THINGS ABLAZE
Oleksandr Technyski, Aleksey Solodunov, Dmitry Stoykov | Ukraine | 2014
ALMOST THERE
Aaron Wickenden, Dan Rybicky | United States | 2014
BEST OF ENEMIES
Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon | United States | 2014
BREAKING A MONSTER
Luke Meyer | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
CONTAINMENT
Peter Galison, Robb Moss | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance! Points North Alum!
DEMOCRATS
Camila Nielsson| Denmark | 2014
DRAWING THE TIGER
Amy Benson, Ramyata Limbu, Scott Squire | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance! Points North Alum!
ELEPHANT’S DREAM
Kristof Bilsen | Belgium | 2014
Filmmaker in attendance!
FRAME BY FRAME
Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance!
FROM THIS DAY FORWARD
Sharon Shattuck | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
GOING CLEAR: SCIENTOLOGY AND THE PRISON OF BELIEF
Alex Gibney | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
THE GROUND WE WON
Christopher Pryor | New Zealand | 2015
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD
Jerry Rothwell | United Kingdom, Canada | 2015
I AM THE PEOPLE (JE SUIS LE PEUPLE)
Anna Roussillon | France | 2014
IN TRANSIT
Albert Maysles, Lynn True, Nelson Walker, Ben Wu, David Usui | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance!
KINGS OF NOWHERE
Betzabé García | Mexico | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
MACHINE GUN OR TYPEWRITER
Travis Wilkerson | United States | 2015
MERU
Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi | United States | 2015
OF THE NORTH
Dominic Gagnon | Canada | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
OLMO AND THE SEAGULL
Petra Costa, Lea Glob | Denmark, Brazil, Portugal, France | 2015
Producer in attendance!
PEACE OFFICER
Scott Christopherson, Brad Barber | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
THE RUSSIAN WOODPECKER
Chad Gracia | Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States | 2015
SAILING A SINK SEA
Olivia Wyatt | United States | 2015
Filmmakmer in attendance!
TELL SPRING NOT TO COME THIS YEAR
Saeed Taji Farouky, Michael McEvoy | United Kingdom | 2015
(T)ERROR
Lyric R. Cabral, David Felix Sutcliffe | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
THANK YOU FOR PLAYING
David Osit, Malika Zouhali-Worrall | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance!
THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING
Avi Lewis | Canada, United States | 2015
THOSE WHO FEEL THE FIRE BURNING
Morgan Knibbe | Netherlands | 2014
TOTO AND HIS SISTERS
Alexander Nanau | Romania, Hungary, Germany | 2014
T-REX
Drea Cooper, Zackary Canepari | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
UNCERTAIN
Anna Sandilands, Ewan McNicol | United States | 2015
Filmmakers in attendance!
UNTITLED Work-in-Progress Screening
Ian Cheney | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
WESTERN
Bill Ross, Turner Ross | United States | 2015
Filmmaker in attendance!
2015 CAMDEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SHORT FILMS
70-SOME YEARS
Riley Hooper | United States | 2015
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE
Jarred Alterman, Ryan Scafuro | United States | 2015
BODY TEAM 12
David Darg | United States | 2015
CLAUDE LANZMANN: SPECTRES OF THE SHOAH
Adam Benzine | United Kingdom | 2015
CHOP MY MONEY
Theo Anthony | United States | 2014
DENALI
Ben Knight | United States | 2015
DIVER
Christoph Gelfand, Caroline Losneck | United States | 2015
Dirigo Short! Made in Maine!
ERIC, WINTER TO SPRING
Danya Abt | United States | 2014
THE FACE OF UKRAINE: CASTING OKSANA BAIUL
Kitty Green | Australia | 2015
FARM
Christoph Gelfand | United States | 2015
Dirigo Short! Made in Maine!
HERETIX: UP AND RUNNING
Stephen St. Francis Decky | United States | 2015
Dirigo Short! Made in Maine!
HOTEL 22
Elizabeth Lo | United States | 2014
THE LAND
Erin Davis | United States | 2015
THE LAST BARN DANCE
Ted Richardson, Jason Arthurs | United States | 2015
LAST PYRAMID
Dave Schachter | United States | 2015
Dirigo Short! Made in Maine!
LETTER TO SUBI
Genevieve Carmel | United States | 2015
LUCHADORA
River Finlay | United States, Mexico | 2014
THE MANY SAD FATES OF MR. TOLEDANO
Joshua Seftel | United States | 2015
MY GAL, ROSEMARIE
Jason Tippet | United States | 2015
NEW MISSION
Christopher Giamo | United States | 2014
OBJECT
Paulina Skibinska | Poland | 2015
OF THE UNKNOWN
Eva Weber | United Kingdom | 2014
PINK BOY
Eric Rockey | United States | 2015
THE REAGAN SHORTS
Pacho Velez | United States | 2015
Points North Alum!
SEEDING FEAR
Craig Jackson | Canada | 2015
SPEARHUNTER
Luke Poling, Adam Roffman | United States | 2014
TERRITORY
Eleanor Mortimer | United Kingdom | 2015
THINGS
Ben Rivers | United Kingdom | 2015
Points North will be unveiled Thursday, August 27 and the Schedule will go live Friday, August 28.
Passes to the 2015 CIFF and Points North are now available for purchase at www.camdenfilmfest.org/attend
