The Camden International Film Festival will host two upcoming screenings as part of its CIFF Selects Series. The series consists of CIFF alumni films, as well as brand new titles and takes place throughout Maine. The series will kick off in April with a screening of the acclaimed documentary from 2010, LAST TRAIN HOME. A collaboration between CIFF and the Camden Conference on Foreign Affairs, this screening will take place at the Camden Opera House on April 20th at 7PM. One of the most awarded films from last year, this documentary chronicles the world’s largest human migration. Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year’s holiday. This mass exodus is an epic spectacle that reveals a country tragically caught between its rural past and industrial future.
On May 25th CIFF will be back at the SPACE Gallery in Portland, Maine hosting a screening of Ian Cheney’s new film, THE CITY DARK. Fresh from the SXSW Film Festival, THE CITY DARK is a documentary film about light pollution and the disappearance of the night. Posing a deceptively simple question – do we need the night? – the film leads viewers on a quest to understand what is lost in the glare of city lights.
