DC Independent Film Forum Program February 21-24, 2024 / Films in Competition

Wednesday February 21st / Opening Night 

6pm-7pm: Reception:  

7pm-9.45pm Screening: Meeting Zelensky (UK/2024/90mins) directed by Andre Singer (Special Preview Screening, Not in competition). Followed by a panel discussion

Venue: E Street Theater, Washington DC (Those wishing to attend please use the donate button for $15 per ticket through DCIFF with MEETING ZELENSKY in the COMMENT line. Seating is Limited. Access here:  https://dciff-indie.org/donate/

Thursday February 22nd

5.30pm-7.00pm: Masterclass With André Singer: 50 Years in Documentaries   

Venue: Avalon Theater, Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase

7.15pm Feast Your Ears  (USA/2023/ 1:36mins) directed by Jay Schlossberg 

Venue: Avalon Theater, Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase

Post Screening Music

Friday, February 23rd

5:30pm-8pm Where the Wind Blew (UK/2017/110mins) dir. Andre Singer Followed by a panel discussion and coffee and pastries. Venue: JCC, 1529 16th St NW, Washington, DC 20036.

Evening Venues: Regal Chinatown Theaters and Angelika Pop-Up, Union Market (animation)

5.30pm-6.20pm  Open Bar Reception for District of Second Chances(Venue TBD) 

6.20pm – 8.40pm District of Second Chances  (USA/2024/1.16mins) dir. Wynette Yao and Travis Allan Edwards) / Regal Theater

6.30pm -8.50pm:  eVil Sublet (USA/2023/1:45mins) dir. Allan Piper /Regal Theater

7.30pm-9.30pm:  The Concierge dir. Yoshimi Itazu (Japan/2023/70mins/subtitled) Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market

9.00pm – 10.45pm  Wolfpack dir. Cédric Peyster – Le Roux (France/2023/50mins) / Regal Theater

8.50pm – 11.30pm Creepy Late Night Shorts:  Spellbound (Switzerland/2023/10.48) dir.Robin Rippmann,  Inner Demons  (USA/2023/10:54) dir. Jasmine Johnson, Cold  dir. Kim Machado  (USA/2023/16:05mins), And Yet They Speak (USA/2023/35.16mins) dir. Windy Marshall, Golden Shopping Arcade (Italy/2023/29 mins)dir. Francesco Ricci Lotteringi/ Regal Theater

Saturday February 24th

ANIMATION at Angelika Pop-Up, Union Market

12:15pm—2:15pm Amazing Animation (Short Animation Program 1):  Dragonfly (USA /2023/13:33 mins) dir. Julia Morizawa; The Sprayer (Iran/2022/8.45 mins) dir. Farnoosh Abedi; From one painting… to another  (Switzerland/ 2023 /3:10 mins) dir. Georges Schwizgebel; The Bear in the Shower (USA/2023/4mins)  dir. Tom Schroeder; As The Sun Goes Down (France/ 2023 / 5:58mins) dir. Laurine Bocquet, Ilona Caucal, Inès Fechner, Jahnice Laurent, Sarah Robert, Emma Roussel, Kevin Vandenbeuck; Electra (Czech Republic / 2023 / 26.23) dir. Daria Kashcheeva; Games People Play (USA /2023/ 3mins) dir. Jim Hall; Redemption  (USA /2023 / 3:45mins) dir. Zakkee Kashif Hendricks

2:30pm-3:45pm:  Animation Seminar 

4:00pm-6:00pm Ani-Cool (Short Animation Program 2): The Swineherd (Denmark/2023/6:24 mins)  dir. Magnus Igland Moller, Peter Smith; The Great Arc (France / 2022 /11.58) dir. Camille Authouart; No Ink The Magic Shoe Episode 4) (UK/ 2022/ 4:13 mins) dir. Florian Guillaume; The Nectar Instead (USA/2023/4:12mins) dir. Yoo Lee; Lack (Poland/2023/10:45mins) dir. Paweł Prewencki; One Minute Mistake (USA / 2023 / 14:32) dir. Jim Blashfield, Chel White, Martin Cooper, Marilyn Zornado, Janet Perlman, Diane Obomsawin, Chris Hinton, and Joan Gratz; Silhouette (France/ 2023 / 5:02); I Heard the Bells (USA/2023/14.55 mins) dir. Jeremiah Morrison 

6:15pm-7:15pm: A Gathering of Animators at Union Market

FILMS and Events at Regal Theater, Chinatown, Washington DC

12.00pm-1.15pm: Seminar: Working with Investors fan Tax Credits: Film Financing with producer Carol Bidault

1.30pm-3.00pm: Seminar: Finding Grants for Documentary Films: Film Financing with Deirdre Evans-Pritchard

3.00pm-5.20pm:   On the Lighter Side  Short Film Program: Manus (USA/2023/2.57mins) dir. Win Brooks ; Serving the Lord dir. Ryan Kennedy (USA/2024/14.17mins); Vasectomy (USA/2023/22:49mins) dir. Andrew Bachelor; Post Infest  (USA/2023/15.55mins) dir. Justin Van Voorhis; Don’t Neg Meg (USA/2023/13:21mins) dir. Ann Marie Allison; Music for a While (USA /2023/9.05mins) dir. Kelvin Phillips  

5:20pm-7.20pm  The Needle and the Damage Done (UK/2024/67mins))  dir. Kevin Molony

7.20pm-9.00pm  TENS Across the Board  (USA/2023/42.40mins ) dir. Bobby “Broady” Best.

TENS Across the Board  Celebration

9.00pm-11.30pm. eVil Sublet (USA/2023/1:45mins) dir. Allan Piper

12.30pm-3.00pm:   Insightful Docs:  More than Brothers (USA/2023/22:30mins) dir.Andrea von Siebenthal; Little Sahara (Spain/2023/30 mins) dir. Emilio Martí López; Hindsight (Ukraine / 2023 /18mins) dir. Max Rykov; The Vanishing Kindergarten (China/2023/5.40mins) dir. Jian Liu

3.00pm-5.00pm:  An Open Door  (USA / 2023. 59.30mins) dir. John Alexander Barnhardt and presented by Colorado State University.

5.00pm-6.00pm  Cocktails and Doc Tales Open Bar 

6.00pm-8.50pm No One Asked You  (USA/2023/100mins) dir. Ruth Leitman

9.10pm-11.00pm  For All Have Sinned  (USA/2023/65mins) dir. John Sellman

Sunday February 25th

ALL Sunday screenings are at the Regal Theater, Chinatown, Washington DC

12.00pm-2.00pm An Open Door (USA / 2023. 59.30mins) directed by John Alexander Barnhardt and presented by Colorado State University.

12.15pm-2.45pm  Meeting Zelensky (UK/2024/90mins) directed by Andre Singer. Special Preview Screening

2.00pm-4.00pm:  Shorts Program Two: The Woman from Hamburg (USA/2023/28:33 mins) dir. Michael Jacob Masaro; Lumbeeland (USA /2023/ 29.45 mins) dir. Montana Cypress Starring: Billy Oxendine; Black Silk USA/2023/6:02. Patrick Michael; Infraction (USA/2023/21:10mins)   dir. Timothy Blackwood

2.45pm-4.45pm Women Filming Doc Shorts Series   1001cuts (USA/2023/24.35 mins) dir. Sarah M Temkin; Lengua de diamante (USA/2023/13.09 mins) dir. Victoria Barbarito,  That is the Silence (USA/2023/14.56mins) dir. Inna Ivanovskaya, The Test (USA/2023/15.43 mins) dir. Claudia Myers, Laura Waters Hinson

3pm-4.40pm  When Adam Changes (Canada/2023/ 1.33mins/animation) dir. Joël Vaudreuil

4.00pm-5.45pm The Way It Was: Paris Restaurants in the 1970s  (USA/2023/44mins) dir. Stephen Karl Scher

4.45pm-6.00pm. Seminar (TBD)

4.45pm-6.45pm:  Shorts Program; Our Males and Females (Jordan/2023/11 mins.) dir. Ahmad Alyaseer, The Third Defector (USA/2023/16.53mins) dir. John Gray, Involuntary Dana E White, Christopher Knoblock 12.58mins, Barely Breathing (USA/2023/20 mins) dir. Derek Evans, The Wait (South Africa/2023/14.55 ) dir. Imran Hamdulay

5:30pm-6:15pm Wine Tastings

5.45pm-7.00pm.  The Way It Was: Paris Restaurants in the 1970s  (USA/2023/44mins) dir. Stephen Karl Scher

7.00pm-10.00pm No Right Way (USA/2023/1:43) dir. Chelsea Bo [Closing Night is: Remarks, Screening of No Right Way, Q&A and Awards]