The Den

5:15 P.M. FRI. 10/7 @ TIN PAN THEATER

9:30 P.M. SAT. 10/8 @ REGAL OLD MILL - 4 90 MIN. | ITALY | NORTHWEST PREMIERE

Presented in Italian with English subtitles Giulio has just turned 18 and lives in the country with his parents. He develops an interest in 20-year-old Lia, who moves into the long abandoned house next door. Bold and mysterious, Lia leads Giulio into strange and increasingly dangerous games. Deeply attracted to Lia, Giulio yearns to uncover the secret she is keeping behind her closed doors.

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“A thoughtful look at universal themes of loss and young love handled in a way that’s intriguing, tense, and enveloping. Beautiful cinematography, and a sophisticated flmmaker to watch.”

—BendFilm Team

Beatrice Baldacci studied cinema in Rome. While studying directing and photography with Daniele Ciprì and Claudio Cupellini, she made the fction short flm Corvus Corax

, which participated in numerous festivals. Her short Supereroi senza Superpoteri had its world premiere at the 76th Venice International Film Festival 2019. Her frst feature flm La Tana (The Den)

, produced by Lumen Films, premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.

3:15 P.M. FRI. 10/7 @ REGAL OLD MILL - 1

9.45 A.M. SAT. 10/8 @ TIN PAN THEATER

5:15 P.M. SUN. 10/9 @ TIN PAN

93 MIN. | SERBIA | NORTHWEST PREMIERE

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Presented in Serbian, Arabic, and English with English subtitles

9:15 P.M. FRI. 10/7 @ REGAL OLD MILL - 4

10 A.M. SAT. 10/8 @ TOWER THEATRE

90 MIN. | GERMANY | OREGON PREMIERE

“We applaud the flmmaker for having a clear voice, message, and style. This will resonate in the United States and beyond.”

Strahinja, a smuggler in the Balkans, aspires to buy a luxury apartment to fx his broken marriage. Shortly after, a routine smuggling trip to Hungary is interrupted by border police. Strahinja becomes stranded with refugee teens, led by Yousef, a beatboxer and a hopeless romantic from Yemen. Yousef’s open-hearted approach to life makes Strahinja aware of the walls he has built around his own.

Preceded by More Than I Want to Remember | 14 min. (p. 63)

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Ana was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. She holds an MFA in Film from Columbia University. Her frst feature flm, The Game, premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, Discovery section and won Best Screenplay at FICIMAD in Madrid. Ana is a Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Emerging Visions and Artist Academy Fellow, a graduate of Black Factory Cinema’s workshop with Abbas Kiarostami in Cuba’s EICTV, and 2017 Panavision New Filmmaker grant recipient.

6 P.M. FRI. 10/7 @ REGAL OLD MILL - 1

10:15 A.M. SAT. 10/8 @ REGAL OLD MILL - 1

105 MIN. | USA | WEST COAST PREMIERE

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Presented in Arabic and English with English subtitles Jacir, a resettled Syrian refugee, is in search of a new life in a rough Memphis neighborhood. He is faced with a challenging new environment and a host of interesting individuals, including Morty, his next-door neighbor’s cat, Meryl, a racist and opiod-addicted shut-in, and Jerome, a Memphis rapper. Jacir tries to win the affection of a new love interest, Nadia, while dealing with her overzealous father and navigating suspicion from ICE.

Presented in German with English subtitles Frida, a 40-year-old German-Finnish painting therapist, gets unexpectedly pregnant and Felix, the father of her child, breaks up with her to reunite with his ex. Frida cannot accept Felix’s decision. Despite some serious health problems due to her pregnancy, Frida insists on winning him back, using absurd, and, sometimes, excessive methods.

Preceded by Farmer’s Dating | 11 min. (p. 62)

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“This flm makes human folly endearing, faws acceptable, successes victorious.”

Laura Lehmus was born in Finland in 1972. She studied fne arts at F+F School in Zurich & audiovisual media at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. After a long stopover in Berlin and Helsinki, in 2019 Laura fnally settled in Düsseldorf where she works as director, on-air producer, and art director for flm and TV. Her short flm Alienation won dozens of awards, including the German Short Film Award (2015), and the flm became one of the three most successful German short flms in 2016. Sweet Disaster is Laura’s feature flm debut.

5:15 P.M. FRI. 10/7 @ REGAL OLD MILL - 6

12:45 P.M. SAT. 10/8 @ TIN PAN THEATER

80 MIN. | KOREA | WEST COAST PREMIERE

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Presented in Korean and various other languages with English subtitles

“Jacir is a hero bursting with charm. An immersive, entirely relatable look at the immigrant experience in America.”

—BendFilm Team

Waheed is an Emmy Award-winning director and producer. He has created content for a long list of notable clients including GoDaddy, Cheerios, Reba McEntire, and Zappos through his company, WAFilms. During his tenure with FOX Television, Waheed served as Creative Director, where he undertook launching promotional campaigns for TV shows such as The Following and New Girl. Born in Amman, Jordan, Waheed immigrated to the USA at the age of 13. Jacir marks his feature flm debut.

“Unique, funny, thought-provoking, cinematic, daring, intriguing, smart, joyful, and life-affrming. This flm has everything in it, but mostly it has freedom—a truly indie effort.”

—BendFilm Team

In 1993, enormous spherical UFOs appear over every major city in the world. They don’t attack. They don’t initiate communication. They just remain foating above each city. In 2022, twenty-nine years after the UFOs arrive, they have become a part of ordinary life, but there is a rumor going around that some people who look like ordinary humans are actually aliens and the mysterious Alien Mind Control Syndrome has taken hold of people in strange and unexpected ways.

Preceded by JEFF | 6 min. (p. 63) and What is in the Ocean? | 7 min. (p. 65)

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Unidentifed is his frst feature flm. His 2016 short flm The Time Agent won multiple awards at international flm festivals, and has been optioned for feature development by Black Label Media.

Jude Chun is a Korean-Canadian director currently working in Seoul, Korea.

8:30 P.M. THURS. 10/6 @ REGAL OLD MILL - 1

8:30 P.M. SAT. 10/8 @ TIN PAN THEATER 90 MIN. | FRANCE/USA/EGYPT | NORTHWEST PREMIERE

Presented in French and Arabic with English subtitles Cultural and intergenerational trauma erupt in this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris. After the siblings are torn apart, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to fnd her identity, leading to a choice that shocks the world in this intimate story about family, love, sisterhood, and belonging.

Preceded by The Seine’s Tears | 9 min. (p. 65) Tin Pan Theater sponsored by

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DIRECTED BY DINA AMER

Dina Amer is an award-winning flmmaker and journalist. She helped produce the Oscar nominated and Emmy award-winning documentary The Square. Growing up between the US and Egypt, her work has focused on sharing nuanced, human stories with a global audience. Prior to her flm work, Dina was an on-air correspondent for VICE. Her written work has been published in The New York Times

, CNN and the Huffngton Post. You Resemble Me is her directorial debut.