NFFTY 2019 Festival Guide

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IMMERSE YOURSELF

Saturday, October 26, 2019 4:30 PM SIFF Film Center

HARRY, THIS IS NORA Isaiah Berra - 21 Canada

Harry, a melancholy loner who communicates through a puppet, sets out to understand why his girlfriend is leaving him. He has to hurry, though, because his single-occupant spaceship is blasting off to the moon at midnight.

We’ll never know what life is truly like in a world other than our own, but this screening will help you get close! Ranging from peculiar puppets to nonconformist nuns to gruesome gladiators, these stories plunge you into pools of lives lived in atypical actualities. *This screening may not be suitable for all ages.

SISTERS

THE FRAY

In 1970s Minnesota, a young nun falls in love with a runaway girl.

Amidst a settlement within a post-apocalyptic world, a father must fight to the death in a gladiator style tournament known as “The Fray.” However, the tables are turned when he faces an unlikely foe.

Mandy Jacobs - 22, Casey Donovan - 22, Leah Roach - 22, Arin Meyer - 22 California

HARBOR

SUNNY SIDE UP

When Adèle, an english teacher, spontaneously lets a young 15 years old migrant, illegally board a ferry for England with her class, she is far from grasping the importance of her gesture and its consequences on this overnight trip.

What if two girls woke up in the same bed without recognizing each other and by the events of last night discover that they don’t even know themselves?

Paul Marques Duarte - 23 France

Davi Pena - 21, Liz Kraushaar - 21, Kai Dickson - 21, Jenna Tooley - 21 Georgia

Anna Niebert - 21 California

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