Existential Epics

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Sunday, October 27, 2019
2:30 PM
SIFF Film Center
*This screening may not be suitable for all ages.

ADULT: $13 | YOUTH: $12 | GROUP: $11

Why are we here? What motivates us to get up every day? Why is life so hard? Some of life's more complex questions can't be answered, but clarity can be achieved through cinematic revelations. If these questions resonate, come find some answers in this slate full of seminal survival information. From life in the in-between to explorations of the afterlife, you'll be transported into higher planes of transcendental thought.

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The Mother

Joe Chen - 23, Peng Ni - 24
California

A pregnant young woman is told by her adoptive American mother that her Chinese biological mom needs a bone marrow transplant and that she may be the only match. Her decision whether to contact her or not weighs heavily as tries to reconnect to a past she barely remembers.

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Happy Place Labs

Sunny Keller - 16, Aris Demopoulos - 16
California

Since the death of his wife and the ban on anti-depressants, Leo Canter resorts to Happy Place Labs to turn his frown upside down.

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Limbo

Matthew McGuigan - 20
United Kingdom

Brendan’s mother Eilis reveals a dark secret on her deathbed, one to which Brendan must find the answer – what happened to her lost child?

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Wavering

Jordan Gustafson - 22, Matthew Planer - 24, Lauren Cabanas - 23, Layla Kornota - 22
California

As her Parkinson’s disease intensifies, a National Parks Ranger struggles to accept her new limitations.

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Tundra

Carol Nguyen - 20, Lea Mazeau - 22, Sandrine Maltai - 21, Giulio Trejo-Martinez - 19
Canada

A mother dreams and hallucinates about her missing daughter, trying to cope with her loss.

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Crossing Limits

Monica Menor - 17, Julian Jordan - 17, James Parker-Pennington - 17, Miranda Lewis - 16
California

Under current strict laws in the US today, a young girl named Eva has to travel great lengths to get a legal abortion while hiding it from her mother.

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Sincerely Anthony

Max Shoham - 16
Canada

Coping with my best friend's suicide, through an imagined letter he didn't leave behind.

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ReEntry

Kira Bursky - 23
North Carolina

The official music video for E.W. Harris' "ReEntry." Lara's secret lover falls from a waterfall to her death. In this exact moment a photographer captures the image of her midair... but this is just one potential timeline. This music video explores how all souls are interconnected and a single choice can change everything.

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Cosmos Express

Mocong Yuan - 22
New York

A girl decides to leave this world. Her body and soul have one last conversation as she walks through the path she has been for one last time.

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