Main Programming A, Saturday 7:15 PM
LOCATION
MAIN FLOOR — Innis Town Hall, Innis College, 2 Sussex Street, U of T Campus
(1 block south of St. George Subway)
Eugene
Director, Andrei Feheregyhazi, CAN
Eugene is a bicycle, nothing more, nothing less. He doesn’t move on his own, but still has a story and a personality. The story begins with Eugene as a child, growing up with his parents in a comfortable but poor neighborhood in Birmingham. Once he is old enough he follows in his families footsteps and joins the British Army. While fighting in the gulf war he is disheartened by the brutal sacrifices he sees and the fact that bicycles like him weren’t allowed in the army until 2000. He later immigrates to Canada to try and find himself. The film is narrated by his current owner to give a glimpse into the mind of Eugene.
Pismo
Director, Matvei Zhivov, RUS
After spending nearly three years as a partisan fighter in the wilderness Stepan is heavily wounded and rescued by advancing regular army. Healed and sent home, the battle for Stepan is hardly over. A new, different battle will only just begin.
Henry May Long
Director, Randall Sharp, USA
Official Closing Night Main Program Film
Henry May is the self-destrucitve, golden child of a prominent New York family in 1887. Henry Long is a resourceful, terminally ill entrepreneur. May and Long meet and begin a complicated and dangerous odyssey that leads them to the sea and beyond. The houses and families of New York’s golden age as well as the timeless underworld of the city are vividly brought to life as May and Long journey to the possible resolution of both their troubled lives. Both men discover what they have lost to get where they are, what they are willing to risk to get what they want and what they are willing to lose to live.
