Atlanta Film Festival 2009

Atlanta Film Festival 365

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Narrative Competition
British horror director Adam Mason, who has been building a following in horror circles with films such as Broken and The Devil's Chair, returns with his first US feature film. We first meet the happily-married Clark and Summer driving across California on their way to tell Summer's parents the good news about her pregnancy. Traveling across the seemingly endless desolate desert landscape, their car has a blow out that sends them into a near fatal wreck. With the car inoperable and little chance of passers-by they set out on foot to the nearest town on the map, the uninviting sounding Blood River, but when they get there they find themselves in a ghost town, alone. That is until a drifter named Joseph appears out of the sweltering desert heat. Charming and menacing at the same time, Joseph may be more than he appears. Blood River is the best kind of psychological horror. Instead of assaulting the viewer with blood (though there's some of that too) it instead slowly turns the screw and ratchets up the tension with a tale of Old Testament vengeance.
Georgia Films/Short Film
Four men come across a mysterious bridge in the woods. The toll is twenty-five cents, but no one has a quarter so they decide to cross anyway. What could it hurt?
African/African American/European/Short Film
A Bronx Dream is an inspiring look into the lives of 32 children from a school in one of the poorest districts of the Bronx, their discovery of Irish dancing, the Irish language and their journey to and passion for a country they have only seen in their imagination.
Disability/Narrative Competition
Buster is the story of a guy that anyone in his right mind would run away from, since Buster spends all his spare time provoking strangers into fights, then refusing to defend himself as they pummel him until they grow bored. The only one close to him is his brother Scott, who himself is trying to get his life together. Buster tries in vain to keep Scott next to him in his care free land of non-tax-paying-abusers, knowing he'll loose him sooner or later to Scott's much prettier and determined girlfriend Jesse. Buster can only beat her at fucking up and does so in a way that's very hard for Scott to ignore. Shot on Super 8, Buster is a film that is as scrappy as its protagonist. Whereas most independent film is moving towards sharper and crisper digital images, the use of an almost forgotten technology is refreshing and entirely appropriate for the story of a character whose mind and psyche is as scratched and grainy as the film it is shot on.
European/Short Film
A man returns home from the hospital after suffering a concussion convinced his father is an impostor. In an attempt to prove his theory he uncovers a more shocking truth.
Short Film
A space captain struggles with his robot crew during an intergalactic mission.
Short Film
A visual poem that speaks in multiple and overlapping ways. As the filmmaker directly grapples with the milky blindness of the visual cataract, the film itself cascades into metaphor and myth.
Short Film
An adaptation of Plato's, 'Allegory of the Cave' animated in clay.
Short Film/Shorts - Animation Competition
A 3D animation about an elderly couple who are on the verge of losing their drought-ravaged vineyard, until a chicken turns up with a comb on its head that looks like the face of Jesus.
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