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June 3-12, 2016
Detroit, USA
What’s It All About?
A global film festival created for the people of south-eastern Michigan, the Cinetopia International Film Festival (CIFF) features some of the best films from the world’s renowned film festivals, including Sundance, Cannes, Venice, and Toronto. This year, CIFF features 55 films and more than 120 screenings over the course of 10 days. The festival will also host a special open-air screening of Only Yesterday on the north lawn of the DIA. The global festival will host films from China, Africa, the UK, the Middle East, Israel and more.
INDIAN CONNECT
Leena Yadav’s Parched has been shortlisted as an entry from India. It is a bitter-sweet tale of four ordinary women, from the parched rural landscape of Gujarat. It highlights their inner struggle to face their own demons, their individual boundaries and their own personal war. It is a drama that sheds light on female subjugation and liberation.
FEATURE FILMS
Baba Joon
Black Mountain Poets
Captain Fantastic
Closet Monster
Complete Unknown
Contemporary Color
Fatima
Fantasia
Girls Lost
Goat
Harry Benson: Shoot First
Holy Hell
Home Care
Hunky Dory
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Johnnie To’s Office
Landfill Harmonic
Last Summer
Little Men
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Lady And The Tramp
Ma Ma
Maya Angelou And Still I Rise
Michael Jackson Sing-Along &
Dance Party
Minions
Miss Stevens
Necktie Youth
Just Another Version Of You
Only Yesterday
Operator
Parched
Presenting Princess Shaw
Rams
Sembene!
Sonita
Suited
Summertime
Thank you for Bombing
The Alchemist Cookbook
The Eyes of My Mother
The Fits
The Legacies Project
The Lure
This Changes Everything
Trapped
Uncle Howard
SPECIAL PROGRAMME
Arab Film Festival
The Arab Film Festival is one of the longest-running programs at the Arab American National Museum, and aims to bring the best films from the Arab World and Arab-American community to the doorstep of metro Detroit as part of the festival.
This year, they will screen the following films:
As I Open My Eyes (À Peine J’ouvre Les Yeux)
I Am Nojoom, Age 10 And Divorced (Ana Nojoom Bent Alashera Wamotalagah)
On The Bride’s Side
Shake the Dust
Speed Sisters
What About Tomorrow (Bennesben Labokra Chou)
Zinzana
Leonard Maltin and the Wonderful World of Disney
Renowned film critic, historian and creator of the Walt Disney Treasure series Leonard Maltin will talk about the iconic works of Walt Disney and his talented company of illustrators, artists and animators following these screenings:
Tyrus
Bambi
Classic Disney Shorts
