2018 Online New England Film Festival

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Out Again

Sep 2018

Out Again
2017 | Directed by Robin Cloud

Cat visits her parents for the weekend and is confronted by her mother’s inability to remember one key detail.

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The Real Thing

Sep 2018

2017 | Directed by Brandon Kelley

The trip home for a Soldier is surreal. Things have changed. The people are older and don’t understand what he’s been through. The scenery is different and sometimes home doesn’t feel like home. For one soldier the ultimate change is in his child. While on his tour of duty, his son has transitioned to be his daughter. He has never met her in person, and today he is coming home to surprise her.

For his daughter, life is full of obstacles and challenges. The people are curious and don’t understand what she’s been through. Her parents’ attitudes are still adjusting, and sometimes home doesn’t feel like home. For Allie, a rough day at school ends with at surprise. Her father is home from the army, and he’s standing in her room.

Parental love is unconditional. It transcends a person’s memory of their child. The Real Thing is an infinitely stronger bond.

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Liberty and Justice: A Cautionary Tale in the Land of the Free

Sep 2018

2018 | Directed by Salley Mavor and Rob Goldsborough

What happens when a pair of lost citizens wander in the deep dark woods in search of a leader? In this satirical take of the traditional folktale, “Hansel and Gretel”, the wordless story follows protagonists Liberty and Justice as they negotiate the challenges of today’s unique political landscape, while being shadowed by a persistent Twitter bird.

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A Visit

Sep 2018

2017 | Directed by Robert Fritz

A woman comes home after 18 years.

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Proceed

Sep 2018

2018 | Directed by Olivia Dalfino

This film is about a teenager’s journey through the 5 stages of grief, and how she overcame minor tragedy. The main character’s goal is to reach the final stage; acceptance, and to finally conquer her grievances. The film itself is a metaphor– the depression scene is revolved around a bathtub– which depicts the feeling of drowning, falling, almost being frozen in time.

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Nobel Prize

Sep 2018

2018 | Directed by Anthony Ambrosino

An unsuspecting customer falls into a web of words when a clerk decides to make her day more interesting.

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No. 7 on the List

Sep 2018

2017 | Directed by Bryant Naro and Meagan Frappiea

The small town of Springfield, VT used to have a thriving machine tool industry. Did its outsized significance in WWII make it a target for Hitler? Three generations of Springfielders weigh in.

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Winter’s Watch

Sep 2018

2017 | Directed by Brian Bolster

Located ten miles off the coast of mainland New England, the Oceanic Hotel is the grand, yet far-from-modern home to the thousands of guests who brave the choppy seas to visit during the warmer spring and summer months. Off-season, the hotel and the 43-acre Star Island on which it sits is home to Alexandra de Steiguer – its winter caretaker who braves the colder, darker months of inclement weather by embracing the solitude and finding inspiration, and life, in what would otherwise be considered the ‘bones’ of winter.

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Elysia

Sep 2018

Elysia
2018 | Directed by Noah LePage

A fantasy film about a young girl’s journey through the afterlife.