Get ready for a weekend of nothing but watching movies because the Somewhat North of Boston Film Festival is back for another year.
As you can see from the schedule below, the four-day extravaganza at Red River Theatres is a film lovers paradise.
From feature length productions featuring some well-known actors, actresses and directors, to shorts made right here in New Hampshire, there’s something that everyone will enjoy.
Thursday, Nov. 10 7 p.m.Theater A: American Beer, directed by Paul Kermizian.
In June of 2002, five friends left New York City by minivan and set out across the United States to visit 38 breweries in 40 days.
9 p.m.
Theater B: Post Film Panel
Friday, Nov. 11 5:30 p.m.
Theater A: The Hollywood Shorties, directed by Ryan Steven Green.
The Hollywood Shorties is a documentary on the birth of organized sports in the American dwarf community.
Theater B: Family Friendly Films:
Pushing
Charlie & Poppy
The Royal Cake
Tom
The Knife Salesman
The Model
Answer
Cluttered
Sketchy
Beyond You And I
7:30 p.m.
Theater A: Nathan East: For The Record, directed by Chris Gero.
Nathan East For The Record is a documentary film that takes viewers behind-the-scenes as one of the most influential bass players in modern music recorded his debut solo album last year.
Theater B: Twisted Shorts:
Slink
Son
Grounded
Pheromone
Alchemy
The Trouble With Uncle Max
Snapped
9:30 p.m.
Theater A: I Am Not a Serial Killer, directed by Billy O’Brien.
I Am Not a Serial Killer follows 15-year-old John Wayne Cleaver, a diagnosed sociopath who lives above a mortuary owned by his mother. He fears that he is “fated” to become a serial killer, and so lives by a set of rules designed to keep his homicidal impulses in check. His careful regime of self-denial is threatened when he becomes ensnared in a serial murder case in which he senses a connection with the killer.
Theater B: Friday Night Wrap Up:
Carry On
Window Dressing
Your Secret
My Phenix City Story
In Exile
Mere Players
Born Again
Saturday, Nov. 12 10 a.m.
Theater B: Filmmaker meeting with New Hampshire Film Office
11 a.m.Theater A: A Day In The Life, directed by Nick Edgar.
Pats Peak, a small ski area in N.H., gives you a behind-the-scenes tour of what it takes to run a mountain.
Theater B: $5 Block A:
Window Dressing
Solipsism
Reach
Noon
Theater A: Bach Star Cafe: A girl, a dad… and some coffee, directed bySusan Rockefeller.
Bach Star Cafe follows a dedicated ensemble of Longy School of Music graduate students as they master Bach’s irreverent Coffee Cantata.
Theater B: $5 Block B:
Dear In The Headlights
No Sunday West Of Newton
1 p.m.
Theater A: From Hurricane To Climate Change: A Region Responds, directed by Douglas Challenger.
This just-finished, 39-minute documentary film describes how climate change touches down in southwestern New Hampshire and what towns and communities in that region are doing in response. The film integrates the voices of experts like Bill McKibben and ordinary citizens and shows the positive steps being taken at the local level to address this looming environmental challenge.
Theater B: $5 Block C
Mere Players
My Phenix City Story
Carry On
2 p.m.
Theater A: We’re Not White, directed by Imad Hassan.
A film by Arab American comedian and writer Amer Zahr, We’re Not White explores Arab American identity and the community’s existence as legally ‘white’ on the US Census Form.
Theater B: $5 Block D
Your Secret
The Model
Tom
The Knife Salesman
3 p.m.
Theater A: Forgotten Farms, directed by Dave Simonds. Sap Season, directed by Nicholas Czerula.
Forgotten Farms examines class divisions and cultural divides in our farm and food communities.
Every spring at Kearsarge Gore Farm sap is harvested from the surrounding maple trees to create maple syrup and maple sugar products. Sap Season is an inside look at the process and the people at Kearsarge Gore farm.
Theater B: Short Foreign Films:
Date Night
Rachel
Reach
Pheromone
Son
Snapped
In Exile
5 p.m.
Theater A: Running The 184, directed by Greg Lassik.
One man’s journey to run across the entire state of New Jersey becomes a greater cause than he could ever imagine when more people join the run, and he inspires others to get off the couch and change their lives.
Theater B: Past, Present, & Future:
No Sunday West Of Newton
Split Ticket
Pushing
Cluttered
Help
Beyond You And I
7 p.m.
Theater A: The Hollars, directed by John Krasinski.
A man (John Krasinski) returns home to his dysfunctional family after learning that his mother has a brain tumor.
Theater B: Seven Chances, directed by Buster Keaton, with live music by Jeff Rapsis, and GSM Live at the Barley House, directed by Rob Azevedo.
9 p.m.
Theater A: Gimme Danger, directed by Jim Jarmusch.
Emerging from Ann Arbor, Mich., amidst a countercultural revolution, The Stooges’ powerful and aggressive style of rock ‘n’ roll blew a crater in the musical landscape of the late 1960s.
Theater B: Live or Death:
Here Lies Joe
Born Again
Date Night
Rachel
Help
The Trouble With Uncle Max
Sunday, Nov. 13 1:30 p.m.
Theater A: Kids Event:
A Town Called Panic – Double Fun
The Royal Cake
3 p.m.
Theater A: N.H. Encore of Shorts and Awards:
Charlie & Poppy
Here Lies Joe
Sketchy
Dear In The Headlights
Sap Season
Answer
Solipsism
Split Ticket
