title	time	sum	Dir.	img	award	location	premiere	Country	Program
Balloons Go Pop	11:00am	Interesting psychological portrait of a middle-aged loner tempted by his disturbing fantasies and need for control.	dir. Van Ditthavong		Honorable Mention	Laemmle's Monica 4 Santa Monica, CA	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	SHORTS PROGRAM 1
The Real Me	11:00am	An intense first kiss between best friends Shaz and Penny brings up issues of sexuality,religion and race in this thoughtful UK short.	dir. Marilyn Friday		BEST GLBT FILM	Laemmle's Monica 4 Santa Monica, CA	WORLD PREMIERE	UK	SHORTS PROGRAM 1
Dumpling	11:00am	An ex-boxer takes his only son to a prostitute for his 21st birthday when he suspects that he might be gay, cultures collide and the two men face off violently in this touching and compassionate film.	dir. Wesley Du		Best Dramatic Short Film	Laemmle's Monica 4 Santa Monica, CA	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	SHORTS PROGRAM 1
Grounded	11:00am	An astronaut's journey through space ends on a hostile planet in this technically stunning Sc-Fi short. Themes of aging, inheritance, paternal approval, generational behaviors are explored against this ethereal backdrop.	dir. Barrett Meeker / Kevin Margo		BEST SHORT FILM Best Sound	Laemmle's Monica 4 Santa Monica, CA	Official Selection	USA	SHORTS PROGRAM 1
The Lift	11:00am	This beautifully shot and wonderfully acted film tells the story of a free-spirited woman on a cross-country drive in 1928, who reluctantly gave a stranger a lift. After a violent incident does the passenger return Mary's favor and reveals himself to be America's most notorious gangster.	dir. Lyndon Barrois		JB Blanc - Best Actor in a Short Film Best Cinematography	Laemmle's Monica 4 Santa Monica, CA	Official Selection	USA	SHORTS PROGRAM 1
Only Sighing	12:30pm	Adrienne Rusk gives a complex and immaculate performance as a failed actress turned producer, who travels to Las Vegas to track down a missing actor and return him to the production that is waiting on him.	dir. Brett Grisham		BEST ACTRESS - Adrienne Rusk	Laemmle's Monica 4 Santa Monica, CA	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Q&A with Cast and Crew after screening.
Peach Plum Pear	2:15pm	Jesse, a troubled young man, and his friend Will, find themselves stranded in Nebraska when their car is stolen. During their stay, they meet Dora, who teaches Jesse surprising lessons about himself in this film festival favorite starring Pretty Little Liars star Tyler Blackburn.	dir. Alana Morshead		Q&A with cast and crew following the screening.	Laemmle's Monica 4 Santa Monica, CA	SPECIAL EVENT SCREENING	USA
Henry Jaglom's Festival In Cannes	5:10pm	Henry Jaglom’s film “Festival in Cannes” is a unique treasure, analyzing film as both art and business, he uses a semi-documentary style to create a hyper-realistic insider's view of the film industry, populated with interesting characters, including an actress (Gretta Scacci) who comes to Cannes, looking for a producer for her personal project, but finds herself torn between art and commerce. With Ron Silver and Jenny Gabrielle. A Q&A with the director follows the screening.	dir. Henry Jaglom		Q&A with director Henry Jaglom after the screening.	Laemmle's Monica 4 Santa Monica, CA	SPECIAL EVENT SCREENING	USA
IFS FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS CEREMONY	8:00pm	Over 30 Awards Of Merit given out to the best Filmmakers and Screenwriters of 2012! Red Carpet Photo Ceremony from 5pm to 730pm. News and Staff photographers on site to take press and glamour photogaphy that is uploaded daily to Getty, Wire Image, and major news outlets.			2012 IFS Awards Ceremony & Screenplay Competition Awards Presentation.	Laemmle's Monica 4 Santa Monica, CA
The Last Push	9:00pm	IFS BEST PICTURE WINNER FOR 2012 A psychological masterpiece of perfect editing and pace, wrapped in science fiction decor, this beautiful film uses the silence of the cosmos as a way to look at the feelings beneath, in this story of an mission to Jupiter's moon that is cut short when disaster strikes. Starring Best Actor Winner Khary Payton, Brian Baumgartner from The Office and Sci-Fi legend Lance Henriksen (Aliens, Millennium, AVP, X-Files)	dir. Eric Hayden		IFS BEST PICTURE WINNER BEST ACTOR Khary Payton	Laemmle's Monica 4 Santa Monica, CA	Q&A with cast and crew following the screening.	USA
Lesson Plan	10:30pm	In 1967, 10th grade teacher Ron Jones told his students he could give them power & success using 'Strength Through Discipline' and famous "Third Wave Experiment" was born. Within just one week, 200 students joined this exercise in fascism that took on a life of its own; the students unwittingly replicated the root behaviors of the Third Reich. The Third Wave story is required reading in much of Europe, and last year a narrative film was produced in Germany (Die Welle) and premiered at Sundance. One of the directors is an original member of that Third Wave class.	dir. Philip Neel / David Jeffery		BEST DIRECTOR BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM	Laemmle's Monica 4 Santa Monica, CA	Q&A with cast, crew, and the subject of the documentary, Ron Jones, following the screening.	USA

 

title	time	sum	Dir.	img	award	location	premiere	Country	Program
Emancipation	5:00pm	Character study of man stabbed in the eye by his ex-wife and trying to put his life back together, filled with great performances and perfect pacing.	dir. Philipp Müller-Dorn		BEST DRAMATIC FILM	IFS Theatre at Belevarado Studios	Official Selection	Germany
Hombre Maquina	7:00pm	Examining the use of human physical force to perform work in the twenty-first century, this film examines the capital city of Bangladesh, where the 'machine men' execute different physical works, a mass of millions of people who become the driving force behind the city.	dir. Alfonso Moral  / Roser Corella		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room B	WORLD PREMIERE	Spain	SHORTS PROGRAM 2
La 3eme Voie	7:00pm	At his robber's hideout Jerome, who recently escaped from a high security prison, is restlessly waiting in this huge disused factory outside Paris as the Police operation designed to put him back in jail is amped up and things begin to spin out of control in this action thriller.	dir. Jean-Michel Tari		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room B	NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE	France	SHORTS PROGRAM 2
My Mother The Flatiron	7:00pm	A film for the directors late mother, a dancer 9who loved the Flatiron building0 in New York City. A poem that investigating the persistence of vision in experiments with the physical structure and limitations of motion photography, sight, unintelligible forms and how the contrast between these can be used to create mood and emotion.	dir. Lewis Smithingham		BEST EXPERIMENTAL SHORT FILM	IFS Screening Room B	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	SHORTS PROGRAM 2
Accordo di Grigio	7:00pm	A difficult job provokes an internal struggle. Meanwhile, various borderline characters stop by, in this short film of adaption and survival.	dir. Jacopo Fontana		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room B	NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE	Italy	SHORTS PROGRAM 2
Tidy Up	8:00pm	A Japanese brother and sister quarrel over their deceased mother's house that has become a hoarder's paradise, as the sister seems to want to move home to continuing her mothers living habits.	dir. Satsuki Okawa		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room B	WEST COAST PREMIERE	Japan	SHORTS PROGRAM 3
French Exchange	8:00pm	A fresh coming of age story about a geeky teenager spending a day with his sexy teacher on an foreign exchange trip. Our hero finds himself at a heated family lunch with a need to impress. As his mom constantly phones to check up, he knows is not going to be an easy day, but he'll certainly learn a few things…This film reminded us of another festival classic, the 1990’s short film Safari Holiday, and that is a big compliment around these parts.	dir. Jacob Perlmutter		BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM	IFS Screening Room B	WORLD PREMIERE	France, UK	SHORTS PROGRAM 3
Mr. Pleasant	8:00pm	Fantastic performances and a realistic directing touch dominate this tale of a weekend in the life of a college student in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan in the early 1980s. Red, a working-class kid goes to an out-of-town party with his housemate, has a disastrous one-night stand and an awkward ride home as he reconsiders his life.	dir. John Rice		Honorable Mention Ensemble Performance	IFS Screening Room B	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	SHORTS PROGRAM 3
Sick	9:30pm	Our favorite comedy of the year SICK is a teenage party romp with heart and intellect. James and Rachel are best friends in high school, set to have a party, and a sure thing gets invited to the party, so James has only one thing on his mind, not knowing that Rachel's feelings for him are more than a friends. Themes that could easily fall into cliché are done with intellect and fresh sensitivity. We wish Hollywood still made films this honest and funny.	dir. Nick Danger		BEST COMEDY FEATURE FILM BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Lucy Fensom	IFS Theater at Belevarado Studios.	WORLD PREMIERE	Australia

 

title	time	sum	Dir.	img	award	location	premiere	Country	Program
Yo No Lo Quiero Hacer	5:00pm	An internal dialogue with one mans madness, when sleep is seen is a sickness and murder a mistake.	dir. Jorge Cantos		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	Spain	Shorts Program 4
The Blink of a Cursor	5:00pm	An experimental drama revolving around a boy experiencing of his own realities from the stimulus of the world, where layers of suffocation create struggles to overcome.	dir. Navin Chandra Ganesh			IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	Official Selection	India	Shorts Program 4
The Clone and The Tree of Life	5:00pm	A surreal and fantastic animated journey that takes the viewer into it's hypnotic travels to deep space and back to fight armies of Mad Scientist clones.	dir. Tak Salmastyan		BEST ANIMATED FILM	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Shorts Program 4
Freak	5:00pm	Randall, a hard working and fragile soul faces his inner demons buried behind a drag queen persona while pursuing dreams of a lifetime, in this charming, funny and human short film.	dir. Eric Casaccio		Best GLBT Short Film	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	Official Selection	USA	Shorts Program 4
Sleeping Dogs	6:00pm	A father haunted by visions of his own violent death, sets out on a journey to find his son and reconcile with him. But past events re-emerge in the form of an old friend with an ax to grind, and the visions of death become more and more menacing, leading to a showdown with the past in this beautifully written, shot thriller filled with pitch perfect performances.	dir. Michael O'Connor		BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Hans-Christoph Michel	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	Official Selection	Germany
Horror Movies Suck	7:30pm	Horror Movies Suck takes the cliché’s of the horror genre and turns them on their head through satire and homage. Fans and non-fans of horror films can find something here to connect and laugh with as this silly comedy unfolds.	dir. JohnMark Triplett		Best Comedy Short Film	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	Official Selection	USA	Horror Shorts Program
The Last Vial	7:30pm	Hank and Maddie are the last of their kind on earth, surviving as hybrid Zombies by taking a serum that keeps them from converting, they have provided a way to blend in human beings. But, the serum keeping them alive is down to one vial.	dir. Jorge Preciado		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Horror Shorts Program
Blood Moon	7:30pm	Under a Blood Moon, Melinda heads out on a first date with charming Jonathan unaware that she'll soon find herself in the cross hairs of a dangerous lunatic who will discover he's not the only one with a dark agenda in this well done Horror Short.	dir. Diana Valentine		Best Horror Short Film	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Horror Shorts Program
Below Zero	8:45pm	Based on the true story of the films screenwriter, a once successful writer with writer's block arranges to be locked inside a meat cooler, with only meals and his imagination to inspire. As the temperature drops and the days pass, the lines between reality and fiction blur, as the script comes dangerously to life. Starring Edward Furlong, Michael Berryman, and Kristin Booth.	dir. Justin Thomas Ostensen		BEST HORROR FEATURE FILM	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE	Canada	HORROR PROGRAM
Hangi Film	10:45pm	Efe,Omer,Engin and Apo have concerns about what to be? Their only moment of peace and serenity is when they play the Which Movie? Game with each other...	dir. Egemen Sancak		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room A at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	Turkey

title	time	sum	Dir.	img	award	location	premiere	Country	Program
Almost Runaways	3:00pm	A professionally filmed, heartstring-pulling short story of a young boy who gets the chance of his life to run away from home with the girl of his dreams...but what to bring?	dir. Josh Staman		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Shorts Program 6
Summit	3:00pm	People from very different backgrounds meet outside the realm of normal social confines in the short film Summit. A middle class girl from the UK, meets a Texas kid on the side of an isolated mountain, away from civilization, and their interaction examines fear and prejudice of strangers we carry with us.	dir. Medeni Griffiths		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE	UK	Shorts Program 6
Missed Call	3:00pm	Missed Call is a story about a man who wakes up to discover he has slept through his own wedding. Attempting to reconcile, he leaves a series of messages that get more embarrassing, and reveal his latent doubts about marriage, causing him to examine himself in this charming and funny short film.	dir. Justin Wells		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Shorts Program 6
First Date	3:00pm	Hilarious short film about a boys nervous first date with the girl of his dreams, only to find that things go horribly wrong as they can't even seem to leave her front yard.	dir. Tom Murphy		Honorable Mention for Comedic Direction and Performance	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Shorts Program 6
Family Friend	3:00pm	A don't miss short film, filled with offbeat performances and interesting direction. Family Friend is a mysterious drama about a man trying to reach a friend, and instead finding his friends invalid son and precocious daughter (who may not be telling the truth about her fathers whereabouts or anything else).	dir. Brad Cooper		Honorable Mention for Dramatic Direction and Performance	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Shorts Program 6
Los Angeles 10101 - 11am	3:00pm	The third in a series of short brilliant short films chronicling dating in Los Angeles with a cringing familiarity and honest tone.	dir. David Heinz		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Shorts Program 6
Menschenliebe	4:00pm	Alexander Tuschinski's work of comedic genius is the reason why film festival organisations exist, to discover works of such wit and hilarity. Made for almost nothing, this look at dating psyche of the college male resembles the early work of Woody Allen in the best possible way, check out this film today or next month at the IFS Showcase of Alexander's film work.	dir. Alexander Tuschinski		SPECIAL EVENT SCREENING	IFS Screening Room A at Belevarado Studios	Dont miss your chance to see this unrelased and undistributed masterpiece.	Germany
Gu Yeo-Rum-Eui Ba-Da	5:30pm	A father and son, roles now reversed, as one becomes the caretaker of the other, execute a delicate dance at the edge of the sea.	dir. Jaehee Lee		BEST STUDENT FILM	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE	South Korea	Shorts Program 7
Overfished	5:30pm	Scientists predict that by the year 2048, there will be no more fish in the Pacific Ocean. Filmed in five countries that border the Pacific, 'Overfished' explores each nations unique challenges that threaten the hundreds of millions of people that depend on the Pacific for survival. Narrated by Daryl Hannah.	dir. Brian Cavallaro		BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Shorts Program 7
Arms Length	5:30pm	Story of a young man named Gray (Jordan Stone), who struggles to find what makes himself truly happy in life. His relationship with Lauren (Jennifer Ward) is at its breaking point in this strong short film.	dir. Kim Beavers / Leandro DiMonriva		BEST EDITING	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Shorts Program 7
RED CARPET PRESS PHOTOS	6:00pm	Press and Staff photographers on hand to take press pictures for major news outlets.				Belevarado Studios
The Last Walk	7:15pm	The Last Walk features the British performance artist Stuart Brisley. What starts off as an ordinary walk in the park for Stuart and his dog, soon becomes an account of witnessing a public suicide. The Last Walk is visually driven by hand-processed 16mm film that depicts a fragment of reflected light in Christmas-lit, winter trees. A perfect film.	dir. Jordan Baseman		BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	UK	Shorts Program 8
Washed In Blue	7:15pm	A riveting look at the struggles and dissolution of a romantic relationship, in this smart short film filled with strong performances.	dir. Thomas Fennario		Honorable Mention - Directing	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	AMERICAN PREMIERE	Canada	Shorts Program 8
B'Hurst	7:15pm	Excellent performances anchor this short film about a girl, with family absent and childhood friends departing, is desperate to keep her lover, an ex-con who is leaving to Atlanta for a fresh start.	dir. Alex Portugal		BEST ACTRESS in a Short Film Hilary Bettis -	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Shorts Program 8
Heat Wave	7:15pm	Eye candy of girls sunbathing counterbalances an all too realistic call from a confused, young ex-boyfreind that veers between arrogance and humiliation in this fun short film.	dir. Joey Grossfield		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Shorts Program 8
Fractional	8:00pm	A psychiatrist wakes up tied in an abandoned warehouse with no food, water or chance of escape to five days of mental and physical torture by a former patient who is not of sound mental capacity…in this sharp and professional thriller.	dir. Malcolm Deegan		BEST SCREENPLAY Malcolm Deegan	IFS Screening Room A at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	Ireland
Donkey Love	Ten Fifteen pm	This goofy, controversial shock-comedy-documentary about the tradition of farmers in a certain South American country having sex (and falling in love with) donkeys. The fast and loose style begs the question of the documentarian's sincerity, but that adds another level of intrigue to the experience! Mature Audiences Only. Not For The Easily Offended.	dir. Daryl Stoneage		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	Canada, USA

 

title	time	sum	Dir.	img	award	location	premiere	Country	Program
West Is West	4:00pm	Sequel to the internationally acclaimed and successful film EAST IS EAST,: the film WEST IS WEST is the coming of age story of both 15 year old Sajid and of his father, 60 year old George Khan.	dir. Andy De Emmony		Honorable Mention - Ensemble Performance	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WEST COAST PREMIERE	India, UK
Flying Doves	5:45pm	In exploring the lonely world that is her home, 10-year-old Olivia loves looking up on her father's release doves. She lives with her father and older sister but is continuously witnessing a somewhat hidden incestuous relationship between them.	dir. Marie Grahtø Sørensen		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room A at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	Denmark	Shorts Program 9
Forever After	5:45pm	On a vacation driving through the open countryside, a young couple encounters mysterious phenomena with an intelligent and possibly threatening nature behind. In these moments of sudden danger and the unknown attitude, their attitude to each other is about to change.	dir. Vitaly Verlov		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room A at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	Russian Federation	Shorts Program 9
Super Spree	5:45pm	A stock room clerk combats the butchers, cashiers, and his lazy boss, in an undying effort to complete his workload, only to be 'pants’ed' by one of his foes. This is the final straw. He pulls a gun out and goes postal. The first shot is fired, but instead of a bullet a giant paintball shoots from the barrel in this comedy short film.	dir. Matt Post		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room A at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Shorts Program 9
Angela	5:45pm	Peter struggles to find emotional relief from years of taking care of his disabled wife. When invited for a short vacation, he takes the opportunity to recapture a sense of normalcy, in this professional and profound short student film.	dir. Joel Soh		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room A at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA	Shorts Program 9
Tilt	6:45pm	In this powerful feature film TILT, we witness a love story set during the most turbulent years of the Bulgarian transition from communism to a pro-Western democracy. Daredevil Stash and the rebellious Becky fall in love with each other. When Stash and his friends get caught by the police for some small-time crimes such as selling German porn tapes, Katev, Becky’s father, a Militia boss, gets personally involved with the case in order to keep the two loves apart.	dir. Viktor Chouchkov		BEST INTERNATIONAL Feature Film	IFS Screening Room A at Belevarado Studios	LOS ANGELES PREMIERE	Bulgaria, Germany
Inventors & Vendors	9:00pm	Two young inventors fight the corruption of their original ideas by middlemen and businessman. On their journey, they encounter countless forms of bureaucracy at play as they struggle to bring their product to market s the interested parties grow out of control, and powerful men are lost to childish antics.	dir. Peter Koutsogeorgas		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room B at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	USA

 

title	time	sum	Dir.	img	award	location	premiere	Country	Program
Achante	6:00pm	An introduction to Haitian Vodou as told by Vodouisants, Achante is an immersive image-driven portrait of spiritual practices in Haiti.	dir. Emily McMehen		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room A at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	Haiti, UK	Shorts Program 10
Blue Dive	6:00pm	As Selim, a diver bewitched by the sea, dies on a hospital bed, and as Mokhtar, a failed painter, contemplates the color of death. A nearby nurse, remembers her father's drowning. Set in the Mediterranean, this story of a brief encounter, compares death to the sea.	dir. Mostafa Youssef		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room A at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	Egypt	Shorts Program 10
DesideriuM	6:00pm	A dreamlike love, lust, and human relations story . A new and surreal movie experience.	dir. Santiago Muluk		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room A at Belevarado Studios	WORLD PREMIERE	Argentina	Shorts Program 10
Stage Left	7:15pm	A history of theater in San Francisco, beginning with the founding of the San Francisco Actor's Workshop in 1952 and extending through 2010. The film traces a tradition of experimentation and political consciousness that are the hallmarks of San Francisco's theater legacy. It argues that the Bay Area theater community is unique and has had a lasting influence on theater throughout the world.	dir. Austin Forbord		Official Selection	IFS Screening Room A at Belevarado Studios	LOS ANGELES PREMIERE	USA
IFS CLOSING NIGHT PARTY	8:00pm	Dj's and Dancing at Belevarado Studios				Belevarado Studios
Below Zero	9:30pm	Based on the true story of the films screenwriter, a once successful writer with writer's block arranges to be locked inside a meat cooler, with only meals and his imagination to inspire. As the temperature drops and the days pass, the lines between reality and fiction blur, as the script comes dangerously to life. Starringn Edward Furlong, Michael Berryman, and Kristin Booth.	dir. Justin Thomas Ostensen		BEST HORROR FEATURE FILM	IFS Screening Room A at Belevarado Studios	FESTIVAL CLOSING FILM	Canada