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WRIF is now a part of JAM – Junction Arts & Media,

building community in the Upper Valley through the media arts.

FINAL DAY! Monday Feb 17

Due to snow, Sunday's line-up will take place MONDAY @ JAM + Briggs Opera House

Coffee & Pastries @JAM

Monday, Feb 17 @JAM

10:30AM-12PM

All are invited to mingle, enjoy pastries and coffee, and view the media arts installations on display (details below) at JAM – Junction Arts & Media before the day's film screenings. Filmmaker and JAM Ex. Director Samantha Davidson Green will be there preceding 12PM screening of her latest short film, "I Believe I'll Go Back Home: Robert Johnson's Copiah County Roots & Living Legacy," filmed in Mississippi and in part in White River Jct at JAM in May 2022!

Feature Film + Short

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Monday, Feb 17 12PM

@BOH

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves. (Zambia/ UK/Ireland/US)

With short doc "I Believe I'll Go Back Home: Robert Johnson's Copiah County Roots & Living Legacy" by Samantha Davidson Green

Feature Film + Short

Far Out: Life On and After the Commune

Monday, Feb 17 3PM

@BOH

In 1968, a group of radical journalists leave the city and politics to live communally as organic farmers. Blending contemporary interviews with a remarkable trove of archival footage,

Far Out tells a lively, inspiring, irreverent and honest story about how these “hippies” not only transformed Vermont and western Massachusetts, but how rural life changed them. Directed by Charles Light (USA). With short 16mm doc "Free Farm" from the Newsreel Collective (1970).

Feature Film + Short

Oh, Canada

Monday, Feb 17 6PM @BOH

Ailing filmmaker Leonard Fife (Richard Gere) wants to tell his life story, unfiltered, before it’s too late. From legendary screenwriter/director, Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, First Reformed) comes an outpouring of lapsed-Catholic guilt, lived lies and denied truth, in which the fragments of history fall together in a mosaic of aspect ratios and film stocks for a stunning visual and editing experience.

(US) With Emerging Filmmaker Winning short "Love of the Land" by Travis Van Alstyne

Feature + Short

To a Land Unknown

Monday, Feb 17 8PM @BOH

In the must-see debut feature of the year, Palestinian filmmaker Mahdi Fleifel orchestrates a breakneck, empathetic thriller set within the modern refugee experience. As Palestinians Chatila and Reda hustle and steal their way through a miserly living in a refugee squat in Athens, they dream of one day opening a café in Germany and reuniting with family members displaced at a camp in Lebanon. A refreshing perspective in today’s discourse, Fleifel is emerging as one of the leading cinematic voices of the Middle Eastern diaspora.

(Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Greece, Netherlands, Germany, France, UK)

With Emerging Filmmaker Winning short "Deepfake Girl" by Annika Murdock 

MEDIA ARTS EXHIBITS

@ JAM – Junction Arts & Media

Media Arts Exhibits

STARLINGS: LEAFLETS

On display throughout the festival

Feb 8 - 16

@JAM – Junction Arts & Media

Experience STARLINGS : LEAFLETS, an interactive video art installation unpacking the IDF's leaflet campaign in Gaza by artist and designer, Saba Maheen (Dartmouth '20) .

With PEACE BIRDS, a community-engaged art action that grew out of a shared desire of Mona Shiber and JuPong Lin, two artist friends who come from lineages of occupation and struggle for sovereignty in Palestine and Taiwan, to transform the agony of witnessing atrocities.

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS!

Filmmaker Talk Back

Filmmaker Friday Workshop

Valentine's Day Party

WRIF coordinators Cedar & Ana

Annabelle & Laura Opening Night

Emerging Filmmaker Brunch

JAM – Junction Arts & Media

Contact us at info@uvjam.org

How does my gift help JAM?

When you make a gift to JAM – Junction Arts & Media, your donation enables JAM to empower all Upper Valley residents to have a creative voice, actively participate in local democracy, and find joy and belonging in the Upper Valley community. JAM is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. Your gift may be tax-deductible.