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- Frictions develop when Yisroel "Izzy" Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish-born Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area art-world iconoclast named Harry Kierk seeks to destroy a lifetime's worth of his own work. As the visit progresses, Izzy and Marek discover for the first time that complex historical baggage impinges on their curious friendship and, soon, they begin to understand why Kierk is driven towards destruction. Continued encounters with Marek's vaguely anti-Semitic cousin Irek (who is their only gateway to contact Kierk) only compound these tensions.
- A husband-and-wife pair of retired cult deprogrammers experience marital strife when their past catches up with them.
- Fourteen year-old Ben Fries has a cult following, a 22-year-old girlfriend and mortal enemy named Rick Algarosa.
- In the Womb of the Caudron is an essay-style film that takes you inside one of the most sacred, ancient and enduring religious rituals in the world. The karaha is a relatively obscure agricultural ritual performed in remote rural India by low-caste priests in concert with high-caste brahmins, dramatizing a shifting and sharing of powers. The ritual is a fusion of caste cultures, memorializing the identity-defining moment when the low caste Yadav family rejected the worship of high caste Indra, in favor of the low caste Krishna, the cow herding incarnation of Vishnu. The viewer is bombarded with a veritable lollapalooza of sights and sounds from the ritual itself -- a ritual that has been legally banned throughout India.
- In a working-class Pittsburgh neighborhood called Swissvale, filmmaker Daniel Kremer grew up on Woodstock Avenue, the same street where his mother's family had lived since the 1900's. In this essay documentary, Kremer returns from his current city San Francisco to revisit his old neighborhood, specifically the now abandoned, boarded-up house where he spent his childhood. Between unfortunately rare visits with his last remaining grandparent (now stricken with Alzheimer's), fond reminiscences of Woodstock Avenue as it once was, and a memorably hilarious dinner table debate about the sanctity of Heinz ketchup, Kremer meditates on how his childhood neighborhood crystallized his intense cinephilia, shaped his life's work, and how memories of lost places, in all their fragility, harden the shell of one's identity in ways we can never escape.
- A once-beloved San Francisco jazz singer who has lost her singing voice sets out on a seemingly aimless road trip across the American West, following a nasty breakup with a married Polish orchestra conductor. After showing up unannounced at her ex-manager's hotel room at the Telluride Jazz Festival, she wanders from state to state looking to put many of the pieces of her life back together.
- David Cronenberg (the well-known Canadian director's American film-student counterpart) is making an ambitious "neorealist video" feature entitled "Wireless Internet"-and the ultimate toll it takes on his state of mind as the realities of the "wireless internet virus" morph into something well beyond the realm of fiction. Set to the music of A Silver Mt. Zion.