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this years films
Mofetas
Taxi
Steep
Traces of the trade
Traumalogia
Charcoal Traffic
By The Numbers
The Equinox
Mrs. Brown's Beauty
The Last Great Debater
Ezra
No Es Una Buena Idea
Hood Games
FATHERS OF THE SPORT
KINGS OF THE EVENING
Elliott
Passion of power
Hit Run and Score
Old Son
Bay Area Cyphers
Options
Roses Have Thorns
The Affair
Walking on Eggshells
Manilatown is in the heart
Teplitz: the Tyranny of Paradox
Inventos Hip Hop Cubano
Made in Japan
Take the Gay Train
Algeny-the genetic factor,
My Worst Nightmare
Koryo Saram- Unreliable People
The James Baldwin Anthology
Miss Shellaghas Miniskirt
Boletos Por Favor
Public Enemy: Welcome to the Terrodome
Broke Joe Needs Love Too
OIFF FILM SCHEDULE |
The 7th Oakland International Film Festival
DAY 1
Thursday, October 9
6:00 -8:15
TAXI
The city taxi drivers have followed a course on kindness. If you do not make the grade, you will not arrive at your destination.
Directed by
Telmo Esnal
4 minutes
STEEP
A woman’s day out shopping becomes far more complex than usual when she daydreams about the day when, as a child, someone used a racial slur against her for the first time.
Directed by
Adetoro Makinde
6 minutes
MOFETAS
Night falls at Tange’s port. Karim and Aziz wait in silence. Or at least they try to...
Directed by
Ines Ensiso
10 minutes
FEATURED PRESENTATION
TRACES OF THE TRADE
Filmmaker Katrina Brown discovers her New England ancestors were the largest slave traders in US history. Traces of the trade follows Browne and nine fellow DeWolf descendants as they travel from Rhode Island to Ghana and Cuba on a trip that brings them face -to-face with history and legacy of New England’s hidden enterprise.
Directed by
Katrina C. Brown
87 minutes
The 7th Oakland International Film Festival
DAY 1
Thursday, October 9
9:00-11:15
CHARCOAL TRAFFIC
A dramatic story of two brothers trapped in a murderous cycle of environmental and cultural devastation in Somalia. First fictional film shot in Somalia in over 15 years. All local cast, no previous acting experience in Somali with English subtitles.
Directed by
Nathan Collett
7 minutes
BY THE NUMBERS
Claude Boyarson, a lonely and socially awkward urbanite is having a hard time finding someone who understands his eccentric personality and his unordinary lifestyle. Obsesses with compiling numbers.
Directed by
Collen C. Wiley
9 minutes
TRAUMALOGIA
At the wedding of Antonio, the eldest of a five-sibling family, his father has a heart attack. The wedding is interrupted and the whole family goes to the hospital, where all the traumas and miseries appear during a tense night wait.
Directed by
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
23 minutes
FEATURED PRESENTATION
THE EQUINOX
In a community where real men are increasingly hard to find, 18 year old Malachi joins a ‘rites of passage’ program to learn the true definition of manhood. What he learns is put to the test when his girlfriend resists his growth, his mother abuses his father, his sister’s provocative lifestyle endangers her safety, and he’s asked to join a revolution against the local radio station. The film makes it plain that gangsters, pimps and players have nothing to do with real manhood.
Directed by
Baayan Bakari
97 minutes
The 7th Oakland International Film Festival
Day 2
Friday, October 10
6:00-8:15
NO ES UNA BUENA
IDEA
Today is a very important day for María, and she has to feel her father by her side to face it bravely.
Directed by
Ugo Sanz
4 minutes
MRS BROWN’S BEAUTY
12 -minute documentary short featuring the artwork of 79 -year old Inez Brown who did not discover her artistic talent until the age of 74.
Directed by
Nancy Thompson
12 minutes
EZRA
The first film to give an African perspective on the disturbing new phenomenon of child soldiers in the continent’s recent civil wars. Ezra is not a dramatic recreation or a political history of Sierra Leone’s decade -long civil strife, but a remarkably complex psychological study, of one child soldier-how he was brutalized and how he might heal.
Directed
by
Newton I. Aduaka
110 minutes
Friday, October 10
9:00- 11:15
HOOD GAMES
Hood Games began in 2005 in Deep East Oakland from the minds of Artist K-Dub & Pro-Skater Karl Watson, the Hood Games has become a urban skateboard and youth art festival spreading events from the Bay to Los Angeles. One goal of the Hood Games family is to build a "one of a kind" Skate & Mural Arts park at Historic De Fermery Park in West Oakland.
Directed by
Keith Williams
15 minutes
A GOOD DAY TO BE BLACK AND SEXY
A between-the-sheets peek at Black Love and Sexuality, presented through a set of six interconnected vignettes that unfold in a single day in Los Angeles.
Directed by
Dennis Dortch
92 minutes
The 7th Oakland International Film Festival
DAY 3
Saturday, October 11
6:00 – 8:15
FATHERS OF THE SPORT
Feature -length documentary chronicling the history and lives of many “legends” and unsung heroes who dominated the playground basketball courts of New York, Philly, DC, and Chicago in the early years of the sport and who made it the multi-billion dollar spectator sport it is today.
Directed by
Xavier “X: Mitchell
89 minutes
Saturday, October 11
9:00-11:15
ELLIOTT
“Elliott,” portrays the journey of a troubled ten attempting to seek solace and comfort within the realm of literature. Through his beloved novels, and healthy imagination, he is able to temporary connect with his mother, stand up to bullies, and court the girl of his dreams.
Directed by
Devon Perez
5 minutes
KINGS OF THE EVENING
Homer Hobbs, after two years in jail, returns to a bleak urban town caught in the depths of The Great Depression - no jobs, no prospects, no hope – where he is thrown together with four strangers, each struggling to survive as they scratch and scheme to dig their way out of poverty.
Directed by
Andrew P. Jones
100 minutes
The 7th Oakland International Film Festival
Day 4
Sunday, October 12
6:00 -8:15
PASSION OF POWER
“Passion and Power “ reveals for the first time the dark and secret past of the vibrator. Tracing the ups and downs of this simple household appliance exposes how legal and medical institutions manipulate and control women’s lives.
Directed by
Emiko Omori & Wendy Slick
HIT RUN AND SCORE THE OAKLAND BANSHEES STORY
A hard-hitting documentary following a unique group of female athletes through the challenges of a season as professional tackle football players.
Directed by Kenya E. Davis
35 minutes
OLD SON
In the near future, 98% of the world’s population are immortals. Immortals look young and charm because they don’t get older after 25. On the other hand, there is 2% of the mortal population.
Directed by
Jong Hwang
43 minutes
BAY AREA CYPHER
A performance documentary that blends live freestyle presentations with short interviews to document the unique evolution of Hip Hop in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Directed by
Idris Hassan
27 minutes
OPTIONS
Is the story of Jasmine a young high school girl whose life gets turned upside down after choosing to go with a pimp instead of going home and hitting the books.
Directed by
Roy Miles
11 minutes
Sunday, October 12
9:00-11:15 p.m.
THE AFFAIR
A secret past to one is remembered in a special way. How long will this continue?
Directed by
Tray Houston
4 minutes
TRAMULOGY
At the wedding of Antonio, the eldest of a five-sibling family, his father has a heart attack. The wedding is interrupted and the whole family goes to the hospital, where all the traumas and miseries appear during a tense night wait.
Directed by
Daniel Sanchez Arevalo
23 minutes
ROSES HAVE THORN
A cross -cultured couple with a strained relationship.
Directed by
Jong W. Lee
97 minutes
The 7th Oakland International Film Festival
Day 5
Monday, October 13
6:00-8:15
WALKING ON EGGSHELLS
Challenges our perceptions about love, relationships, and choices, and how these choices can lead to domestic violence. The roles of race, class and gender, are challenged in this film, while the path to self -healing and self- actualization are discovered by some, but denied by others.
Directed by
Nation Son Holmes
64 minutes
MANILATOWN IS IN THE HEART (TIME TRAVEL WITH AL ROBLES)
A one-man social service agency and poet, Al Robles is truly one of Asian American hidden gems. For three decades, he has been roaming Chinatown/Manilatown’s single room occupancy hotels, taking elderly veterans to their appointments and delivering lunch to shut-ins.
Directed by
Curtis Choy
47 minutes
BECAUSE THERE ARE THINGS YOU NEVER FORGET
Naples (Italy), 1950. Four friends are playing soccer out on the street when their ball is accidentally kicked into the evil old lady’s yard. They’ll never play with their ball again...and for that the revenge will be deadly.
Directed by
Lucas Figueroa
Monday, October 13
9:00-11:15
TAXI
The city taxi drivers have followed a course on kindness. If you do not make the grade, you will not arrive at your destination.
Directed by
Telmo Esnal
4 minutes
7 minutes
BY THE NUMBERS
Claude Boyarson, a lonely and socially awkward urbanite is having a hard time finding someone who understands his eccentric personality and his unordinary lifestyle. Obsesses with compiling numbers.
Directed by
Collen C. Wiley
9 minutes
TEPLITZ: THE TYRANNY OF PARADOX
A dark comic, sci-fi feature which tells the story of Paxton Teplitz, a young man who joins an organization of metaphysical travelers to learn the truth about his shrouded past.
Directed by
Sean Guinan
97 minutes
The 7th Oakland International Film Festival
DAY 6
Tuesday, October 14
6:00-8:15
NO ES UNA BUENA IDEA
Today is a very important day for María, and she has to feel her father by her side to face it bravely.
Directed by
Ugo Sanz
4 minutes
MADE IN JAPAN
“… My mother admitted that the man who I thought was my father was not my father”
Directed by
Ciro Altabas
5 minutes
TAKE THE GAY TRAIN
This "documentary dreamscape" charts the progress of gay sensibility during the Harlem Renaissance through a poetic use of photos, filmmaking, scholarship, and period music.
Directed by
Robert Philipson
14 minutes
INVENTOS HIP HOP CUBANO
Gives insights into the Hip-Hop scene in Cuba and the reality of contemporary Cuban politics. The film follows the innovators of this musical movement to their homes, the stage and as they travel abroad for the first time.
Directed by
Eli Jacobs-Fantauzi
50 minutes
The 7th Oakland International Film Festival
DAY 6
Tuesday, October 14
9:00-11:15
TRAMULGA
At the wedding of Antonio, the eldest of a five-sibling family, his father has a heart attack. The wedding is interrupted and the whole family goes to the hospital, where all the traumas and miseries appear during a tense night wait.
Directed by
Daniel Sanchez Arevalo
23 minutes
MY WORST NIGHTMARE
A young man recounts a nightmare in which he and his father die during dinner. However, the boy finds that he is still conscious, which becomes a problem when the family buries them in the front yard...
Directed by
Waylon Bacon
HOOD GAMES
Hood Games began in 2005 in Deep East Oakland from the minds of Artist K-Dub & Pro-Skater Karl Watson, the Hood Games has become a urban skateboard and youth art festival spreading events from the Bay to Los Angeles. One goal of the Hood Games family is to build a "one of a kind" Skate & Mural Arts park at Historic De Fremery Park in West Oakland.
Directed by Keith Williams
ALGENY-THE GENETIC FACTOR
A young man becomes a pawn when a pharmaceutical company discovers he has a unique immune system and literally wants his blood.
Directed by
Andrew Burroughs
96 minutes
The 7th Oakland International Film Festival
DAY 7
Wednesday, October 15
6:00-8:15
KORYO SARAM
The Unreliable People
In 1937, Stalin began a campaign of massive ethnic cleansing and forcibly deported everyone of Korean origin living in the coastal provinces of the Farm East Russia near the border of North Korea to the unsettled steppe country of Central Asia 3700 miles away.
Directed by
Y. David Chung and Matt Dibble
THE JAMES BALDWIN ANTHOLOGY
Documents the life and times of the author and civil rights activist. It features a speech delivered at UC Berkeley in 1979 and mixed media by artist and director Claire Burch.
Directed by
Claire Burch
Wednesday, October 15th
MISS SHELLAGH’S MINISKIRT
50-year-old Alan Fletcher flirts alternately with his former high school teacher, the teen girl who lives across the hall, and the mystery girl in the window across the courtyard.
Directed by
Terisa Greena
BOLETOS POR FAVOR
(Tickets Please)
A train, a pursuit, only one- way to escape
Directed by
Lucas Figueroa
The 7th Oakland International Film Festival
DAY 8
Thursday, October 16th
6:00-8:15 p.m.
PUBLIC ENEMY: WELCOME TO THE TERRORDOME
Public Enemy: Welcome To The Terrordome recounts the groups monumental impact on music and global culture over the past two decades through behind the scenes interactions between Chuck D and Flavor Flav, live concert footage from shows as far flung as Moscow, Rio, Italy, Spain, the UK and finally Austin, and interviews with artists such as the Beastie Boys, Tom Morello (Audioslave, Rage Against The Machine), Henry Rollins, Talib Kweli and Jonathan Davis of Korn.
Directed by
Robert Patton-Spruill
MADE IN JAPAN
“...My mother admitted that the man who I thought was my father was not my father”
Directed by Ciro Altabas
The 7th Oakland International Film Festival
DAY 8
FINAL NIGHT
Thursday, October 16
9:00 -11:15
TAXI
The city taxi drivers have followed a course on kindness. If you do not make the grade, you will not arrive at your destination.
Directed by
Telmo Esnal
CHARCOAL TRAFFIC
A dramatic story of two brothers trapped in a murderous cycle of environmental and cultural devastation in Somalia. First fictional film shot in Somalia in over 15 years. All local cast, no previous acting experience, in Somali with English subtitles.
Directed by
Nathan Collett
BROKE JOE NEEDS LOVE TOO
A romantic comedy about love and the value of a man. Love versus materialism starring Jon Henry Doyle and Leona Harris, and Eric Ward
Directed by
Paul Rigne Roach
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