Shorts Block

Family & Trials

Art House • Friday, 9:30 p.m. (116min)

Sweet Yoyo

(18min)

Director: Mark Cira
Canada

Nine-year-old Jozefin must confront the reality of being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes with her mum. While Yoyo bravely comes to terms with her new life, Hannah struggles with the financial and emotional burden of having a child with this disease.

RBFF | Family and Trials | Sweet Yoyo

Sweet Mercy

(14min)

Director: Michele Atkins
California

Fuzzy, a young man with Down syndrome, accompanies his brother Harold for a visit to their mother’s on her birthday. Fuzzy must watch out for Harold’s criminal ways or else be taken once again by his love for his brother who can’t get straight.

RBFF | Family and Trials | Sweet Mercy

Evelyn x Evelyn

(13min)

Director: Eric Pumphrey
California

Set in 1956, an African American couple struggles with the death of their child.

RBFF | Family and Trials | Evelyn x Evelyn

Homefull

(6min)

Director: Sara Pérez
Spain

Homefull is a documentary about the lives of people living on the street, their day to day lives, their worries, the difficulties they have to face, the treatment they receive from other people they cross on the street. We talk to the people for whom the street is their home.

RBFF | Family and Trials | Homefull

Waldwölfe

(8min)

Director: Peter Allen
Australia

In 1940s Germany at the height of Nazi power, three German soldiers capture an escaped Jewish woman. But now that they have her what will they do with her?

RBFF | Family and Trials | Waldwolfe

Pike County

(14min)

Director: Cody Joel
New York

A young father struggles to protect his daughter from the pitfalls of Appalachia, the epicenter of America’s opiate crisis and collapsing coal industry.

RBFF | Family and Trials | Pike County

93 Miles

(17min)

Director: Noah Canavan
Massachusetts

The night after defecting Cuba, a baseball player and his girlfriend are held up in a Mexican hotel room. The tension rises as the two become claustrophobic in this stressful situation that they are stuck in.

RBFF | Family and Trials | 93 Miles

Granbad

(10min)

Director: Annabel Vine
United Kingdom

A young dyslexic boy inadvertently shows a bully that it isn’t ‘soppy’ to love your Grandad and like spending time with him.

RBFF | Family and Trials | Grandbad

Duke

(16min)

Director: Dru Miller
California

When a nonverbal autistic teen’s family is falling apart, he must find his voice to keep them together. Based on a true story.

RBFF | Family and Trials | Duke

Art House

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2018 River Bend Film Festival Sponsors

2018 River Bend Film Festival Sponsors • Top Tier • Goshen, Indiana
2018 River Bend Film Festival Sponsors • Goshen, Indiana
2018 River Bend Film Festival Sponsors • Goshen, Indiana
2018 River Bend Film Festival Sponsors • Goshen, Indiana

Acruity • Art of Massage • Blank Space • Celtx • Constant Spring • Elephant Bar • Elko Hardwoods • Eyedart Creative Studio • Flowers By Phoebe • Froggy Radio • Gateway Cellar Winery • Greensweep Cleaning Services • Kelly Jae’s Cafe • LightBox • Los Primos • Maple City Market • Mid America Filmmakers • Nimble Wit Productions • Quality Inn • Studio Ace of Spades • Tympanum Press • Weston Fribley • Zehr Construction

This project is made possible by the support of the Indiana Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.