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2019 FESTIVAL WINNERS
JURY AWARD
WINNERS
Best Documentary:
Right To Harm
Best Narrative:
Postal
Best Animation:
Two Balloons
KIFF AWARD
WINNERS
Best Documentary Short:
Indivisible
Best Narrative Short:
Homecoming
Best International Short:
The Visitor
KIFF LOCAL
WINNERS
Best Narrative Short:
Safe States - Anthony Ladesich
Best Documentary Short: Discovering Tommie Atkins: The Revelation Of His Creek Nation Legacy-Lyle Gibson
Best Comedy:
Age Of Bryce - Brian Elliott & David Feagan
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NOVEMBER 7th, 2019
Directed by Brian Rose, In November 2006, Jesse Ross traveled Chicago to participate in an academic conference. While attending a meeting, he rose from his chair and walked out of the room. He has not been seen or heard from since. “When I Last Saw Jesse” is the story of what happened in Chicago that night, and the impact of his sudden and mysterious absence on his family and friends. Filmmaker in attendance.
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November 2019
Finding Home in Boomtown
Directed by Matt Maxwell, Finding Home in Boomtown is set in the nation’s 2nd wealthiest city, where a West Texas oilman sets out to downsize and refocus his family’s life in order to build a tiny house community for the homeless. https://www.kansasfilm.com/artists/finding-home-in-boomtown/
Find out more »Barren and Empty the Sea
This is a film about Esteban, who wakes up one day and no one recognizes him. He tries to convince his acquaintances that he is himself. Suddenly there is an accident. Esteban is not Esteban anymore, but a stranger that arrives in the village. https://www.kansasfilm.com/artists/barren-and-empty-the-sea/
Find out more »Dosed
Directed by Tyler Chandler - After many years of prescription medications failed her a suicidal woman turns to underground healers to try and overcome her depression, anxiety, and opioid addiction with illegal psychedelic medicine like magic mushrooms and iboga. https://www.kansasfilm.com/artists/dosed/
Find out more »Big Fur
Big Fur is wry portrait of taxidermist Ken Walker. Ken's looking for love... and proof that Bigfoot is real, as he builds a life-sized version of the legendary creature. https://www.kansasfilm.com/artists/big-fur/
Find out more »KC BBQ Shorts
Dead Animals Every Grain of Sand Homecoming Solitaire The Mouse The Musician The Tattooed Heart Voicemails
Find out more »Lament
With no prospect of a better life and within his emotional limits, Elder faces the most difficult period of his life and the serious consequences of his decisions. https://www.kansasfilm.com/artists/lamento/
Find out more »Free Slave
Directed by Mehmet Tanrisever, Mehmet, being an idealistic man of principle, has decided to leave his job as an Imam to become a movie director. But now, he finds himself unable to raise the money he needs to fund his new film project. Mehmet is a divorced man. His wife left him because of his financial difficulties. Mehmet has lost everything he had and he’s now staying with his little daughter Ayse in a hostel. He goes to several producers to…
Find out more »A Life’s Work
Filmed over the course of 15 years, the documentary A Life's Work is about people engaged with projects they won't complete in their lifetime, projects that could have a positive, global effect. https://www.kansasfilm.com/artists/a-lifes-work/
Find out more »Bozkir Look at The Birds
Abdullah and Cripple Ziya are gun dealers in the Bozkir district of Konya. They put honesty, honor, and dignity before anything else. Even though Abdullah and Cripple Ziya have opposite personalities, their friendship and partnership go back many years. Abdullah has worked hard and finally bought the horse he has been dreaming of https://www.kansasfilm.com/artists/bozkir-look-at-the-birds/
Find out more »Filmmakers are the heartbeat of the Kansas International Film Festival.
Cultivating careers is central to our core values and vision. KIFF supports early-career film artists as well as more well- known artists in the film industry. Accomplished and legendary auteurs have visited our fest. We’ve welcomed actor and activist, Ed Asner, horror icon George Romero, and special effects wizard Tom Savini. Experimental filmmakers Guy Maddin, Barbara Hammer, and Stan Brakhage, have graced our stages while liminaries like Debra Zimmerman, executive director of Women Make Movies have joined us. Many others from Scott Biao to Forest Akerman have stayed with us and many more will come. There is, of course, one we could never do without... you!