Film Selections for 2010:
Final selections for the 16th annual Cucalorus Film Festival will be announced in early October 2010. Early selections will be announced on August 20th and additional selections will be added until the second week of October. Please see below for an evolving list of the brain-bending films to be screened at Cucalorus 16
Dramatic Feature
 | brilliantlove | Director: Ashley Horner | 96:43 Sex becomes art and art becomes life for Manchester and Noon, two lovers who hole up in a garage apartment to practice their love while the rest of th...Read More |
 | Dance With The One | Director: Mike Dolan | 83:00 At nineteen Nate Hitchens is sick of being the man of the house. He deals pot to sound engineers and college kids to take care of his sixteen-year-o...Read More |
 | Dummy Jim | Director: Matt Hulse | Lots of minutes In May 1951 a profoundly deaf 28 year old Scotsman called James Duthie – known fondly to his local community as ‘Dummy Jim’ – cycled solo on a return ...Read More |
 | NY Export: Opus Jazz | Director: Jody Lee Lipes & Henry Joost & Anna Farrell & Matt Wolf | 61:00 Shot on location in New York City, Cucalorus alum Jody Lee Lipes and partner Henry Joost take Jerome Robbins' 1958 'ballet in sneakers' and reimagine ...Read More |
 | One Hundred Mornings | Director: Conor Horgan | 83:00 Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive the crisis. As resources run low...Read More |
 | Skateland | Director: Anthony Burns | 98:00 In the early 1980s, in small-town Texas, dramatic events force a 19-year-old skating rink manager to look at his life in a very new way....Read More |
 | Skeletons | Director: Nick Whitfield | 94:00 Two lovable blokes trudge through the countryside to rid people of the ghosts in their wardrobes. What kind of spirits are hiding in your house?...Read More |
 | The Happy Poet | Director: Paul Gordon | 85:00 Bill, an out-of-work poet, puts his heart, soul, and last few dollars into starting an all-organic, mostly-vegetarian food stand. New friend Donnie pr...Read More |
 | The New Year | Director: Brett Haley | 96:00 One-time high school valedictorian and “most likely to succeed,” beautiful bookworm Sunny finds herself stuck in Pensacola in her mid-twenties, workin...Read More |
 | The Temptation of St. Tony | Director: Veiko Õunpuu | The most stupendous and bone chilling tragedy about the agony and decline of one middle level manager....Read More |
Documentary Feature
 | Brother Towns (Pueblos Hermanos) | Director: Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Michael Davey, Margaret Morales | 58:23 Over a thousand immigrant workers from the highland Maya community of Jacaltenango, Guatemala live and work in Jupiter, Florida, a coastal resort town...Read More |
 | Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone | Director: Lev Anderson, Chris Metzler | 103:00 EVERYDAY SUNSHINE is a documentary about Fishbone, musical pioneers who have been rocking on the margins of pop culture for the past 25 years. From t...Read More |
| Roll Out, Cowboy | Director: Elizabeth Lawrence | 75:00 Chris “Sandman” Sand is a rappin’ cowboy from Dunn Center, North Dakota (population: 120 and shrinking). He drives a semi, plays the guitar and raps. ...Read More |
 | The Erectionman | Director: Michael Schaap | 52:00 Filmmaker Michael Schaap takes us on a journey through the history of Viagra, from the bleak past of a condition called impotence to the magic moment ...Read More |
 | The Red Chapel | Director: Mads Brügger | 87:00 A journalist with no scruples, a spastic, and a comedian travels to North Korea with a mission - to challenge the conditions of the smile in one of th...Read More |
Short Film
 | Adventures of a Distant Mind | Director: M. Johnston | 9:05 Dreaming her way through life, a girl has to learn how to decipher reality as it is, rather than live on the uncertainty of her distant mind....Read More |
 | Birthday | Director: Jenifer Malmqvist | 18:00 Sara prepares a surprise for her wife Katarina’s birthday with the help of their daughter Johanna and their friend Fredrik. But on this early summer d...Read More |
 | Charlie and the Rabbit | Director: Robert Machoian, Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck | 9:42 Second in a trilogy of films about youth, Charlie and the Rabbit continues filmmakers Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck’s interest in portraying ...Read More |
 | Daphne 2.0 | Director: Francesca Talenti, Marc Russo | 3:35, DVD Daphne 2.0 re-interprets the myth of Daphne, who was turned into a tree: nature versus technology, human versus non-human - who will win?...Read More |
 | Down To The Bone | Director: Peter Ahern | 4:00, DVD For a kid who has allergies, going outside can be hazardous. It’s especially hazardous when your sadistic babysitter Meredith leaves you there and shu...Read More |
| Elsewhere | Director: Michael Paulucci | 12:30 A young man takes a trip to a familiar place, Elsewhere, an old building filled with toys, games, and images of himself from another time. Not everyth...Read More |
 | Envirometer | Director: Danny Robashkin | 5:00 When the forces of conservation and industrialization compete head to head, the only entity that can regulate the fight is the fantastic measuring con...Read More |
| Feeder | Director: Joseph Ernst | 3:30 We want it. We buy it. We eat it. We swallow it down whole. But what does our body see when we stick it in our mouth?...Read More |
 | First Sunrise | Director: Kenneth Price | 11:00 Betham is an American teaching in Japan, immersed in the work of daily life and the work of learning a new culture. When she takes a trip to the Pacif...Read More |
 | Get Luder | Director: Jonathan Carr | A poetic documentary about an architect who's witnessing the destruction of his own buildings. ...Read More |
| Icarus Rising | Director: Marty Hardin | 3:39 Since man has been aware of his existence, he has dreamed of flight. Set against a haunting score by Koshiyo-E of the Aurigami Project, award winning ...Read More |
 | Latrinalia | Director: Joselyn | 11:00 A triptychal exper-o-documentary that traces the phenomenon of bathroom graffiti since the dawn of time to the present....Read More |
 | Little Accidents | Director: Sara Colangelo | 18:00 A desperate young factory worker recruits a mentally disabled co-worker to steal a pregnancy test for her. Set in the unforgiving landscapes of a midw...Read More |
 | Peter in Radioland | Director: Johanna Wagner | 9:55 This documentary follows Peter, my father, who is 63 years old and on sick leave. He spends most of his time alone, in his bedroom, contemplating his ...Read More |
| Pink Triangle | Director: Ryan Jeffery Davis | 17:41 A Nazi informant searches for redemption when he learns his next target is someone buried deep within his past....Read More |
| Regular Kids | Director: Richard Leder | 12:41 Traveling from show to show on Halloween, a circus family is at emotional odds: Mom and Dad want to get to the next town, Brother and Sister want to g...Read More |
 | Rinky Dink | Director: John R. Dilworth | 4:30 A post-modern fairy tale about finding "true love."...Read More |
 | Santa: The Fascist Years | Director: Bill Plympton | 3:23 We all think of Santa as “Jolly ole St. Nick”. But who knew that he has a dark hidden past that’s very un-jolly? This short film uncovers and explores...Read More |
 | Seed | Director: Ben Richardson & Daniel Bird | 11:42 An egg and an apple build competing broadcast towers that vie for the attention of a transistor radio. With its complex characterization and narrative...Read More |
 | Successful Alcoholics | Director: Jordan Vogt-Roberts | 25:10 Drake and Lindsay are alcoholics who need to redefine their idea of success....Read More |
 | Surface | Director: Varathit Uthaisri | 3:10 What would the world be like from an underground perspective?...Read More |
| The 1. | Director: Richard and Erica Dunton | 6:12 A young man's fascination with the feminine form gets him in trouble, especially when he touches the 1!...Read More |
 | The Cow Who Wanted To Be A Hamburger | Director: Bill Plympton | A children's fable about the power of advertising, the meaning of life and ultimately the test of a mother's love....Read More |
 | The S From Hell | Director: Rodney Ascher | 9:00 This short doc explores the inner-worlds of three people who, as kids, were terrified of the seemingly harmless animated logo for Screen Gems that wou...Read More |
 | Things Grow | Director: Dave Monahan | A hand-held portrait of a man and his mother. With his elderly mother alone and ailing, Randy Ivers must move back to his childhood home. Stuck in rur...Read More |
 | Twice As Bright | Director: Olë Magehan | 23:00 Twice as Bright tells a story of how to begin again....Read More |
 | Voice On The Line | Director: Kelly Sears | 6:45 Enchanting operators, covert government plots, Cold War paranoia and ordinary telephones forever changed how we got in touch with one another......Read More |