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Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre
Mary D. Fisher Theatre
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10:00 AM (88 min)
So Surreal: Behind the Masks
Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre

In this part detective story and part art history, Cree Director/Subject Neil Diamond undertakes a journey to retrieve First Nations Indigenous ceremonial masks from collectors and museums around the world, helping return them to the Yup’ik native people of Canada. He traces the origins and spiritual meanings of the masks, their historical influence on the Surrealist art movement, and the role that former Sedona resident artist Max Ernst played in introducing Indigenous mask influenced art during the very beginnings of the Surrealist movement.

1:00 PM (100 min)
April in France
Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre

April, a 5-year-old English girl, moves to Paris just before the first lockdown. She feels miserable, isolated in her Parisian flat and desperately wants to go back to London. However, when the restrictions ease, her father drives her to Labastide d'Armagnac, a small medieval village in the South-West of France where her great-grandfather bequeathed them his house.


April is not much happier at first in the deserted village but slowly discovers it. She visits the cemetery where she thinks people are just asleep. On her great-grandfather's grave she brings flowers, talks to him and strongly believes that he might eventually come back to be with her.


She will make several wishes for this purpose, in church and also in the Pyrenees mountains, waiting for a falling star, as she has seen in Pinocchio. In the meantime, she meets some of her great-grandfather's friends. With them she will open to the world,

4:00 PM (86 min)
Hacking Hate
Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre

This thriller documentary "Hacking Hate" follows Swedish investigative reporter My Vingren, known as the original "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo", as she goes undercover to infiltrate white supremacist movements online. She unveils how social media platforms profit from hate and examines the threat this poses to democracy worldwide. The film is a call for action against the spread of extreme and authoritarian agendas and highlights efforts to make tech platforms accountable for their role in real-world violence.

7:00 PM (104 min)
Every Little Thing
Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre

In a film of joy and wonder, amid the glamour of Hollywood, Terry Masear finds a sense of healing from her past on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating and magical tale of love, fragility, healing and the delicate beauty in tiny acts of grace.

10:10 AM (109 min)
Finding Musana
Mary D. Fisher Theatre

A young Ugandan and a Colorado intern discover first-hand how charity models in Africa can create exploitation and dependance. Together with unexpected partners, they develop a model of local-ownership and micro-enterprise that could forever shift how the West views poverty relief.

1:10 PM (95 min)
What She Carried
Mary D. Fisher Theatre

Colorado Territory, 1869. After a cholera outbreak hits a remote mining camp, a woman is forced to travel 97 miles of unforgiving wilderness with her child in tow and another on the way.


Filmed in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado, "What She Carried" explores the enduring love, tenacity, and strength of motherhood.

4:10 PM (113 min)
A Call from the Wild
Mary D. Fisher Theatre

Filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad documents the state of nature at his home country Norway, where he has photographed all his life. From the lives of bees at his farm, to wild reindeer on the high mountains, and puffins at the ocean’s edge, he shows the beauty of threatened nature and tracks down human actions responsible for its decline.


This is a personal story on our connection with the non-human world, the relations between the small and the big, and a reminder of nature’s strength and vulnerability.

7:10 PM (110 min)
The Kiss
Mary D. Fisher Theatre

From the Oscar-award winning director Bille August and based on Stefan Zweig’s classic short story Beware of Pity, "The Kiss" is a romantic drama set against the backdrop of 1913 Denmark at the start of World War I, following the journey of Anton Abildgaard, a noble cavalry officer, hoping to complete his military training with distinction.


After helping the local Baron Løvenskjold out of a tough situation one day with his automobile, he is invited to join him and his family for dinner at their castle, where he meets the Baron’s beautiful wheelchair bound daughter, Edith. The two begin spending more and more time together as Edith slowly falls in love and Anton struggles with being able to discern if his feelings for her are genuine or merely out of pity, all while the ominous threat of the first World War looms over them.

10:00 AM (87 min)
Striking the Palace
Sedona Performing Arts Center

Eva, 20, joins Safietou, Djaoua, Violette and Simone, a team of chambermaids at one of Paris’s finest Palace Hotels. She discovers the poor working conditions of these invisible women, who work tirelessly to keep the high standards of these luxurious hotels, where one night can cost their annual salary.


Many are not even employed by the hotels directly but by sub-contractors, and are therefore particularly vulnerable.


While on strike to fight against subcontracting and to obtain better working conditions, they come up with a colorful idea: having their own “Fashion Week” in front of the hotel!

1:00 PM (93 min)
Lilly
Sedona Performing Arts Center
When a hard-working Alabama factory supervisor discovers that for 20 years she’s been earning only half of what men with the same job are paid - only because she is a woman, she begins a long journey to fight for justice.Starring Patricia Clarkson, "Lilly" is based on the remarkable life of fair pay activist Lilly Ledbetter, who stood up for equality all the way up to the Supreme Court, through the power corridors of Congress, and ultimately The White House. "Lilly" is an extraordinary journey of an ordinary woman who refused to accept the status quo, and underscores the transformative impact of one individual’s courage.This is a movie about a working-class woman who saw a wrong that needed to be fixed. When she realized that she could no longer rectify the issue for herself, she became determined to help others, becoming the voice and the face of fair pay. She learned quickly, becoming an activist who changed the hearts and minds of Congress, a President,
4:00 PM (107 min)
Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion
Sedona Performing Arts Center
"Bob Mackie: Naked Illusion" showcases the six-decade career of award-winning costume designer, Bob Mackie. And like his costumes, Bob Mackie is wholly unique and unfiltered, which makes for a compelling and candid subject.The film examines Bob's unique upbringing, those whom he has held dear within his inner circle, and the familial surprises in his life that have all contributed to the optimism and audacity present in his work.Because the film is fully authorized, Quixotic Endeavors was given access to the full Bob Mackie archive, which has been meticulously kept and curated with many rare and unseen artifacts, including the outfits that didn't make the cut. We also capture the over-the-top costumes as they get sequined and beaded from sketch to stage. Specific highlights include some of the soon-to-be lost art methods by old-world artisans that help make each outfit Mackie conjures something to behold and remember.The documentary feature incl
8:00 PM (90 min)
Vicki Lawrence and Mama: A Two-Woman Show
Sedona Performing Arts Center
OPENING NIGHT SPECIAL EVENT! One of the most beloved television personalities of all time — Emmy Award winning comedienne Vicki Lawrence — comes to the Sedona International Film Festival with her all-new, two woman show! As part of the legendary cast of the Carol Burnett Show, Ms. Lawrence created her most endearing character to date, Thelma Harper, or “Mama,” which later became the title character of the hilarious hit comedy series, Mama’s Family. Experience a sidesplitting two act-show that serves a mix of stand-up, musical comedy and observations about real life from Ms. Lawrence and “Mama.” Fun, laughs and a good time! Plucked out of total obscurity as a high school senior, Vicki Lawrence went on to become part of the now-legendary cast of the “Carol Burnett Show.” In the seventh season, and hundreds of hilarious sketches later, at the ripe, old age of 24, Vicki created her most endearing character to date, Thelma Harper, or “Mama” as she is better known to her fans.