International Film Block #5 (American Stage Conference Room) - 5:30 - 6:30pm
Mediation (14 min; directed by Francisco Lorite) - A divorce mediation spirals way out of control for a husband, his soon-to-be ex-wife and their court-appointed mediator.
Homecoming (18 min ; directed by Filipe F. Coutinho) - After a long stay at the hospital, Peter Sanders comes home to die. Homecoming follows Peter's last days and his troubled relationship with Joanne, an adulterous wife who desperately tries to reach to him, and Lindsay, his nine-year-old daughter who tries to cure him with love and Bob Dylan songs. Peter soon realizes that he's not fighting the inevitability of death but his own fears and frustrations.
Parihuela (15 min; directed by Miguel Ortega) - During war times in Colombia between Conservatives and Liberals in the 1950's, Alfonso and Cayetano live through the day working in a very peculiar job: They carry dead bodies to the gravedigger. Fear takes over Cayetano and, as he is threaten by guerrillas to leave the mountain, he must choose between his political beliefs and the safety of his family
A Good Story (Eine Gute Geschichte) (20 min.; directed by Martin Christopher Bode) -- In exchange for a broken jug in an antiques store near the German-Polish border, a woman tells a story about pain and loss from World War II ... only to have she and the antiquarian realize their lives are wondrously interwoven. With subtitles.
Empty Room (21 min)