Film categories include feature narratives, documentaries, short films, super shorts, animation, family and youth media, and Snowdance, a showcase of films by Alaskans or about Alaska. Festival entries are open to all films regardless of origin, content and genre.
Official selections include all films selected to be screened during the festival. Special presentations include films invited by AIFF to fortify our program. The films in competition represent the official selections chosen by our prescreening committee to go through the award jury process. About 20 percent of our official selections are entered into competition.
Official Selections
We enthusiastically announce the 2010 AIFF Official Selections. Our programmers chose the films that represent the best of international and independent cinema.
Films in competition are indicated with an asterisk (*).
For the festival schedule and detailed information for each film – including trailers, links to official web sites, and links to the films and filmmakers on Facebook and Twitter – visit our Festival Genius pages, or download a printable schedule in PDF format here.
Feature Films
| Title | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|
| 22:43 | Markus Hautz | Austria |
| Ashes | Elias Matar | USA |
| Bai Yin Di Guo [Empire of Silver]* | Christina Shu-hwa Yao | China |
| The Drummond Will* | Alan Butterworth | UK |
| Fannie, Annie & Danny | Chris Brown | USA |
| Hello Lonesome* | Adam Reid | USA |
| Karma Calling* | Sarba Das | USA |
| The Red Machine | Alec Boehm S. Argy |
USA |
| Rocksteady | Mustapha Khan | USA |
| The Silent Accomplice | Erik Knudsen | UK |
| Son Istasyon [Last Station]* | Ogulcan Kirca | Turkey |
| Temptation of St. Tony* | Veiko Õunpuu | Estonia |
| Ticked Off Trannies With Knives | Israel Luna | USA |
| The Violent Kind | The Butcher Brothers Phil Flores Mitchell Altieri |
USA |
| The Wild Hunt* | Alexandre Franchi | Canada |
Animation
| Title | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|
| The Adjustable Cosmos | Adam Duncan | Australia |
| The Arctic Circle* | Kevin Parry | Canada |
| B-1033 | Pawel Kryszak | Poland |
| B/W Races* | Jacopo Martinoni | Italy |
| Birdboy | Pedro Rivero | Spain |
| Courageous Crustaceans | Dayan paul | USA |
| Don’t Tell Santa that Your Jewish | Jody Kramer | Canada |
| Flew The Coop | Alex Luko | USA |
| Fluffle | Stephanie Franz | USA |
| Go to Sleep | Luis Carlos Uribe | Columbia |
| Good Bot, Bad Bot! | Marcus Ng Nick Matthews |
USA |
| Hard|Soft | Jason Maurer | USA |
| Heart | Erick Oh | South Korea/USA |
| Helium | Daniele Zannone | Italy |
| Kings | Barbara Mones | USA |
| Kingdoms of Grace | Natasha Baron | Columbia |
| Kozak Mating Dance | Amber Holowaychuk | Canada |
| The Lift | Robert Kohr | USA |
| The Lighthouse | Po Chou Chi | Taiwan |
| Mei Ling | F. Leroy S. Lansaque |
France |
| Millhaven* | Bartek Kulas | Poland |
| Not Over Easy* | Jordan Canning | Canada |
| Ode to a Post-It Note* | Jeff Chiba Stearns | Canada |
| Old Fangs | Adrien Merigeau | Ireland |
| On The Rise | John Tupper | USA |
| Ping* | Jason Oshman | USA |
| The Sasquatch and the Girl | Trevor Jones | USA |
| Sketchi | Lily Sun | Canada |
| Summer | Marc Wiskemann | USA |
| Swing | Yen-Ting Kuo | Taiwan |
| Terranaughts | Adrienne Drozdowski | Canada |
| The Thomas Beale Cipher | Andrew Allen | USA |
| Threads | Barbara Mones | USA |
| Time Lines | Suzanne Crocker | Canada |
| Toothnapped | George Dondero | USA |
| Train+ing | Joonjae Moon | USA |
| The Windmill Farmer | Joaquin Baldwin | USA |
| The Wonder Hospital* | Beomsik Shimbe Shim | USA |
| Michael Naphan | Canada |
Documentaries
| Title | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|
| The Anatomy of Vince Guaraldi* | Andrew Thomas | USA |
| Camp Unity | Ryan White | Iraq/Kurdistan/USA |
| Ed Hardy: Tattoo The World* | Emiko Omori | USA |
| Escapeland | Oren Tirosh | Israel |
| Fernando and Boise | Rubén Abruña | USA |
| Full Disclosure* | Brian Palmer | USA/Various |
| Guests of Space | Alba Mora-Roca | USA/Columbia |
| Jr. Posse | Michele Ervin | USA |
| Keiko: The Untold Story* | Theresa Demarest | USA |
| A Life Ascending | Stephen Grynberg | USA |
| Miedos [Fears] | Alberto Yoel Garcia | Cuba |
| My Perestroika* | Robin Hessman | UK/Russian Federation |
| Old People Driving | Shaleece Haas | USA |
| Rainman Goes to RocKwiz | Russell Kilbey | Australia |
| Salam Rugby | Faramarz Beheshti | New Zealand |
| Samsui Women | Derrick Lui | Singapore |
| Sand Mountain | Kathryn McCool | Australia/USA |
| She Wore Silver Wings* | Devin Scott | USA |
| Stolen* | Violeta Ayala Daniel Fallshaw |
Australia/USA |
| Summer Pasture | L. True N. Walker |
China/USA |
| Tres Tristes Tigres [Three Sad Tigers] | David Muńoz | Bangladesh |
Short Films
| Title | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Apocalypse Story | Jeffrey Nesker | Canada |
| Bedfellows | Pierre Stefanos | USA |
| Can We Talk? | Jim Owens | UK |
| Caron* | Pierre Zandrowicz | France |
| Communication | Robert Crosby | USA |
| A Day at the Park | Spencer Stuard | USA |
| Day Labor | Brendan O’Neill Kohl | USA |
| The Death of Toys | Lisa Gold | USA |
| Departure Lounge | Louis Neethling | UK |
| Dishonesty | Timothy Watkins | USA |
| European Son* | Tyler Zelinsky | USA |
| Flicker | Landon Donoho | USA |
| God of Love | Luke Matheny | USA |
| King Eternal* | Ori Guendelman | USA |
| Leather* | James Boldiston | Australia |
| The Long Lonely Walk* | Leon Chambers | UK |
| Missile Crisis | Jaye Davidson | USA |
| No Good To Me | Andrew Killen | New Zealand |
| The Noble Savage* | Wesley Wingo | USA |
| Not Worth A Bullet | Markus F. Adrian | Germany |
| Obsolesk | Fernando Toscano | USA |
| Quarter ’Til Two | Tim Connery | USA |
| Si Bemol [B Flat] | Clara Martinez- Lázaro | Spain |
| Vento | Marcio Salem | Brazil |
| White Other* | Dan Hartley | UK |
Snowdance
| Title | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|
| The Beekeepers* | Bryant Mainord | USA (AK) |
| Hockey Shorts | Michael Conti | USA (AK) |
| How To Survive | Ronald Jerry | USA (AK) |
| Journey On The Wild Coast | Greg Chaney | USA (AK) |
| The Last Frontier | John Walter Whittier | USA (AK) |
| MUSH: The Movie* | Alex Stein | USA (AK) |
| Native Time* | Sean Morris | USA (AK) |
| Oblivion 1964 | Peter Dunlap-Shohl | USA (AK) |
| Parlez-Vous Eyak* | Laura Bliss Spaan | USA (AK) |
| A Portrait of Nikolai* | Youth of Nikolai | USA (AK) |
| Portrait of a Slackline Artist | Jimmy Kinder | USA (AK) |
| Rain Power* | Hannah Guggenheim | USA (AK) |
| Statehood! | Laurence Goldin | USA (AK) |
| Tour de Seward | Kristopher Peck | USA (AK) |
| A Visitor’s Guide to Alaska’s Rules of the Road-Firearms | Bill Rome | USA (AK) | The Yup’ik Way* | Beth Edwards | USA (AK) |
Super Shorts
| Title | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|
| Abeo | Graham Nolte | USA |
| The Arachnafist | Mike Gray | USA |
| Back Story | Jeremy Dylan Lanni | USA |
| Best Before | Mark Boggis | UK |
| Cheese! | Damien Patrik | USA |
| Cockles and Mussels | Leonora Lonsdale | USA |
| Coffee Shop: A Musical | Mark Broe | USA |
| Dumplings | Wenhwa Ts’ao | USA |
| Eclipse | Soma Helmi | Indonesia |
| Eulogy Maker* | Leslie Langee | USA |
| Falling Apart | Christopher Valori | USA |
| The Foal* | Josh Tanner | Australia |
| God’s Acre | Alfredo Salvatore Arcilesi | Canada |
| The Grudge | Quentin Matheson | Canada |
| The Informed Prisoner | Sage Ewing | USA |
| In That Moment* | Shripriya Mahesh | USA |
| John Henry | David Coscarelli | USA |
| The Kindly Ones | Rupert Missick | Bahamas |
| The Mailbox | Joshua Wong | Hong Kong |
| Menjadi Angsa Yang Balk | James Boldiston | Australia |
| My Apologies | Adreas Golfuss | Canada |
| Nothing Happened | Suni Khan | UK |
| Now and Forever | David Goldstein | USA |
| Nuit Blanche* | Arev Manoukian | Canada |
| Pantomime | Zach Ginnever | USA |
| PERSON | Jennifer Liao | Canada |
| Proposals | Alexander Jeffery | USA |
| Red Water Red | Qing Xie | Australia |
| Redemption | Lawrence Lim | Australia |
| Run Granny Run!* | Nikolaus von Uthmann | Germany |
| Salut* | Jerry Rapp | USA |
| Saving It | Andras Novak | Hungary |
| Soy Milk | Veeran Naran | Australia |
| Spare | Tomer Almagor | USA |
| Tattle Tail | Warren Workman | USA |
| Telefone | Jeffrey Bliss | USA |
| Til Døden Os Skiller [Till Death Us Do Part] | Martin Vrede Nielsen | Denmark |
| La Ventaja Del Sicario [The Advantage of the Hitman] | Luis Moreno Bernardo | Spain |
| Ventra | Rami Katz | Canada |
| The Verticals | Matthew Walker | Australia |
| The Wasp and the Caterpillar* | Daniel Fazio | UK/Italy |
| Waterfall | Braide Keyland | USA |
| When Life Gives You Lemons | Lee Chambers | USA |
| When They Were Little | O. Corbin Saleken | Canada |
Special Selections
| Title | Category | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detention | Short Film | Aden Shillito | New Zealand |
| Exploding Plastic Inevitable | Documentary | Ronald Nameth | USA |
| Exporting Raymond | Documentary | Philip Rosenthal Producer: John Woldenberg |
USA |
| The Glass Shield | Feature | Charles Burnett | USA |
| Holding Hands | Documentary | K. Wilkinson T. Stanford |
Australia |
| Mutant Girls Squad | Feature | Noboru Iguchi Tak Sakaguchi Yoshihiro Nishimura |
Japan |
| Nightjohn | Feature | Charles Burnett | USA |
| Out of Gas | Super Short | Steve Stolee | USA |
| The Owl in the Snow | Super Short | Neil Mansfield | Australia |
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