The 2022 Summer Festival Program
Explore the four-day lineup of feature-length movies and short films. From Nigeria to South Korea to France, this year’s program will offer animation, documentaries, and imaginative films from around the world.
GEMMEL & TIM
Directed by Michiel Thomas
In 2017 and 2019, Gemmel “Juelz” Moore (26) and Timothy “Tim” Dean (55), two gay black men, died of a meth overdose at the West Hollywood apartment of white businessman, activist & political donor Ed Buck (66). The parallel stories of these two men are intimately told by the friends who loved them, grieve their loss, and who hope to protect others from similarly tragic fates.
Feature Films
DISFLUENCY
Directed by Anna Baumgarten
Disfluency tells the story of Jane (Libe Barer), a college student who returns home to face unsettled trauma in her Michigan hometown. Winner of Best Narrative Feature at the 2021 Austin Film Festival.
A HOME CALLED NEBRASKA
Directed by Beth and George Gage
A Home Called Nebraska is the timely, surprising, and emotional story of refugees enjoying mid-western welcome, unlikely friendships and a re-vitalized American Dream.
Short Films
Champ (United States)
After basketball practice one night, Genevieve reveals a dark secret to her teammates about their coach. Wielding her strategy and grit off the court, Genevieve works together with her teammates to find a way to retaliate. Directed by Hannah Peterson.
Egúngún (Masquerade, Nigeria)
Seeking healing, a woman must return to Lagos, the city of her birth. Directed by Olive Nwosu.
Kaolin (France)
Eleven-year-old Jade has only one idea in mind: to take part again in the Grand Prix des Kaolins, the motocross championship organized each summer by her father within the quarry he leads. But for this little girl apart, riding on a motorcycle again can be tricky. Except that Jade is stubborn. Directed by Corentin Lemetayer Le Brize.
Lili Alone (China)
Lili, a young mother, lives with her gambler husband in a remote part of Sichuan. Lonely and poor, she heads for the city in a bid to earn enough money to save her dying father. Directed by Zou Jing.
Girl Crush (United States)
What happens when four women go into the mountains with one of their idols? A skilled, driven, fun-loving woman who represents success in their eyes. With ambitious plans, a perfect weather forecast, and 5 days to explore from their basecamp, what could go wrong?! Directed by Mary McIntyre & Mali Noyes.
Warsha (Lebanon)
A Syrian migrant working as a crane operator in Beirut volunteers to cover a shift on one of the most dangerous cranes, where he is able to find his freedom. Winner of the Short Film Jury Award for Best International Fiction at Sundance 2022. Directed by Dania Bdeir.
Soft Animals (United States)
Two ex-lovers cross paths in a train station. Directed by Renee Zhan.
The Headhunter’s Daughter (Philippines)
Leaving her family behind, Lynn traverses the harrowing roads of the Cordilleran highlands to try her luck in the city as a country singer. Winner of the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2022. Directed by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan.
Busan, 1999 (United States)
Decades after immigrating, an expecting Korean-American woman returns to her mother's rustic home. They bathe and scrub each other, searching for reconnection and redemption. Directed by Thomas Percy Kim.
We Dance (United States)
From the world renowned Wideman-Davis Dance Company and award-winning filmmakers Ethan Payne and Brian Foster, We Dance is a love story, deconstructed and distilled into its most elemental ingredients. Dreams. Memories. Family. And environments. Tanya Wideman-Davis and Thaddeus Davis take us from Chicago to Montgomery, from New York to the point where their lives meet and become one. Directed by Ethan Payne and Brian Foster.
Dhaulagiri (United States)
An Ecuadorian mountaineer balances friendship, love, and luck in his quest to climb a new route on one of the tallest and most dangerous mountains in the world. Directed by Tommy Joyce.
Squish (Belgium)
FLO has to go to Marrakech for work. So, it’s TOM who takes care of SAM, their 5-year-old son. Flo left him a list of tasks to complete during his absence. Despite this, Tom forgot Sam’s guitar course. From his ryad, Flo calls to blame him. Tom hates being caught. He picks up Sam. The car comes out of the garage at full speed. SPROTCH. Tom just crushed something... Directed by Xavier Seron.
Come join the filmmakers of the acclaimed documentary Spirit of the Peaks for a free outdoor screening in Ouray’s Fellin Park next to the town’s world-famous hot springs.
Produced in partnership with REI Co-op Studios, Wondercamp and NativesOutdoors, and co-directed by Hunkpapa Lakota skier Connor Ryan, “Spirit of the Peaks” is a film about the struggle for balance between two worlds.
For Connor, skiing in Ute Territory has always raised questions about being in reciprocity with the land and its people. As a skier who connects with the land through sport, he empathizes with the injustices that have displaced the Utes and ongoing colonization, erasure and extraction impacting the Ute people.
GENEROUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE OURAY COUNTY COMMUNITY FUND AND CITIZENS STATE BANK.
