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Wednesday, July 25DARK MIRROR
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Wednesday, July 25 | 10:30PM
The Imaginasian Theater
239 East 59th Street
Synopsis Dark Mirror is a supernatural thriller coyly wrapped inside a domestic drama. When photographer Deborah (Lisa Vidal) and her family move into a strange old house, her seemingly happy life slowly comes apart. First, she sees things – a hooded stalker, horrible visions. Becoming increasingly paranoid, she withdraws from her career, her family, her former life as she knew it. And then she notices that every time she takes a picture, the people in it disappear. One day, in a fit of jealousy-fueled anger, she photographs her sexy neighbor flirting with her husband. And it works! But Deborah realizes to her horror that she has also taken pictures of her own husband and son. THE YARDSALE
From dark films to offbeat comedies, to horror to the downright deadly. Welcome to NYILFF on the Edge, the festival’ genre category. Thirteen films, thirteen filmmakers that we are sure will have you talking long after you’ve left the theater. 
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Wednesday, July 25 | 12:00 PM
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street
Synopsis Hector, a down on his luck sap, needs to repropose to his gold-digging fiancée, Iris, after he fumbles it the first time. Standing in the way of matrimonial bliss is Iris’ thuggish ex-boyfriend, Chuy. Bigger problems ensue when Hector accidentally loses Iris’ re-engagement ring. Laughs, high jinks and much misfortune follow as Hector finds himself at a climactic crossroads where looters, riots, catfights and The Lord of the Fingers all collide. Additional Screening: Thursday, July 26 THE CRY
From dark films to offbeat comedies, to horror to the downright deadly. Welcome to NYILFF on the Edge, the festival’ genre category. Thirteen films, thirteen filmmakers that we are sure will have you talking long after you’ve left the theater. 
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, July 25 | 7:00 PM
JCC in Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Ave @ 76th St
Synopsis The Cry is a supernatural thriller based on the legend of La Llorona (The Weeping Mother), an evil spirit said to abduct and kill children. NYPD Detective Scott is struggling to stop a series of child abductions plaguing the city, while he battles the memories of his own son’s death eight years earlier. Called in to interrogate a young mother, Maria, arrested for the drowning murder of her nine month-old daughter, Detective Scott is taunted with chilling details of his own child’s murder – details Maria could not possibly know. The investigation leads him to an old mystic, who reveals the truth: the outbreak of awful crimes is caused by La Llorona. It’s now a race against time as Maria and Scott team up to root out this evil. OPERACION PATAKON (Operation Patakon)
From dark films to offbeat comedies, to horror to the downright deadly. Welcome to NYILFF on the Edge, the festival’ genre category. Thirteen films, thirteen filmmakers that we are sure will have you talking long after you’ve left the theater. 
SCHEDULE
Wednesday, July 25 | 7:30 PM
Tinker Auditorium
(inside Florence Gould Hall)
55 East 59th Street
Synopsis An edgy comedy ripped from today’s headlines, Operacion Patakon tells the story of the Spanish Secret Service and the Dominican police, which team up to prevent the smuggling of a secret weapon and break up a ring of international terrorists. But nothing is at seems. Additional Screening: Sunday, July 29 THOSE I LEFT BEHIND
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Wednesday, July 25 | 4:00 PM
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street
Synopsis Separated by the sea and trapped by the politics of governments, Cuban families on either side of the Florida straits have endured nearly half a century of separation and loss. Filmed in both the United States and Cuba, this documentary explores the ties that bind four Cuban-American families in the United States to their relatives still living on the island and sheds light on the controversial new travel restrictions imposed by the US government. Too often, this film reminds us when the price of politics comes due; it is human beings who are forced to pay it. Additional Screening: Sunday, July 29 MISSISIPPI CHICKEN
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Wednesday, July 25 | 2:00 PM
The Imaginasian Theater
239 East 59th Street
Synopsis Questions of race, workers’ rights and exploitation form the crux of this intriguing documentary about Latin American immigrants living in rural Mississippi, where poultry plants promise jobs but little else. Shot on Super 8mm film, which gives it a lustrous, saturated color, Mississippi Chicken reveals the textures, moods and struggles of the New South. LA SANTA MUERTE (Saint Death)
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Wednesday, July 25 | 12:00 PM
The Imaginasian Theater
239 East 59th Street
Synopsis In Mexico there is a cult that is rapidly growing – the cult of Saint Death. A female Grim Reaper considered a saint by followers but Satanic by the Catholic Church; she is worshipped by people whose lives are defined by danger and violence – criminals, gang members, transvestites, drug addicts and families living in rough neighborhoods. Narrated by Gael Garcia Bernal (“The Motorcycle Diaries”), La Santa Muerte examines the origins of the cult and takes us on a tour of the altars, jails, and neighborhoods in Mexico where the saint's most devoted followers can be found. ADDITIONAL SCREENING: FRIDAY, JULY 27 HARD ROAD HOME
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Wednesday, July 25 | 2:00 PM
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street
Synopsis Odds are that if you go to prison and are lucky enough to get out, you’ll be going back sometime soon. When Julio Medina was incarcerated, he was a drug-dealing gang leader who ought to have died countless times. When he was freed 12 years later, he was a changed man. Upon his release from prison, Julio committed himself to becoming a different kind of leader – helping people live, instead of making people die. He created Exodus Transitional Community, a program in Harlem dedicated to breaking the cycle of incarceration that ensnares so many people of color on the streets of New York. The trick to Exodus is that its staff knows firsthand what it’s like to go to jail. They’re all ex-cons – a badass group of do-gooders who are reaching their clients like no one could who hasn’t walked a mile in a prisoner’s shoes. Hard Road Home represents the extraordinary amount of energy, resources and strength of character required to improve the fate of just one person born poor on the American streets. Additional Screening: Saturday, July 28 DOS PATRIAS CUBA Y LA NOCHE (Two Homelands Cuba and the Night)
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Wednesday, July 25 | 5:15 PM
Tinker Auditorium
(inside Florence Gould Hall)
55 East 59th Street
Synopsis Two Homelands Cuba and the Night is an extraordinary documentary about love, poetry and forbidden desire in Castro’s Cuba. The Cuban government has admitted having made mistakes in the past regarding its treatment of gays and lesbians. But even though the government claims to have undertaken a more liberal way of dealing with the issue, social discrimination and police harassment are still an everyday fact of life for gays. Two Cuban Homelands focuses on six gay men and explores how they live, how they love and how in ways, both large and small, they cope with life under Castro’s regime and somehow emerge dignified and resilient. BRAGGING RIGHTS
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Wednesday, July 25 | 4:00 PM
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street
Synopsis To the uninitiated, stickball is merely inner city baseball, played with broomstick bats and manhole covers for bases. To its players and fans, however, stickball is so much more than that. A uniquely New York institution that has now spread to cities across America, stickball has been around for one hundred years and continues to bring together different communities, mend racial tensions and foster life-long friendships and neighborhood leadership. From its humble beginnings to this very day, stickball has been more than a game. It’s a way for new immigrants to become American. ADDITIONAL SCREENING: Sunday, July 29  |
