Rural Route 2017/18

RURAL ROUTE FILM FESTIVAL
BEST OF 2017/18

The Rural Route Film Festival was created to highlight works that deal with rural people and places. The festival, which showcases rural themes in an urban environment, features award-winning narrative, documentary, and experimental films as well as music videos – this is the festival’s best of 2017/2018!

PLAID “DO MATTER”
US 2016, 4 min, R: Christopher Arcella
Arcella wrote, directed and animated this sci-fi accompaniment to the British electronic music duo’s single.

THE POACHER
UK 2016, 12 min, R: Nicholas Jones
John hunts and forages in the wilderness within the city limits of London for game and produce that has become popular in the city’s trendy restaurants.

VOLCANO ISLAND
HU 2017, 9 min, R: Anna Katalin Lovrity
Mysterious natural laws set explosive forces in motion, as a tigress is pursued on a dazzling island.

UFO DAYS
US 2016, 9 min, R: Quinn Else
An enigmatic, strangely familiar man attends the annual UFO Days celebration in a small Wisconsin town.

THE TALE OF HILLBELLY
US 2016, 9 min, R: Daren Rabinovitch, Isaiah Saxon, Sean Hellfritsch
A man attempts to reach enlightenment through yoga, but his own physical hunger drives him deeper into nature than he could have ever wished for.

KALB
AT 2017, 7 min, R: Franz Maria Quitt
A young boy learns the ways of the farm from his grandfather, and on his own.

HAIRAT
ET 2017, 6 min, R: Jessica Beshir
Elias Shagiz Adonay Tesfaye’s poetry accompanies a glimpse into the nightly rituals of the “Hyena Man.”

DRAGONS & SERAPHIM
US/SE 2017, 14 min, R: Sasha Waters Freyer
“Ancient flowers and animal desire. The past rises up – a mirage, but I can’t bury it deep enough.”

THE RABBIT HUNT.
US 2017, 12 min, R: Patrick Bresnan
Chris and his family set out for the fields of the Everglades’ largest industrial sugar farms, where rabbit hunting is a rite of passage.


9 Filme, 82 min