The Vow of Hiroshima

The Vow of Hiroshima

Director: Susan Strickler
Runtime: 82 minutes

THE VOW FROM HIROSHIMA is an intimate portrait of Setsuko Thurlow, a passionate, 85-year-old survivor of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. Her moving story is told through the lens of her growing friendship with a second generation survivor, Mitchie Takeuchi.

Setsuko Thurlow devoted her entire life to demanding a nuclear-free world. Culminating with Thurlow’s acceptance speech at the 2017 Nobel Peace Awards, this documentary explores Thurlow’s life and work, as well as her evolving friendship with director Mitchie Takeuchi, a second-generation survivor.

In telling Thurlow’s story, Takeuchi breaks her own family’s silence about the devastating nuclear attacks.

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Screening Info

Date: Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 12pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Short Docs – Bundini, Amber’s Halfway Home

Bundini

Director: Patrick Green
Runtime: 21:55 minutes

Drew “Bundini” Brown was the source of Muhammad Ali’s spirit who stood by the champ during his triumphs, trials and tribulations both inside and outside the ring. “Bundini” is the first ever documentary on Ali’s beloved trainer/Svengali that explores the extraordinary life of the man whom Ali said made him “The Greatest” through archival footage, family photos, and narration by “Bundini” biographer Todd Snyder and Bundini’s only son, Drew III.

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Amber’s Halfway Home

Director: Melissa Armstrong & Jason Pidgeon
Runtime: 30:09 minutes

Amber Reynolds runs her nonprofit, the Halfway Home Animal Rescue, in Greenfield, TN, a tiny farming community hidden somewhere between Nashville and Memphis. At a glance, Greenfield is pastoral, beautiful even. But underneath idyllic scenes of meandering creeks and cotton fields, is a raging problem of too many unwanted animals.

In Amber’s Halfway Home, a film crew follows Amber for one day. During that day, she rescues 19 dogs. Some are dumped on the roadside and left to survive on their own. Others are living in unhealthy conditions at the unregulated and pitifully funded shelters. Watch as one woman saves these homeless animals from certain death.

Amber’s Halfway Home is an exploration of the conditions at government-funded shelters and the consequences of ignoring our country’s homeless animals. But, it’s also a celebration of a woman battling for change in her Southern community, a warrior who saved 2000 dogs in one year.

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Screening Info

Date: Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 12pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Thriller Combo – Don’t Go Hiking, Night at the Eagle Inn

Don’t Go Hiking

Director: Director
Runtime: 4:56 minutes

A young man encounters a mysterious stranger while hiking in the woods.

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Night at the Eagle Inn

Director: Erik Bloomquist
Runtime: 70 minutes

Fraternal twins embark on a pilgrimage to a remote inn to investigate the last known whereabouts of their father who mysteriously disappeared the night they were born — their exploration leading to shocking revelations as the property’s dark secrets ensnare them in a hellish labyrinth they must escape before dawn.

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Marionette Land

Marionette Land

Director: Alexander Monelli
Runtime: 84 minutes

“Marionette Land” is an intimate portrait into the wonderful world of Robert Brock, a man who lives above his own magical marionette theatre with his mother, Mary Lou. Brock creates and performs classic marionette shows for families as well as grown-up shows where he straps on his heels to become famous Hollywood divas of the past. But new personal and professional challenges emerge as Robert and Mary Lou struggle to keep the marionette theatre open while preparing to celebrate its 30th anniversary.

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Screening Info

Date: Friday, October 1, 2021 at 9pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Simin

Simin

Director: Morteza Atash Zamzam
Runtime: 78 minutes

Simin is a film about the cause of the drying up of the Zayandehrood (a river placed in Esfehan city in Iran) and its effects on the people life, especially farmers. The story is told in a metaphorical space and the mother character it is a symbol of water and river.
The story of the film is based on the reality of the geographical conditions of this region.

Screening Info

Date: Friday, October 1, 2021 at 7:30pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Female Filmmaker Shorts

Dust

Director: Serena Giordano
Runtime: 6:24 minutes

Rossella and Guglielmo’s older brother, Edoardo, passed away. Death brings the two siblings back together…maybe.

World Cup

Director: Maryam Khodabakhsh
Runtime: 17:42 minutes

On the night of a couple’s migration, the child of their friend who has been entrusted to them gets lost, and then a secret is revealed …

Life Happens & Then You Cry

Director: Qbah Fernandez
Runtime: 19:53 minutes

A day in the life of busy career woman, Kate (Kate Hughes). Kate finds herself in a pivotal moment of her life where she must make a difficult choice about her relationship with long term boyfriend, Dave (Christopher Morris). With some help from her sassy Latina best friend, Sara (Sara Viteri) she may be able to find a solution to her dilemma.

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Offline

Director: Kate Kelsen
Runtime: 7 minutes

A terminally-ill man faces his greatest challenge when he gathers his close friends to plan his funeral.

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Inspira

Director: Emma Orelove
Runtime: 5:58 minutes

An exploration of life for one woman living in 2020 through breath. Created by an all-female team.

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Jabaril Keating

Director: Stacey Larkins
Runtime: 10 minutes

Upon making a life altering decision, Jabari Keating is a candid first person narrative film that explores his personal reflections, life experiences and trials and tribulations as an African American in present day America.

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Wistful Pieces

Director: Ellany Kincross
Runtime: 18:03 minutes

Nick and Nadia are a successful couple in their 40’s who have been married for 12 years. Their lives have revolved around love and career until Nadia’s ex-boyfriend, Adam enters the picture. Adam is desperate to make peace with the past. As he thrusts himself into their lives, Nick and Nadia’s commitment is tested by otherworldly forces.

Can Nadia forgive Adam? Can Nick and Nadia find their way back to each other?

Wistful Pieces explores how the past isn’t always complete and that the world you see isn’t really all there is.

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Duet

Director: Mika Orr
Runtime: 21 minutes

Duet is the story of one fateful day in the lives of 8-year-old girls May and Shadmit, who dislike each other but learn that their lives have become oddly intertwined forever.

Duet is a multidisciplinary project, uniquely integrating film and music. The story raises questions about loneliness, regret, subject memory and fate that ties two children together for a lifetime.

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The Fading Moon, Distressed Desert, & Calm Cloud

Director: Rochelle White
Runtime: 3:05 minutes

A raging Desert allows her frustration to grow to the point it almost consumes her! She is scared the moon may never return! But as the cycle of nature unfolds, the Desert soon learns she has no other choice but to trust in its wisdom.

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Screening Info

Date: Friday, October 1, 2021 at 7:30pm
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater
Address: 201 Washington St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Border South

Border South

Director: Raúl O. Paz Pastrana
Runtime: 83 minutes

To stem the immigration tide, Mexico and the US collaborate to crack down on migrants, forcing them into ever more dangerous territory.

Every year hundreds of thousands of migrants make their way along the trail running from southern Mexico to the US border. Gustavo’s gunshot wounds from Mexican police, which received a lot of press attention, might just earn him a ticket out of Nicaragua. Meanwhile anthropologist Jason De León painstakingly collects objects left behind by migrants on the trail, which have their own stories to tell. These remains, from Hondurans crossing through southern Mexico, reveal a vivid portrait of the thousands of immigrants who disappear along the trail.

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Screening Info

Date: Friday, October 1, 2021 at 7:30pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10