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Welcome to the Salem Film Fest 2021 Virtual Festival!
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Winter Streaming Series
CALENDAR GIRL
Salem Film Fest 2021 Features
An octogenarian artist and pigeon keeper bears witness to his migratory life and creative spirit while finding peace at home in New York City.
53 min | 2021 | USA, Canada
ANTON: CIRCLING HOME
Fri Mar 19th
Like many music acts of the early 2000s, The Matches dreamt of becoming the next “big thing.” From inspiring triumphs to heartbreaking setbacks, explore what it means to succeed in the digital age of music.
92 min | 2020 | USA
BLEEDING AUDIO
Fri Mar 19th
Fashion model, artist’s muse, and fearless war photographer. Lee Miller defied anyone who tried to pin her down, choosing to live life by her own rules.
60 min | 2020 | USA, France, Egypt via United Kingdom
CAPTURING LEE MILLER
Fri Mar 19th
Examine the peripatetic life of John Cohen, folk musician, photographer, filmmaker, and anthropologist, whose humility instilled a healthy disregard for fame and fortune.
94 min | 2020 | USA, Germany, Peru via France
DIFFERENT JOHNS
Fri Mar 19th
Who says bull riding is for men only? Hop on and hold tight, as four young girls navigate the American rodeo circuit proving they have what it takes to succeed in the saddle.
2020 | USA via Germany
GLITTER AND DUST
Fri Mar 19th
Tim Carey, a talented, yet unknown LA artist, bluffs his way into winning the commission to make the largest stained-glass window of its kind. The problem is, he has no idea how to make his complicated design.
120 min | 2021 | USA
HOLY FRIT
Fri Mar 19th
In 1970, off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, a Lithuanian sailor jumps from his Soviet vessel onto a US Coast Guard Cutter, asking for asylum. His leap for freedom sets off a chaotic series of events during the Cold War.
85 min | 2020 | USA, Lithuania, Latvia, France
THE JUMP
Fri Mar 19th
A beloved South Bronx matriarch and former "First Lady" of the Savage Skulls gang straddles the complexities of multiple worlds in a complicated journey through five decades of Bronx history and resilience.
2020 | USA
LA MADRINA: THE [SAVAGE] LIFE OF LORINE PADILLA
Fri Mar 19th
A Jewish patriarch, Cleo, establishes a family commune on a farm in the Brazilian forest, but as his children explore their family roots, the existence of their communal paradise is threatened.
86 min | 2020 | Brazil, Israel
LEAVING PARADISE
Fri Mar 19th
Four children receive Holocaust education in the public school system in rural Germany amidst the resurgence of the far-right, xenophobia, and a fractured, disparate collective memory of the nation's history.
61 min | 2019 | Germany via United Kingdom
THE LESSON
Fri Mar 19th
A 94-year-old Kenyan Grandmother with a fearless spirit must overcome dangerous accusations of witchcraft that come from within her own family.
82 min | 2019 | Kenya
THE LETTER
Fri Mar 19th
An immersive series of lyrical vignettes of Maine's seafolk — those whose lives and livelihoods are inextricably connected to the ocean.
81 min | 2020 | USA
THE LONG COAST
Fri Mar 19th
Two families searching for their loved ones who attempted to cross the US-Mexico border and went missing in the fields of Brooks County, Texas, find a haunted landscape filled with more questions than answers.
82 min | 2020 | Mexico, USA
MISSING IN BROOKS COUNTY
Fri Mar 19th
The extraordinary life and career of jazz musician and transgender icon Billy Tipton is re-imagined and performed by trans artists as they collectively paint a portrait of an unlikely hero.
84 min | 2020 | USA via Canada
NO ORDINARY MAN
Fri Mar 19th
As two Korean brothers learn, music may unite as well as divide people. One is a piano virtuoso with autism and the other remains in his shadow, both on stage and in the eyes of their mother.
98 min | 2019 | South Korea, Russia
NOCTURNE
Fri Mar 19th
Driven by an impassioned mentor who guides, goads, and challenges them, four participants in a Chicago job-training program search for hope, and a pathway out of poverty.
2020 | USA
THE ROAD UP
Fri Mar 19th
Off the coast of Georgia, two brothers come of age on an island as their adoptive mother works to preserve what remains of a unique community established by her ancestors.
92 min | 2020 | USA via Switzerland
SAPELO
Fri Mar 19th
Set among the foggy memories and ephemera of a subculture lost to time, SLEEZE LAKE tells the story of the world's largest custom van club and the biggest party you've never heard of.
59 min | 2020 | USA
SLEEZE LAKE: VANLIFE AT ITS LOWEST AND BEST
Fri Mar 19th
An ancestral home contaminated. A time-honored tradition of farming destroyed. A Japanese family impacted by two nuclear tragedies, Hiroshima and Fukushima, struggles through displacement to begin anew.
55 min | 2020 | Japan via USA
SON OF FUKUSHIMA
Fri Mar 19th
The transformation of an iconic Toronto block is told through the stories of its community members as they reconcile their history with the future while facing Canada's biggest housing crisis.
78 min | 2020 | Canada
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE THIS PLACE, ANYPLACE
Fri Mar 19th
Join the raucous members of The Tap Tap, a band comprised of musicians with degenerative disabilities who live life to the fullest as they taste fame as rock stars.
80 min | 2019 | Czech Republic
TWO ROADS
Fri Mar 19th
A Nepalese Sherpa family breaks a cultural taboo by taking part in a Himalayan expedition to the holy mountain of Kumbhakarna to earn money for their son's education and his dream of becoming a doctor.
95 min | 2020 | Nepal via Poland, Germany, Switzerland
THE WALL OF SHADOWS
Fri Mar 19th
Salem Film Fest 2021 Shorts
CANAL SHORTS BLOCK
Fri Mar 19th
DERBY SHORTS BLOCK
Fri Mar 19th
HIGHLAND SHORTS BLOCK
Fri Mar 19th
LAFAYETTE SHORTS BLOCK
Fri Mar 19th