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Schedule

April 12
- a/perture 1
  - Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
    
    Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
    
    11:00pm 84 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    The second film in Sam Raimi’s legendary horror comedy trilogy once again stars Bruce Campbell as the iconic, quick-witted demon slayer...
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- a/perture 2
- Hanesbrands
- UNCSA Babcock
- UNCSA Gold
- UNCSA Main
  - Blancanieves
    
    Blancanieves
    
    7:00pm 104 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    This glorious silent melodrama is inspired by the classic tale of Snow White. Young Carmen escapes her evil stepmother to join a troupe...
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- Fourth Street
- SECCA
April 13
- a/perture 1
  - Far Marfa
    
    Far Marfa
    
    6:30pm 86 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    A musician starting over in the windswept Texas town of Marfa suddenly inherits a mysterious work of art. Just as quickly, the...
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  - It's a Disaster
    
    It's a Disaster
    
    9:30pm 89 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Eight friends meet for a “couples brunch", but the get-together takes a sudden turn when the city is hit by a mysterious attack....
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- a/perture 2
  - Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film
    
    Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film
    
    10:30am 93 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Sharing the magic of Polaroid through the perspective of photographers and former employees, Time Zero laments...
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  - Pincus
    
    Pincus
    
    4:00pm 78 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Director David Fenster weaves in documentary footage and casts his family and friends (including his father, who’s been living with...
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  - Uprising
    
    Uprising
    
    7:00pm 85 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    In January 2011, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in a spontaneous eruption against thirty years of oppression under the...
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  - Late Night Shorts
    
    Late Night Shorts
    
    10:00pm 88 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    For those ready to revel in the awkwardly hilarious and disturbing, our late night shorts have much to offer. From the set of the “moon...
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- Hanesbrands
- UNCSA Babcock
  - Sofia's Last Ambulance
    
    Sofia's Last Ambulance
    
    11:00am 76 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    In a city where thirteen ambulances struggle to serve 2 million people, three relentless, chain-smoking Bulgarian EMT’s are our unlikely...
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  - Persistence of Vision
    
    Persistence of Vision
    
    5:00pm 83 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Striving to make the best animated film of all time, acclaimed animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) toiled for...
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  - Twenty Feet from Stardom
    
    Twenty Feet from Stardom
    
    8:00pm 85 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Backup singers live in a world just beyond the spotlight, and their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we'...
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- UNCSA Gold
  - Documentary Shorts 2
    
    Documentary Shorts 2
    
    4:30pm 78 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
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- UNCSA Main
  - Susie's Hope
    
    Susie's Hope
    
    1:00pm 104 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    An extraordinary story based on true events, Susie's Hope follows a family who triumphs over tragedy and...
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  - The Seventh Seal
    
    The Seventh Seal
    
    4:00pm 96 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    A medieval knight returns from the crusades to plague-ravaged Sweden and encounters Death, who informs him that his time has come. The...
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- Fourth Street
  - Babe
    
    Babe
    
    6:00pm 89 minutes $0.00 Buy tickets
    
    Join us on Fourth Street with your family and dogs for a FREE screening of Babe, the story of a pig raised by sheepdogs...
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- SECCA
April 14
- a/perture 1
  - Far Marfa
    
    Far Marfa
    
    3:30pm 86 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    A musician starting over in the windswept Texas town of Marfa suddenly inherits a mysterious work of art. Just as quickly, the...
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- a/perture 2
  - Pincus
    
    Pincus
    
    7:00pm 78 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Director David Fenster weaves in documentary footage and casts his family and friends (including his father, who’s been living with...
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- Hanesbrands
  - North Carolina Shorts 2
    
    North Carolina Shorts 2
    
    12:30pm 96 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
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- UNCSA Babcock
  - Persistence of Vision
    
    Persistence of Vision
    
    2:00pm 83 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Striving to make the best animated film of all time, acclaimed animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) toiled for...
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  - White Reindeer
    
    White Reindeer
    
    8:00pm 84 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    After an unexpected tragedy, uptight real-estate agent Suzanne searches for the true meaning of Christmas during one sad, strange,...
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- UNCSA Gold
  - Cries and Whispers
    
    Cries and Whispers
    
    1:30pm 91 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Agnes is dying of cancer. Her two sisters have come to spend her last moments with her. But Anna, her faithful servant, is her only...
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- UNCSA Main
  - Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film
    
    Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film
    
    10:00am 93 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Sharing the magic of Polaroid through the perspective of photographers and former employees, Time Zero laments...
    read more
  - Touch of Evil
    
    Touch of Evil
    
    4:00pm 95 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh star in this famous Welles noir filled with murder, kidnapping and police corruption. Set in a Mexican...
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- Fourth Street
- SECCA
April 15
- a/perture 1
  - Pincus
    
    Pincus
    
    11:00am 78 minutes $5.00 Buy tickets
    
    Director David Fenster weaves in documentary footage and casts his family and friends (including his father, who’s been living with...
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  - Far Marfa
    
    Far Marfa
    
    8:00pm 86 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    A musician starting over in the windswept Texas town of Marfa suddenly inherits a mysterious work of art. Just as quickly, the...
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- a/perture 2
- Hanesbrands
  - Uprising
    
    Uprising
    
    3:00pm 85 minutes $5.00 Buy tickets
    
    In January 2011, millions of Egyptians took to the streets in a spontaneous eruption against thirty years of oppression under the...
    read more
- UNCSA Babcock
- UNCSA Gold
- UNCSA Main
- Fourth Street
- SECCA
April 16
- a/perture 1
  - Persistence of Vision
    
    Persistence of Vision
    
    2:00pm 83 minutes $5.00 Buy tickets
    
    Striving to make the best animated film of all time, acclaimed animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) toiled for...
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- a/perture 2
  - God's Fiddler: Jascha Heifetz
    
    God's Fiddler: Jascha Heifetz
    
    5:30pm 88 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Not since Paganini had there been such a magician on the violin. The first modern violin virtuoso, he went on to set the standard...
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- Hanesbrands
  - Susie's Hope
    
    Susie's Hope
    
    3:00pm 104 minutes $5.00 Buy tickets
    
    An extraordinary story based on true events, Susie's Hope follows a family who triumphs over tragedy and...
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- UNCSA Babcock
- UNCSA Gold
- UNCSA Main
- Fourth Street
- SECCA
April 17
- a/perture 1
  - Smiling Through the Apocalypse: Esquire in the Sixties
    
    Smiling Through the Apocalypse: Esquire in the Sixties
    
    11:00am 99 minutes $5.00 Buy tickets
    
    Tom Hayes tells the story of how his father, editor Harold T.P. Hayes, transformed Esquire Magazine into a stable of fearless, brash,...
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  - Remote Area Medical
    
    Remote Area Medical
    
    5:00pm 83 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    In April 2012, Remote Area Medical provided free healthcare to nearly 2000 uninsured Americans on the infield of Bristol’s NASCAR...
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  - This Is Martin Bonner
    
    This Is Martin Bonner
    
    7:30pm 83 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Fifty-something Martin Bonner is starting over in Reno, helping ex-cons transition to life on the outside. His new career brings...
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- a/perture 2
- Hanesbrands
- UNCSA Babcock
- UNCSA Gold
- UNCSA Main
- Fourth Street
- SECCA
April 18
- a/perture 1
  - White Reindeer
    
    White Reindeer
    
    9:30pm 84 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    After an unexpected tragedy, uptight real-estate agent Suzanne searches for the true meaning of Christmas during one sad, strange,...
    read more
- a/perture 2
  - Remote Area Medical
    
    Remote Area Medical
    
    11:30am 83 minutes $5.00 Buy tickets
    
    In April 2012, Remote Area Medical provided free healthcare to nearly 2000 uninsured Americans on the infield of Bristol’s NASCAR...
    read more
- Hanesbrands
- UNCSA Babcock
- UNCSA Gold
- UNCSA Main
- Fourth Street
- SECCA
  - Crumb
    
    Crumb
    
    7:00pm 119 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    A dark and haunting documentary about the famous comic artist and legendary counterculture icon Robert Crumb (creator of Fritz the Cat...
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April 19
- a/perture 1
- a/perture 2
- Hanesbrands
  - North Carolina Shorts 1
    
    North Carolina Shorts 1
    
    1:30pm 99 minutes $5.00 Buy tickets
    
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  - Virtually Heroes
    
    Virtually Heroes
    
    9:30pm 84 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Sgt. Books, a sarcastic, self-aware video game character, becomes frustrated with the pointless battles, super-powerful bosses, and...
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- UNCSA Babcock
- UNCSA Gold
  - White Reindeer
    
    White Reindeer
    
    5:30pm 84 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    After an unexpected tragedy, uptight real-estate agent Suzanne searches for the true meaning of Christmas during one sad, strange,...
    read more
  - It's a Disaster
    
    It's a Disaster
    
    8:00pm 89 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Eight friends meet for a “couples brunch", but the get-together takes a sudden turn when the city is hit by a mysterious attack....
    read more
- UNCSA Main
- Fourth Street
- SECCA
April 20
- a/perture 1
  - Virtually Heroes
    
    Virtually Heroes
    
    9:30pm 84 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Sgt. Books, a sarcastic, self-aware video game character, becomes frustrated with the pointless battles, super-powerful bosses, and...
    read more
- a/perture 2
  - Late Night Shorts
    
    Late Night Shorts
    
    10:00pm 88 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    For those ready to revel in the awkwardly hilarious and disturbing, our late night shorts have much to offer. From the set of the “moon...
    read more
- Hanesbrands
- UNCSA Babcock
  - Hour of the Wolf
    
    Hour of the Wolf
    
    2:00pm 90 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    A disturbed artist and his wife move to a remote island in an attempt to suppress his hallucinations, fears and phobias. But at night,...
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  - A Conversation with Jeff Nichols
    
    A Conversation with Jeff Nichols
    
    5:00pm 90 minutes $0.00 Buy tickets
    
    UNCSA School of Filmmaking alum and 2013 RiverRun Emerging Master honoree Jeff Nichols will answer questions from a mystery moderator...
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- UNCSA Gold
  - This Is Martin Bonner
    
    This Is Martin Bonner
    
    6:30pm 83 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Fifty-something Martin Bonner is starting over in Reno, helping ex-cons transition to life on the outside. His new career brings...
    read more
- UNCSA Main
  - Susie's Hope
    
    Susie's Hope
    
    4:00pm 104 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    An extraordinary story based on true events, Susie's Hope follows a family who triumphs over tragedy and...
    read more
- Fourth Street
- SECCA
April 21
- a/perture 1
  - Canícula
    
    Canícula
    
    10:00am 65 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Canícula is an engrossing study of the rich cultural heritage and traditions of the Totonac people of Veracruz...
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  - Smiling Through the Apocalypse: Esquire in the Sixties
    
    Smiling Through the Apocalypse: Esquire in the Sixties
    
    12:30pm 99 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Tom Hayes tells the story of how his father, editor Harold T.P. Hayes, transformed Esquire Magazine into a stable of fearless, brash,...
    read more
- a/perture 2
- Hanesbrands
- UNCSA Babcock
  - Persona
    
    Persona
    
    2:15pm 85 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Elizabeth Vogler, a famous actress, goes voiceless during a performance. Alma, a young nurse, takes care of her in an isolated seaside...
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- UNCSA Gold
  - Remote Area Medical
    
    Remote Area Medical
    
    1:30pm 83 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    In April 2012, Remote Area Medical provided free healthcare to nearly 2000 uninsured Americans on the infield of Bristol’s NASCAR...
    read more
  - Shenandoah
    
    Shenandoah
    
    4:00pm 97 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Turnley investigates the story of a Pennsylvania coal mining town struggling to survive and...
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- UNCSA Main
  - This Is Martin Bonner
    
    This Is Martin Bonner
    
    11:00am 83 minutes $10.00 Buy tickets
    
    Fifty-something Martin Bonner is starting over in Reno, helping ex-cons transition to life on the outside. His new career brings...
    read more
- Fourth Street
- SECCA

Altered States: New Directions in American Cinema	Films on Film	Narrative Shorts 2
Animated Shorts	Films With Class	NC Shorts
Awards Presentations	Focus	NC Shorts 1
Community Cinema Initiative Free Screenings	From the Archives	NC Shorts 2
Contemporary French Masters	Late Night	Saturday Morning Cartoons
Documentary Features Competition	Late Night Shorts	Special Screenings
Documentary Shorts	Narrative Features Competition	Spotlight on Ingmar Bergman
Documentary Shorts 1	Narrative Shorts 1	Spotlight on Science Fiction
Documentary Shorts 2