F3: More Films at Library

The library offers these movies for the Ferndale Film Festival:

• Fractured Minds - Frank  Battiston - A couple journeys into a road trip in search to save their marriage. As their problems resurface, a horrific evil creeps out from the darkness. It is now up to the couple to stay together and fight for their lives.

• Strong from Detroit - Jeremy Olstyn - A high school senior bucks the system and illegally attends school outside of the Detroit City limits and takes with him State funding. As one student struggles to define his future, a city struggles to stave-off a legacy of exodus that seems unending.

• Apple Simple - Jake Haehnel - Apple Simple is a fable about how one boy realizes his true feelings toward his worst enemy.

• Tree of the Valkyrie - Phil Baumhardt - The tale of Bjorn Thorgeirson, a young Norseman who embarks on a quest to win honor and glory by the edge of his sword, but discovers he has much to learn of the ways of the warrior.

• Johnny Mathis PSA - Nat King Cole Generation Hope - Kathy  Kolla - Legendary singer Johnny Mathis promotes the non-profit charity Nat King Cole Generation Hope. The organization helps students who can't afford musical instruments.

• Mushroom Hunt - Milena Pastreich - A mother forces her family to enjoy their yearly mushroom hunt. I saw your sister yesterday - Mina Park - Women in this world have so many restrictions which came from our social environment; prejudice, sexism and social norm. In this film, there is a woman who is suffered from those things, but nobody knows her pain. Finally, her pains become herself and she returns to the society.

• Thistle - Sarah Eason - Thistle is a stop motion animation project using paper cut out puppets, large-scale water color backgrounds, and some 2D animation elements. One day a starling meets a thistle girl, and pecks out her eye...

• Atroz - Francisco Álvarez -- Atroz is a curmudgeon teddy bear who will tell us the misfortunes that he will live to flee from his owner, Luna, a girl that harasses him every moment.

• Beneath The Veneer Of A Murder - Angel Connell - A brief yet tense phone conversation between politically connected powerhouse Tom Buchanan  and a desperate lower class thug named Judd  over Buchanan's bisexual wife Daisy , her working class lover Lolita and Bartlesby, the enigmatic head of Buchanan's personal security force, results in an interlocking series of actions which culminates in a brutal murder

• Out of Wonderland - Ariel Vida - Alice has lived in calm, peaceful Wonderland her entire life.  She longs for the adventures she finds in books about a noble, exciting world far different from her unchanging land.  When a Hatter drives up in his White Rabbit with an offer to visit the place she dreams of, she eagerly accepts.  Arriving in our world, however, she finds it to be nothing like she expected.  Years after the quests of the great heroes she read about, she is surrounded instead by a modern, desolate city.  Terrified and lost, Alice wanders beneath the towering skyscrapers until she meets two siblings from which she learns more about love, loss, and sacrifice than her books had ever shown her. The

• Over Games - James Carlsen - The story of two boys' obsession with video games and how one boy's rejection of reality leads them into the world of the game itself.  In the world of the game, not everything is as it seems, and they soon find out they do not want to be there!

• Gentlemen's Club - Erin Curd - 'The Gentlemen's Club' is a short documentary film featuring a small group of fifth-grade boys at one public school in the city of Detroit. Their participation in a strikingly unique after-school program has had profound effects on their own lives, as well as complex and far-reaching implications for Detroit itself.  While much has been said about Detroit in recent years, the children of the city have largely been left out of the conversation.  'The Gentlemen's Club' amplifies these small voices, some of which are inspiring, while others heart-breaking.  The film raises questions about racial and economic privilege, and a child's right to a happy and healthy life.