FILMS
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In the meantime, take a look back at some of the great offerings from our past festivals. If you missed any of these films, you may be able to check them out on DVD from the the Hoyt Library’s special Riverside Saginaw Film Festival collection.
2019 Films
Feature Films
Photograph (India, rated PG-13, 110 min)
Photograph (2019, drama/Romance 110m, PG-13)Photograph 2019 PG-13 Drama Romance, 119 minutes Two lives intersect in Mumbai and go along together. A struggling street photographer, pressured to marry by his grandmother, convinces a shy stranger to pose as his...
The Mustang (USA, Rated R, 96 min)
The Mustang (USA, 2019, drama, 96min, rated R)The Mustang - USA 2019 Drama Roman (Matthias Schoenaerts), a convict in a prison in rural Nevada, participates in a rehabilitation program in which he trains wild mustangs. He struggles to connect with the horses and his...
“Wild Rose” (Scotland, 2018, drama/comedy, 101m, R)
“Wild Rose” (Scotland, 2018, drama/comedy, 101m, R)“Wild Rose” (Scotland, 2018, drama/comedy, 101m, R) Fresh out of prison, a Scottish woman juggles her job and two children while pursuing her dream of becoming a country music star. She soon gets her chance when she...
“White Crow” (England, 2018, biopic, 127m, R)
“White Crow” (England, 2018, biopic, 127m, R)“White Crow” (England, 2018, biopic, 127m, R) Written by David Hare and directed by Ralph Fiennes. It stars Oleg Ivenko as the ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev. The drama charts the iconic dancer's famed defection from the...
“The Souvenir” (England, 2019, drama/mystery, 119m, R)
“The Souvenir” (England, 2019, drama/mystery, 119m, R)“The Souvenir” (England, 2019, drama/mystery, 119m, R) A shy film student (Honor Swinton Byrne, daughter of Tilda Swinton who also is in the film) begins finding her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent...
“Non-Fiction” (France, 2018, farce, 108m, R)
“Non-Fiction” (France, 2018, farce, 108m, R)“Non-Fiction” (France, 2018, farce, 108m, R) lain is in his 40s and runs a famous publishing house which publishes novels by his friend Léonard, a bohemian writer. Alain's wife, Selena, is the star of a popular TV series and...
“Give Me Liberty” (USA, 2019, comedy/drama, 110m, not rated
“Give Me Liberty” (USA, 2019, comedy/drama, 110m, not rated“Give Me Liberty” (USA, 2019, comedy/drama, 110m, not rated When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, medical transport driver is torn between his promise to get his relatives, a group of elderly Russians, to a...
“Dogman” (Italy, 2018, drama/thriller, 120m, not rated)
“Dogman” (Italy, 2018, drama/thriller, 120m, not rated)“Dogman” (Italy, 2018, drama/thriller, 120m, not rated) A mild-mannered dog groomer commits petty crimes for a former boxer who terrorizes the neighborhood. When the boxer’s abuse brings the groomer to the...
“The Chambermaid” (Mexico, 2018, drama, 102m, not rated)
“The Chambermaid” (Mexico, 2018, drama, 102m, not rated)“The Chambermaid” (Mexico, 2018, drama, 102m, not rated) A young chambermaid at a luxurious Mexico City hotel confronts the monotony of long workdays with quiet examinations of forgotten belongings and budding...
“Beanpole” (Russia, 2019, historical drama, 130m, not rated)
“Beanpole” (Russia, 2019, historical drama, 130m, not rated)“Beanpole” (Russia, 2019, historical drama, 130m, not rated) 1945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Although the siege is finally...
“Ash Is the Purist White” (China, 2018, drama/crime, 136m, not rated)
“Ash Is the Purist White” (China, 2018, drama/crime, 136m, not rated)“Ash Is the Purist White” (China, 2018, drama/crime, 136m, not rated) In an industrial city in China, a young dancer named Qiao falls in love with a mobster named Bin. When a fight breaks out between...
“Aga” (Siberia, 2018, drama, 96m, not rated)
“Aga” (Siberia, 2018, drama, 96m, not rated)“Aga” (Siberia, 2018, drama, 96m, not rated) In a yurt on the snow-covered fields of Russia, Nanook and Sedna live alone in the wilderness, following the traditions of their ancestors. But slowly, inevitably their way of...
Documentaries
“The Russian 5” (USA, 2018, 102m)
“The Russian Five” (USA, 2018, 102m)“The Russian Five” (USA, 2018, 102m) In the late 1980s, the Detroit Red Wings work to finally break a 42-year Stanley Cup drought by extracting players from the Iron—curtain Soviet Union and, in the process, change the way North...
“For Sama” (USA, in Arabic, 2019, 100m)
“For Sama” (USA, in Arabic, 2019, 100m)“For Sama” (USA, in Arabic, 2019, 100m) An intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war. The story of Waad al-Kateab's life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria, as she falls in love, gets married...
“Scheme Birds” (Sweden, 2019, 90m)
“Scheme Birds” (Sweden, 2019, 90m)“Scheme Birds” (Sweden, 2019, 90m) As her childhood turns into motherhood, a teenage troublemaker comes of age in her fading Scottish steel town. But in a place where "you either get knocked up or locked up," innocent games can...
“Reinventing Rosalee” (USA, 2018, 90m)
“Reinventing Rosalee” (USA, 2018, 90m)“Reinventing Rosalee” (USA, 2018, 90m) Rosalee Glass, a former Holocaust survivor taken prisoner to a Siberian gulag during WWII, moves to America and transforms her destiny. In her 80s she begins an acting career, in her 90s...
“Maiden” (USA, 2018, 97m )
“Maiden” (USA, 2018, 97m )“Maiden” (USA, 2018, 97m ) Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook in charter boats, became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World (33,000 miles) . in 1989. To get there she remortgaged her home,...