Schedule:

12 - 2 PM - On Becoming a Guinea Fowl & I Believe I’ll Go Back Home: Robert Johnsons Copiah County Roots & Living Legacy

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family, in filmmaker Rungano Nyoni’s surreal and vibrant reckoning with the lies we tell ourselves.

I Believe I’ll Go Back Home: Robert Johnsons Copiah County Roots & Living Legacy
In 1931 legendary bluesman Robert Johnson went home in search of his father. Instead, he became one. Johnson's descendants reveal the human being behind the myth and his living legacy as a father, grandfather, and musical inspiration in Copiah County.
Location: The Briggs Opera House

3:00 PM - Far Out: Life On & After the Commune
In 1968, a group of radical journalists leave the city and politics to live communally as organic farmers. The film examines their lives and return to the political world and how the commune became a community. Blending contemporary interviews with a remarkable trove of original archival footage, Far Out is lively, humorous, inspiring, and irreverent. The film vividly recounts history while exploring universal themes of grappling over a lifetime with politics, relationships, morality, spirituality, civic engagement, and the search for home.
Location: The Briggs Opera House

6:00 PM - Oh, Canada
From legendary screenwriter/director, Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, First Reformed) comes an outpouring of lapsed-Catholic guilt, lived lies and denied truth, in which the fragments of history fall together in a mosaic of aspect ratios and film stocks for a stunning visual and editing experience.
Location: The Briggs Opera House

8:00 PM - To a Land Unknown
The stakes couldn't be higher for displaced Palestinian refugees Chatila and Reda in this knife-edge drama. The cousins are saving to pay for fake passports to get out of Athens, but when Reda loses their hard-earned cash to his drug addiction, Chatila hatches an extreme plan to pose as smugglers in an attempt to get them out of their desperate situation before it is too late.
Location: The Briggs Opera House