The Best of Fest from Kansas City FilmFest is screening as part of the KC Fringe Festival. Tickets are $8, plus a one-time festival button fee of $5 which funds the festival and allows you to buy tickets for any performance for the rest of the festival.

Screenings are Wed. July 28th at 6pm and Saturday, July 31st at 2pm and 7:30pm.

The Line-Up (90 minutes):

LoopLoop / US Intl Best Experimental
Patrick Bergeron
Experimental • 0:05:00 • Canada

Using animation, sound warping and time shifts, this video runs forwards and backwards looking for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind.

LoopLoop is made from a sequence captured in a train going to Hanoi in Vietnam. The 1000 images of this sequence have been stitched into one long panoramic image. Into this long still image, other moving elements were integrated and smooth transitions built over it. LoopLoop is a video loop.

Sebastian’s Voodoo / US Intl Best Animation
Joaquin Baldwin
Animation • 0:04:07 • U.S.A.

When I’m Not Alone / won Best of Fest short / Best US/Intl Doc
Rhianon Gutierrez
Documentary • 0:20:33 • U.S.A.

Born female but raised as a male for twenty-eight years, Sam Durbin experienced unspeakable abuse, never learned to read or write, and drifted in and out of institutions. His uncontrollable behavior and disheveled state led doctors to declare him a “hopeless case”. When he found Integrity House, a clubhouse for people with disabilities in Orange County, he learned to read, write, and advocate for himself, eventually becoming a published author and nationwide advocate for people with disabilities. Despite his successes, his past continues to affect him in profound ways—from how he trusts people to his own self-image.

Neither Here Nor There / Best Heartland Doc

Neither Here Nor There documents the growing Bosnian population making Missouri their new home. More than 50,000 refugees have made Missouri their home since the war in Bosnia. Neither Here Nor There follows a widow, Fatima Selimovic, and her family living in Columbia, Missouri. For each family member, their new home provides different opportunities and their sense of home differs. This all comes to a climax when the family returns to Srebrenica for the 10th anniversary of the fall of Srebrenica where they will bury their relatives that had been identified in mass graves. Would it be better if they just stayed in Bosnia? Or is America truly the land of opportunities? Sometimes a refugee’s home is neither here nor there. It’s somewhere in between.

Watch the trailer on YouTube.