Phoenix Film Festival 2016

The Phoenix Film Festival is the premier festival from the Phoenix Film Foundation and the largest film festival within the city of Phoenix, now in its 16th year. I counted 131 films screening this year: 53 features (up from 47 last year) and 67 short films (down from 84). There's also the finals of the year's IFP Phoenix film challenges and the Arizona Student Film Festival, screening 15 short films made by local high school students.

All that's excluding the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, which I still think of as a separate event even if it technically hasn't been since 2010. I maintain separate index pages for IHSFFF.

The event runs from 7th to 14th April in 2016 and the big change this year is that, after the bulk of the festival is over and awards have been handed out on the Sunday, the following four days will include daytime screenings as well as evening ones, allowing many of us to see more films than would normally be possible.

Here are all the films scheduled to screen this year, with titles linking to my reviews and the IMDb pages added for reference. Films screened as part of the International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival are covered on a separate page.

Rating System
1 - Abysmal | 2 - Bad | 3 - Poor | 4 - OK | 5 - Good | 6 - Excellent | 7 - Classic

Competition Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Beyond Glory	2015			Larry Brand	IMDb
Coming Through the Rye	2015			James Steven Sadwith	IMDb
Dating Daisy	2015			Neel Upadhye	IMDb
Jessica	2015			Scott K Foley	IMDb
A Light Beneath Their Feet	2015			Valerie Weiss	IMDb
No Greater Love	2015			Justin Roberts	IMDb
Operator	2016			Logan Kibens	IMDb
Rwanda & Juliet	2016			Ben Proudfoot	IMDb
Since: The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103	2015			Phil Furey	IMDb
Welcome to Happiness	2015			Oliver Thompson	IMDb

World Cinema Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Children of the Arctic	2014			Nick Brandestini	IMDb
Creditors	2015			Ben Cura	IMDb
Freedom or Death!	2015			Damian Kolodiy	IMDb
Home Care	2015			Slávek Horák	IMDb
Jackie Boy	2015			Cody Campanale	IMDb
Kollwein's Day of Truth	2015			Anna Justice	IMDb
We Will Be the World Champions	2015			Darko Bajic	IMDb
Yoani's Trip	2015			Peppe Siffredi & Raphael Bottino	IMDb

Arizona Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Carry On: Finding Hope in the Canyon				Jeremy Simmons & Carrie Whitten-Simmons	n/a
Lucky U Ranch	2015			Steve Anderson	IMDb
Patagonia Treasure Trail	2016			Michele Gisser	IMDb

Showcase Feature Films
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
City of God	2002	7	7	Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund	IMDb
Colin Hay: Waiting for My Real Life	2015			Aaron Faulls & Nate Gowtham	IMDb
Cut to the Chase	2016			Blayne Weaver	IMDb
The Dark Horse	2014			James Napier Robertson	IMDb
Exit Through the Gift Shop	2010			Banksy	IMDb
The Final Resolution	2016			Brian Ronalds	IMDb
Five Nights in Maine	2015			Maris Curran	IMDb
The Girlfriend Experience	2016			Amy Seimetz	IMDb
Here Come the Videofreex	2015			Jenny Raskin & Jon Nealon	IMDb
I am What I Play	2015			Roger King	IMDb
In Bruges	2008			Martin McDonagh	IMDb
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?	2016			Matt Cooper	IMDb
Little Men	2016			Ira Sachs	IMDb
Love and Friendship	2016			Whit Stillman	IMDb
The Man Who Knew Infinity	2015			Matt Brown	IMDb
The Meddler	2015			Lorene Scafaria	IMDb
A Monster with a Thousand Heads	2015			Rodrigo Plá	IMDb
Morris from America	2016			Chad Hartigan	IMDb
Postmarked	2016			Gene Ganssle	IMDb
Presenting Princess Shaw	2015			Ido Haar	IMDb
Remittance	2015			Patrick Daly & Joel Fendelman	IMDb
Safety Not Guaranteed	2012			Colin Trevorrow	IMDb
The Seeker	2016			Jeff D Johnson	IMDb
Shaun the Sheep Movie	2015			Mark Burton & Richard Starzak	IMDb
Short Term 12	2013			Destin Daniel Cretton	IMDb
Sing Street	2016			John Carney	IMDb
Stereotypically You	2015			Benjamin Cox	IMDb
Tab Hunter Confidential	2015			Jeffrey Scwarz	IMDb
Victor Young Perez	2013			Jacques Ouaniche	IMDb
Viva	2015			Paddy Breathnach	IMDb
Weiner	2016			Josh Kriegman & Elyse Steinberg	IMDb

Animated Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Bear Me	2012			Kasia Wilk	IMDb
Hooked	2015			Sofia Moreira	IMDb
Tiny Town	2015			Howard Cook & Stephen Baker	IMDb
Entrance Exam	2013			Boqing Tang	IMDb
Burnt	2015			Devin Bell	IMDb
Bottomless	2015			Véronique Vanblaere	IMDb
Olilo	2015			Ao Li	IMDb
The Loneliest Stoplight	2015			Bill Plympton	IMDb
Golden Shot				Gökalp Gönen	n/a
Borrowed Time	2015			Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj	IMDb
The Apple Tree	2015			Scott Storm	IMDb

Arizona Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Best Day Ever				Angel Ruiz	n/a
Fathers	2015	6	6	Jamie Rivera	IMDb
Dino Park	2015			Adolpho Navarro	IMDb
Malparido				William Edgmon	n/a
Have a Nice Flight	2014	4	4	Keenan Murray	IMDb
Up Route	2015			Jordan Wippell	IMDb
Blind Date	2015			Darren Rudy	IMDb
Reverie				Dana Bruhn & Kayla Windsor	n/a
Saying Goodbye	2015			Laurie A Bell	IMDb
Firework				Steve Hubbs	n/a
JFK's Last Interview	2015			Bob Reynolds	IMDb

Arizona Student Film Festival
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Hope & Jackson				Alyssa Bartlett	n/a
Seriously				Casey Likes	n/a
The Gymnast				Jourdyn Dinbokow	n/a
Band Together				Max Lerner	n/a
Maybe a Monster				Natasha Loving	n/a
Graham				Grant Roberts	n/a
The Devil's Odds				Addison Gilbard	n/a
A Different Kind of Always				Roger Groleau	n/a
Cat Eyes				Holly Milosevich	n/a
Just Another High School Fight				Angela Houston	n/a
The Banjo Man				Troy Lucia	n/a
An Idea for Tomorrow				Alexis Rainery	n/a
Birthday Static				Holly Milosevich	n/a
Fuera de la sombra				Martha Pacheco	n/a
Beautiful Words				Holly Milosevich	n/a

Documentary Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
High Signs	2015			Damien Patrik	IMDb
Binkley's				Andrew Gooi	n/a
Native Evolution				Kyle Bell	n/a
Keep It Grand	2015			Daniel Ferrera	IMDb
In Memory	2015			72u	IMDb

Home Grown Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Reading Out Loud				Bud Bennett	n/a
Little Donkeys				Chris Vena	n/a
Reality	2015	5	4	Chris Wilembrecht	n/a
In the Blink	2015			Damien Patrik	IMDb
A Proper Pint	2015	5	5	Keven Siegert	IMDb
The Composer	2016			Gwyneth Christoffel & Darien Marion	IMDb
The Simplicity of Chaos	2015			Miguel Gonzalez	IMDb
Closing Doors	2015			Sam Santana	IMDb

Live Action Shorts A
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Ronnie BoDean	2015			Steven Paul Judd	IMDb
Fragile Storm	2015			Dawn Fields	IMDb
A Way Out	2015			Jason Tostevin	IMDb
Big Boy	2014			Bryan Campbell	IMDb
American Dancer	2015			Steven Espinosa	IMDb
A King's Betrayal	2015			David Bornstein	IMDb
Burned	2015			Jaime Valdueza	IMDb
My Luchador	2015			Shea Sizemore	IMDb

Live Action Shorts B
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
What if My Wife Died in Yoga Class?	2014	6	6	Jeffrey Williams	IMDb
The Walk	2015			Alonso Alvarez	IMDb
Brix and the Bitch	2015			Nico Raineau	IMDb
Last Winter	2015			Daniel Wyland	IMDb
Wild West Fan Co	2015			Matt Thompson	IMDb
The Decision	2015			Mike Scalisi	IMDb
The Mountain King	2015			Peter Brambl	IMDb

Medium-Length Documentaries
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Gayrouth				Charbel Raad	n/a
Play the Documentary	2015			Matty Steinkamp	IMDb

Student Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
The Fantastic Love of Beeboy & Flowergirl	2015			Clemens Roth	IMDb
Girl in the Chair	2015			M Louis Gordon	IMDb
The Bench	2016			Cameron Burnett	IMDb
Small Displays of Chaos	2015			Nick Meunier	IMDb
Man Under the Moon	2015			Maria Sevilla	IMDb
The Life and Times of Thomas Thumb Jr	2015			Ryan Fox	IMDb
Miracle Polish	2015			Eduardo Cohn	IMDb
Isa and the Frog Prince				Yingxiang Huang	IMDb

World Cinema Shorts
Title	Year	H	D	Director(s)	IMDb
Foot in Mouth	2015			Ella Jones	IMDb
Rumble	2015			Matthew Hopper	IMDb
Violet	2015			Maurice Joyce	IMDb
Dreaming of Peggy Lee	2015			James Everett	IMDb
Colours	2015			Peter Lee Scott	IMDb
Run, Ran, Run				Sanna Ekman	n/a
The Visit	2014			Leandro Corinto	IMDb