2016 Program

The 12th annual Rural Route Film Festival is centered around stories of brave youth and their animal friends. The line-up includes a mix of new movies and all-time classics, plus top notch shorts from around the globe.

Best Narrative – LAMB by Yared Zeleke
Best Documentary – ATLAN by Moein Karimoddini
Best Experimental – UPCYCLES by Ariana Gerstein

Opening Night Screening Party (July 29) at Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm (Flagship Long Island City, Queens location) and COFFEED – 37-18 Northern Blvd, Long Island City, NY 11101. Tickets HERE!

Core Festival (July 30-31) at Museum of the Moving Image – 36-01 35th Ave., Astoria, NY 11106. Tickets HERE!

Poster artwork by Réka Bucsi.

Friday, July 29 – 8PM @ Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm (Queens loc.) – Opening Night Screening Party

Some of our best short films on Brooklyn Grange’s beautiful flagship rooftop farm – just down the street from MoMI in Long Island City! + a performance from ukulele master, Sakai! An Opening Night Party will follow at COFFEED downstairs w/beer specials from SingleCut. (7:30PM doors, Tickets HERE) SAKAI Live performance atop the rooftop farm…

Saturday, July 30 – 1:30PM @ Museum of the Moving Image – THE BLACK STALLION

THE BLACK STALLION. Dir. Carroll Ballard. 1979, 118min. Narrative. Sardinia and Rome, Italy; Oregon, U.S.A.; Ontario, Canada. New digital restoration! Tickets “The Black Stallion” is a wonderful experience at the movies. The possibility remains, though, that in these cynical times it may be avoided by some viewers because it has a G rating — and G…

Saturday, July 30 – 4PM @ Museum of the Moving Image – FIDDLESTICKS

FIDDLESTICKS. Dir. Veit Helmer. 2014, 80min. Narrative. Buckow, Germany. NY Premiere! Tickets Director Veit Helmer (Baiknor) brings us another wild, highly-crafted original with Fiddlesticks – this time an all-ages movie, starring a group of rambunctious German children and their ingenious pet coati. In this humorously zany Little Rascals-inspired feature, the Coati Gang lives in Bollersdorf,…

Saturday, July 30 – 6PM @ Museum of the Moving Image – LAMB

LAMB. Dir. Yared Zeleke. 2015, 94min. Narrative. Gondar and Bale, Ethiopia. Tickets Sheer brilliance knits together first Ethiopian film at Cannes -Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian Yared Zeleke’s remarkable first feature tells the story of young Ephraim, a boy who is sent by his father to live with distant relatives in the Ethiopian countryside after his…

Sunday, July 31 – 1PM @ Museum of the Moving Image – THE BLACK STALLION

Sunday, July 31 – 4PM @ Museum of the Moving Image – ATLAN with WHITE MANE

ATLAN. Dir. Moein Karimoddini. 2015, 62min. Documentary. Turkmen Sahra, Iran. NY Premiere! Tickets In the Turkmen language, the word Atlan means “get on your horse and get going.” With the story of young trainer, Ali, and his horse, Ilhad, director Moein Karimoddini has us galloping within the unique Turkmen culture of northeastern Iran. Ali has…

2016 Honorable Mentions

FAREWELL ANALOG. Dir. Hiwa Aminnejad. 2015, 61min. Narrative. Bayandare, Iran.Kak Saee has bought an old analog video camera to record the life of a Kurdish village near the border of Iraq. Each week, he shows the videos in the village mosque for a small fee. On the edge of the village lives a solitary old folk…

2016 Program

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