Schedule:

10 AM - 12 PM - Emerging Filmmakers Brunch
A breakfast celebrating WRIF's regional Emerging Filmmakers and local filmmakers from the Upper Valley. All WRIF attendees are invited to join us in Putnam's secret garden and meet cool people making cool stuff.
Location: Putnam's Vinyard

12 - 2 PM - Universal Language
A comedy unfolding in a reimagined Canada where Persian and French are the two official languages. Universal Language follows the lives of multiple characters, including Gradeschoolers Negin and Nazgol who find a sum of money frozen in the winter ice and try to claim it. Meanwhile, Massoud leads a group of increasingly-befuddled tourists through the monuments and historic sites of Winnipeg. Matthew quits his meaningless job in a Québecois government office and sets out upon an enigmatic journey to visit his mother.
Location: The Briggs Opera House

2 - 4 PM - No Other Land
Made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors over the course of five years, this documentary shows the systematic destruction of Masafer Yatta (a group of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank) at the hands of the Israeli military. Winner of Best Documentary at Berlinale, this eye-opening, vérité-style documentary serves as a moving portrait of the unlikely friendship between Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who form a philosophical and political alliance despite the drastic differences in their abilities to exist freely in this world.
Location: The Briggs Opera House

5 - 6 PM - Yoga Break with Upper Valley Yoga
Move your body and enjoy a restorative yoga practice to help absorb and digest the many emotions that WRIF's films may give rise to. In partnership with Upper Valley Yoga, Leslie Carleton will offer this 60-minute yoga practice FREE to all WRIF attendees. Please bring your own mat if you have one!
Location: JAM - Junction Arts & Media

5:00 PM - Young Hearts
In this gorgeous and heartfelt story of youthful romance, fourteen-year-old Elias feels attracted to his new neighbor, Alexander, and soon realizes he’s in love for the very first time. Unsure of how to approach these new feelings and what they might mean for his relationships with friends and family, Elias enters a deep state of confusion before he’s able to accept himself and follow his heart.
Location: The Briggs Opera House

7:00 PM - Bird
12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug (Barry Keoghan, Saltburn) and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.  When she meets a kind drifter (Franz Rogowski, Passages), something seems off, and incredible things begin to happen as the film shifts gears to magical realism in a manner that only a filmmaker like Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, American Honey) could pull off. Bird has played for audiences at Cannes and New York Film Festival.
Location: The Briggs Opera House

9:15 PM - The Balconettes and Itch
The Balconettes
As a heat wave brings a Marseille neighborhood to the boil, three roommates gleefully meddle in the lives of their neighbours from their balcony. Until a late night drink turns into a bloody affair.

Itch
Manon sits at a table waiting for her date as an uncontrollable itch overtakes her.

Location: The Briggs Opera House