Ashland Independent Film Festival: Features Lineup

América is a story of brothers confronting the chasm between adolescent yearning and adult realities when brought together to care for their ailing ninety-three year old grandmother.

Five distinctive people, each with a flimsy coping strategy, find themselves stuck together after an accident.

A Navajo coal miner raising his secretive daughter on his own, struggles with his part in the irreversible destruction of their sacred mountain.

The story of the 1980 tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe.

A group of brave NYPD officers risk it all to expose the truth about illegal quota practices in police departments.

It's about thwarting any election that is against progressives.

A grief-stricken ballerina becomes the obsession of an increasingly unhinged artist.

A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.

The lives of a recovering addict and her single mother change forever when they move in next door to a widowed father and his adult daughter with autism.

The Foreigner's Home explores Toni Morrison's artistic and intellectual vision through "The Foreigner's Home," her 2006 exhibition at the Louvre. Through exclusive footage of Morrison in dialogue with artists, along with extensive archival footage, music, and photographs, the film presents a series of candid and incisive exchanges about race, identity, "foreignness," and art's redemptive power.

Four women in the south are connected by the death of a dog. Forty-something immigrant Maria struggles while her adopted daughter Meredith is away. Maria bonds with her neighbor Clara as Meredith seeks out her biological aunt Violet, a loner confronted with her past by her curious niece. The death of Meredith's aging dog spur each of these women into reflections on identity, family, and the temporary freedom of tranquilizers.

Love, faith, and civil rights collide in the south as evangelical Christians and drag queens step into the spotlight to explore the meaning of belief. Gospel drag shows and passion plays set the stage for one hell of a show.

A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.

At 17, Maris Degener is a yoga teacher, a writer, and a survivor. After suffering from anxiety, depression and life-threatening anorexia nervosa, Maris finds her own path to healing and self-acceptance. Through fearlessly authentic testimony, personal artwork and poetry, and a devoted yoga practice, she travels from despair to inspiration.

From award-winning filmmaker Dan Habib comes INTELLIGENT LIVES, a catalyst to transform the intellectual disability label from a life sentence of isolation to a life of possibility for the most systematically segregated people in America.

A look at the life, work and religious heritage of violinist Itzhak Perlman.

Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, a musical road trip across America in his 1963 Rolls Royce explores how a country boy lost his authenticity and became a king while his country lost her democracy and became an empire.

Jack is a washed up musician on a never-ending tour. When he meets a mysterious woman, he believes her beautiful voice is the key to his success; but she has a secret that could threaten Jack's plan.

A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.

Five children in Swaziland dive into their imaginations to create an original African tale about a girl on a dangerous quest.

Respected photographer, artist and set designer, Cecil Beaton. was best known for his Academy Award-winning work, designing for such award-winning films such as Gigi (1958) and My Fair Lady (1964). The film features archive footage and interviews with various models, artists and filmmakers who worked closely with Beaton during his illustrious career. Beaton was not only a dazzling chronicler of his time, but a supreme arbiter of its tastes. From the Bright Young Things, to the front lines of World War II, and from the international belle monde and the pages of Vogue to a role as the Queen's official photographer, Beaton embodied the cultural and political schisms of the twentieth century. In this warm - though critical - portrait, which blends archival footage and photographs with voice over from Beaton's famed diaries to capture his legacy as a complex and unique creative force. Dynamic and lyrical, Love, Cecil (2017) is an examination of Beaton's singular sense of the visual, which dictated a style and set standards of creativity that continue to resonate and inspire today.

Filmmaker Bing Liu searches for correlations between his skateboarder friends' turbulent upbringings and the complexities of modern masculinity.

64 countries around the world label GMOs. Why don't we?

A personal documentary that follows a controversial political cartoonist as he struggles to provide for his family and stay true to his creativity in a world where biting satiric humor has an ever-diminishing commercial value.

This documentary centers around a performance by tap dancers Bunny Briggs, Howard "Sandman" Sims and Chuck Green at a Harlem club backed by a band led by Lionel Hampton. The dancers discuss their careers and their influences.