WHY DO YOU SMELL LIKE THE OCEAN

The Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF), celebrating its 12th anniversary and taking place December 1 to 12, revealed the lineup of films screening in the festival’s competition and sidebar sections. This year, the Festival will showcase more than 130 films from 40 different countries including nine international premieres, 28 Caribbean premieres, and all are Bahamian premieres. The four competition categories at BIFF are Spirit of Freedom: Narrative; Spirit of Freedom: Documentary; New Visions; and Short Film. Additional categories out of competition are World Cinema Narrative and World Cinema Documentary; Caribbean Spotlight Narrative and Caribbean Spotlight Documentary; Comedy; and non-Jury Short Films. There will be special screenings throughout the Festival of Brian Klugman’s “Baby Baby Baby”, Ben Bowman’s “Knucklehead”, Daryl Wein’s “Consumed”, Julien Leclercq’s “The Crew”, Samuel Benchetrit’s “Asphalte” (Macadam Stories)” and Jean Michel Costeau’s “The Secret Ocean”. The official BIFF feature lineup is comprised of the following films: SPIRIT OF FREEDOM (NARRATIVE) EADWEARD (Canada) / Director: Kyle Rideout SHOWING ROOTS (USA) / Director: Michael Wilson SIN AND ILLY (Germany) / Director: Maria Hengge THE SLEEPING TREE (Bahrain) / Director: Mohammed Rashed BuAli (pictured above) unINDIAN (Australia) Director: Anupam SHarma WILDLIKE (USA) / Director: Frank Hall Green SPIRIT OF FREEDOM (DOCUMENTARY) ALL EYES ALL EARS (China, USA) / Director: Vanessa Hope GAZELLE – THE LOVE ISSUE (Brazil) / Director: Cesar Terranova I AM THALENTE (South Africa) / Director: Natalie Johns INDIA’S DAUGHTER (India) Director: Leslee Udwin MY LIFE IN CHINA (USA) Director: Kenneth Eng QUEEN MIMI (USA) Director: Yaniv Rokah SPEED SISTERS (Iran) Director: Amber Fares MADINA’S DREAM (Sudan) Director: Andrew Berends CROCODILE GENNADIY (Ukraine) Director: Steve Hoover NEW VISIONS (Sponsored by JetBlue Airways) A BEAUTIFUL NOW (USA) / Director: Daniela Amavia AFTER THE WEDDING (USA) / Director: Claudia Cifuentes BAD MOON RISING (Japan) / Director: Hiritaka Asano EMPIRICA (USA) / Director: Patrick Shanahan GOLDEN KINGDOM ( Myanmar ) / Director: Brian Perkins JACKRABBIT (USA) / Director: Carleton Ranney JOHNNY WALKER (USA) / Director: Kris De Meester THE PREPPIE CONNECTION (USA) / Director: Joseph Castelo SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE (USA) / Director: Lanre Olabisi THE AMBASSADOR TO BERN (Hungary) / Director” Attila Szasz THE CENTER (USA) / Director” Charlie Graik SINGAPORE SLING (Brazil,USA) / Director: Marcus Sigrist LA EXTRANA (Dominican Republic) / Director: César Rodríguez WORLD CINEMA NARRATIVE (Sponsored by CornèrTrader) ANTI SOCIAL (UK) / Director: Reg Traviss OMBRE (Bulgaria) / Director: Zachary Iliev Paunov JASMINE (Hong Kong, USA), / Director: Dax Phelan MEET PURSUIT DELANGE (UK) / Director: Howard Webster NORTH VS. SOUTH (UK) / Director: Steven Nesbit REMITTANCE (Singapore, USA) / Director: Joel Fendelman WEEPAH WAY FOR NOW SOUND (USA) / Director: Stephen Ringer WHY DO YOU SMELL LIKE THE OCEAN (USA) / Director: Kevin Baggott LET’S DANCE TO THE RHYTHM (India) / Director: Bardroy Barretto WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY (Sponsored by CornèrTrader) GORED (USA, Spain) / Director: Ido Mizrahy HYDRO (USA) / Directors: Rafa G. Sánchez, Xavi Tello NEW CAMBODIAN (Cambodia) / Director: Isabella Astengo WHEN VOICES MEET (South Africa) / Director: Nancy Sutton Smith EVERY CHILD COUNTS (Canada) / Director: Wendy Loten CARIBBEAN SPOTLIGHT NARRATIVE BATTLE DREAMS CHRONICLES (Martinique) / Director: Alain Bidard BAZODEE (Trinidad & Tobago) / Director: Todd Kessler STONE SHACKS (Bahamas) / Director: Tyrone Burrows TRAFFICKED (Trinidad & Tobago) / Director: Sean Hodgkinson CARIBBEAN SPOTLIGHT DOCUMENTARY CONGO BEATS THE DRUM (Israel, Jamaica) / Director: Ariel Tagar DREADLOCKS STORY (Jamaica) / Director: Linda Aïnouche EXUMA (Bahamas) / Director: Colin Ruggiero VANISHING SAIL (The Grenadines) / Director: Alexis Andrews COMEDY ART ACHE (USA) / Director: Berty Cadilhac DEPENDENT’S DAY (USA) / Director: Michael David Lynch DRIVING WHILE BLACK (USA) / Director: Paul Sapiano IT HAD TO BE YOU (USA) / Director: Sasha Gordon THE FUNERAL GUEST (USA) / Director: Matthew Kohnen THE RIGHT JUICE (UK, Portugal) / Director: Kristjan Knigge

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