A Wake is an intriguing mystery about a troupe of actors who reunite for the wake of their eccentric theatre director. But all hell breaks loose when secrets and lies are exposed. Featuring a superb ensemble cast, ... Read More

Most Hollywood love stories end with marriage, but these six short films about love manage to say much more than their Hollywood counterparts. Taken together, this collection of films illuminates what we all know ... Read More

Screening with Spirit of the Bluebird, a short that is making it's World Premier at CJFF.

Apache 8 tells the story of an all-woman wildland firefighter crew from the White Mountain Ap... Read More

Atomic Mom invites viewers to confront American Nuclear History in a way that has never happened before. This story, of an American scientist (the filmmaker's mother) and a Hiroshima survivor finding peace decades ... Read More

This award-winning documentary follows outspoken indie-rock hero Bob Forrest through his life-threatening struggle with addiction, to his transformation into one of the most influential and controversial drug couns... Read More

In person filmmaker Madeleine Olnek

The Hollywood Reporter called it, "A hilarious date movie for couples of all orientations." Variety described it as a "family film" and a "Sweet, fu... Read More

In person filmmakers Liz Cambron and Susannah Lane Bragg

Five short but powerful films about people from around the world, all at crossroads in their lives. These films reflect the ripp... Read More

Sunday, 6PM
DISH (110min)
Also plays with short films HISTORY OF THE WORLD, Stanley Pickle and BoCoMo: at your service in person: Maya Gallus, director & producer of Dish; VICKY MATHER, director of... Read More

In person filmmakers Jennifer Tolle, Vicky Mather, Megan Hague, Mary Ahlman, Jennifer Razor and Regina Robbins.

This collection of short films shows off the early works of emerging filmm... Read More

Why is local food pricey and so hard to find? This hard-hitting film gives us the answer. Farmageddon tells the story of small, family farms that were providing safe, healthy foods to their communities until govern... Read More

Julia Reichert, three-time academy award nominee, "Godmother" of the festival and the film teacher you always wished you had, returns for a program of films you won't find anywhere else and a discussion about the h... Read More

Made in India is a feature length documentary film about the human experiences behind the phenomena of “outsourcing” surrogate mothers to India. The film looks at an American couple whose struggle with infertil... Read More

Rapper, singer and activist, Sister Fa is hero to young women in Senegal and an unstoppable force for social change. A childhood victim of female genital cutting, she decided to tackle the issue by starting a grass... Read More

An intimate look into the lives of four teenage girls, whose birth parents could not keep them, due to personal circumstances colliding with China's 'One Child Policy', as they search to find their identity as Amer... Read More

Every summer, young women from around the world eagerly sign up to attend the 1861 Athenaeum Girls School in Columbia, Tennessee, hoping to become that iconic and romantic image of southern identity: the southern b... Read More

Young women are often the targets of mass media, but come see what they have to say when they turn the cameras around and speak for themselves. This is the third year of our collection of short films all made by g... Read More

A nostalgic look back at the Circus Amok, featuring performer Jennifer Miller (CJFF Ringleader). Circus Amok is a group of avant-garde performance artists (bearded ladies, queers, misfits and drag artistes)that mad... Read More

Keisha Castle Hughes, the youngest ever nominee for a Best Actress Academy Award, stars in this acclaimed family drama set on the eastern coast of New Zealand. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand ... Read More

Marion Stoddart lived next to one of America's most polluted rivers and transformed herself from a 1960s housewife to a citizen leader and environmental hero honored by the United Nations. The Work of 1000 is a doc... Read More