DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
40-SOMETHING SUMMERS
Runtime 06:50
4:30 p.m. March 23 - Local Block III
4:15 p.m. March 24 - Documentary Shorts Block
Three generations of women recount their halcyon summers spent at unassuming cabins in northern Minnesota.
SCRAPPER
Runtime 09:59
1:30 p.m. March 23 - Local Block I
4:15 p.m. March 24 - Documentary Shorts Block
Kerry Moyer had to “scrap” (fight with his fists) most of his youth. Now, as a community mental health case manager, Moyer teaches youth how to avoid fights and violence and how to combat patterns of toxic masculinity.
MILDRED’S ESCAPE, A WWII SURVIVAL STORY
Runtime 20:50
1 p.m. March 24 - Local Block IV
4:15 p.m. March 24 - Documentary Shorts Block
Mildred was born in Kansas but returned with her family to Germany so her father could run the family farm. During the war her family were occupied by the Nazis, the Russians, and the Polish. They were displaced and she was forced to work in a laundry camp.
This is how she survived and escaped back to America.