2012 CJFF Short Films
CJ Kinetscope Shorts
Before we watched movies together on the big screen, early films were viewed in private and Citizen Jane is bringing this viewing habit back. READ MORE
Shorts Before Films
These collection short films all play before feature films at the festival… READ MORE
Shorts Program: About Love…
Most Hollywood love stories involve weddings, bachelorette parties, and dances but these seven short films about… LEARN MORE
Shorts Program: Emerging Voices
This collection of short films shows off the early works of emerging filmmakers with serious talent working in a variety of genres. READ MORE
Shorts Program: Portraits
Travel around the world with seven short but powerful films that each have characters at a crossroads in life and the sense of place is much more than a plot point. READ MORE
Shorts Program: The Secret Lives of Girls
Young women are often the targets of mass media; these shorts showcase what happens when they turn the cameras around and speak for themselves. READ MORE
2012 CJFF FILMS
Birth Story
“Remember this, for it’s as true as it gets: your body is not a lemon.” So says Ina May Gaskin, one of the women who saved midwifery… READ MORE
Don’t Stop Believin: Everyman’s Journey
Don’t Stop Believin’: Everyman’s Journey follows the real life rock-n-roll fairy tale story of Filipino Arnel Pineda… READ MORE
Empire Builder
Jenny’s life has changed significantly since she had a baby. Her days of food activism and urban anthropology have been replaced… READ MORE
Existance
Existence is a post-apocalyptic drama in the genre of a “salvagepunk western”. This amazingly fitting film for the festival’s… READ MORE
The Secret Garden
Join us for this FREE retrospective screening of the critically acclaimed film The Secret Garden. Based on the classic story about a lonely… READ MORE
From The Archives: (Re)Discovering our History
Julia hosts a program unlike any other with the screening and discussion of Union Maids (1976, 48 min) and various clips from films you’ll never… READ MORE
Love and Other Anxieties
Faced with the reality that her only child will flee the nest for college, film-funder turned filmmaker Lyda Kuth gets anxious not only… READ MORE
Orchids: My Intersex Adventure
Gen X filmmaker Phoebe Hart always knew she was different growing up – but she didn’t know why. This award-winning documentary traces… READ MORE
Sexy Baby
Sexy Baby introduces us to world we already live in but don’t want to acknowledge: the sexy cyber world we live in today. But we have to know. READ MORE
Sita Sings the Blues
Few exes have the decency to move out of town when they break up with you. Nina Paley’s left the country! Finding comfort in the tale of Ramayana… READ MORE
Sun Don’t Shine
Written and directed by acclaimed actress/filmmaker Amy Seimetz (The Off Hours, Tiny Furniture), Sun Don’t Shine follows Crystal… READ MORE
The List
Kirk Johnson, a “modern day Oskar Schindler”, is a man on a mission to save thousands of Iraqi lives. These people, after agreeing to help the US Government… READ MORE
The Playroom
The Cantwells want to be a perfect family but none of them know how to do that in The Playroom, a coming-of-age drama about the fine line between… READ MORE
The World Before Her
Twenty young women from across India arrive for an intense, month-long beauty boot camp – they are the hand-picked contestants for the Miss India pageant. READ MORE
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines
Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine… READ MORE