As part of our longstanding relationship with SBIFF, we’ve already watched more than one-third of the 208 films being screened during SBIFF 2016. Many of those are featured in our fifth annual Meet the Makers magazine (published in 18,000 copies of this paper and available at most SBIFF venues) and online in our Filmmaker Interview series at independent.com/SBIFF. From those screenings, these are the 30 feature-length films we’ve enjoyed the most, in alphabetical order.
25 April: A beautifully rendered documentary that uses graphic-novel-style animation to tell the true stories of six Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) soldiers who fought in WWI’s ill-fated Gallipoli campaign.
Against Your Will: The story of Gil and Esther Alexander, who lost two of their sons to suicide and are working to raise awareness around mental health in Israel’s kibbutzim, where suicide is a growing epidemic.
