Salem Film Fest 2023 - Virtual

Salem Film Fest is the largest documentary film festival in Massachusetts with films from around the world, running in person for four days, March 23- 26 and virtually for 7 days, March 27 – April 2, 2023. For more information, visit www.SalemFilmFest.com.

1946: THE MISTRANSLATION THAT SHIFTED A CULTURE
The word “homosexual” first appeared in the Bible in 1946. Researchers unveil astonishing new revelations regarding the mistranslation that has had grave consequences for the LGBTQIA+ community.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3a7c2f2bba1006ebeef77

AN ACCIDENTAL LIFE 
Speed climber Quinn Brett survives a near fatal climbing accident, but struggles to access the joy central to her being while rediscovering how to use her body without the use of her legs.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3a9030f4ce500717b9cd3

ART AND PEP
The owners of an iconic LGBTQ+ bar in Chicago are civil rights leaders who have been fighting for equality for decades, their activism is a love unlike any other.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3a946cc9730005bca6d99

CABIN MUSIC
Walking away from Boston’s New England Conservatory, a pianist backpacks overland from Spain to Japan, then builds a remote cabin in Canada to create a new form of music.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3a96cf2bba1006ebef1f8

CALL ME MULE
A feisty 65-year-old man and his three mules have roamed the West on foot for 30 years, struggling to maintain a nomadic lifestyle.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3a9a51c1ebb00d8dab6ef

COWBOY POETS
Since 1985, cowboys have traveled to the American National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, where they share their unique love for poetry and their Western way of life.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3a9bc9ce639009acb9b38

DUSTY & STONES
Two struggling country music singers from the African Kingdom of Swaziland determined to win big and turn their careers around, compete in a Texas battle of the bands.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3a9e3cc9730005bca6e20

FANTASTIC NEGRITO: Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
Massachusetts born Bluesman Fantastic Negrito faces the demons of his past while recording his third Grammy-winning album, Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3aa13a3814b00615f7e77

FINDING HER BEAT 
For over 2,000 years, the Japanese drumming art of Taiko, has been reserved solely for men. Meet the bold women whose talent, determination and sisterhood aim to change that. Tickets include a live drumming performance!
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3abcb9ce639009acb9dce

THE GRAB
An investigative journalist uncovers the money, influence and politics behind an alarming covert global effort to control Earth’s remaining food and water resources.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3abf959267600c57afa2d

JACK HAS A PLAN
When Jack, a man with a terminal brain tumor for 25 years, decides to end his life, family and friends struggle to accept his decision. Jack’s best friend documents his three-year quest to die a happy man, culminating in a permanent going-away party.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3b193c84964004b0126e8

THE KAISER OF ATLANTIS 
A determined orchestra director and a spiritualist shephard the début of a 1943 opera written by prisoners in Terezin, a Nazi concentration camp. Its anti-war warning is as timely as ever.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3b5a30f4ce500717ba859

KASH KASH: Without Feathers We Can’t Live
Beirut, a city in turmoil, is portrayed through following the players of “Kash Hamam”, a game of chance played with pigeons over the rooftops.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3b5cb9ce639009acba69b

LAGUNARIA
A voice from a distant future tells of a vanished city that was once among the most famous in the world – Venice, Italy.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3be860c1b9700bc7f5633

NORTH CIRCULAR 
A musical journey set in Ireland exploring the history and narratives of Dublin’s fabled North Circular Road.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3bf0a59267600c57b0f1d

NO TIME TO FAIL
Amidst an onslaught of disinformation and a global pandemic, Rhode Island election officials work around the clock to ensure the integrity of the 2020 election.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3bed0a3814b00615f9393

OFF THE RAILS
British youth gain YouTube fame and fortune with their UrbEx stunts and gravity-defying Parkour skills until the trauma of a close friend’s death triggers darker stories, of broken families and fragile mental health.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/64035ad68b907e00ac8f2356

OVERCOMING THE DARKNESS 
A kaleidoscopic of stories of Ukraine’s cities, under current Russian invasion, and their historic struggle for the right to exist freely on their own land.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3bf7ccc9730005bca88ea

PHOTOGRAPHIC JUSTICE: The Corky Lee Story
For decades, Chinese American photographer Corky Lee documented the Asian American experience. An unprecedented look at the triumphs and tragedies of the man behind the camera.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3d980f2bba1006ebf26e9

PLEISTOCENE PARK
A renown Russian geophysicist and his son stave off a global environmental catastrophe by restoring the Ice Age “mammoth steppe” ecosystem in their remote corner of Siberia.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3dc3ec84964004b015565

RAZZOUK TATTOO
Pilgrims to Jerusalem have been tattooed by the Razzouk family for hundreds of years. When ancient olive wood stencils mysteriously go missing, family secrets unfold.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3d964f9b89e00be26ea4f

STILL WORKING 9 TO 5
A look at what has changed – and what hasn’t – for working women in the 40 years since the release of the 1980 blockbuster 9 TO 5 – featuring interviews with the film’s stars.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3e25ea3814b00615fb91a

A STORY OF BONES
The UK’s colonial past as a slave trading nation is exposed when airport construction on St. Helena island, best known for Napoleon’s gravesite, unearths an unmarked mass burial ground.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3e225f2bba1006ebf3112

TOWN DESTROYER
Controversy erupts over images of African American slaves and Native Americans in New Deal-era murals at George Washington High School in San Francisco, leading to a passionate outpouring of activism and opinions about art, history, and racial reckoning in America.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3e81859267600c57b3e22

UKRAINISTAN ARTISTS WAR — World Premiere
By demonstrating how art can succeed where war fails, UKRAINISTAN ARTIST WAR offers creative optimism in the face of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Taliban’s oppression of women and girls in Afghanistan.
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/films/63f3e844225ade0085afb290

SHORTS BLOCK 1
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/schedule/6403a0647cadd700e1de7601

SHORTS BLOCK 2
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/schedule/6403bc3830502d0028721135

SHORTS BLOCK 3 
https://salemfilmfest2023.eventive.org/schedule/6403c8f7d7223f0036f217f6