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Watch Films on the Roof

Bride-kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan, heart surgery in Palestine, immigration in Canada, jazz in New Orleans, musical theater in Missouri! A world tour of fun and fantastic films about communities in transition. We promise something for everyone in this show, and something you\'ve never seen the likes of before.

FRIDAY, JULY 15, 9pm
Caught in Between
8:30pm: Live music by Honeychild
In Williamsburg
On the lawn of Automotive High School (50 Bedford Ave, at N. 13th street)

Visit www.rooftopfilms.com for the all the details.

THE FILMS
All Right (Aleesa Cohene)
Carving her surgically precise editing knife into the flaccid arguments of Canadian immigration policy and reassessing vintage training videos, broadcast voices and homegrown horror fantasies, Cohene turns our gaze to the acculturation that creates an inside and out, an us and a them.

The Hot 8 (Greg Samata)
An energetic documentation of the tension between the practiced and well trained older jazz musicians and the new generation of undisciplined yet wonderfully charismatic players in modern day New Orleans.

Branson: Musicland (Peter Sillen)
Peter Sillen (co-director of Benjamin Smoke) takes a documentary look at Missouri's glitzy entertainment capital and some of the less-fortunate folks who live there.

Two Hands (Fabio Wuytack)
A spellbinding short portrait of a doctor training to become just the 5th cardiac surgeon serving a population of more than three million in war-torn Palestine.

Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (Peter Lom)
Reporter Petr Lom travels to Kyrgyzstan, where an ancient tradition of bride kidnapping, banned by the Soviets, is resurgent. Lom gets inside families to talk with kidnapped brides- those who have managed to escape from their captors as well as those who are making homes with their new husbands.