Rehoboth Beach Independent Regional Showcase

The Rehoboth Beach Film Society’s 2019 Regional Showcase features 11 films from seven states. This year’s selections demonstrate the diversity and vibrancy of the independent film community in the Mid-Atlantic region. The subjects of the films selected run the gamut from a caper through the Swiss Alps to the racial history of the Eastern Shore. Many of the films this year examine the sufferings of people hiding in plain sight, done with care and sympathy. We hope that you will take this special opportunity to view and support the works of emerging filmmakers who create because of their love of the craft.

Barbarian Uptopia: Encounters on the Appalachian Trail
Friday, May 3-6pm

A recent college graduate sets out to hike all 2,185 miles of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail while documenting his experience. Over 100 other hikers also share their stories of adventure, hardship, and camaraderie. What emerges is a portrait of a great American resource and the community around it. [2019, US, 94 minutes, Not Rated].


Shorts Program 1
Saturday, May 4-2pm

A Most Fantastical Swiss Adventure
A girl travels on an adventure to put to rest a looming task. [2019, US, 12 minutes, Not Rated].
Sleep is for the Week
A student insomniac struggles to keep up with the ongoing pressure of high school. [2019, US, 6 minutes, Not Rated].
Clock-Boy
Welcome to the world of Clock-Boy, where the idiosyncrasies of campus culture exist only in the absurd. [2017, US, 5 minutes, Not Rated].
Pooch Sitter
Pooch Sitter is a short film about homelessness disguised as a film about pet sitters. On the surface, a quirky pet sitter seeks complete love and adoration from other people’s dogs. In actuality, Claire Wingham is surviving homelessness. [2019, US, 15 minutes, Not Rated].
Qualify
Every night, Jamal, an immigrant doctor working at a small restaurant, wipes the tables, logs the day’s sales, and generates the next day’s schedule. At closing time one night, a customer comes in on crutches, in obvious pain. As Jamal takes the customer’s order, his offer to help the customer is rebuffed. But Jamal can’t stand by and let someone suffer. A touching moment of human connection occurs. [2019, US, 6 minutes, Not Rated].
Conductor
Eli Wilson, a passenger train conductor in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, reflects on how he got his job and why it's right for him. [2018, US, 8 minutes, Not Rated].
Total program runtime: 52 minutes
Shorts Program 2
Sunday, May 5-1pm

Little Sicily
In 1950s Little Italy, Delaware, a teenage girl from an immigrant family must decide whether to destroy another woman's life to save her own. Her sister is the only one she can trust to hide her secret from her violent Sicilian family. Together, they try to weasel out of trouble - but if they fail, the consequences could lead to someone's death. [2019, US, 15 minutes, Not Rated].
CORE
Gil is a 20-year-old college student, who has been identifying himself as a gay male his whole life. Gil and Room have been dating for about two years. In the middle of their relationship, Gil realizes he is also attracted to women. However, the couple avoids this question: What does Gil really want? Their relationship is shaken when Gil meets Yuma whom he cannot help being drawn to. [2018, US, 19 minutes, Not Rated].
Strange Fruit on the Courthouse Lawn
Matthew Williams was a young black man lynched from a tree on the lawn of the county courthouse in Salisbury, Maryland on December 4, 1931. Historians and archival documents explain the facts and uncertainties surrounding his lynching. [2018, US, 25 minutes, Not Rated].
Total program runtime: 58 minutes

Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty
Saturday, May 4-4pm

Known for his mournful "Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This film is a probing exploration of his music and melancholia. Performance, oral history, musicology, and biography combine to explore the life and music of one of America’s greatest composers. [2017, US, 102 minutes, Not Rated].

Admission $5