Event

Florida Movie Festival

Friday 5:30-10:30, Sat 1:30-4:30, Sun 1:00-6:00 Cinematique
Friday 4:00-5:30 & 6:30-10:00, Sat 2:00-4:00, 6:30-10:00
at Mayan Inn

Weekend of Movies- "sharing passion and freedom". Come join us Friday-Sunday at Cinematique Theater & Mayan Inn in Daytona Beach on Mar 18-20.

Our Florida Movie Fest features "Long Pants(60+min), Loose Shorts(20-59), and Short Shorts(1-19)" with genres in Women Directed/Produced, Documentaries, Comedy, Faith, Narrative, Florida Local and Student. Selections came from 136 submissions from 34 countries many states.

Listed below is a diverse sample of a few of our showings:

Ben and Ara: directed by Nnegest Likke ,USA 86min

Ben, a passionately agnostic PhD student, falls behind in his dissertation and is surprised to find a muse in Ara, a devout Muslim. Ben and Ara soon fall in love but grapple with differences in their core beliefs and lifestyle choices. They discover that when two cultures touch each other, the consequences can be magical and tragic.

The Caravan Film: Margot McMaster Alberta, Canada 105min

An inside look aboard The Caravan where adventurers young and old grapple with route-finding, mother nature and group dynamics in an epic horse-drawn experience across America.

The Caravan film follows the exploits of an eclectic group of international carriage drivers and horse riders as they journey across the American south from California to Florida over 5 months and 2,500 miles.

Leading this group of relative strangers is Gerard Paagman with his team of elegant Friesian horses fresh off filming The Hunger Games - Catching Fire. Challenging the limits of disability is Michael Muir, Great Grandson of the visionary John Muir, Father of the National Parks and co-founder the Sierra Club, a conservation movement in the U.S..

This epic journey weaves its way through iconic landscapes, up and over mountains, through vast deserts, under tall pine forests, to bayous and down the backroads of America. The film explores the complexities of group dynamics, the relationship we share with our horses in this modern world and the surprising connections made along the route.

Everyone came to The Caravan laden with their individual expectations but united by their love of the horse, what happened on the journey was something they will never forget.

The Descendants: directed by Yaser Talebi, Iran 81 min

Director's Statement: This is a fairly dark film for adults. There is no profanity nor violence, but the themes are mature. An elderly father who teaches painting at a university in Iran deals with severe grief that his wife experiences after their son moves to Sweden and is not heard from for two months. The son, in his mid-twenties, had been studying in Greece, then informed his parents that he got a full scholarship to Sweden and is moving there. That's the last time his parents heard from him.