Greetings! This year, DOCUTAH moves its main screening venue to a new home The DOCUTAH Red Cliffs Theaters. Located behind Dillards in the Red Cliff's Mall, the new location provides a true movie theater experience, plenty of parking and space for some very special events. It's a great mix of events which will enhance your Festival Experience.

Documentary explores the world in unique ways

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From Baghdad to The Bay This remarkable film explores so many aspects of the complexity of the human experience from war to sexuality to overcoming adversity. “From Baghdad to The Bay” is a raw and deeply personal look at one man’s harrowing journey to be true to himself amidst extreme adversity. The film follows the epic journey of Ghazwan Alsharif, an Iraqi refugee and former translator for the U.S. military. Wrongfully accused of being a double agent, tortured by the U.S. military and ostracized from family and country, Ghazwan as he struggles to rebuild his life in the San Francisco Bay Area while coming out as an openly gay activist. VIEW TRAILER 9/6 7:00 PM Electric Theater 9/7 10:00 AM Electric Theater

FIFTH SUN Is traveling a form of vagrancy, or is it more of an inner journey that completes you when you finally reach the end of the road? This is one of the questions that directors pondered, deciding to follow Finnish traveler and former fire-fighter Panu on a road trip from Finland to Australia. The Fifth Sun is a glimpse into a lifestyle where your whole life fits into a backpack, trying to make you consider your own ideas about freedom. VIEW TRAILER 9/5 5:10 PM Red Cliffs 3 9/7 10:20 AM Red Cliffs 2 RESERVE GALA & FESTIVAL TICKETS

RODENTS OF AN UNUSUAL SIZE The residents of Louisiana never know what will attack them next: floods, hurricanes, or monstrous swamp rats. Gigantic orange-toothed nutria are eating up the coastal wetlands, destroying the landscape, and threatening the very existence of the human population. This invasive South American species breeds faster than the roving squads of hunters and trappers can control them. Read More/Watch trailer 9/5 10:30 AM Red Cliffs 4 9/6 7:00 PM Red Cliffs 2

CHASING PORTRAITS Moshe Rynecki’s body of work reached close to eight hundred paintings and sculptures before his life came to a tragic end. It was his great-granddaughter Elizabeth who sought to rediscover his legacy, setting upon a journey to seek out what had been lost but never forgotten… Read More/Watch trailer 9/4 5:00 PM Electric Theater 9/6 10:00 AM Red Cliffs 4

FATHER'S KINGDOM In the early 1900s, an African-American man named Reverend M.J. Divine began a religious movement that would reach over a million followers at its peak, crossing racial divisions and advocating for gender and economic equality. Despite his influence and achievements, Father Divine is little remembered today, dismissed by detractors as a con man and a fraud. Read more/Watch trailer 9/4 10:20 AM Red Cliffs 3 9/5 4:50 PM Red Cliffs 2 RESERVE GALA & FESTIVAL TICKETS

Gala Reception – Cappeletti’s Restaurant, 6:00 PM Film screening – Electric Theater, 7:00 PM Tickets  $50. Proceeds from the Gala benefit the DSU Film Program

9/3/2018 –OPENING NIGHT GALA RECEPTION & SCREENING OF DREAMS OF THE BLACK ECHO It is 50 years since the Battle of Khe Sanh in Vietnam. Dreams of the Black Echo is a co-production with Duy Tan University in Vietnam and DSU film students, faculty and staff. It is the story of the war, told through the reminiscences and experience of veterans from both sides of the conflict and the battle of Khe Sanh. It is a true co-production where film students at Duy Tan University produced half the film from the perspective of their veterans and DSU film students produced half the film at Dixie State University using U.S. veterans as the storytellers. Read more Second screening 9/7/2018, 6:40 PM, Red Cliffs 1

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