Treefort Film Fest

Tomorrow We Disappear has a vibrant, human immediacy that commands attention and, ultimately, delight. This feature documentary by filmmakers Jimmy Goldblum and Adam Weber chronicles part of the story of the Kathputli Colony in New Delhi, the last artist colony in India. Composed of some 3000 families, its residents – magicians, acrobats, puppeteers, and street performers – are faced with relocation when the city decides to “redevelop” the slum area they live in. The documentary, filmed over several years, captures both the way of life of these artists and their responses to this impending change.

World of Tomorrow presents a sophisticated envisioning of a dystopian future, with a through line of existential sorrow, musings on memory, and occasional dark and playful humor. Young child Emily is at play one day when she’s interrupted by a clone of herself, who has traveled back from over 200 years in the future. The clone takes Emily on an existential journey through her own life and the life of Emily’s clones.

Tired Moonlight, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance 2015, aired at Treefort Film Fest as Filmmaker Magazine’s selection for its Guest Showcase. The film offers a portrait of small-town life in the director’s hometown of Kallispell, Montana as it follows a number of semi-fictionalized characters. A loosely-connected series of vignettes weave in and out of the characters’ lives, all of them blue-collar workers: a motel cleaner, a young grocery store cashier, an elderly Russian woman and her son, and others.