SpIFF 2018: Shorts and a documentary feature

Hard to believe, but we're already at the midway point of the 2018 Spokane International Film Festival. Those attending this year's festival already have enjoyed the opening-night screening of "Benny & Joon" at The Bing Crosby Theater and two days of programming at the Magic Lantern.

SpIFF 2018 continues tonight at the Lantern with two concurrent programs:

"No Man's Land" (6:30 p.m. in the 100-seat house): Documentary filmmaker David Byars had his cameras inside the compound of Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge when it was occupied by a group of armed militants protesting the national government's policies regarding public lands. As IMDB describes it, Byars' film "documents the occupation from inception to its dramatic demise and tells the story of those on the inside of this movement — the ideologues, the disenfranchised, and the dangerously quixotic, attempting to uncover what draws Americans to the edge of revolution."

World Shorts (6:45 p.m. in the 33-seat house): Six films from as many countries, ranging in length from four to 24 minutes, highlight this program. Themes range from a young UK woman fighting to control her life following her father's arrest to an elderly man from a remote part of India facing what could be his final days.

For ticket information, click here.