KFPL staff have hand-picked films that continue to explore the themes of each KCFF 2021 selection.
Letters to Juliet
If you enjoyed My Salinger Year. A fun, light film about a young woman coming of age, answering love letters that weren’t written to her.
On the Basis of Sex
For those who enjoyed My Salinger Year. Based on the true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Another inspiring biopic with an historical setting.
Midnight in Paris
For those who enjoyed My Salinger Year. Another quirky with with a literary twist.
The Royal Tennenbaums
For those who enjoyed The Kid Detective. An eccentric, dysfunctional family with three precocious children whose early successes are followed by failure and unhappiness.
Pawn Sacrafice
For those who enjoyed The Kid Detective. Chronicles chess prodigy Bobby Fischer’s later-life struggles with mental illness.
Amadeus
For those who enjoyed The Kid Detective. Former child prodigy Mozart, during his mid-twenties in Vienna, as seen by his bitter rival Salieri.
Between the Folds
For those who enjoyed Paper Man. An award-winning documentary follows a group of celebrated artists and theoretical scientists whose decision to leave their fields for a career in the art of Origami have earned them no small amount of derision from their peers.
Le poil de la bête = The hair of the beast
For those who enjoyed Bloodthirsty. 1665 New France, werewolves are terrorizing a village and an escaped prisoner becomes an unlikely hero.
Wildling
For those who enjoyed Bloodthirst. Trapped and controlled as a child with fear of the Wildling, Anna is finally freed at 16. When her childhood nightmares return, a terrifying secret is revealed.
Wolfman
For those who enjoyed Bloodthirsty. A classic werewolf tale featuring Benecio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt.
Time Out of Mind
For those who enjoyed Vagrant. A homeless man bonds with a new friend at New York's Bellevue Hospital while trying to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter.
Disobedience
For those who enjoyed Shiva Baby. A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite.
Hedwig And The Angry Inch
For those who enjoyed No Ordinary Man.A high-powered rock musical that tells the hilarious but emotional tale of a German glam-rock diva on a journey to find love and stardom.
Follow My Voice With the Music of Hedwig
For those who enjoyed No Ordinary Man. The creators of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and top indie rock artists come together to create a tribute album benefiting Harvey Milk High School - the first accredited high school in the country for LGBTQ youth.
Edge of Seventeen
For those who enjoyed How to Fix Radios. An empathetic and sweetly funny portrait of a teenager fumbling her way through a junior year in which some friendships fade and others are born.
Old Joy
For those who enjoyed How to Fix Radios. A laconic exploration of generational malaise in which two old friends take a short camping trip and spend time discussing their lives and reminiscing about the past.
Peace Officer
For those who enjoyed No Visible Trauma. 30 years after he trained his rural state’s first SWAT team, a former sheriff investigates the controversial killing of his son-in-law by the very same unit.
Fruitvale Station
For those who enjoyed No Visible Trauma. This heartbreaking debut by the director of Black Panther and Creed traces the last day of 22-year-old Oscar Grant III who was killed by a BART police officer on New Years day 2009.
The Second City
For those who enjoyed Mouth Congress. This is a funny documentary about the fabled Second City comedy troupe, incubator for some of Canada’s most celebrated comedians.
Joan Rivers: a piece of work
For those who enjoyed Mouth Congress. At times heartrending, at times hilarious, this documentary follows the pioneering comedian through an eventful year of her life.
Camila’s Awakening
For those who enjoyed Nadia Butterfly. Inspired by a true story of bravery and resilience, Camila's Awakening offers an enlightening way to discuss how we view disability and its portray in the media.
Snow Cake
For those who enjoyed Drifting Snow. A story of love and the unorthodox friendships, starring Sigourney Weaver (My Salinger Year) and Alan Rickman.
Stinking Heaven
For those who enjoyed Anne at 13,000 Feet. An insidious necomer disrupts the harmony in an early 90's commune, resulting in paranoia, drug relapse, and eventually death.
How Heavy This Hammer
For those who enjoyed Anne at 13,000 Feet. A family man who spends his time playing video games decides to change his life by leaving his wife.
The Walk A Mile Film Project
For those who enjoyed Beans. A series of 5 short documentary films that are designed to educate and encourage frank conversations.
The Tightrope of Power
For those who enjoyed Beans. A documentary that delves into the Oka crisis.
Before Tomorrow
For those who enjoyed Restless River. A strong Inuit woman demonstrates that human dignity is at the core of life as she and her grandson face the ultimate challenge of survival.
The Snow Walker
For those who enjoyed Restless River. A bush pilot and a young Inuit girl must overcome language barriers and survive extreme elements together.
People of a Feather
For those who enjoyed Call Me Human. With stunning footage from seven winters in the Arctic, the film explores a unique cultural relationship, changing sea ice and ocean currents disrupted by the massive hydroelectric dams.
Martha Qui Vient Du Froid (Martha of the North)
For those who enjoyed Call Me Human. Explores forced displacement of Inuit families in the mid-1950s.
Her Smell
For those who enjoyed Out of the Blue. A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Queercore: How To Punk A Revolution
For those who enjoyed Out of the Blue. From the start of the pseudo-movement to the widespread rise of pop artists who used queer identity to push against gay assimilation and homophobic punk culture, this is a 'how-to-do-it' guide for the next generation of queer radicals.
The Last Movie
For those who enjoyed Out of the Blue. Directed by and starring Oscar-nominated filmmaker and actor Dennis Hopper, THE LAST MOVIE follows a Hollywood movie crew in the midst of making a western in a remote Peruvian village. Winner of the CIDALC Award at the Venice International Film Festival.
Barney's Version
For those who enjoyed Death of a Ladies Man. The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky.
Land Ho!
For those who enjoyed Death of a Ladies Man. A pair of former brothers-in-law embark on a road trip through Iceland.
Elegy
For those who enjoyed Death of a Ladies Man. Portrays a middle-aged professor conquests, commitments and obsessions.
Anthropocene, The Human Epoch
For those who enjoyed Magnitude of All Things. Documentary exploring the devastating human impact on six continents.
Before the Flood
For those who enjoyed Magnitude of All Things. Explores the effects of climate change worldwide and how to prevent further damage.
Roma
For those who enjoyed Magnitude of All Things. The film captures a year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in 1970's Mexico City.
The Glass Castle
For those who enjoyed My Very Own Circus. Another coming-of-age story within a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads.
Running with Scissors
For those who enjoyed My Very Own Circus. Another tale of an unconventional childhood and strained parent relationships.
Water for Elephants
For those who enjoyed My Very Own Circus, another film with a circus setting.
If Beale Street Could Talk
For those who enjoyed Marlene. A young Black woman struggles to prove her fiance's innocence.
Conviction
For those who enjoyed Marlene. Another tale of a woman fighting to prove the innocence of a loved one.
Still Alice
For those who enjoyed You Will Remember Me. Progressing Alzheimer's Disease strains a professor's family bonds. Also available on Kanopy.
Away from Her
For those who enjoyed You Will Remember Me. A couple who have been married for 50 years have their comfortable life destroyed when the wife begins suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
Iris
For those who enjoyed You Will Remember Me. A portrait of English novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch at different stages of her life--as a brilliant young Oxford scholar and struggling with Alzheimer's disease in old age--as told by her husband and soulmate John Bayley.
Eating Alaska: A vegetarian moves to the last frontier
For those who enjoyed First We Eat. A serious and humorous film about connecting to where you live and eating locally.
Edible City: local food systems
For those who enjoyed First We Eat. Extraordinary and eccentric characters challenging the paradigm of our broken food system -- from edible education to grassroots activism to building local economies, finding hopeful solutions to monumental problems.
