The Rural Route Tour features a diverse selection of the best short films on the contemporary scene including 2 Oscar short-listed films (Jensen’s “White Earth” & RékaBucsi’s “Symphony no.42).

Highlights include a portrait of a young shepherdess from Somaliland, the heartwarming tale of an aging ice merchant in the Ecuadorian Andes, a Hungarian animation winning every award imaginable, a lush sci-fi from one of the “new 25 faces of independent film,” an intimate portrait of an elaborate Balinese funeral, a beautifully shot look at the N. Dakota oil boom, a fictitious portrayal of Alan Lomax’s musicologist adventures, plus the best of the experimental circuit from unexpected places like an Ohio county fair, a polluted lake in Maine and a grid-lined river in Ontario.