Our second day at the Scottsdale International Film Festival brought us to the Harkins Camelview at 11:00 this morning for our first screening. We watched the movie Borders from Senegal, about a group of Africans making their way from various points around the African continent to Morocco, trying to cross over to Europe as illegal aliens.

We initially decided to see only two films today, but with a two-hour break between movies, we decided to sandwich another film in and thus purchased tickets to Campfire. Campfire is an Israeli film following a widowed mother and her two teenage girls who are trying to figure out life in a difficult situation. Our third film of the day was my favorite of the festival so far, The Overture from Thailand, which I would describe as the Thai Star Wars with Ranad Jedi. Mind you, this is no sci-fi flick; this is a  historical film, and the Jedi remark was inspired by the dueling performance on the Ranad Ek – the Thai equivalent of a xylophone.