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It Came From Schenectday (ICFS), a local organization that “celebrates fringe cinema, genre classics, cult favorites, and out of the ordinary celluloid events of every stripe,” will show the Fantasia International Film Festival\u2019s acclaimed Born Of Woman 2019<\/strong> — eight films created by women — at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7 at Proctors at 432 State St. in Schenectady.<\/p>\n The Born of Woman<\/strong> showcase will include the following short films:<\/p>\n From the Netherlands, Yfke van Berckelaer\u2019s single-take Lili<\/strong><\/em> (9 min.) is a mini masterclass in performance and ascension where an actress\u2019 audition grows increasingly less comfortable with every line read. Winner of Fantasia\u2019s Bronze Audience Award for Best International Short.<\/p>\n Stefanie Abel Horowitz\u2019s Sometimes, I Think About Dying<\/strong><\/em> (12 min.) is a darkly humorous and touching tale of interpersonal alienation that turned many a head at this year\u2019s Sundance.<\/p>\n A young woman hides a recent terminal diagnosis from her friends as they embark on a road trip. They pick-up a stranger and grisly new paths of possibility are revealed in Adele Vuko\u2019s fantastic The Hitchhiker <\/em><\/strong>(13 min.).<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n From the USA, Mary Dauterman\u2019s Wakey Wakey<\/em><\/strong> (4 min.) is an imaginative anti-love story fever-dream.<\/p>\n From Australia, Mia\u2019kate Russell\u2019s award-winning Maggie May<\/em><\/strong> (14 min.), is a stylish and sharp-witted black comedy about apathy that sees two sisters trying to reform bonds following their mother\u2019s death, with unexpectedly gruesome results.<\/p>\n A young teen\u2019s first period stirs her curiosity of local legends in Erica Scoggins\u2019 masterfully directed, award-winning The Boogeywoman<\/em> <\/strong>(18 min.), a standout at Clermont-Ferrand and winner of Jury Awards at Fantasia and North Bend.<\/p>\n The United Kingdom delivers The Original<\/strong><\/em> (13 min.), a dark, crushing, science-fiction drama about romantic sacrifice and extreme choices from Mexican filmmaker Michelle Garza Cervera.<\/p>\n Self-taught Canadian visual artist Valerie Barnhart\u2019s devastatingly powerful Girl in the Hallway<\/em><\/strong> (11 min.), is an innovatively animated true-crime poetry slam of witness testimony pertaining to the ongoing\u00a0 disappearances of indigenous women.<\/p>\n The entire program will run 95 minutes with a portion of box office proceeds benefiting Women on Waves, a Dutch pro-choice nongovernmental organization created in 1999.<\/p>\n