Election Day

Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What is voters' street-level experience in today's America? A triumph in documentary storytelling, Election Day combines eleven stories all shot simul- taneously on November 2, 2004, from dawn until long past midnight into one. Factory workers, ex-felons, harried moms, Native American activists and diligent poll watchers from Seattle, Washington, to Miami, Florida, take the process of democracy into their own hands. The result: an entertaining, inspiring and sometimes unsettling tapestry of citizens determined to make their votes count on one fateful day. (IFF Bratislava)