Sarasota Film Festival | Today's best bets (April 15)

Sarasota Film Festival | Today's best bets

Films

"My Mom on Movies." The new "Best of the Web" series at SFF features a collection of webisodes. Most are brand new, but filmmaker Joshua Seftel has been entertaining audiences for a while with his series of Skype conversations with his mother Pat, who lives in Sarasota. Mother and son will both be on hand for the screening. 6:30 p.m. April 15

"The End of the Tour." Based on a true story. When Rolling Stone reporter and aspiring novelist David Kanter discovers the voice of his generation in David Foster Wallace, he convinces his editor to give him an assignment to join Wallace on the last leg of his promotional book tour. But as he spends more time with Wallace, he begins to realize that maybe he's also looking for answers to his own questions about himself. Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel. 7 p.m. April 15.

"Mar." Martin goes on vacation to the beach with his girlfriend. Everything seems normal until his mother arrives and upsets the balance of his life. In an ominous and possibly portentous turn, a freak lightning strike to the beach kills multiple people. And his car disappears. What in the world is going on? 7:15 p.m. April 15, 10 p.m. April 17

"The Surface." Two strangers, both at the end of their rope, suddenly meet in the middle of the unpredictable waters of Lake Michigan. Mitch (Sean Astin) is intent on suicide when he stumbles upon the debris from a crashed, small engine floatplane where the survivor, Kelly (Chris Mulkey) is struggling to stay alive. Mitch is emotionally wounded and Kelly is physically wounded, and it's during the course of Mitch trying to save Kelly's life, and a dying Kelly trying to save Mitch's life, that both lives are changed. 9:45 p.m. April 15.

Box office

The festival's box office is open 10 a.m.-10 p.m. April 11-19 at Regal Hollywood 20, 1993 Main St., Sarasota. Single film tickets are $14 general admission, $10 students with ID. Spotlight or Centerpiece film tickets are $20. Matinee tickets: $10. Packages are available. Tickets are available at sarasotafilmfestival.com or by calling 941-366-6200.

This story was originally published April 15, 2015 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Sarasota Film Festival | Today's best bets (April 15) ."