Rated: NR    Runtime: 90 mins.
STOLEN SEAS
Thymaya Payne, 90, US

The filmmakers spent three years in some of the world's most violent locales to document the a frightening multi-million-dollar growth industry: Somali piracy. With audio recordings and found video, the film puts us right into the middle of the real-life hostage negotiation of a Danish shipping vessel. As the haggling between the ship's stoic owner, Per Gullestrup, and the pirates’ negotiator, Ishmael Ali, drags on for 70 days, the adversaries' relationship takes an unexpected turn and an unlikely friendship is born