Cinema #12: 3.50pm-6pm, Regal LA Live, September 14th
(PG: Some material may not be suitable for children)
Love of Magdalena
A delusional journey of Magdalena where she is battling her sense of guilt after her husband’s death. It is about a world of a woman suffering from paranoid delusions, disabled from distinguishing the real from the unreal, tragically misled by mental illness to the loss of her child.
Directed by Iva Kevra (Ireland)
05:20
Likes
In 2010 Northwestern China, Chunxiao Zhao as the deputy class president was selected to perform at a talent show in their middle school. Chunxiao is a straight-A student at school but she fantasizes herself being an overly-sexualized and objectified woman under the influence of warped views on sexuality and identity learned from social media and entertainment. She desires attention and approval from cool girls in the class.
Directed by Shuyue Su (USA)
19:03
Back Seat
Based on the true story of Lior, a girl with special needs, who meets Zeev, the substitute driver, while riding a minibus back to her home. Alone with the driver, Lior notices his disturbing behavior as he drives away from her city. How will Lior respond? Will she be able to escape?
Directed by Maya Chodus (Israel)
USA PREMIERE
14:09
You Need to Process This
A married couple struggles to connect while discussing a sexual assault.
Directed by Eleanor Morrison (USA)
14:08
Barefoot
What should have been a routine appointment at the Obgyn for Molly Manzel, it spirals out of control when the doctor can’t get to her vagina because the doctor is so distracted by her ugly feet.
Directed by Julia Knox and Kasey Orthmann (USA)
05:56
Shayna Punim
Donna Finkle dreams of being a writer, but doesn’t know how to tell her overbearing family, who she feels just want her to settle down and get married.
Directed by Emilie Anderson (USA)
LOS ANGELES PREMIERE
13:36
All’s Well
A film about a young woman on the verge. About the millennial condition, set against the backdrop of a modern-day American society, one that is amok with violence, global warming, dirty politics, and corporate greed.
Directed by Paulina May Casey (USA)
CALIFORNIA PREMIERE
17:12
Cheers,
A bartender takes on the physical form of her imagined alter egos.
Directed by Jillian Smith, Reagan Yorke, and SQ Film (USA)
12:49
The Climbing Rose of the Garden District
When Laura Louise — from a middle-class family in the small town of Dot, Mississippi — moves to New Orleans in the early 1970s, she has a mission: to reach the pinnacle of society, even if it means sacrificing her dignity. A Southern Gothic tale of New Orleans social graces and social climbing — with unexpected consequences.
Directed by Jessica Gohlke (USA)
CALIFORNIA PREMIERE
24:52
Total runtime 127:05
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