Cinema #8 | 4:10 PM – 6:00 PM | Regal LA Live, September 6
Bold narratives by and about women, exploring strength and perspective.
(PG –Some material may not be suitable for children)
Pandaal
A female pimp, dispensing her own brand of justice by pimping out abusive men, must confront her darkest secrets when a new case brings her haunting past to light.
By Shaily Sanghvi (USA)
16:03
Clinical Case
A complicated story about typical Russian characters affected by propaganda, unstable poisoned mental state, troubled past, and each other.
By Ksenia Ishoot (Russia)
WORLD PREMIERE
15:46
What’s Wrong, Emma
After receiving a signed copy of her ex-partner’s debut novel, Emma, a writer visiting France for her father-in-law’s birthday, feels… wrong!
By Teo Frank (France)
22:22
There’s Something I Have to Tell You
A daughter, haunted by her past, helps her mom build a house in a small town in the Bahamas while struggling to reveal a devastating secret that’s kept them divided for as long as she can remember.
By Jamie Savarese (USA)
CALIFORNIA PREMIERE
15:58
Hemorrhage
In the reality that is now southern America, a young couple must travel from Georgia to Virginia to get an abortion, but when she hemorrhages and starts to bleed out on the way back in a state that has criminalized abortion – should they try and make it back across state lines into the safety of Virginia, or risk being arrested by going to the emergency room?
By Ella Lentini (USA)
USA PREMIERE
21:48
Land of Forgotten Echoes
Two sisters, Orpha and Rosalee, have never been exposed to the outside world until an intruder appears.
By Layne Marie Williams (USA)
CALFORNIA PREMIERE
14:33
Total runtime: 1:46:30
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