2024/2025 Annual Awards – Block 7. Comedies

Cinema #13: 2.25pm – 4.05pm, Regal LA Live, March 15th, 2025

(PG: Some material may not be suitable for children)

La Terre Appelle Mathilde

Mathilde, a 17-year-old with a passion for astronautics, suffers an accident while trying to tinker with a homemade rocket prototype. Mathilde, who had set her sights on becoming the next Valentina Terechkova (the first woman to fly in space), now finds herself missing an arm. Forced to spend the next few weeks in a rehabilitation center for young amputees, Mathilde will be confronted with the various stages of rehabilitation, before finally learning to thrive despite her handicap.

By Anthony Coveney (Canada)

12:08

The Suck

In 1986 a science teacher brings his young daughter to witness the Challenger shuttle tragedy. Many years later, after she has moved away to Hollywood to become the E-cigarette personality “Nicky Nicotine,” her father still harbors weighty regrets. When a door-to-door salesman convinces him to buy an outrageously expensive vacuum, a reversal of gravity occurs.

By Chris Merrill (USA)

16:47

Festival

Two young men strategize about how they are going to get back into a music festival after they are kicked out.

By Michael Bromberg (USA)

05:48

WORLD PREMIERE

Pike

A talent agent decides he’s had enough of his talentless clients and goes on a serial killing spree!

By Alex Klaus and Charles Delaney (UK)

15:00

CALIFORNIA PREMIERE

Frank and 3

Frank is a character in turmoil. Loss has reared its head in Frank’s life. While in this state, he happens upon an unlikely companion: a paper towel dispenser.

By Charles A Ullrich (USA)

16:02

Still Scattered

After losing his wife, a failing gallery artist returns home to his small town, looking for support from the very people he’s fought so hard to escape.

By Dominic Burgess and Jeff Lorch (USA)

16:07