Cinema #12: 4.10pm – 6pm, Regal LA Live, April 13th, 2024
(PG: Some material may not be suitable for children)
The 13
Emma’s father is gripped by a mixture of pain and guilt when he reads the sensitive farewell letter she left in her diary. Justice. It is the only possible answer. Gnawed by a past so close that it still seems reversible, Emma’s parents bitterly await the verdict. One word alone will have to repair the offense: guilty.
By Margaux Le Bail and Clément Beauvois (France)
03:00
NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE
Hóng
Through nine looks and seven scenes, this film investigates and chronicles the life of a liberated woman of China after 1949.
By Xiao Han (USA)
14:59
LOS ANGELES PREMIERE
Pink Flamingos Everywhere
Caught in the crossfire of a parental war zone, 7-year-old Charlie seeks comfort in the plastic flamingos flocking her yard to avoid the stress of her parent’s inevitable separation.
By Jordan Vescio (USA)
07:13
CALIFORNIA PREMIERE
Hang Up
A mid-20s woman drives around LA, texting loose friends and dialing booty calls to no avail. The evening descends into a self destructive joy ride whose catalyst becomes all too clear in a final phone call with her parents.
By Tsarina Merrin (USA)
09:07
Portrait of a Cowboy
Alex returns home for the first time since her father’s death in order to prep her family’s farm to be sold at auction.
By Devon Wycoff (USA)
16:21
Wax and Wane
At the dawn of Mid-Autumn Day, when secluded immigrant Wu Sui is urged to remove her birth control ring implanted twenty years ago under China’s One Child Policy, she decides to keep the emergency surgery a secret, but reuniting with her family forces her to reckon with her wounded past.
By Beidi Wang (USA)
15:08
CALIFORNIA PREMIERE
Beneath Her Lipstick
Torn between an absent, abusive, and unfaithful husband, and a mysterious and charming man, a young woman passionately in love, struggles for the survival of her marriage.
By Ahmed Messoudi (Morocco)
24:30
USA PREMIERE
Backlog
The true story of a young collegiate woman who tried to find justice for three years for her shelved rape kit—only to become the key witness in the Senate hearing to end the rape kit backlog. Can she trust the system that betrayed her?
By Jacqueline Elyse Rosenthal (USA)
18:06
Total runtime 108:24