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1:00 PM
International Shorts 5A
Director: Jesse Leaman
Guy Pierce stars as Lorne… a wasteland traveller dealing with the oppressing boundaries of isolation, is confronted by a mysterious stranger, who helps him realize his existential fears.
Official Selection
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Feb 22, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
1:00 PM
International Shorts 5A
Director: Jaine Green
Starring Olivier-award winning actor Matthew Kelly and West End veteran Eve Pearce Cherry Cake is a quintessentially English short film. Set in the heart of rural England this wry film takes a peek over the garden gate of a picture perfect country cottage into a brief moment in the life of angelic 86-year old Ingrid. Whatever your reaction to this surprising and quirky film, you will never look at your grandmother in the same light again.
Official Selection
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Feb 22, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
1:00 PM
International Shorts 5A
Director: Tine Lammens
Ellen and Lauranne are best friends. Good girls in school uniforms, with long lank hair and eyes full of questions. But beneath the surface lies pain and anger. A discerning story about sex, power and revenge that will spark your interest.
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Feb 22, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
1:00 PM
International Shorts 5A
Director: David Sebastian Buus
Unease is a taut spine tingling thriller. With the backdrop of eerie foggy Denmark, the story unfolds as heart rates and tension escalate. Louise has gone to the country side to get some peace and quiet. Unfortunately she may not be as alone as she thought.
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Feb 22, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
1:00 PM
International Shorts 5A
Director: Jo Roy
Frost is a one-shot dance based music video created to the music of German composer, Sven Helbig. Set in the Mojave Desert, a group of contemporary dancers illustrate the human journey. Frost is a visual and cerebral spectacle, raw and fantastical at the same time. One by one, dancers join together, creating a moving organism and revealing the depth of emotion and collective power available through the art of contact improvisation. Frost touches on the core of the spirit and makes contemporary dance accessible for all through a universal language: humanity.
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Feb 22, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
2:00 PM
Drama Shorts 5B
Director: Mathew Kim
James is having a hard time getting over his ex-girlfriend, Emilie. After months of seclusion he joins his best friend and fiancé for a dinner at their all glass apartment overlooking Manhattan. When the conversation shifts to his love life things get testy between James and his buddy. James retreats to the bathroom to obsess on Emilie. He emerges to a final insult that sends him walking home. En route he crosses paths with a woman who thinks he's a pervert. Once home, James makes a crucial decision that explodes in a violent act with a cosmic sense of humor.
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Feb 22, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
2:00 PM
Drama Shorts 5B
Director: Ted Martland
A Los Angeles acting class becomes an unexpected battle for a young combat veteran. Challenged by his acting coach to open up to his traumas, Daniel Swift (Joby Earle), ventures into dangerous emotional territory in this short film about a practicing actor.
Official Selection
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Feb 22, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
2:00 PM
Drama Shorts 5B
Director: Brian McQuery
When an addict shows up at her parents' house in the middle of the night, her Mother reluctantly lets her in to stay the night, but is she helping her daughter or contributing to the problem?
Official Selection
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Feb 22, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
2:00 PM
Drama Shorts 5B
Director: Todd Johnson
"Grace" is a story about a family dealing with their aging matriarch. It is a heartwrenching look at what all families deal with today or will deal with in their future.
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Feb 22, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
2:00 PM
Drama Shorts 5B
Director: Tanner Morrison
Luiseño is a short narrative film based on the people and events surrounding the Temecula Valley Massacre of 1847 during the Mexican American War. This period film follows the story of two American brothers who cross paths with two Luiseño survivors. Together they must overcome their differences to reach safety and protect land grants to the valley from the Mexican Army.
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Feb 22, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
3:15 PM
Director: Zachary B. Friedman & Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr.
Set in the mid-2000s, "Lori Sheedy, F*** You" is a romantic tragicomedy about making it big and setting fire to anyone who didn't believe in you along the way.
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Feb 22, Laemmle's Music Hall
BEVERLY HILLS
6:00 PM
Director: Dusan Makavejev
The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar, luring men and boys aboard for sex, death, and revolutionary talk. The beauty queen passes from a wealthy husband whose honeymoon delight is to urinate on her, to a muscular keeper who punches her, stows her in a suitcase, and ships her to Paris, to a lip-synching rock idol with whom she has a love spasm, to an Austrian commune complete with a banquet of vomit, urine, feces, chopped dildos, and wet nurses. By then she's in a fetal position, until everyone's rescued by reminders that "it's just a movie."
HRIFF AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - Dusan Makavejev
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Feb 22, Bellevarado Film Studios
8:30 PM
Director: Tom O'Horgan
A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros in this rarly seen 1974 comedy film based on the legendary play by Eugène Ionesco. The film stars Gene Wilder and Zero Mostel (in their only other paring besides The Producers) as well as the always fabulous Karen Black. Film and discussion is part of the HRIFF 2016 Gene Wilder Tribute Series.
HRIFF AWARD OF EXCELLENCE - Gene Wilder
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Feb 22, Bellevarado Film Studios
10:00 PM
Director: John Cassavetes
Two closely bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart in this later period Cassavetes feature, shown as part of the HRIFF Tribute Retrospective. Directed by and starring John Cassavetes, his partner and muse Gena Rowlands, and Diahnne Abbott.
Cassavetes Tribute
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Feb 22, Bellevarado Film Studios