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IRVINE | FILM FESTIVAL

A BIT OF BAD LUCK

86min

Expected to attend

FRIDAY, JANUARY 16

7:00PM BLOCK

A SINGLE LIFE

3min

SATURDAY, JANUARY 17

12:30PM BLOCK

TOM IN AMERICA

17min

Expected to attend

HAND OVER HAND

20min

Expected to attend

KNOCK KNOCK

13min

Expected to attend

BARROW 

15min

WORLD PREMIERE

SALBUSA

25min

Expected to attend

NOT ANYMORE:

THE STORY OF REVOLUTION

14min

3:00PM BLOCK

WAITING IN THE WINGS:

THE MUSICAL

100min

Expected to attend

FLAT CHESTED

24min

WORLD PREMIERE

5:30PM BLOCK

CHASING YESTERDAY

91min

WORLD PREMIERE

Expected to attend

FREE MONKEYS

15min

Expected to attend

8:00PM BLOCK

LISTENING

98min

Expected to attend

Take a Stand – Director: Austin Fickman Expected to attend

Two and a Quarter Minutes – Director: Joshua Ovalle Expected to attend

Lemonade Standoff – Directors: Ryan Beard, Saunder Boyle, Sam Crowell and Karson Monger

It's A Thing - Directors: Meredith Morran, Sage McCommas, Sebastian Crank Expected to attend

The Talk – Director: Hadley Hillel Expected to attend

Redemption - Director: Gillian Annis Expected to attend

Ann – Director: Anthony Liechti Expected to attend

Barney – Director: Chris Carmona Expected to attend

SUNDAY, JANUARY 18

K-12

1:00PM

3:00PM BLOCK

THE CLASS ANALYSIS 

16min

Expected to attend

I LOVE YOU, DAD

10min

WORLD PRIEMERE

Expected to attend

SPOONS

17min

Expected to attend

TODD AND ANNE: WATER IN THE POT

27min

WORLD PREMIERE

Expected to attend

 

5:00PM

ORPHANS OF THE GENOCIDE

90min

Expected to attend

7:30PM

HARDY

73min

Expected to attend

DINNER FOR FEW

10min

Expected to attend

MONDAY, JANUARY 19

A BIT OF BAD LUCK

86min

BERLIN TROIKA

11min

11:00AM BLOCK

1:50PM

ICEBOX

21min

Expected to attend

STEVEN SPIELBERG AND THE RETURN TO FILM SCHOOL

21min

Expected to attend

LAST DITCH

18min

WORLD PRIEMIRE

BILLI

6min

WORLD PREMIERE

Expected to attend

INTERSTATE

20min

Expected to attend

CALLOUSED HANDS

95min

4:40PM BLOCK (College/University)

POVERTY, INC

87min

Expected to attend

GRAFTERS

23min

SUMER

10min

Expected to attend

7:15PM

TUESDAY, JANUARY 20

1:00PM

THE CASE AGAINST 8

112min

Expected to attend

THE DAM KEEPER

18min

ABOVE ALL ELSE

94min

SHOWFOLK

24min

Expected to attend

BILLY MAZE AND THE BAKERSFEILD SOUND

Expected to attend

HARDY

73min

 

BIS GLEICH

20min

Expected to attend

3:00PM

5:00PM

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21

THE BIGGER PICTURE

7min

CODA

9min

7:00PM

1:30PM

2:40PM

 

THE CASE AGAINST 8

112min

5:00PM

120 DAYS

79min

Expected to attend

ONE CHILD

40min

KEHINDE WILEY:

AN ECONOMY OF GRACE

39min

OUR CURSE (Nasza Klatwa)

27min

WHITE EARTH

20min

THE REAPER (La Parka)

29min

PARVANEH

24min

NOWRUZ: LOST & FOUND

84min

Expected to attend

NAYAN AND THE EVIL EYE

8mins

7:00PM

THURSDAY, JANUARY 22

3:00PM

BAGDAD MESSI

AMIRA & SAM

88min

CARRY ON

16min

4:50PM

7:00PM

GEAR

8min

Expected to attend

ON THE OSCAR SHORT LIST

ON THE OSCAR SHORT LIST

ON THE OSCAR SHORT LIST

ON THE OSCAR SHORT LIST

ON THE OSCAR SHORT LIST

ON THE OSCAR SHORT LIST

ON THE OSCAR SHORT LIST

ON THE OSCAR SHORT LIST

ON THE OSCAR SHORT LIST

ON THE OSCAR SHORT LIST

ON THE OSCAR SHORT LIST

ON THE OSCAR SHORT LIST

 

Brooks Caldwell, (Cary Elwes) an erudite and handsome lawyer, seems to have it all: wealth, social status and a red hot career. His success is, in reality, a product of his marriage to his beautiful, socialite wife, Amanda, (Terri Polo) a wealthy timber heiress. Unlike most, who would remain content to enjoy a life of luxury and privilege, Brooks continues to risk everything by having extramarital affairs. Brooks' philandering, in addition to humiliating Amanda, has driven her to the point of a mental breakdown. Having been pushed over the edge, Amanda orchestrates a just and elaborate plan to bring her husband down. When Brooks leaves for a weekend romp with his latest squeeze, (Agnes Bruckner) his life quickly descends into a bizarre, nightmarish, downward spiral

*Nominated for Emmy Award

Orphans of the Genocide is an emotional visual journey through never-before-seen archival footage and discovered memoirs of orphans who lived through the last century’s first, fully documented and least recognized Armenian Genocide of 1915. The documentary also explores the herculean task of the American Near East Relief Foundation in saving, feeding and sheltering over 150,000 documented Armenian genocide orphans between 1919 and 1926 by setting up over 200 temporary and permanent orphanages in Historic Armenia, Turkey and throughout the Middle East. One of these orphanages was built in Gumri, the second largest city in Armenia, and housed 22,000 orphans. The documentary unveils numerous orphanages where Armenian orphans were housed – and profiles one orphan girl who was adopted and later became one of Turkey’s high-profiled national icons as the daughter of Ataturk, the founder of modern-day Turkey. The documentary traces the lives of many orphans who lived through the horrors of a war, losing parents and being separated from siblings and shipped to various countries. The Armenoid team offers never-beforeseen archival footage weaving stories of Armenian orphans from around the globe.

A behind-the-scenes look inside the historic case to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage. The high-profile trial first makes headlines with the unlikely pairing of Ted Olson and David Boies, political foes who last faced off as opposing attorneys in Bush v. Gore. The film also follows the plaintiffs, two gay couples who find their families at the center of the same-sex marriage controversy. Five years in the making, this is the story of how they took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court. 

Shortlisted for the 2015 Academy Awards.

 

An army veteran attempts to assimilate back into a country he barely recognizes while trying to win the heart of an Iraqi immigrant who is on the verge of being deported

Comedian K-von knows very little about his unique heritage but that's all about to change. Come along as he ditches the comforts of Hollywood to discover the meaning and traditions behind Nowruz (Persian New Year).

Performing stand-up comedy at each stop along the way and with the help of some recognizable celebrities, scholars, and friends, the ancient holiday that K-von almost lost, has now been found! 

Family man Miguel Cortes could be forced to leave the country in four months as a result of his immigration status. In exchange for Miguel agreeing to leave the country voluntarily and paying a $5,000 bond, the judge offers him 120 days to get his affairs in order before leaving his wife and two daughters in the United States to continue their education. Miguel has 120 Days to work hard, save money and weigh his options about returning to Mexico alone, or risk changing his name and disappearing back into another U.S. city illegally to keep his family together.

A behind-the-scenes look inside the historic case to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage. The high-profile trial first makes headlines with the unlikely pairing of Ted Olson and David Boies, political foes who last faced off as opposing attorneys in Bush v. Gore. The film also follows the plaintiffs, two gay couples who find their families at the center of the same-sex marriage controversy. Five years in the making, this is the story of how they took the first federal marriage equality lawsuit to the U.S. Supreme Court. Shortlisted for the 2015 Academy Awards.

Billy Mize is a Country musician who changed the genre, but consistently sacrificed his fame for his family. After tragedy took that family and a stroke took his voice, he took on the daunting challenge of putting all the pieces back together.

In this dramatic, firsthand account of activists on the front line of the climate fight, one man risks it all to stop the tar sands of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from crossing his land. Shot in the forests, pastures, and living rooms of rural East Texas, ABOVE ALL ELSE follows David Daniel, a retired stunt man and hire wire artist, as he rallies neighbors and activists to join him in a final act of brinkmanship: a tree-top blockade of the controversial pipeline. What begins as a stand against corporate encroachments on one man's land becomes a rallying cry for climate protesters nationwide.

 

"An inspiring,dramatic and very timely eco-doc"

-The Hollywood Reporter

A female boxer aspires to become a world champion and rise above the inequalities in professional boxing as she struggles to provide a life as a single parent. 

“I see multiple colonial governors,” says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery-Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. “We are held captive by the donor community.”

The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry — the business of doing good has never been better.

Yet the results have been mixed, in some cases even catastrophic, and leaders in the developing world are growing increasingly vocal in calling for change.

Drawing from over 200 interviews filmed in 20 countries, Poverty, Inc. unearths an uncomfortable side of charity we can no longer ignore.

From TOMs Shoes to international adoptions, from solar panels to U.S. agricultural subsidies, the film challenges each of us to ask the tough question: Could I be part of the problem?

12-year-old Josh is a mixed race boy and a promising baseball player. He is abused by his mother's boyfriend Byrd, and neglected by his mother Debbie. He forges his own path in life when his estranged grandfather insists he study for his Bar Mitzvah.

 

Waiting In The Wings: The Musical is a feature film where two entertainers, destined for the big time, are mismatched in a casting office from two very different online contests. Tony, a stripper from New York, is cast in an Off-Broadway musical and needs to trade in his tear-away trunks for tap shoes and tights. Anthony, a naive musical theatre enthusiast from Montana, needs to decide if he can strip all the way down just to stay in town. Hilarity ensues as they realize that "to make it" they're gonna have to learn some new tricks.

A team of genius-but-broke grad students invent mind-reading technology that destroys their lives and threatens the future of free-will itself.

 

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER:

“Director/screenwriter Khalil Sullins makes an auspicious feature debut with his audacious sci-fi thriller that’s as engrossing as it is thought-provoking. Exploring the nascent technology that will no doubt make mental telepathy a commonplace occurrence, and that’s a world we probably won’t want to live in, Listening features style to spare… The film, which recently received its world premiere at the Woodstock Film Festival, instantly marks its creator as a talent to watch.”

 

A washed up twenty something year old, who was once the hometown hero and track star, is convinced by a local sweetheart to run a marathon and get his life back on track.

A female boxer aspires to become a world champion and rise above the inequalities in professional boxing as she struggles to provide a life as a single parent. 

 

Brooks Caldwell, (Cary Elwes) an erudite and handsome lawyer, seems to have it all: wealth, social status and a red hot career. His success is, in reality, a product of his marriage to his beautiful, socialite wife, Amanda, (Terri Polo) a wealthy timber heiress. Unlike most, who would remain content to enjoy a life of luxury and privilege, Brooks continues to risk everything by having extramarital affairs. Brooks' philandering, in addition to humiliating Amanda, has driven her to the point of a mental breakdown. Having been pushed over the edge, Amanda orchestrates a just and elaborate plan to bring her husband down. When Brooks leaves for a weekend romp with his latest squeeze, (Agnes Bruckner) his life quickly descends into a bizarre, nightmarish, downward spiral

Day Pass $40

 

7 Day All Access Pass $200

 

 

*Tickets and passes purchased online will be available at the hospitality suite inside the Mall

SPONSORED BY

Laguna Hills Cinema   24155 Laguna Hills Mall Road, Laguna Hills CA 92653

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