Director: Chris W. Smith & Jack De Sena
PG SWEDEN
ANIMATED SHORTS 27-A
An Earthling from the far-future explains the history of the universe, but his son gets caught up asking about those things once called "humans".
World Premiere
1:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Clarisse Chua
PG SINGAPORE
ANIMATED SHORTS 27-A
When Goosie's hamster, Nibbles, dies, the young goose will go on a quest to find the restart button.
World Premiere
1:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Sam Grinberg
PG USA
ANIMATED SHORTS 27-A
Wake, Hang, Repeat. An entire suburban summer experience packed into seconds for your viewing and re-viewing pleasure.
Philly Ska virtuosos Catbite created this electrifying Saturday morning cartoon meets punk club score to accompany this jam packed short.
Festival Premiere
1:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Tzu-Yu Pan
G TAIWAN
ANIMATED SHORTS 27-A
Alice went back to her own country and started to take classes online in the middle of the night, day after day. Trapped in a small room, the computer screen became the only window contacting her with real-life and society.
Opposite to humans, cats seem pretty happy being left alone in the city. Their noises continuously annoyed Alice, and eventually, she exploded.
Festival Premiere
1:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Jimmy Velarde
PG USA
MUSIC VIDEOS 27-B
Chicano artist Felix Perez, whose first-hand experiences with the ravages of barrio life led to a unique and very personal collection of art, which inspired the gruesome and explicitly shocking Private Insanities documentary. "Livin Beyond the Pain" was composed and produced by Michael O’Neill featuring vocal artist Julian Miranda to accompany the documentary.
Festival Premiere
1:30pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Greg Wonder
G USA
MUSIC VIDEOS 27-B
Filipina-American Singer/Songwriter Missy Alcazar, plunges deep inside the black void of her mind where an emotional war is being waged between her past traumas and future happiness. Rain pours down as Missy fights to keep her thoughts at bay. The harder she resists the more it feels hopeless.
Only by learning to take things slow, can she turn dark into light.
World Premiere
1:30pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Vanessa Marzaroli
PG USA
MUSIC VIDEOS 27-B
Inspired by the Alice in Wonderland fairytale, “WHAT’S YOUR FANTASY” is a luscious, synthdriven, sticky, dream-pop Venus flytrap adventure into the power of your mind that can transport you to any fantasy you desire. This fantasy dream world is inspired by goth-fairy vampires and is a loving tribute to the fashion and legacy of our iconic queer, trans community in Los Angeles.
Festival Premiere
1:30pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Emad Tabrizi
G USA
DRAMA BLOCK 27-C
Interlude takes place in a liminal space between past and future, love and ignorance, time and space. Despite the beginning and end being just an arm's length apart, we want to fully experience everything through touch.
World Premiere
2:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Michael Weil
PG USA
DRAMA BLOCK 27-C
A damaged ballet dancer experiences the hardships of her condition, when she receives a mysterious phone call from someone from her past, forcing her on a severe spiritual-crossing.
This award-winning, alluring, heavy-psychological drama, is filled with severe loss and message, elegantly captured within a unique and captivating cinematic tone.
Showcasing extreme artistic talent, spearheaded by its lead actors, Moyale Guardini & Michael Madsen, supported by the genius of every name within the credits. GRACE leaves its audience shaken and captivated, emotionally-undone with a deep sense of hope, provoked with thoughtwithin.
Festival Premiere
2:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Sean Crampton
R USA
DRAMA BLOCK 27-C
Los Angeles in the 1970’s grabs you by the collar and screams in your face. It is loud and brutal and unforgiving and tinged with nostalgia. It’s the Wild West but with cars and instead of cowboys; its sweeping Western plains full of unhinged Vietnam vets, criminals, cops, and cops that are criminals, too. HELMET uses this circumstantial brutality as a barometer against which to measure growth, healing, and hope in its characters.
Festival Premiere
2:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Elyssia Koulouris & Emily McEnroe
PG-13 USA
AWARD SHORTS 27-D
A comedic film written and directed by two emerging female artists, Emily McEnroe and Greek-Australian Elyssia Koulouris.
Emily McEnroe is the daughter of Academy Award winner, Tatum O’Neal and has just shot Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Elyssia has just worked with the talented director Michael Gracey on his latest feature based on Robbie Williams, Better Man.
This dynamic duo is breaking into the film industry with innovative voices, unique perspectives and a script that reflects the classic sister-sister dynamic. This hilarious film is not only relatable, but utterly fun in seeing the unraveling of these sisters, who will do whatever it takes not to visit their mom.
World Premiere
3:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Giorgio Arcelli Fontana & John Keller
PG USA
AWARD SHORTS 27-D
A comedy of friendship and mentorship between a young filmmaker and Academy Award winner James Ivory, based on real events.
World Premiere
3:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Toi’ya Leatherwood & Carolena Villavicencio
PG-13 USA
AWARD SHORTS 27-D
On the eve of Easton High School’s last party before graduation, two high school seniors find themselves having an intimate conversation that surprises them both.
This film touches on the necessity to feel loved. When society says certain qualities about you are unlovable, love itself says otherwise. If anything, love may be sitting right there waiting for you to open yourself up and dive all the way in...
World Premiere
3:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Jason Dugré
PG-13 USA
AWARD SHORTS 27-D
Two friends sit in a car on a stakeout.
When they see their mark, one of them suddenly gets cold feet and panics. The other tries to talk him down, but a debate about the best way to execute their plan arises, and a real test of their friendship ensues.
All they have to do is kill one guy, yes. But the question is, can they do it?
World Premiere
3:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Ron Carlson
PG USA
AWARD COMEDY 27-E
In Alaska, a car dealership is at its financial breaking point, and the employees must sell all cars on the lot before the end of the month. This misfit cast of employees decide to rally to save the dealership.
First they decide to film a commercial, and conflict starts when Bronco, a feminist at heart, attempts to persuade the team not to have a bikini clad woman in the commercial, while salesman Ron likes idea of under-clothed women selling cars. To make matters worse, there is also a dealers inclusion of a free SHOTGUN with every auto purchase this month.
And then a TikTok video about all of this goes viral...
World Premiere
4:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Nicole Lipp
R USA
AWARD COMEDY 27-E
This is a movie set entirely in a bathroom.
We follow Mo as she learns how to become the main character of her own life while at her best friend’s 30th birthday party. She explores her Blackness and her boundary setting while the sh*t-show of a 30th birthday party unfolds around her.
Between snapshots of private bathroom moments (many pulled from real life) this film taps into our anxieties of growing up, screewing up, and stepping up. It’s relatable, it’s quick, it’s tender, it’s MESSY. And it was made by a 90% female team.
World Premiere
4:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Darren Bluestone, Zach Noe Towers, Paul McGovern Jr.
R USA
AWARD COMEDY 27-E
Come on over!
Zach Noe Towers and Darren Bluestone tackle queer topics in this part-sketch comedy/part-celeb interview/part-man on the street/part-podcast webseries.
With over 10 million streams, a Queerty nomination, and comedy giants like Bob the Drag Queen and Joel Kim Booster, "WeHost with Zach and Darren" is at the forefront of gay culture and comedy.
World Premiere
4:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Jessica Makinson
PG USA
SHORTS BLOCK 27-G
The Sisters Lee are a pair of country western singing sisters from a bygone era who try to navigate a lifelong career in music with the help of their manager, Wally, who never fails to get it wrong.
This improv based music mockumentary follows Mable (Jessica Makinson) and Vera (Janet Varney) Lee who were approached by a documentary filmmaker in 1989 and they've just now accepted! These Mandrell-esque sisters give codependency a matching chiffon overlay when they go on tour and deal with their overprotective manager, Wally (Michael Hitchcock).
Los Angeles Premiere
5:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Tate Hanyok
PG-13 USA
SHORTS BLOCK 27-G
This film is your typical workplace-comedy… if your workplace is a Santa House at the mall.
But with the help of her unlikely new friends, and Santa Claus — played by the inimitable
George Wendt (Cheers) — she just might discover the magic of Christmas and become the elf she was always meant to be.
Southern California Premiere
5:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
IFS SPECIAL EVENT - Red Carpet Press Photo Event
Get your press & personal photos taken on our IFS L.A. Film Festival Red Carpet Press Event before the Award Ceremony. Show off those swanky threads. All festival filmmakers, cast, crew and attendees are invited to the Red Carpet Press Photo Event at L.A. Live.
4:45pm: Line-Up Begins for Red Carpet.
5:00pm: Red Carpet Press Photo Event with Getty Photographers.begins.
May 27th at L.A. Live Venue: To Be Announced
IFS SPECIAL EVENT - IFS L.A. Film Festival Award Ceremony
The 32nd Annual AWARD CEREMONY is where the IFS membership honors the best independent cinema of the year. Our Award Ceremony celebrates truly independent filmmaking, with 24 Awards (democratically chosen by the 200+ members of our IFS Film Society) being presented to this seasons winners.
Surprise celebrities also are known to stop by and greet tomorrows legends at what has become the largest and most talked about event of each year's festival.
Come join us for the fun! Get tickets early, as this event sells out quickly each year. To make sure you get a seat at this popular event, check out our tickets sales online!
Award Ceremony Tickets are only available for sale online: ifsfilm.com.
All purchased tickets must be redeemed at IFS Box Office / L.A. Live for event entry.
5:30pm - Ceremony Line-Up Begins
6:00pm - Doors Open & Seating Begins
6:15pm - Award Ceremony Begins
May 27th L.A. Live - Venue: To Be Announced
Director: John Fisher
R USA
This film follows the story of college sweethearts Andre and Eve over the course of a year as they answer questions from a pseudo-psychological personality test and have forty-eight intimate conversations in their bedroom.
Will they break up, stay together, or end up somewhere in between?
World Premiere
6:30pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: James Sweigert
PG USA
In 1975, in downtown Sacramento, California, a diverse crew of skateboarders met at a paved embankment under the freeway. They had no idea their underground movement would last 50 years and have a global impact on the world of skateboarding. N-Men: The Untold Story is a sneak peek into this off the grid crew who were Northern California's answer to the Z-Boys from Dogtown in Southern California. It is a raw and intimate look in this crew and the two men who founded them.
World Premiere
8:00pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Spencer Zender
R USA
A riotous dramedy set in 1985. Bo, a seemingly quintessential Southern California teen, has his identity unravel when his eccentric mom breaks the news that he will have to choose one of his three fathers' last names before he comes-of-age.
Bo's sordid upbringing, and the impact each disengaged father had on his makeshift identity, come to a head at his eighteenth birthday bash.
World Premiere
8:30pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Angus Benfield
PG USA
A fun new comedy about searching for happiness.” This heart-felt film, set in a small countrytown grocery store named "The Yellow Bird," is centered around once successful PR specialist, Jake (Angus Benfield), now a stock boy in his mid-forties, struggling with his sobriety, and his conscience in the guise of a gnome (Brian Doyle-Murray) who is determined to remind Jake of all his failings, including his marriage.
Jake’s mother, Rachel Rush (Kathy Garver), is struggling with dementia and is living in an RV, Rachel is holding onto a past she remembers as much more adventurous and exciting than this life, and is determined to find it once again, and Scotty, the protagonistic store manager who is stuck in a job his father wants him to be in, and so makes all the fun and quirky employees at “The Yellow Bird” miserable in return.
Festival Premiere
9:45pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
Director: Nath Milburn
R USA
A tragic story of a musician taking a bold voyage in the pursuit of creation, ambition, and need. Letting life choose for him, as part of the art itself and coming to terms with his decisions.
World Premiere
10:15pm
May 27th Regal Cinemas / L.A. LIVE 14
IFS PARTY EVENT - Award Night Party
Join us at our biggest and most exciting party event of the season, the Award Night Gala After-Party.
Meet filmmakers and industry - at our most special party event. 21 & up event.
Award Ceremony Tickets available online only. Purchased Tickets must be redeemed at IFS Box Office at Regal L.A. Live - to exchange for entry ticket.
10:30pm
May 27th May 27th | 10:30pm-Midnight
Venue: To Be Announced