DIFF 6th Edition Program

Director: Rob Margolies

DIFF Rating: PG-13

Genre:  Drama

DIFF Notes:  USA / 1h27m

Synopsis: A happily married couple decides to test the boundaries of their love by engaging in a complicated love triangle with their rockstar neighbor, which has surprising ramifications for their rebellious Gen Z daughter.

DATE: FRI, February 23th
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Sébastien Tulard

DIFF Rating: PG-13

Genre:  Drama/Comedy

DIFF Notes:  France / 1h50m / Foreign Language Film

Synopsis: Since he was a kid, Yazid has one big passion, pastry making. Raised between foster homes and group homes, the young man will try to make his dream come true: to work with the greatest pastry chefs and become the best.

DATE: SAT, February 24th
TIME: 12:15 – 2:15 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Binjie Liu

DIFF Rating: R 🔴

Genre:  Action/Sci-Fi

DIFF Notes:  China / 1h11m / Foreign Language Film

Synopsis: In the future world, technology is advancing by leaps and bounds. A mysterious organization has emerged in the world, specializing in organizing underground “competition” for the rich – the Battle of Tomorrow. In time, mutants spread like a drug around the world, and mutant crime has also intensified. In order to combat mutant crime, the International Security Task Force was established by the relevant governments. Since then, the good and evil mutant war, officially opened the prelude.

DATE: SUN, February 25th
TIME: 12:15 – 2:15 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Connor O’Hara

DIFF Rating: PG-13

Genre:  Drama

DIFF Notes:  UK / 1h33m

Synopsis: From the exec producers of The Kings Speech and Soul Surfer comes Kindling. Kindling follows a group of young men who return to their home town in order to turn their friend’s final days into a celebration of life and friendship.

DATE: SUN, February 25th
TIME: 4:45 – 6:20 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Michael Pollard

DIFF Rating: R (language)

Genre:  Drama

DIFF Notes:  USA / 1h30m

Synopsis: Two lovers, an orphan and a victim, find themselves in the most dangerous 72 hours of their lives when a heist goes wrong.

DATE: SAT, February 24th
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Sylvain Bressollette

DIFF Rating: PG-13

Genre  Drama

DIFF Notes:  France / 15m / Foreign Language Film

Synopsis: Time stands still just before a terrible car accident. The two motorists get out and see, frightened, the drama that will take place in a fraction of a second. A surreal negotiation follows between a stressed family man and a glib misfit.

DATE: SAT, February 24th (block)
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Greg Emetaz

DIFF Rating: PG-13

Genre  Drama

DIFF Notes:  USA / 13m

Synopsis: A curator at the Louvre is convinced her new boyfriend has kidnapped her child, the ransom: The Mona Lisa.

DATE: SAT, February 24th (block)
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Dustin Kahia

DIFF Rating: PG-13

Genre  Drama

DIFF Notes:  USA / 12m

Synopsis: After a long and enigmatic absence, Daniel returns home, igniting a day filled with tension, nostalgia, and unspoken truths, navigating the complex dynamics of a family reunion steeped in unresolved pasts and undefined loss.

DATE: SAT, February 24th
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Kiefer O’Reilly

DIFF Rating: PG

Genre  Drama/Comedy

DIFF Notes:  USA / 13.23m

Synopsis: A match making robot helps a widowed husband re-find love, in more then one way.

DATE: SAT, February 24th (block)
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Sarah Gouret

DIFF Rating: PG-13

Genre  Drama

DIFF Notes:  France / 17m / Foreign Language Film

Synopsis: Anastasia, 27 years old, decides to provoke a meeting with Jef, 54 years old. Together, they will experience the suspended and intense moment that only the first meeting between a father and his daughter can provoke.

DATE: SAT, February 24th (block)
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Hugo Sanz

DIFF Rating: PG-13+  (Violence) 🔴

Genre  Drama

DIFF Notes:  Spain / 9m

Synopsis: Two sisters, seven and eleven years old, are hiding inside a closet in a house. The little sister thinks they are rehearsing for a game but the older one knows that a terrible threat lurks outside.

DATE: SAT, February 24th (block)
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Chris Capel

DIFF Rating: PG-13

Genre  Drama

DIFF Notes:  USA / 20m

Synopsis: A young Mormon missionary at the start of his two years of service is shown the ropes by his well-meaning trainer, who comes to terms with his own failures.

DATE: SAT, February 24th (block)
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Felicia Manning

DIFF Rating: PG-13

Genre  Drama/Thriller

DIFF Notes:  USA / 8m

Synopsis: A new homeowner grows suspicious of a neighborly couple eager to help her unpack.

DATE: SAT, February 24th (block)
TIME: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Bason Baek

DIFF Rating: PG-13

Genre  Drama

DIFF Notes:  Korea / 8m / Thriller-social (FilmAsia)

Synopsis: Most people in this world are headless. DuSeong is a police officer; one of the few that still have a head. He takes on a sexual assault case, where both the perpetrator and the victim lose their heads. One day, he discovers his daughter has also become headless, and is faced with a choice.

DATE: SAT, February 24th
TIME: 4:45 – 6:45 PM
BLOCK: Film Asia Program
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Peter Flynn

DIFF Rating: PG

Genre  Doc/Drama

DIFF Notes:  USA / 1h42m

Synopsis: A lively tribute to the private film collector, a celebration of the fetishistic subculture of pre-video movie-love, and a timely reminder of the glories of analog film. The documentary explores the vanishing world of private film collecting—an obsessive, secretive, often illicit world of basement film vaults, piled-high with forgotten reels, inhabited by passionate cinephiles devoted to the rescue and preservation of photochemical film.

DATE: SAT, February 24th
TIME: 4:45 – 6:45 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Viviane G. Winthrop, Adam K. Singer

DIFF Rating: PG

Genre  Doc/Drama

DIFF Notes:  USA / 1h23m

Synopsis: The powerful revelations of a woman who reclaims her sense of self after taking an Ancestry DNA test.

DATE: SAT, February 24th
TIME: 2:30 – 4:30 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Michael Del Monte

DIFF Rating: PG-13

Genre  Coming soon

DIFF Notes:  Canada / 1:23m

Synopsis: Ray used to be a sailor, but now he lives on the streets of Toronto. For years, heroin has been more important than home, family or even life itself. But Ray dreams of getting back on the water and – in the ultimate achievement of the oblivion he craves – sailing away from it all.

DATE: SAT, February 24th
TIME: 12:15 – 2:15
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Michael Everett

DIFF Rating: PG

Genre  Doc/Drama

DIFF Notes:  USA / 1h31m

Synopsis: From the tropical forests of American Somoa comes the story of five brothers who sought to change the world, one heart at a time, through music with a message.

DATE: SUN, February 25th
TIME: 10:00 – 12:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Gabriel Andres Valbuena

DIFF Rating: Not Rated

Genre  Doc/Drama

DIFF Notes:  USA/Spain / 11:44m / Foreign Language Film

Synopsis: “Procesión.” is a Valbuena family labor of love between filmmaker Gabriel Valbuena and his family residing in Northwest Spain in the city of León. With León having been a second home throughout his childhood, Gabriel and his family finally organised to reconvene after having been separated for three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic – and to document the triumphant return of the 500 plus year tradition of Spain’s weeklong Easter processions.

DATE: SAT, February 24th (block)
TIME: 10:00 – 12:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Arlo Maverick

DIFF Rating: Not Rated

Genre: Doc/Period

DIFF Notes:  USA / 32m

Synopsis: In the 80s, Edmonton had a thriving breakdance scene where b-boys practiced in basements, warehouses, and street corners. The need to be the best led to a very competitive scene, but one battle would change everything.

DATE: SAT, February 24th (block)
TIME: 10:00 – 12:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Quinn Halleck

DIFF Rating: Not Rated

Genre  Doc/Drama

DIFF Notes:  USA / 10.20m

Synopsis: “The Perfect Shot” is an inventive and captivating documentary that profiles award-winning fine art photographer Artem Shestakov as he attempts to photograph the most remote locations on the planet affected by the climate crisis.

DATE: SAT, February 24th (block)
TIME: 10:00 – 12:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Stephan Blinn

DIFF Rating: Not Rated

Genre  Doc/Follow-doc

DIFF Notes:  USA / 24.30m

Synopsis: Pioneering Spirits is, on its surface, the story of a most unlikely partnership between a rogue American sake brewer and a hundred-year-old-plus heritage water brand. Yet like any fine libation, what ultimately emerges is far richer and more complex.

DATE: SUN, February 25th
TIME: 10:00 – 12:00 PM
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA

Director: Lyuwei Chen

DIFF Rating: Not Rated

Genre  Doc/Drama

DIFF Notes:  China / 30m / Chinese-English (FilmAsia)

Synopsis: Having forged his own path out of desperation, MacArthur Genius award-winning musician Bright Sheng describes his experience in becoming a musician during the Cultural Revolution in China. Being a musician was the only way he could embrace his destiny, but it is a path that his talented 11-year-old daughter isn’t sure she wants herself.

DATE: SAT, February 24th
TIME: 4:45 – 6:45 PM
BLOCK: FilmAsia Program
LOCATION: AMC, The Grove LA