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Madre
Directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Spain, 19 minutes)
A single mother receives a call from her seven-year-old son who is on vacation with his father in the French Basque Country. At first the call is a cause for joy, but soon it becomes a horrible nightmare when the child tells her that he is alone and cannot find his father who left a while ago.

Fauve
Directed By Jeremy Comte (Canada, 17 minutes)
Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer. Alone in the wild the two boys play around. Complicity evolves into a confrontation where one wants to have power over the other. Taking proportions larger than nature, this game will not prove as harmless as they thought.

Marguerite
Directed by Marianne Farley (Canada, 19 minutes)
An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing and thus help her make peace with her past.

Detainment
Directed by Vincent Lambe (Ireland, 30 minutes)
Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler. A true story based oninterview transcripts from the James Bulger case which shocked the world in 1993 and continues to incite public outrage across theUK today.

Skin
Directed by Guy Nattiv (USA, 20 minutes)
A small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.

Running Time: 108 minutes

Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Showtime 7:00pm
@ Tristone Palm Desert Cinemas 10