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KICK-OFF FILMS

FRI 3/28 7-8:30PM

PROJECT EDEN

DIR. Dave Salvi & Chris Sattel

In 1959, during the Cold War, three kids in a small town seek adventure and stumble upon a secret government bunker while searching for arrowheads. While on their quest, the kids discover a concealed ventilation shaft. Their curiosity turns to chaos as they stumble into the bunker and steal a mysterious object, leading them to confront the consequences of their temptations. (14:40)

QUIET

DIR. Ian Lael Petersen

Scott is surprised by his estranged son, Jack, on his birthday. As they spend the day together on the Australian coast, they do their best to reconnect with each other. (8:35)

COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE

DIR. Caitlin Presberg

Vernon Parrish, a retired mayor of a large suburb just outside of Chicago, had moved to the small town of Livingston, Montana, for peace and solitude. After six years, Verne’s past returns to haunt him, driving him into a self-imposed exile at his cabin in the woods, hoping to ride out the media storm. While he is away, a storm of a different form rolls in, drastically changing the world as he knew it. (29:22)

HUCK & JIM

DIR. Frank Tovar

An unhoused Missouri teenager and an undocumented Mauritanian migrant drift down the Mississippi River together on a makeshift raft in pursuit of freedom in this contemporary retelling of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." (15:51)