Los Angeles Festival of Movies Opening Night – Magic Farm
- Thu, Apr 3
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Director: Amalia Ulman Run Time: 93 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
Starring: Alex Wolff, Amalia Ulman, Chloe Sevigny, Joe Apollonio, Simon Rex
Screenwriter: Amalia Ulman
Producers: Alex Hughes, Riccardo Maddalosso, Eugene Kotlyarenko
Los Angeles Festival of Movies Opening Night
West Coast Premiere with director Amalia Ulman in person
A film crew working for an edgy media company travels to Argentina to profile a local musician, but their ineptitude leads them into the wrong country. As the crew collaborates with locals to fabricate a trend, unexpected connections blossom while a pervasive health crisis looms unacknowledged in the background.
Argentine-Spanish artist and filmmaker Amalia Ulman continues to hone her wry, unsparing comic sensibility in this fresh-faced ensemble comedy of Americans abroad. Set loose in rural Argentina, a ne’er-do-well team of gonzo journalists (Chloe Sevigny, Alex Wolff, Joe Apollonio and Ulman) pursue a dead-end lead on a viral video star while mingling with the locals in increasingly absurd situations. Ever attuned to the grift of cultural exports, Ulman’s loose and sexy romp at times feels like a bizarre romantic comedy, with furtive hookups and anarchic GoPro flights of fancy that resemble skateboarding videos–but key to its charming, semi-improvised feel is its ensemble cast, including newcomer Camila del Campo as a lusty, criminally bored local looking to get off.
The Los Angeles Festival of Movies (presented by MUBI and Mezzanine) is a curated annual film festival in Los Angeles, presenting new independent and restoration premieres to a local audience. Now in its second year, the festival, an event put on by the film non-profit Mezzanine, redefines Los Angeles as a destination for independent film. Running April 3-6, 2025, LAFM has curated a selection of high profile narrative and documentary film premieres; talks with local artists, luminaries, and thought leaders; and parties each night at three exciting new east side LA venues. The festival is the new nexus for the city’s burgeoning indie film community to gather, discuss and celebrate independent cinema.
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