Shangri-La

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Shangri-La

original title:

Shangri-La

directed by:

cast:

Isabel Sandoval, Matthew Fifer

screenplay:

cinematography:

Michael Merriman

music:

Keegan Dewitt

production:

Hi! Production, Team 713 Entertainment

country:

Italy/USA

year:

2021

film run:

11'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (02/08/2021)

festivals & awards:

It's California, during the Great Depression. A woman is confiding her most intimate thoughts in a church confessional, while the man on the other side listens silently and intently. But this is no ordinary religious ritual seeking salvation. The woman a second generation Filipino farmhand is rapt in roleplay reverie, her sensuous words aimed at her white American lover, during a historic period when such interracial relationships were forbidden by state law. The confession box transforms into a romantic time machine, ecstatic and melancholic, traveling into alternate futures. She manifests as multiple, dazzling women, and they can love freely.