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.