In our oldest festival section, we are thrilled to present two fiction-feature and four documentary films. THE BEST SUMMER travels back in time to the legendary “Summersault” tour of 1995, with a line-up featuring the Beastie Boys, Sonic Youth and the Foo Fighters. Then, in IF THESE WALLS COULD ROCK, Billy Bob Thornton gives us a guided tour of the legendary Sunset Marquis Hotel and a look at the rock-stars that checked in there. In MICKEY & RICHARD, gay porn icon Richard Bernstein looks back on his time as a hot-ticket sex object. ASK E. JEAN is a portrait of the woman who managed to defeat Donald Trump in court no less than twice. In the compelling social drama DOWN THE ARM OF GOD, Caleb Landry Jones plays a pastor who cares for the unhoused, exposing the Christian-conservative mentality in the USA’s so-called Bible Belt in the process. In the inventive coming-of-age film IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME, a boy from a working-class Los Angeles neighbourhood near an airport experiences visions of Greek deities.
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