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MicroCinema: Best Friends Forever Shorts
01/28/20
2:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Monthly screening of short films presented by Indie Memphis and Crosstown Arts.
This month: An encore screening of shorts themed around the sometimes complicated and harmful nature of female friendships from the 2019 Indie Memphis Film Festival, curated by Senior Programmer Brighid Wheeler. Pay what you can.
**BEST FRIENDS FOREVER**
[Emily Gagne, Joshua Korngut, 0:13:25]
When teenage outcast Leslie mistakenly unleashes a nightmarish ghoul named Nancy, she’s forced to defeat a decades-old urban legend or face a fate worse than death: becoming Nancy’s new best friend … forever.
**CRUDE OIL**
[Christopher Good, 0:14:47]
Jenny breaks free from a toxic friendship and learns to harness her magical, useless superpower.
**HOW TO LIVE YOUR LIFE CORRECTLY**
[Xindi Lou, 0:20:00]
A troubled, neurotic teenager pins all hope for an existential breakthrough on the love of her rebellious hospital roommate.
**DOM**
[Meryl Jones Williams, Jane Stiles, 0:15:24]
Two old friends reunite on the hottest day of summer in NYC.
**FELLOWSHIP**
[Emma A Kazarian, 0:11:28]
A group of female directors show up to a studio fellowship expecting a chance to direct the next big blockbuster, only to find out the fellowship is actually a fight to the death.
**THE SHALLOW END**
[Cynthia Silver, 0:10:21]
Basking in the sunny glow of Reagan’s America, a group of vulnerable, swimsuit-clad teenaged girls jockey for power at a community swimming pool.