Feature Film Program
You Were My First Boyfriend
New York Premiere! In this high school reunion movie turned inside out, filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo relives her tortured adolescence, wondering if she remembered it all wrong.
Wed Jul 12 7:30 PM
The Films
You Were My First Boyfriend
Cecilia Aldarondo & Sarah Enid Hagey | US | 97
In this high school reunion movie turned inside out, filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo circles back to her tortured adolescence, wondering if she remembered it all wrong. Oscillating between present-day, real-world encounters and fantastical re-stagings of her most primal teen memories, You Were My First Boyfriend is a hybrid documentary that explores growing older and making peace with the things that haunt us.
When You Left Me On That Boulevard
Kayla Abuda Galang | US | 13
Thanksgiving 2006 in Paradise Hills, Southeast San Diego. 15-year-old Ly and her cousins get high before a boisterous Thanksgiving at their auntie’s house. Stoned and harboring a naive romance with a maybe-boyfriend, Ly moves through the gossip, nosiness, and loudness of her family’s holiday celebration until the day ends.
Performer
Poise
Lucie Murphy is the mind behind Poise; a NewYork City-based project known for crafting dexterous melodies and emotionally-charged lyrics alongside propulsive rhythms and playful vocal arrangements. Her debut album Vestiges (2021) channels devastation into a source of cathartic reprieve, transforming grief, bewilderment and uncertainty into a soundtrack for introspection, collaboration and growth. Sparked by the sudden, unexpected death of her father, it’s an album that feels urgent; where songs are created not just out of sheer curiosity, but out of a deep, unrestricted necessity. Ushering in a lustrous purging of agitation and anxiety, Vestiges prospers with a renewed authority that sees Murphy celebrate life as much as she mourns the loss of it. Here, an artist arrives, on her own terms.
