Laura Cuellar

James Cuellar

Aaron Ybarra

Her date was successful, but now she must face the Monster Within.

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his temper more and more every day when dealing with his workers and other businessmen; until he meets Felix, a vagrant, who seems to be physically identical to him; a disconcerting fact that leads Hermann Hermann to plot a particular way out of a fake world he actually hates.

Under the bright lights of a television set, a show promises to fix bodies and erase imperfections. The host reassures with kindness. The words are gentle and comforting, sketching the idea of a beauty to be achieved, a body to be corrected. Gradually, behind the polished discourse, another reality emerges: that of invisible injunctions, of bodies observed, measured, transformed.

Can 3 young girls grow closely through the bittersweet journey of womanhood?

While her mother is expecting their second child, young Thi befriends Ngoc, a club waitress who has just moved in as a tenant in their family home. As their friendship grows, she discovers that Ngoc is secretly a sex worker. Meanwhile, an art book of Tamara de Lempicka’s female nudes, stolen from a bookshop, silently bears witness.

A Mondo documentary that juxtaposes footage of death, carnage, and unpleasantness with scenes of inspiring and beautiful imagery.