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- Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea, a man-made sea stranded in the middle of the Colorado desert that was once a beautiful vacation destination for the privileged and is now a pool of dead fish. Film director Alma Har'el tells the story of three protagonists. The trials of Benny Parrish, a young boy diagnosed with bipolar disorder whose troubled soul and vivid imagination create both suffering and joy for him and his complex and loving family. The story of CeeJay Thompson, a black teenager and aspiring football player who has taken refuge in Bombay Beach hoping to avoid the same fate of his cousin who was murdered by a gang of youths in Los Angeles; and that of Red, an ancient survivor, once an oil field worker, living on the fumes of whiskey, cigarettes and an irrepressible love of life. Together these portraits form a triptych of manhood in its various ages and guises, in a gently hypnotic style that questions whether they are a product of their world or if their world is a construct of their own imaginations.
- ShortThis coming of age story follows a naive young girl who dreams of leaving her trailer park to reunite with her estranged father in Los Angeles, while her older sister grapples with protecting her from their bleak reality.
- After her boyfriend leaves her for dead at the shore of Salton Sea, Grace Paine seeks revenge.
- When a college graduation party in the desert goes wrong, Violet is blamed for the death of her new boyfriend. Afraid of being implicated, her friends help her bury the body in a nearby town only to find something more sinister lurking.
- 'Bombay Beach' is a poetic film on a possible apocalypse. After man detonates an H bomb on a megalopolis, we follow his lonesome wanderings, as well as those of a woman. They are among the few survivors of the cataclysm, seeking a way out of this strange and beautiful hell. They will eventually never meet, as they have to face a major aftermath: the bomb has disturbed the basic rules of nature, and their old world now seems to escape the rules of space-time. They live in a quantum universe, where ubiquity and teleportation are admitted, and their continual coming and going in the rubble and ruins of the city will find no end.