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  • IN THE NAME OF LOVE

    The magic word of love elicits both the most noble and most obscene of behavior for conspirators or strangers, couples or families.

    These six stories depict all kinds of love, be it ardent and destructive, dorky and reticent, or thawing and unreconciling.

    6 Short Films | Total Running Time: 89 min

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    Screening:
    Aug 4, 2012, 5:45pm
    Chelsea Clearview Cinemas

    Films in In the Name of Love

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    MODERN FAMILY

    Hyun-soo gets a phone call from home in the middle of a meeting. What awaits ahead is an array of mishaps, accidents, fears and murders.

    SHANGHAI LOVE MARKET

    Every weekend in Shanghai’s Peoples’ Park, parents hang posters to match-make their unwed children. Love however has a funny way of changing even the best-laid plans.

    BLEACHED

    Swayed by the prospect of attention from both her image-obsessive mother and a cute boy, Lenny, a Filipino-American girl, concedes to using a skin-lightening cream at the price of her identity.

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    ODIUM

    In Al-Zubayr, Iraq, a bloodthirsty American soldier must come to terms with his own humanity when he is forced to face off against an enemy who stands to lose all that he has already lost.

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    JOHNNY LOVES DOLORES

    A lonely clerk at a money remittance center and a jobless cleaning lady living illegally in Queens form an odd arrangement during the recent economic downturn.

    LOVE, NY

    A lonely Korean visitor in New York and a bar owner take a whirlwind impromptu tour of the city.