Fri. March 6th 2026
Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

HRIFF Box Office: 2:00pm - Midnight

Noseeums (USA)

Noseeums
2:30 PM

Director: Raven DeShay Carter

The story follows Ember, a college student recently removed from a damaging relationship, who reluctantly joins her roommate and a group of wealthy friends for a weekend getaway at a remote lake house in the Florida backwoods.

What begins as an uneasy social visit shifts as Ember discovers the land holds a deeper history tied to restless spirits with unfinished claims.

Best Horror Feature

Festival Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

Mature Audiences

Life Is Prickly (USA)

life-is-prickly
4:00 PM

Director: Diane Sherry

ANIMATION A-6

This animated series is set in the desert, and follows Prissy and Pili, a cacti couple, as they navigate a thorny relationship, in a world populated by talking coyotes, alcoholic succulents, and small-town drama. When a body turns up in the wasteland, it’s not clear who’s to blame—or why it happened at all.

In the desert, grudges linger, and consequences are slow to decompose. It’s so easy to be a prick when you’re a cactus.

Created from the paintings of Diane Sherry, artist, writer, and actor best known for originating the role of Lana Lang in Superman, the movie (1978).

World Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

General Audiences

Snuggleville: Unleashed (USA)

Snuggleville-Unleashed
4:00 PM

Director: Jonathan Meacham

ANIMATION A-6

The kingdom of Snuggleville returns with a manic collection of unhinged animated comedy. now unleashed on the big screen.

World Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

Mature Audiences / 17+

This Magical Moment in Cosmic History (USA)

This-Magical-Moment
5:00 PM

Director: Alex Killian
& Charlie Hannah

DRAMA PROGRAM B-6

From sitcom kitchens to spy thrillers, from fantasy kingdoms to technicolor moonlit musicals, Celeste dies at the moment of total lunar eclipse on her 30th birthday in timeline after timeline.

With heartfelt performances, dazzling shifts in style and genre, and a deeply spiritual undercurrent, this film explores surrender, love, and the cosmic mystery of timing while being wildly imaginative and deeply human.

Hollywood Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

General Audiences

John Wilkes Booth (USA)

johh-wilkes-booth
5:00 PM

Director: Benjamin Goglia

DRAMA PROGRAM B-6

In the midst of the Civil War, struggling actor John Wilkes Booth prepares for his role as the honorable Brutus in Shakespeare's, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. He pushes himself further and tries to find meaning in his role but the closer he becomes to his character the more he starts to lose himself.

As the war closes in around him and the role takes its toll he must decide what lengths he will go to be the best. If he is to truly be the best, he must become Brutus - he must take things into his own hands if he wants to make a real difference in the world.

Festival Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

General Audiences

Emma & Emma (USA)

Emma-and-Emma
5:00 PM

Director: Alexandra Corin Johnston

DRAMA PROGRAM B-6

When a disillusioned and stalled out actress finds her fourteen-year-old self unexpectedly crashing in her apartment, her present and past collide in ways she can’t ignore. Their strange reunion opens a window into the dreams she abandoned, the fears she carried forward, and the girl she left behind.

At its heart, this film is a story about grief, self-reclamation, and the courage to begin again.

World Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

General Audiences

Wanting Weed (USA)

wanting-weed
6:00 PM

Director: Callahan Welsh

FILM PROGRAM C-6

This film follows a college student, who accepts a hard day at college. Through visual storytelling and physical performance, the film captures the quiet urgency of longing, and the way that routine can unravel, when something feels just out of reach.

World Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

General Audiences

Who Are You? (USA)

who-are-you
6:00 PM

Director: Zane Morrow

FILM PROGRAM C-6

A Filipino tutor uses his amateur boxing skills to fend off a group of vicious and racist agents in his apartment in this comedy film.

Hollywood Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

General Audiences

True Love (USA)

True-Love
6:00 PM

Director: Jay Slater

FILM PROGRAM C-6

A mob boss has a snitch tied up in his basement, and is ready to punish him. But his wife keeps bursting in at awkward times.

What starts out as an annoyance eventually turns into something bigger. Soon, he will come face to face with his failures as a husband.

Hollywood Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

Mature Audiences

Density (USA)

Density
6:00 PM

Director: Graham Bishop

FILM PROGRAM C-6

Four roommates experience the trial and errors of attempting to undercut their local kingpin within a campy world of delinquent drug lords.

Help from the inside might be their only way to score big, …as long as they don't mess it up.

Hollywood Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

Mature Audiences

Act!

ACT
6:00 PM

Director: Freddy Barouh

FILM PROGRAM C-6

Ten minutes before showtime, a theatre group unravels into warm-up disasters, personal drama and backstage chaos as they scramble to survive opening night.

World Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

Mature Audiences

Steakout! (USA)

steakout
7:00 PM

Director: Max Neace

COMEDY SHORTS D-6

Sean is going to a steak dinner. Patrick's going to a stakeout. Unfortunately they're both in the same car.

Hollywood Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

General Audiences

Art School Girl (USA)

Art-School-Girl
7:00 PM

Director: Bianca Cruz

COMEDY SHORTS D-6

This surreal, character-driven film follows a deadpan, razor-smart art student named Violet whose wit keeps the world at arm's length.

When an awkward outsider and a strange taxidermy boar disrupt her sense of being, this Art School Girl becomes forced to confront what she had been avoiding.

World Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

General Audiences

Viscountess and Maidservant (USA)

Viscountess-and-Maidservant
7:00 PM

Director: Greg Lastrapes

COMEDY SHORTS D-6

With little more than what they can pack into a battered yet magically useful old trunk, the surly Viscountess and her trusty Maidservant are forced to flee to San Pedro, California.

As this out-of-place pair struggle to adapt to their calamity as lavishly as possible, they find themselves battling the natives, their ever-shifting fortunes, and even the threat all the way from back home in the old country.

Through it all, the duo use their limited resources and wits to get by, to get back to their loved ones, and to get… revenge!!

World Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

General Audiences

April X (USA)

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8:00 PM

Director: Michel K Parandi

In the near future, twins Bax and April struggle to survive on the fringes of a decaying city.

When April disappears without explanation, Bax plunges into the city's criminal underworld, unsure whether he's uncovering the truth or losing his mind.

Best Thriller

California Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

Mature Audiences

Tails California (USA)

Tails-California
9:45 PM

Director: Christine Machlin

Callie and Carter are life long best friends. Although both seem to be going nowhere and things seem dismal, they try to stay optimistic about their dream of getting out of their dead end town to live near the beach in California.

One night they get their chance, in the most unusual (and violent) way, as they stumble across the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong …and take the money left at the scene.

A choice must be made as to whether they continue on their journey to hit the coast, or put their lives on the line to face their true fate.

Hollywood Premiere

March 6, Regal Cinemas / LA LIVE

Mature Audiences