Ascension
Regular: $14 / $10 Matinee
Members: $10 / $5 Matinee
Genre
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Release Year
2021
Director
Jessica KingdonProducer
Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, Nathan TruesdellCountry
USARuntime
97 minReturn Engagement! One Week Only!
Screening Daily!
Part of our FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION series.
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ASCENSION examines the contemporary “Chinese Dream” through staggering observations of labor, consumerism and wealth. In cinematically exploring the aspiration that drives today’s People’s Republic of China, the film plunges into universal paradoxes of economic progress.
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