Ascension

Regular: $14 / $10 Matinee
Members: $10 / $5 Matinee

Genre

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Release Year

2021

Director

Jessica Kingdon

Producer

Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, Nathan Truesdell

Country

USA

Runtime

97 min

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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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