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Co-presented by Eos World Fund: Story of A Red Sea Crossing. Shot in the bars and seedy hotels of East LA, this film is about the inner life of a prostitute imprisoned for killing her pimp. Winner of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association award for “Best Independent Film of the Year”, Magdelena Viraga was featured in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Biennial as well as in over 40 other film festivals worldwide. Tinka Menkes brilliantly portrays the emotionally frozen prostitute on a circular inner journey, as she battles at the walls which surround her—both material and psychic.

Restored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation. An Arbelos Films release.

“My very personal portrait of the US: an over-enlarged, profit-motivated core surrounded by mute and arid alienation”

– Nina Menkes