The Speed Cinema is hosting a screening of The Sweet East (Directed by Sean Price Williams), followed by a discussion with screenwriter Nick Pinkerton moderated by Lamplighter Film Union founder Nathan Viner.  ✍️

The Sweet East is a picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the United States undertaken by Lillian (Talia Ryder), a high school senior from South Carolina who gets her first glimpse of the wider world on a class trip to Washington, D.C. Separated from her schoolmates, she embarks on a fractured fairy tale travelogue into America, where she is granted access to a variety of the strange factions that proliferate the present-day unreality of contemporary life. 🎥

“It’s a well-made, purposefully ugly treatise of America as a broken-down theme park.” — Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com

The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and played the New York Film Festival, featuring stellar performances by Simon Rex and Jacob Elordi.  ✨

$8 for Louisville Film Society members
Recommended for 16+.