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From time-travel adventure to comedy to psychological drama to politically-charged personal cinema, this cinematic septet of film premieres reveals such potent, urgently relevant issues as the immigrant and transgender experience, race relations and gender politics. Opening night film Venus is a witty tale of a transgender woman whose life is upended when a teen appears who says she is his father. The festival closes with Black Cop, an explosive examination of race relations in Canada. Sandra Oh and Chinese martial arts legend Cheng Pei-Pei star as mother and daughter in Meditation Park, plus more L.A. premieres with all of the filmmakers in person. See them at the Aero Theatre, April 12–15.