FIRST GIRL I LOVED
Kerem Sanga, 2016, USA, 91 min
Sponsored by Equality Florida
Do you remember her? Is someone remembering you as their first love? Surely, it wasn’t as hard as we remember. News flash – if it was in high school, it was definitely as hard as you remember. Bigger news flash – it is still that hard in high school. Anne (the wonderful Dylan Gelula – The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) falls in love with Sasha (Brianna Hildebrand – Deadpool) and upsets everybody in her life. Especially her best friend, Cliff (Mateo Arias – Kickin’ It) who is, you guessed it, secretly in love with Anne. Needless to say, it gets complicated quickly and loose ends are not always tied up in a neat and tidy conclusion. Writer/director Karem Sanga totally gets high school and the exquisitely painful pleasure of first love. (Sunny Hall)