Reverie Impact Cinema presents: Totem

Name: Reverie Impact Cinema presents: Totem
Start: 2025-09-11T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-11T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Tallgrass Film Association

Schedule

Thu Sep 11 2025 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Tallgrass Film Association | Wichita, KS

FILM: Totem (2002) Runtime 1 hr 35 minutes
LOCATION: Tallgrass Film Center in Downtown Wichita
DATE: Thursday, September 11th, 2025
TIME: 6:30PM, Showtime 7:00PM
TICKETS: $12, LIMITED SEATING (30 tickets per show) BUY TICKETS HERE: https://tallgrassfilmcenter.eventive.org/schedule
Filmmaker: Lila Avilés is a prominent Mexican film director, screenwriter, and actress known for her intimate and character-driven films like The Chambermaid (2018) and Tótem (2023). After a career as an actress, she shifted to filmmaking and gained critical acclaim for her debut, The Chambermaid, which was Mexico's Academy Award submission. Her films often explore themes of loss, childhood, and the realities of Mexican life through a "heartfelt," intuitive lens, focusing on characters' vulnerable experiences rather than judgment.

About the Film: Set on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the film explores the lives of Johnny and his younger sister, Jashaun, as they navigate adolescence and the aftermath of their father's death. Johnny grapples with the prospect of leaving the reservation for Los Angeles with his girlfriend, while Jashaun finds solace in the community and her late father's rodeo world.
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In the spirit of Reverie’s mission, “To precipitate positivity in the communities we serve”, our film series serves as a conduit to connect our communities, building awareness, forming alliances, and combining our resources to collectively help to improve the quality of life for those around us. Films are selected intentionally to connect audiences to novel causes, to promote ideas worth sharing, to illustrate opportunities to help, and to inform us about ourselves. By connecting with relevant local non-profit organizations, we collaborate to broaden awareness of the many opportunities to help within our communities.
Each film we select is connected to a monthly theme. Themes encompass one or more of the many great causes worthy of our awareness. Our non-profit partners share a common thread of identity that may be apparent in the theme of the film. Our intention is for films to attract considerate audiences that can benefit from becoming more aware of local causes of interest.

Reverie supports Tallgrass Film Festival through annual sponsorship and the film series to help introduce the festival to a broader Wichita audience. All films are open to the public.