Alternative Film Guide

Los Angeles Film Festival: Wednesday, June 25

Justine Jacob and Alex D. da Silva’s Paper or Plastic? (Mann Festival Theatre, 4 pm) follows eight state champions from across the US, all avidly aiming for the Best Bagger title in the topmost supermarket sweep.

Directed by Paul Weiland from a screenplay by Peter Staughan, Sixty Six (Mann Festival Theatre, 7 pm) tells the story of a British boy whose life gets turned upside down when his Bar Mitzvah is scheduled on the day of the 1966 England-vs.-West Germany World Cup Final. In the cast: Eddie Marsan, Helena Bonham Carter, Stephen Rea, and Gregg Sulkin.

Nicolás Pereda’s Where Are Their Stories? (The Landmark 8, 7 pm) is a Mexican drama about a young man who attempts to save his grandmother’s land from her greedy sons, while dealing with the fact that his mother — a house servant for an upscale urban couple — has been offered money to conceive a child for her bosses.

Based on Giuseppe Fiori’s novel, Salvatore Mereu’s Sonetàula (Italian Cultural Institute, 8:30 pm) follows a Sardinian adolescent (Francesco Falchetto) whose life takes a dramatic turn after his father is falsely accused of murder.

Kenta Fukasaku’s X-Cross (The Landmark 3, 7:30 pm), from a screenplay by Oishi Tetsuya (of the Death Note films), follows a group of girls who head out to a remote hot springs resort where they are met by "bizarre locals, blood rituals, and crazed harajuku girls brandishing frightfully large pairs of scissors."