US 2006 colour 145 min.
dir: Richard Kelly
pro: Sean McKittrick, Bo Hyde, Kendall Morgan, Matthew Rhodes, Universal Pictures, Cherry Road Films
sc: Richard Kelly
ph: Steven Poster
mus: Moby
ed: Sam Bauer
cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Kevin Smith
dis: Monolith Films

The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals in refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles. Set in the near future of an alternate history, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles and a comment on the military-industrial news-tainment complex. Unexpected nuclear attack on America is a beginning of world war III.  To be able to handle with great deficiency of fuel, one of the companies invents a generator of energy with unprecedented power. The source are oceanic currents. It has unexpected influence on the Earth trajectory.

The film premiered May 21, 2006 at the Cannes Film Festival, where it received a largely negative reception. Significantly reedited it never got to the large audience. We believe that critics in Cannes did not access the Kelly’s film fairly, and we will try to prove it.