Determined to see “the river,” two young children living in Los Angeles leave home to embark on a magical urban odyssey, in the marvelous new film by American indie icon Alexandre Rockwell (In the Soup).

A truly independent vision of poverty in Los Angeles as experienced by a group of children, Little Feet is a lyrical cinematic paean to childhood, and a key entry into the lineage of city symphonies documenting the area: from Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep to Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups.