Shorts Program: In the Company of Strangers Love Hacking Tim is a tall, pale and awkwardly nerdy Mormon from California who is slipping into middle age. He’s accomplished much in his life, earning three degrees and becoming a proficient programmer, but something is missing in his life. Sarita is a short, shy girl from a Hindu family in Nepal who was raised very poor. She may have little formal education, but has learned much about the world in her life, and seems to yearn for more out of it. Three an a half months ago this unlikely pair met online; today they see each other in person for the first time and tomorrow they’re getting married. Love Hacking is a short glimpse into the extremes of online dating and how it joins people from completely different cultures. Tim and Sarita’s differences are glaring, and this short film leaves the watcher apprehensive for their future. Tim says he’s “choosing to fall in love with Sarita,” but the look in Sarita’s eye seems to say it might not be so easy for her. —Elisabeth Grant Mondays at Racine Most days, Racine Salon in Islip, N.Y. is a typical Long Island beauty salon and spa, offering mani-pedis, haircuts and other treatments meant to pamper and primp. But one Monday every month, through the open arms of owners Cynthia and Rachel, it becomes a haven for women suffering from cancer: A place they can go and have their hand held while their head is shaved, an opportunity to sit down and be heard by a room full of other women going through the same experience, and a safe space where they can both escape from their daily lives and accept their current situations. While Mondays at Racine begins at the spa, it quickly follows these women home, sharing their stories and struggles and offering a very honest view of what going through cancer is like. Through these women’s own words we learn about fear of becoming less of a women when you lose your breasts, how the pain of cancer can be so great it ripples out through the patient and into their family members, and how difficult but necessary it is to hold on to hope. Be sure to bring tissues. —Elisabeth Grant Also screens with King’s Point. Saturday, June 23 at 12:30 p.m. at the AFI Silver Theatre 1, and Sunday, June 24 at 11 a.m. at AFI Silver Theatre 3.