Since its founding in 1969 by the French Directors’ Guild, the Directors’ Fortnight has served as a vital and boldly independent counter program to the Cannes Film Festival. Following a successful launch in 2024, Directors’ Fortnight Extended returns to Los Angeles with a curated selection of the 2025 program at the Directors Guild of America.
Multi-film Fortnight Extended passes can be purchased here.
About the film:
Nawojka, 20, dreams of escaping her harsh life working at the family farm. Under the influence of the free-spirited Sandra, Naw experiences trance-like episodes and strange powers, just like her dead mother before her…
TRT: 95 min
Directors' Fortnight Extended: Los Angeles is presented by the Quinzaine des cinéastes, Acropolis Cinema,Villa Albertine, MUBI, European Languages and Movies in America (ELMA), and the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities.
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"An intriguing mix of heady and earthy, in which folk-horror eeriness fuses with provincial narrow-mindedness, and mysticism oozes through the muck." —Jessica Kiang, Variety
"Julia Kowalski’s long awaited second feature, a murky rural horror in which a young woman is desperate to escape the drudgery of her current life and the sinister influence of her bloodline, emerges as a tale of transgressive women in unwelcoming places, and what it takes to survive." —Allan Hunter, Screen International
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