International cinema
The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.
Cannes 2022 — Jury Prize
Academy Awards 2023 — Nominated, Best International Feature Film
Wanda can no longer stand the miserable environment in which she lives. Fired from her factory job, she decides to leave her family without looking back. Wandering through the city, without the slightest resource, she ends up clinging to a shabby traveler’s clerk.
A young novelist, Rama, must confront buried traumas as she attends the trial of a woman accused of infanticide. Pregnant herself and increasingly uncomfortable, Rama’s doubts and fears about motherhood are revealed as the story of the alleged murderer unfolds.
Shadowy and hypnotic, its idyllic setting reminiscent of a picture postcard – but rotting from within – Pacifiction follows the listless meanderings of De Roller, the French high commissioner, as he tries to maintain calm on the volatile island of Tahiti.
