International cinema
Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo and her family is struggling financially. In order to provide for them she launches a small agricultural business, but in the traditional patriarchal village where she lives, her ambition and efforts to empower herself and other women are not seen as positive things. She struggles not only to keep her family afloat but also against a hostile community who is rooting for her to fail.
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.
Caught in a volatile separation dispute, a father decides to take his 9-year-old daughter on a road trip in his Kenworth W900 in hopes of participating in the legendary World’s Best Truck Rodeo, the ultimate celebration of trucking held annually in the Badlands of Alberta.
Two parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.
