Bruno Ehlinger

“Must I be lost forever like a pebble within a mountain of stones?” After following young Nana, Valérie Massadian made this precious short—a small poem—two years later about a young boy searching for himself and the world as the camera turns round and round the verdant Hoh rainforest in Washington.

After Leviathan won a slew of awards, its directorial duo stunned audiences with this portrait of an infamous cannibal and his brother. Unflinching? Too feeble a word for this one. As ignoble urges sidle up to fraternal loyalty in extreme close-ups, an air of obsession and moral ambivalence reigns.