FLATLAND

When Natalie’s disastrous wedding night leads to an accidental killing, she flees her rural town in South Africa’s desolate Karoo region. Reuniting with her rebellious best friend Poppie, who is heavily pregnant, the two young women escape together on horseback across the endless winter landscape.

In Jenna Cato Bass’s third film, two girls ride out into South Africa’s sprawling plains to escape abuse and the mundane clutches of domestic oppression. Imagine Thelma and Louise on horseback, with soap-opera melodrama stirred into atmospheric visuals—and some brash gun-wielding on top of that!