Adam Finch

Fashioned from a constellation of dreamy objects, Lucile Hadžihalilović’s hypnotic feature debut builds a state of confinement out of milky-white uniforms and colorful ribbons. Swinging between pleasure and discipline, Innocence evokes both the mysteries of girlhood and the threat that lies beyond.

Strange objects, secret prisons, and uncanny stories of children growing up continue to fascinate Lucile Hadžihalilović in the eerie and mysterious Earwig. Spine-tingling in both its beauty and its creepiness, her cinema of curiosities shares a surrealist realm with Cronenberg and Lynch.