French filmmaker Valérie Massadian won the Best First Feature prize in Locarno for this hypnotic study set in the deepest recesses of nature. Nana is a film full of quiet patience, observation, and subtle revelations: the world of a young girl seen from the outside and with exquisite sensitivity.
Wander through Paris’s mesmerizing museums with Bertrand Bonello in this never-before-seen version of Antoine Barraud’s Le dos rouge. There, the French filmmaker roams in search of monstrosity, and shares the screen with some of France’s finest actors, including Jeanne Balibar and Alex Descas.
“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.