A supermarket in a Moscow suburb is the heart of darkness for the Uzbek “employees” who work there around the clock and are threatened, abused and imprisoned. Mukhabbat escapes and reveals the vicious circle of modern slavery. A truly surreal real-life trip.
BlackWoman is abandoned in a cage in the middle of the desert and left to die. But she is not ready to give up all hope. She escapes, and walks through pestilence and persecution, from desert to mountain to city, to find those who left her to die.
A Capraesque tale about a soon-to-be-orphaned adolescent seeking an audience with Michelle Obama, Ma?mouna Doucouré’s sophomore feature dismantles boundaries of status and decorum and celebrates the power of self-determination.