Synopsis
A 60-year-old woman with terminal cancer, a 40-year-old man who has just left prison and a British artist in his 50s meet by chance and set off on a road trip to the town of Marfa in the state of Texas. Each one is looking for something that will restore their hope. Roberto Minervini’s debut film is a humanistic road movie with which he was already beginning to flirt with the documentary.
Filmmaker
Roberto Minervini
He is an Italian-born film director, who lives and works in the U.S. He is widely considered to be one of the world’s most prominent auteurs of narrative documentaries, which combine dramatized and observational elements. After completing a Master of Arts in Media Studies at the New School in New York City, in 2007 he moved to Texas, where he directed three feature films, a Texas Trilogy that focused on rural communities in the American South. He then went on to direct two feature films set in Louisiana, shifting to the political realm of American society and touching on social injustice. In more recent years, he has begun to produce the work of other visionary filmmakers, including Payal Kapadia and Lisandro Alonso.
Filmography: The Damned (2024, D'A 2025), What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? (2018, D'A 2019, D'A 2025), The Other Side (2015, D'A 2016, D'A 2025), Stop the Pounding Heart (2013, D'A 2014, D'A 2025), Low Tide (2012), The Passage (2011), The Fireflies (short film, 2006, D'A 2025), Notes (short film, 2005), Come to Daddy (short film, 2005, D'A 2025), Voodoo Doll (short film, 2005, D'A 2025)
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