(2023, USA, 108')
Having finally graduated high school, five Oregonian teenagers can’t wait for their next adventure: they’re set out to reach the Pacific coast, 500 miles away, aboard their battered van. This punk-rock Wizard of Oz-like story sees the teenagers sucked into an impromptu odyssey. They are forgotten in a forgotten city, but they’re free, they’re together, and they’re looking forward to a future that they will be able to write themselves.
Known for docu-drama Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets presented at Sundance in 2020 (Heterodox Award at Cinema Eye Honors) the enfants prodige of documentary Bill and Turner Ross are indie directors whose work always places experimentation first. Members of the Academy, they received numerous awards and recognitions, including a retrospective on their films at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 2023.
