Christophe Atabekian

Pierre Léon ingeniously condenses and updates Dostoevsky’s novel about a 19-year-old intellectual reconnecting with his estranged family in his impressive debut feature.

Tarek Lakhrissi’s futuristic narrative Out of the Blue takes place at a radical moment in time, when a politically conservative era is suddenly coming to an end. Lakhrissi avoids traditional apocalyptic narratives to meditate instead on the nature of transition itself. In the final scene, the film’s central character delivers a thoughtful speech exploring ideas of freedom and liberty, self-determination and queer futurity.

Vincent is seventeen years old. He frequents a group of musicians older than him, who are preparing a show. Vincent wants to seduce them and tells a lot of stories in order to get noticed. One day, one of those stories irritates the group and they discover that Vincent owes them all money...