Palma

Alexe Poukine | Belgium, France | 2020 | 40' |

| IFFR 2021

Jeanne takes her six-year-old daughter to Majorca for a no-budget weekend getaway. The plan is to make the best of it, to provide the necessary snapshots for the girl’s school book. A sharply observed, gentle portrait of a young mother refusing to give up, played by the director herself.

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