Runner

• Marian Mathias
• 76 min
• United States, France, Germany
• 2022
• Fiction

Young woman in Missouri runs from mischievous gossip, debts, and the past to an uncertain future in a brilliant directorial debut, firmly anchored in the American landscape.

Hannah has just turned eighteen. She’s called Haas, which is Dutch for hare, and lives with her father in the middle of nowhere, in a dilapidated house among the crop fields. It’s the middle of the 1900s and when the hustling father, after chronic economic defeats, gets sloshed and falls down the stairs, she’s left alone in the world. First she has to get her father’s remains to Illinois, where he once was born. Waiting for the funeral to happen, she meets a guy her age, temporarily working in the area that God left behind. Marian Mathias debuts with a strikingly beautiful, minimalistic film where time seems to stand still and where emotions go unspoken, while we at the same time feel the heart of this brave leading person throbbing stronger and stronger as she runs ahead, maybe even faster than a hare.

- Freddy Olsson

• Drama
• Debut
• Uppväxt
• Uppbrott
• Landsbygd
• Kontemplation