The Sweet East

• Sean Price Williams
• 104 min
• United States
• 2023
• Fiction

Blasé high school girl escapes from the school trip and encounters racists, anarchists, and pretentious filmmakers in this year's most hyped American indie saga.

As a photographer, Sean Price Williams has collaborated with influential East Coast filmmakers like Alex Ross Perry and the Safdie brothers. In his immensely entertaining directorial debut, he doesn't hold back, presenting a mass shooting at a karaoke pizzeria, a chivalrous white power ideologue, and sexually repressed Islamists during a wild journey through the most bizarre corners of subcultural America. Cheeky film critic Nick Pinkerton is behind a flipped script that takes shots in all directions, especially against the New York indie film scene, which by the way has just gained a new queen in Talia Ryder. Her portrayal of the bored teenager Lillian is one of the breakthroughs of the year.

* Youth Jury Dragon Award nominee.

- Jonas Holmberg

• Drama
• Resa
• Rasism
• Terrorism
• Religion