Lowland Kids

Directed by Sandra Winther
Denmark
2025
94 mins

Synopsis

With their island home sinking into the sea, America’s first climate refugees must make an impossible decision. A raw, redolent doc produced by Darren Aronofsky, CPH:DOX 2025.

With Hurricane Ida approaching, Howard and Juliette Brunet, the last teenagers left on the Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana, reckon with looming displacement from their beloved family home. Director Sandra Winther returns to the Deep South wetlands to expand upon her SXSW-selected 2019 short documentary: back in 2019, the forced re-location of the entire community was an impending threat on the horizon, but in just a short few years the island has deteriorated to the point where human habitation is impossible. Remaining focused on the Brunets, who are increasingly distressed by the island’s accelerated disappearance, Winther is keenly, poetically attuned to the fact that Howard and Juliette’s loss is the world’s.

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A lyrical, luminous portrait of lives on the periphery.
Wendy Ide, Screen International

Tickets

Thu 5 June 2025, 6pm
Dendy Newtown - Cinema 2
WheelchairAssisted Listening
Sat 14 June 2025, 4pm
Palace Central Cinemas - Cinema 1
WheelchairAssisted Listening
  • Program Strand
  • Year
    2025
  • Classification
    Unclassified 15+
  • Country
    Denmark, USA
  • Language
    In English
  • Director
    Sandra Winther
  • Producer
    William Crouse, Lauren Avinoam, Darren Aronofsky, Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær, Lizzie Gillett, Brendan Naylor
  • Cinematographer
    Andrea Gavazzi
  • Editor
    Eva Dubovoy, Pek K. Kirkegaard
  • Genre
  • Premiere
    Australian Premiere
  • Company Credits
    Australian Distributor: Madman Entertainment
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