Lowland Kids

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.

• Guest filmmaker introduction and Q&A will take place at the Dendy Newtown screening on Thursday 5 June.
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