Cinema
Beasts of the Southern Wild
2012 / USA / 93 mins / Dir: Benh Zeitlin
Cast includes: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry and Levy Easterly
Winner: Golden Camera Award – Cannes Film Festival
Winner: Grand Jury Prize – Sundance Film Festival
In a forgotten but defiant bayou community cut off from the rest of the world by a sprawling levee, a six-year-old girl exists on the brink of orphanhood. Buoyed by her childish optimism and extraordinary imagination, she believes that the natural world is in balance with the universe until a fierce storm changes her reality. Desperate to repair the structure of her world in order to save her ailing father and sinking home, this tiny hero must learn to survive unstoppable catastrophes of epic proportions.
‘Completely unique… magical’
‘A game-changer that gets you excited about movies again’
out of four

