ND/NF 2009 Program Overview Amreeka We Live in Public $9.99 Autumn Barking Water Birdwatchers Can Go Through Skin Cold Souls The Cove Every Little Step The Fly Give Me Your Hand Harmony and Me Home Louise-Michel The Maid Mid-August Lunch The Milk of Sorrow Ordinary Boys Paper Soldier Parque vía The Shaft Stay the Same... Treeless Mountain Unmade Beds Teaming Up Ticket Info About Submissions Past ND/NF Festivals

Stay the Same Never Change Series: New Directors/New Films 2009 Director: Laurel Nakadate, Country: USA, Release: 2009, Runtime: 93 In the filmlinc blog, Christian Del Moral says: "This isn’t Dorothy’s Kansas, but within its high-concept non-driven plot there’s an eerie beauty, strong feelings and compelling imagery." Read the whole review>> Artist and director Laurel Nakadate takes us beyond the pre-packaged and sanitized world of The Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana to the true heartland of America and the tween-aged girls that inhabit it. In Kansas City, pop culture is something to be twisted and reshaped, relationships are either non-existent or re-fabricated, time is unstructured and teasing. At the heart of these girls’ lives and this innovative work of cinema is a quest for understanding and a sense of place. The risks run and solutions posed engender both laughs and tears. The film’s amateur actors and non-linear narrative bring an unnerving, utterly human face to the challenges of young-womanhood in a world that would prefer our girls watch the Disney Channel.

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