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The Rising of the Sap - BFI

Directed by Susie Jones

Producer: Thea Burrows

Starring Joanna Scanlan, Darci Shaw, Brian McCardie, Nicola Harrison

Within an atmosphere of strange disquiet, a mother-daughter relationship is pitted against the suffocating forces of a rural community and the nature surrounding it.

The stagnant countryside begins to stir with life and Grace is drawn more and more towards the village in this supernatural, sensual twist on a mother’s desire to free her daughter from a stifling place.

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