Supernova

Featuring an outstanding performance from Dutch actress Gaite Jansen, Meis is a bored and frustrated 15-year-old living in the middle of nowhere with her working-class parents and grandmother. Although an adjacent country road makes a 90-degree turn, seemingly just inviting vehicles to crash into their run-down house, Meis waits for something – anything – to happen, while musing about the laws of physics and energy. This much-talked-about indie from the Berlin Film Festival is a spot-on portrait of restless adolescence.

Tamar van den Dop | Netherlands | 2014 | 90 min