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- Cherished daughter of a billionaire oil-tycoon, Taelor, age 26, grew up in one of those guilded ghettos of Houston, Texas. At 15, her father's sudden and mysterious death tolls the bell of an idyllic childhood, entailing a fall into a reckless life filled with drug-abuse and firearms. Her portrait serves as an insight into modern-day decadent America lead by Donald Trump, new hero of a young and yet so lost generation.
- An afternoon at the end of summer in a Calais suburb, in the northernmost part of France. Children and teenagers kill time at the foot of tower blocks. Their faces are often silent, already sometimes drawn or worried. Around them, large areas of sky and wild grass.
- During Nowruz, the Iranian new year that consists of thirteen nights of celebration, the city of Los Angeles becomes the stage for memories of Tehran. The inhabitants forget their English and switch to a Persian dialect, and the neon lights of Tehran light up the landscape of the City of Angels.
- Seekers is populated with ancestral cries: a man howls at the moon and calls to the birds, while the A Tribe Called Red group are yelling to the sound of the drums inspired by its Amerindian heritage. But Leon Reval is the kind of man who discusses rather than shouts. He developed a passion for local politics, a raison d'être even, but is now forced to relinquish his council seat. The action is set in Dulce, New Mexico, but the ambiance is more akin to a film noir than a western: deprived of the possibility of defending the interests of the Apache Jicarilla tribe, Leon's life has lost its bedrock and he now sees his whole identity called into question. A hand-held camera follows this charismatic hero in a period of worrying indecision. The day-to-day of this family man is typical of the "American way of life", if we include in this notion an inevitable hybridity. At a local festival, feather headdresses are seen along with cowboy hats, but this masquerade is in no way light-hearted. This is evidenced by the speech of this year's Miss, as she makes a moving and anxious appeal for the survival of the Jicarilla culture and language. The extraordinary violence that has marked this people's history seems far-removed from Leon's household, where kindness reigns. Yet, the archive footage that frames the film reminds us that what is at stake is the persistent struggle against an oppression which takes increasingly insidious forms. Cultural syncretism finally appears to be much less an opportunistic arrangement than a strategy for survival.