BLUE MERIDIAN

Sofie Benoot | Belgium 2011 | 88 Min. | OV

Blue Meridianis a captivating journey through the Deep South of the United States of America. In her latest documentary, Sofie Benoot follows the devastated and worn out banks of the Mississippi river from Cairo, Illinois to Venice, Louisiana. Her successive encounters with local inhabitants reveal the hard reality behind the American myth: the stubbornness to survive among the traces of a turbulent history, recent natural disaster and the current economic crisis.