(FLANDRES, Bruno Dumont, France 2006, 91 min., French with subtitles, 35mm)

Winner of the jury’s grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the fourth feature from director Dumont (La Vie de Jesus, L’Humanité) tells the story of a simple young farmer in Northern France who goes off to fight a nameless desert war, leaving behind his young and promiscuous girlfriend. Dumont’s patented style alternates serenely beautiful images of nature with shockingly graphic depictions of sex and violence. Urgently provocative and stylistically bold, it’s an anti-war film like no other ever made. No one under 18 admitted.