Rivière

A 17-year-old on the run from a foster family which she doesn’t see as her own, Manon flees Switzerland to find her father who left her when she was small. The protagonist of RIVIÈRE isn’t only trying to escape a challenging educational context, she’s also running away from a cruel past which she’s desperate to leave behind her. Determined to turn her painful past into a distant memory, Manon gradually forms new emotional and sentimental bonds, transposing the path she’d already mapped out on the ice rink. Indeed, her dream is to become a professional hockey player, defying and breaking down the stereotypes which heteropatriarchal society ascribes to so-called “femininity”. (Muriel Del Don, Cineuropa)