Amer

In the directorial debut by Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet, Amer follows the struggle between power and danger in the lives of three women of different ages who may or may not be the same person. The first, a young girl, is at home as her grandfather dies and her grandmother begins performing a series of bizarre rituals designed to either bring him back to life or ease his passage to the next world; as this is happening, the girl becomes aware that her parents are making love elsewhere in the house. Years later, the second is a teenage girl who goes into town with her mother to run some errands, comes face to face with the power of her sexuality and learns how she can use her allure to change the behavior of men. And the final girl, an adult woman, returns to the house where she grew up, which has fallen into disrepair -- and discovers that she may not be alone.