The New Beginnings (2025)

The illustrious Al Moon spends his days on the Yurok territory in California. Just like many Native Americans, he watches with a heavy heart as the land becomes uninhabitable. Ecological disaster pollutes the fishing catch while violence and alcoholism scar his community. The changes in the landscape run parallel to Moon's personal reckoning with the past. Plagued by his memories as a soldier in the Vietnam War, he embarks on a road trip to come to terms with himself. Following their dreamy desktop documentary Elsewhere, Everywhere (2020), Vivianne Perelmuter & Isabelle Ingold present once again an intimate observational portrait in which geopolitical forces play out on a small scale. Hovering between anthropological rigor and poetic freedom, they find in Moon a canvas for the demons plaguing the American soul. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with directors Vivianne Perelmuter & Isabelle Ingold.