Lumen

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.

In 1957 Budapest, one year following the failure of the Hungarian Revolution, a 12-year-old Jewish boy whose mother has raised him to believe that his father will return from the camps has his hopes shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the doorstep to take his family back.

Described by the director as “an adventure,” and will be “quite different to what I did before,” although the plot remains under wraps.

Two young women leave their native Morocco and go to southern Spain for a season of strawberry picking. The pay promised by the greenhouse owners gives them hope for a better life when they return, both for themselves and for their families. Faced with abuse and harassment, however, with the help of a lawyer, they will denounce what they’ve endured, risking everything in the process.