88. SINCE OTAR LEFT
 
France/Belgium
dir. Julie Bertucelli
world premiere 2003
U.S. release 2004
 

 
Because the three women in the movie make indelible individual impressions while also embodying an affecting but unprecious identity as a matrilineal line. And because stories of cultural transition, alienation, and contact are rarely this intimate or this subtly moving. And because of Gorintin's final solo scenes.