Preparation for the Next Life
First screened in November 2025
Director: Bing Liu. Cast: Sebiye Behtiyar, Fred Hechinger, Alicher Adill, Dralla Aierken, Esther Chen, Ella Rouwen Chen, Jessica Ma, Celine Cheung, Doug Yasuda, Sharon Gee, James Anthony DiGiacomo, H. Jack Williams, Mic Dempsey. Screenplay: Martyna Majok (based on the novel by Atticus Lish).
In Brief:
Urgent, tense, unusual migrant drama, even though some bits hew to narrative and stylistic template.
VOR:④
Timely! Model handling of tightly intersectional predicament, navigating gender, national, ethnic, religious difference. Filmmaking still delivers.
