Lost Persons Area. 2009. Written and directed by Caroline Strubbe

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Lost Persons Area. 2009. Belgium/Netherlands/Hungary/Germany. Directed by Caroline Strubbe

Lost Persons Area. 2009. Belgium/Netherlands/Hungary/Germany. Written and directed by Caroline Strubbe. 109 min.

Strubbe’s debut feature premiered in the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, where it won the SACD Screenwriting Award. The title is a reference to an Elliott Erwitt photograph of anxious women waiting in a Pasadena parking lot, although Strubbe’s displaced persons—a construction foreman (Sam Louwyck), his unhappy wife (Lisbeth Gruwez) and their silent, eerily independent seven year old daughter (Kimke Desart)—live in a sunny, vacant landscape beneath a high tension power line. Into this literally charged environment comes a Hungarian worker (Zoltán Miklós Hajdu) whose presence leads to tragedy.

This film accompanies MoMA Presents: Lost Persons—Two Films by Caroline Strubbe.

Tue, Jul 8, 2014, 4:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Mon, Jul 7, 2014, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Sun, Jul 6, 2014, 2:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Sat, Jul 5, 2014, 7:30 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1
Fri, Jul 4, 2014, 4:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Thu, Jul 3, 2014, 7:30 p.m.

Education Center, Mezzanine, Theater 3

The Celeste Bartos Theater
Wed, Jul 2, 2014, 4:30 p.m.

Introduced by Caroline Strubbe

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

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