In the opening moments of Yukari Sakamoto’s “White Flower and Fruits,” which premieres in San Sebastián’s New Directors competition, a girl climbs a school tower clutching a strip of white fabric. We cut to Anna, played by newcomer Miro, as she arrive at a Protestant girls boarding school, as a quiet transfer student. Her mother warning her “This school is your last chance.”
Inside a Last Supper painting hangs in an austere room of dark wood chairs and cotton clothed tables: It’s a place that runs on autonomy and discipline. Formal order frames the story of three students whose lives are upended by an act of sudden loss.
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