A Capraesque tale about a soon-to-be-orphaned adolescent seeking an audience with Michelle Obama, Ma?mouna Doucouré’s sophomore feature dismantles boundaries of status and decorum and celebrates the power of self-determination.
Drained will follow jobless post-graduate concept artist Thomas in the neon-soaked streets of London, who falls in love with a mysterious woman who turns out to be a vampire. As their twisted romance unfolds, Thomas’s health deteriorates, and he spirals out of control.
A scientist engineer at a technology firm specializes in communicating with ‘whispers’ of the recently deceased. After his wife commits suicide, through his exploration of this unsettling piece of newly-developed technology, his research deepens and he finds himself on a dark path becoming increasingly unglued from reality. For once he is through the immortal looking glass, the...