A recent jury member at Courtisane Festival, young Belgian filmmaker Sofie Benoot  will be presenting her latest work Blue Meridian at Beursschouwburg in Brussels on 24 September. Blue Meridian is Sofie's first long feature documentary film after completing her studies with Fronterismo, also screened at the Courtisane festival. And we can't wait to see it !

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Following the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to Venice, Louisiana, Blue Meridian is a captivating journey through the dilapidated and worn out Deep South of the United States of America. A cinematographic encounter with people living among the traces of natural disasters, economic decline and a turbulent history. The Mississippi River flows both through the Deep South and the imagination of the American nation; it draws the border between the East and the West of the country, but also the division between the North and the South. As a blue meridian, it represents the complex relation between place and identity in North America. The film portrays people living in the decay of semi abandoned places, who try to rebuild, preserve and survive, in an attempt to take a stand in their land and its history. Flooding, civil rights movement riots, racism, real estate speculation have caused people to leave these towns and cities. Blue Meridian tells the story of their endeavors to make the American promises true. A critical but emphatic look on America.