If you’re looking for a new fix after finishing The Hunger Games, The Last of Us, or any similar piece dark, post-apocalyptic media, then check out La Lisère (The Edge in English). Set in a future where vaguely describes wars and natural disasters have destroyed civilization, La Lisère tells the story of Hama (played by Ouidad Elma), a young woman who lives with her father Selim (Saïd Amadis, who in a neat bit of trivia did the voice dub for James Earl Jones in the French language version of The Empire Strikes Back.)

La Lisère was directed by Simon Saulnier, a relatively unknown French director who had previously made a sci-fi short called Babylone. The short film is coming off a year and a half of touring festival circuits, after…

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