MARE'S NEST

Mare's Nest unfolds in a world without adults, where Moon wanders through unfamiliar landscapes, encountering solitary figures who reveal alternative ways of living. Guided by a sage and his translator in a remote mountain hut, she seeks meaning amid uncertainty. Blurring documentary and fiction, the film reflects director Ben Rivers’s ongoing fascination with lives lived apart from mainstream society, following Moon’s quiet observations as she moves through this enigmatic realm toward an open, unknowable future.

Official Selection, Locarno Film Festival 2025

"Shot beautifully on 16mm, it serves as the perfect cinematic antidote to technological burnout, albeit with a strangely sinister underbelly." —Little White Lies