United States | 2004 | Sean Baker & Shih-Ching Tsou

With his last film Anora, Sean Baker (Tangerine, Florida Project) took the Palme D’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Presenting two of the director’s earlier works, we encourage you to discover the formation of his naturalistic directorial style and his empathetic interest in raw and authentic characters on the margins that constantly try to carve a place for themselves in a world that rejects them. In Take Out, (co-directed by Shih-Ching Tsou), Ming Ding, an undocumented Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt and has only until the end of the day to come up with the money. Some subtitles. 88 min.