September Says

Inseparable sisters July and September form a twosome where nothing or no one can come between them, including their loving, single mother Sheela. The two have their own coded form of communication and do not care about what is considered normal or what others think. The distrustful September decides what happens; the timid, gentle July follows her without asking questions. The balance is upset when September is suspended at school, after which July begins to make her own decisions. This has unexpected consequences, which only really become clear when Sheela takes her daughters to a remote cottage in the Irish countryside.

Debuting French-Greek director Ariane Labed is best known as an actress in films, among others, by Yorgos Lanthimos, the man she married in 2013. His influence can be seen in this alienating and disturbing story, an adaptation of Daisy Johnson's novel Sisters. In doing so, she has made her contribution to what has come to be known as the Greek Weird Wave.