Saara Lamberg’s Westermarck Effect is to be given a special screening on Thursday May 19 at 4:30pm as part of the festival’s Cinéma des Antipodes section. The film marks Lamberg’s second feature to premiere at Cannes, following her award-winning debut Innuendo in 2018, and is the only female-directed Australian feature film at the festival this year.
Westermarck Effect tells the unsettling and intriguing story of a biological mother who falls romantically in love with her estranged son 20 years after giving him up for adoption.
Starring Saara Lamberg, Jayden Denke, Mariah Mannae, Kevin Dee and Albert Goikhman, Westermarck Effect is an independent film produced, written and directed by Saara Lamberg.
