‘Sweet Thing - Alexandre Rockwell’

Billie is a 15-year-old girl who fantasises Billie Holiday as a sort of fairy godmother and plays mother to her younger brother, Nico. Meeting up with their friend Malik, they run away from home to roam free from their parents’ eye, discovering freedom and enchantment among boats and railway tracks.
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Iconoclast of the independent film movement of the 80s and 90s, Alexandre Rockwell began directing short films in the early 1980s after attending the Cinémathèque Française. His debut feature, Lenz, screened at the 1982 Berlinale. He made his international breakthrough with In the Soup in 1992 and went on to further success with Four Rooms, Somebody to Love and Little Feet. In 2017, he was appointed head of directing at the graduate film department of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Sweet Thing is Rockwell’s follow-up to his award-winning critically acclaimed Little Feet.