Sacral (2019)

When Silvia mysteriously goes missing in Chinatown tension rises between the two people closest to her Jacqueline Sir directs Sacral a fragmentary drama about the messy relationships and social life of a group of young NY city kids Told with blurred lowfi imagery and a constant sense of unease and disorientation its raw as they come and paints an authentic picture of an alarming absence When Nadia cant locate her best friend Silvia she seeks out her boyfriend Max the last person she saw him with As their group of friends pregame for a party she doubles down on Max who is behaving suspiciously evasive A mix of edgy realism and almost nightmarish paranoia the films resonance accumulates from jagged shards into a haunting mystery