Film

Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.

Following five adolescent mothers living together at a maternal support home in Belgium, the film is a true-to-life portrait of the struggles faced by these young women living on or near the margins of society.

May 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbour is pitted against neighbour in Eddington, New Mexico.

Pavements blends authentic archival footage, contemporary documentary moments, an ironic jukebox musical, a satirical Hollywood biopic, and playful mockumentary sequences, brilliantly collapsing the boundaries between reality and fiction.