Fish Tank

Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold (the 2005 short Wasp) follows up her powerful feature debut Red Road with her second feature to win the Cannes Jury Prize. An emotionally stunning coming-of-age story set in a British housing complex, Fish Tank is electrified by the breakthrough performance of its young star Katie Jarvis, who was cited by indieWIRE as "the discovery of Cannes." Jarvis plays Mia, a 15-year-old girl in a constant state of war with her family, her school and her neighbors, without any constructive creative outlet for her considerable energies save a secret love of hip-hop dancing. When she meets her mother's charming and mysterious new boyfriend Connor (Michael Fassbender, Hunger), she is amazed to find him returning her attention, and believes he can help her start to make sense of her life - though his seemingly tender demeanor may hide a much more treacherous interior.