Film

Alice

Director

Karine Silla

Year

2017

A woman gives birth in pain and violently refuses to take the baby in her arms. The bracelet on the infant's wrist bears the letter X. The mother returns to prison for robbery with violence. Facing the camera, she speaks to her baby, whom she has just abandoned at the maternity ward: "I hope that X will bring you luck, that it will give you the strength to break the chains of violence..."