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Director: JR,Alice Rohrwacher
Producer: Marc Azoulay,Pierre-François Piet,Alexandra Henochsberg
Screenwriter: JR,Alice Rohrwacher
Cinematographer: Daria D'Antonio
Composer: Thomas Bangalter
Editor: Nelly Quettier
Production Designer: Santo Krappmann
Costume Designer: Isabelle Pannetier
Key Cast: Lyna Khoudri,Naïm El Kaldaoui,Leos Carax

What happens when someone tries to leave the cave?

The question famously posited by Plato in Republic is explored here by filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (La Chimera, MIFF 2023) and multimedia artist JR (Faces Places, co-directed with Agnès Varda, MIFF 2017) amid the kinetic rush of a modern city. Visually stunning, brimming with trademark imagination and featuring a cameo from legendary French auteur Leos Carax (Annette, MIFF 2021), An Urban Allegory is a beautifully succinct tale of seeing the world – and ourselves – in a different light.