With her life crashing down around her, Linda (Rose Byrne) attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.

Berlinale 2025 - Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance

Mary Bronstein’s a writer/director based in NYC known for her raw style, auteurist approach, and focus on stories about complicated women. Her best known work is the underground cult-classic Yeast with collaborators like Greta Gerwig or the Safdie brothers. Bronstein just completed her second feature, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You with A24. In addition to her film work, she’s written original feminist theory for several academic publishers.

Yeast (2008)

Director: Mary Bronstein
Cast: Rose Byrne, Conan O’Brien, Danielle Macdonald, Lark White, Ivy Wolk, Daniel Zolghadri, Delaney Quinn, A$AP Rocky
Cinematography: Christopher Messina
Screenwriter: Mary Bronstein
Producer: Tatiana Bears, Bruno Vernaschi-Berman
Editor: Lucian Johnston
Music: Filipe Messeder, Ruy García, Nick Caramela
Hungarian Distributor: ADS Service
Colour: colour
min: 113 mins

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