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ALL DIRT ROADS TASTE OF SALT

By Raven JACKSON

A24 FILMS - as SALES

Romance - Completed 2022

A decades-spanning exploration of a woman’s life in Mississippi and an ode to the generations of people, places, and ineffable moments that shape us.

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2023

U.S. Dramatic Competition

San Sebastian FF 2023

Official selection

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Romance, Drama
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 92 mn
- Director(s)
- Raven JACKSON
- Synopsis
- Tender caresses and enveloping embraces are portals into the life of Mack, a Black woman in Mississippi. Winding through the anticipation, love, and heartbreak she experiences from childhood to adulthood, the expressionist journey is an ode to connection — with loved ones and with place.
  
  Raven Jackson’s striking debut is an assured vision, unafraid to immerse us in moments of grief and longing, or within the thickness of things left unsaid. Her camera is patient and loving, capturing the beauty of Black bodies and life. Rural quietness is filled with the transportive sounds of crickets, frogs, and water in its many forms. Jackson's nontraditional narrative borrows from the language of memory. Shifts in time are prompted by movement and emotion — the feeling of mud between fingers or the release felt from being outside during a storm. Dialogue is restrained, and performances are subtle and powerful. Jackson employs the power of touch to communicate what evades spoken language. It’s an embodied experience that honors the sumptuousness of life and leaves you feeling the rain on your skin.