Author Archive: Yaara Sumeruk

Independent director Yaara Sumeruk shares her picks for the year’s most enlightened, inventive and visionary film directors with Portable.

‘Without’, the directorial debut of Mark Jackson which recently showed at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival, is set on a remote island where 19 year-old Joslyn becomes the caretaker to an elderly, wheelchair-bound man who is in a vegetative state.