A hypnotic cinematic journey through today’s America and the inner world of an offbeat musician. KEN – THE MOVIE tells a fictional story of the real American musician Ken Stringfellow (The Posies, R.E.M., Big Star), who left America 20 years ago to start a new life in Europe. After a failed relationship, the fictional character KEN sets out for the first time for his homeland to look for his roots.
This film is Rorarius’ third feature film after her debut CHI L’HA VISTO (WHO SAW HIM, 2010) and TOUCHED (2023) which had its world premiere in Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present competition this year where it won the Best Performance Leopard for Isold Halldórudóttir and Stavros Zafeiris.