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Soko posted on Instagram on 4 December: "I did a thing here, and it's not a thirst trap coz I’m single. I just.. got a little undressed for @lamaisondesfemmes93 and @rouje 's calendar and it's available now. All proceeds are donated to La maison des femmes. La maison des femmes is a shelter that takes care of women victim of violence. Amen, and thank you, we need you more than ever. Pictures by @denis.boulze Thank you @jeannedamas."

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According to IMDB, Soko will star as Marion Beauvoir, a nurse addicted to opiods, in a webseries titled DEADLINE. The dark comedy has Marion getting a job in a palliative care unit. Her plan is to loot the pharmacy to pay off her debts as quickly as possible. That works well for the first few days, but her scheme is soon discovered. The series is written and directed by Erwan Marinopoulos. Anne Brochet will co-star. No release date has been announced. (Brochet and Soko appeared together previously in the 2006 dramedy Les irreductibles.)

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Soko is an unnamed hiker in Barnaby Clay's folk horror feature THE SEEDING, which stars Scott Haze as a man who finds himself trapped in a desert canyon with a woman (Kate Lyn Sheil) who is herself captive to a pack of sadistic boys.

Oscar Goff reviewed THE SEEDING for Boston Hassle. "I’m still not entirely sure I understand the implications of its big reveal," he wrote, "or how its characters relate to each other. But, in execution, The Seeding is such an overwhelming sensory experience that it will take me a good long while to shake it off. It got to me, and for a movie like this that counts for just about everything."

THE SEEDING can be streamed on HULU.

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Peyton Dix wrote about Soko for Cultured Magazine. "If 2012’s 'We Might Be Dead By Tomorrow' didn’t teach you how to love, then you were missing out on a whole era of heartbreak. Ten years later, older, wiser, and now a mother, Soko (born Stéphanie Sokolinski) and her music have matured...the musician-slash-actor returned from Los Angeles to Paris, collaborated with Vans, and even wrote a few impromptu songs with her child, Indigo Blue."

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In Pratibha Parmar's documentary on the life of Andrea Dworkin, MY NAME IS ANDREA, Soko is one of five actors portraying aspects of the feminist writer.

Sheri Linden reviewed the film for The Hollywood Reporter: "Most of the dramatized moments involve Dworkin being shut down by abusive men just as she opens her heart toward life in new ways: the thrill of her first solo moviegoing excursion, with Amandla Stenberg as the tween Dworkin; her work as an organizer in the antiwar movement (here she’s played by Soko); the joy and then horror of her first marriage (Andrea Riseborough); the continued activism and the sorrows of later years (Ashley Judd and Christine Lahti). Judd’s participation draws a clear line between Dworkin’s understanding of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse and the #MeToo movement, though her sequences, the film’s most directly focused on pure protest, are the least evocative in terms of narrative impact. The other enacted scenes are tender, exuberant, shattering."

A tralier is available on Vimeo.

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Soko is the voice of 33F in Ishan Shukla's animated science fiction fantasy SHIRKOA: IN LIES WE TRUST. Vladan Petkovic described the film for Cineuropa: "Based on his 2016 short film Schirkoa, which stemmed from his own graphic novel, the first feature-length film by Indian director Ishan Shukla...is a dystopian animation that combines a classic story of authoritarianism, the fight for freedom and self-actualisation with Eastern philosophies' concept of enlightenment. Although it struggles under the weight of its own ambition, it is a stunning, even overwhelming and definitely impressive debut, sporting an aura of cool with a voice cast including Asia Argento, and guest appearances by Lav Diaz, Gaspar Noe, Shekhar Kapur and SoKo."

Renee Ng reviewed SHIRKOA: IN LIES WE TRUST for Asian Movie Pulse: "...councilman 197A [voiced by Shahbaz Sarwar & Tibu Fortes] grapples with his boredom and disillusionment in the city as he is being groomed to become a nominated member of parliament. One night, a spirited encounter with...‘Anomalie' 33F [voiced by Soko] changes his trajectory forever, bringing him beyond the borders of the city to communities on the fringe, where no one wears paper bags and citizens have gradually mutated in bodily and evolutionary revolt to suppression. In an underbelly city of fantastical hybrid creatures, centaurs, mermaids, horned faeries, 197A's journeys take him towards freedom, but also towards a new existentialism."

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Soko is Amber in SOMETHING'S MORE THAN ONE THING, a dramedy by Jay Alverez that looks at infidelity in the internet age. The film premiered at the 2024 Raindance Film Festival in London.

Tim Grierson reviewed SOMETHING'S MORE THAN ONE THING for Screen Daily. "Much of the film sees Dylan [Devan Costa] and Caitlin [Alex Sgambati] living their own lives, even though they cohabit – another potentially potent metaphor for the sense of aloneness endemic to the modern world. With Dylan trying to realise his filmmaking dreams and Caitlin attempting to eke out a living — while growing closer to sensitive coworker Remy (James Scully) — there are signs that these two have been drifting apart even before Dylan’s one-night stand. But Alvarez’s decision to keep them separate throughout much of Something’s More Than One Thing introduces an interesting tension in which we get to know each as individuals, not as a couple."