‘Salmonberries’

This 1991 production is filmmaker Percy Adlon’s most venturesome film to date, taking us both geographically and emotionally into fresh territory. A remarkable companion film to “Bagdad Cafe,” it also has a remote setting and centers on a relationship between two strong, distinctive women (Veronika Voss Rosel Zech and k.d. lang, pictured) from different worlds; this time, however, the tone is more serious than comic. Zech plays an elegant, formal East German emigre working as a librarian at an Eskimo trading post in Northwest Alaska, where localite lang zeroes in on her with awkward, unwelcome attentions. In the course of this seemingly unlikely friendship, Adlon raises with the utmost sensitivity and perception questions of identity both cultural and sexual (Bravo Sunday at 7:05 p.m. and Monday at midnight).