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The Islands and the Whales is a stunningly beautiful, unobtrusively shot documentary by Mike Day with a narrative that takes us into the lives of real people caught between tradition and global environmental change in the remote Faroe Islands.
★★★★☆
Based on a true story, Glory (Slava) by Peter Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva is an all-too-believable satirical parable about an honest man, corruption and spin.
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A gruesome serial killer thriller based on a disturbing true story, Árpád Sopsits’ Strangled reflects its post-revolution Hungarian setting.
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Albert Serra’s compelling film about the slow death of the Sun King features an extraordinary performance by the legendary Jean-Pierre Léaud.
★★★★☆
Divided into stalwarts of French cinema and non-professional actors, Bruno Dumont’s crime caper Slack Bay exposes the grotesque in everyone.
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Daouda Coulibaly’s Wùlu is a must-see, tense, contemporary West African thriller.
★★★★☆
Russian director Ivan Tverdovsky’s black comedy Zoology is a dark satire on the invisibility of older women with a stunning central performance by Natalia Pavlenkova.
★★★★☆
Brimstone is an almost unbearably violent take on the Western with a strong female character at its centre.
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Una is a disturbing drama about a difficult and provocative subject that subverts conventional expectations. Directed by Benedict Andrews, written by David Harrower, it stars Rooney Mara and Ben Mendlesohn.
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Oliver Laxe’s second film Mimosas is an enigmatic, spiritual North African odyssey.
In Makoto Shinkai’s haunting Japanese anime, two teenagers swap bodies and lives.
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Executive produced by Ben Wheatley, The Ghoul is a teasingly self-aware psychological thriller.
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Ben Brown’s first feature Hounds of Love is a brutal serial killer thriller.