Luke Lorentzen’s excellent observational documentary shines a light on the operators of a private ambulance in Mexico City.
The Green Fog
The Green Fog is a delirious homage to one of the most famous and most lauded films ever made: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
Good Manners
The Brazilian drama from directors Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra works best as an engaging film about love and class, rather than the genre film it eventually becomes.
Tyrel
Sebastián Silva’s latest provocation is an exercise in alienation, following a ‘guys’ weekend’ charged with unsettling racial undertones.
A Woman Captured
Bernadett Tuza-Ritter’s illuminating observational documentary looks at modern day slavery in Hungary.
Stray
Dustin Feneley’s ambitious crowd-funded debut feature Stray is a powerful and controlled drama about two lonely souls in rural New Zealand.
Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle
Gustavo Salmeron’s debut documentary succeeds in imparting a vivid and kaleidoscopic image of one woman’s incredible gusto for life;
The Long Season
The Long Season captures the state of suspension experienced in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley with nuance and care, with a pronounced focus on the community’s day-to-day life in the camp.
A Mother Brings Her Son to Be Shot
Sinead O’Shea’s documentary about paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland makes for devastating viewing.
Piercing
Nicolas Pesce’s latest works best as a demonic screwball comedy, rather than as an adaptation of the Ryu Murakami novel.