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Writer-director Ben Sharrock has made something very special with Limbo. In this film about a group of displaced refugees awaiting asylum on an anonymous Hebridean island, he manages to deliver humour,...

There is something really eerie about watching someone perform a voice-over. Inés is a voice actor who is first seen, mid-session, dubbing a porn film. Listening to the emotions coming from Inés’ voice, in...

If It Were Love is a hypnotic illustration of life, art and how the two fold into one another. The documentary follows 15 young dancers rehearsing and performing a movement piece. The performances is an ode to...

Lav Díaz is a master in finding beauty in the organic poetry of slowness. From the 625 minutes of 2006’s Evolution Of A Filipino Family to the mere 80 of 2011’s Elegy to the Visitor From the Revolution,...

Wildfire bursts onto the screen with Kelly (the late Nika McGuigan) returning home a year after being reported as missing; her sister, Lauren (Nora-Jane Noone), overwhelmed to see her once again. Instantly it...

Mustafa (Ali Suliman) lives in the West Bank while his wife and children live in Israel. In order to see them, he must slowly make his way through a very intimidating border check. It is the only path through...

Told almost entirely from the point of view of strays roaming the crowded streets of Istanbul, Elizabeth Lo’s first feature film Stray seeks to challenge notions of exclusion amongst the chaos of overcrowded...

They say history repeats itself. For Matt Hulse, it's more like a replay - or five. Over and over again he assembles trios of kids from a Glasgow youth theatre group to represent his younger self, his sister...

When we think of capitalism we think of suited bankers and Western businessmen; if our thoughts stray to less economically developed countries, it is only as the victims of capitalism, whether that’s from...

For a comedy-drama that hovers between life and death, Never Gonna Snow Again is achingly beautiful. Szumowska and Engerlt paint it with light. They peer through doorways and windows like Vermeer, but on ice:...

Director Harry Macqueen’s second feature explores the well-trodden theme of terminal illness through the eyes of two people in a relationship. While Supernova certainly has little originality in regards to...

A small village in Czechoslovakia has had its nationality swapped numerous times. Its position near a contentious border means it has belonged to several countries; the one thing that remains constant is its...

“Alex is the love of my life… we belong together.” What appears to be a sweet and earnest declaration of love from Samuel, the subject of Peter Murimi’s vital documentary, swiftly becomes a defiant...

Two newlyweds arrive in their shiny hotel suite, exhausted but ecstatic, surrounded by gifts and luxury. Eleanor (Avigail Harari) discovers a hidden wedding gift in her husband Noam’s (Ran Danker) pocket and...

Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself is a heartfelt tear-jerker that manages to reckon with the violence of a system that tries to quantify someone’s humanity. The story centres on Sandra, who is living in cramped,...