From Where They Stood gives back the gaze to those who dared to record what they witnessed.
Although they were risking their lives by doing so, prisoners in concentration and extermination camps took photographs and even managed to smuggle canisters of film beyond the camp gates.
Spearman draws his characters well, putting relatively little focus on the romance - which the actors convey just fine in the space they have - and instead exploring the way each of them is affected as a person.
When Peter bumps into handsome businessman Jack in a gay bar, they begin a passionate relationship, in spite of Jack being married. Peter keeps ending up with married men and realises that if his life is ever going to get better, something needs to change.
A rational, emotionally distant female police detective investigates the disappearance of a girl in a region famous for black magic and pagan heritage. Her investigation gradually becomes a journey into a mythical world.
Clarke’s utilisation of eerie Irish lore and the supernatural to explore very real horror, and the lifelong lingering aftermath of a single, damning moment, is a potent and unsettling brew.
A troubled home carer finds her grip on reality starts to slip after she goes to help an elderly agoraphobic.
The screenplay by Kazejak and Filip Kasperaszek produces believable and well rounded characters, with plenty of humour to leaven the psychological torments on view.
Two families who have known each other for years spend the long May weekend camping together as usual on the idyllic Danish island of Bornholm. However, instead of the relaxation they had anticipated, the holiday turns into purgatory…
Any number of films try to sell themselves on inviting us to ogle outsiders like these. The difference with Fucktoys is that it’s made by people who actually get it.
A bubblegum grindhouse adventure through sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA.
If Waiting For Godot's Vladimir and Estragon had a couple of American cousins, they might look a little like Mary and John.
In this allegorical road movie touching on issues of homelessness, mental health, and addiction, two lost souls embark across a dreamscape America. Their darkly strange journey confronts them with their traumatic pasts, and bonds them in compassion and love.
The film is interesting in its use of visual effects, with layered images used in transitions and also to communicate dream-like states.
Three thieves escape from a heist, two of them dying as they make their way across a turbulent strait. The survivor is sheltered by a sex worker and sought after by the police, but ten years go by before his true motivation becomes apparent.
The thesis behind it doesn’t really emerge until the end, when we get the suggestion that if Band’s work is less visible these days, that’s at least in part because of what has happened to everything else.
A documentary about the director and producer Charles Band.
Gravel cleverly works the tempo, so we feel the occasional moments when Julie almost gets to relax, but that keep being snatched from her, more acutely.
Julie goes to great lengths to raise her two children in the countryside while keeping her job in a Parisian luxury hotel. When she finally gets a job interview for a position she had long been hoping for, a national strike breaks out, leading to a race against time.
The film is literally very dark, which can be frustrating in the dramatic scenes but works well with the approach taken to special effects, adding to the sense of threat and general unpleasantness.
An undertaker's dysfunctional family lives amongst coffins, wreaths and mischievous but nonviolent ghosts - but then a malevolent entity arrives.
Haneke once again delivers intellectual, challenging and bravura filmmaking.
English language remake of the ice-cold horror about a family held hostage by a pair of preppy youngsters. Plus read our exclusive interview with producer Chris Coen.
A portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the opportunities that surround them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of failing, the trials they hope to overcome.
Writer/director Noam Kaplan breaks screenwriting rules to show his characters performing actions which are normally filtered out of cinematic depictions.
Nurit, a criminal profiler, is recruited by Israel’s secret service to interrogate a young Palestinian woman who assassinated a government minister. Over the course of their meetings, Nurit realises some uncomfortable truths.
If you thought you knew every bit of scandal associated with the festival from reading articles about it or watching the news, prepare to be surprised.
A behind the scenes look at the infamous unravelling of the Fyre music festival.
All the time, in between the cape twirling, sly winking and knowing nods, Welles conjures up a central debate - if you look at something and think it is a masterpiece, why is the fake less valuable?
We see events from Alice's perspective, meaning that, unusually, she is positioned more as the desiring subject than the desired object within the narrative.
Alice replaces a recently deceased mechanic onboard Fidelio, an old freighter, and sets off on a voyage of self-discovery.
