New Directors/New Films — A–Z of films

Poekel keeps things natural, letting Noel's sadness slowly permeate the atmosphere along with the scent of pine needles rather than ringing it out at high volume.

Sense of memory, sense of history, sense of time, envelop us like a high altitude fog.

Centering on a beautifully observed performance by co-director Verónica Llinás, this is a film that treats its outsider heroine with dignity and reminds the viewer what it really takes to survive in this way.

It is by turns sad and disturbing - with occasional bouts of highly dubious dark humour.

Seizes the attention from the brutal opening – and refuses to let go for an instant.

Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s film is one entirely about small details.

The characters feel shallow in comparison to the impressive action sequences.

Riley really does listen to Marlon and, by extension, encourages us to.

This is a well structured and affecting piece of film-making.

Slaboshpytskiy goes to show, first through Anna and then the actions of Sergey that some transactions can hold a lot more - and worse - than we have bargained for.