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If there's one thing that the ongoing pandemic has reinforced for many people, it's the importance of human connection... which makes Marteinn Thorsson's warm-spirited and humanistic drama a timely watch

Whether she is probing at the ideas of the ties that bind us to a home or considering the morality of goat horns, she constantly nudges us to move around and, perhaps, get a better view.

Nrecaj started his career as a photographer, and this influence is clear throughout.

This is a story of personal sadness, part of a tragic whole.

The film suggests that the story ignites a sense of working class solidarity.

The film is held together by Ko's heartbreaking central performance and by Jeon Jo-myeong's magnificent cinematography.

A Town Called Panic is a truly postmodern concoction, where, along with the village's properties, narrative norms are deconstructed brick by brick, as free associations and visual gags come thick and fast, offering a surreal jaunt through toy town.

Gentle, touching, amusing, terrifying, shocking and dramatic all rolled up into a beautifully shot and skilfully rendered film.

Intimate, engaging and appealingly optimistic, Village At The End Of The World does its simple job well.

Jurkiewicz drinks in all the life the village offers, almost imperceptibly soldering her own connections between the external environments and the internal, the women and the men, the traditional and the unexpected.

Using simple woodland locations and a cluster of crumbling old buildings, McCormack sets out to build atmosphere by layering on the fog.

All the actors here are non-professionals and Das elicits extraordinarily natural performances from them.

Naturalism is the lifeblood of Das’ films and this one is no different

The humour varies between dumb and silly and more often than not misses the mark.