Ben Nicholson - The Film Verdict

Broken Voices

The insidiousness of abuse is expertly explored in Broken Voices, a restrained but devastating loss-of-innocence drama from Ondrej Provaznik.

The short experimental documentary ‘perfectly a strangeness’ pairs the mundane with the majestic in an equine odyssey to the stars.

Familial fractures persist across decades in Edwin Mullane and Adam O’Keeffe’s deftly observed and emotive debut feature, Horseshoe.

A single wide-angle perspective gives an eerily voyeuristic air to the smart, lowkey exercise in building tension – Dammen.

The city in Lower Saxony comes to life with the return of Germany’s top indie festival, the Oldenburg Film Festival.