Author: Deborah Young

You can’t look away from nurse Floria as she races around an understaffed hospital to check on 25 seriously ill patients in Petra Volpe’s breathless, high-stress salute to the nursing profession.

Guillaume Ribot powerfully evokes the Holocaust in an astutely edited collection of outtakes from Claude Lanzmann’s 9½ hour documentary ‘Shoah’ (1985), both playing in the Berlin Film Festival at a crucial point in history.

Ivan Fund’s small, quiet film featuring a young Argentine girl with a special gift is all about atmosphere and nuance.

The worlds of James Bond and Italian comic books crash head-on in the drolly witty, madcap psychedelia of ‘Reflection in a Dead Diamond’ from experimental filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani.

Engrossing actors and an Amazon river setting lighten some heavy-handed social commentary about how the elderly are scandalously mistreated, in Gabriel Mascaro’s likable future dystopia, ‘The Blue Trail’.