Author: Stephen Dalton

An idealistic politician is seduced by the dark side of power in Rezwan Shahriar Simut’s polished but predictable drama ‘Master’, which took home one of the main prizes in Rotterdam.

Austrian writer-director Susanne Brandstaetter’s visually stunning dystopian sci-fi documentary ‘Hungry’ starkly lays out humankind’s imminent risk of a climate-driven food apocalypse, and ponders how we might avoid our own extinction.

Bloated but compelling, writer-director Ivo M. Ferreira’s stylish fact-based retro-thriller about a real 1980s terrorist group feels like a Portuguese cousin of ‘One Battle After Another’.

A small-town Scottish tour guide declares war on a blockbuster TV fantasy show in ‘The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford’, writer-director Seán Dunn’s enjoyably off-beat comedy about grief, depression and obsessive fandom.