Author: Stephen Dalton

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.