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The Black Guelph

The Black Guelph

Sep 17, 2022 | , ,

Actor turned director John Connors makes a powerful statement with his debut dramatic feature ‘The Black Guelph’, a gritty Irish crime thriller about secrets, lies and trauma passed down the generations.

Aberrance

Aberrance

Sep 17, 2022 | , ,

Director Baatar Batsukh raises the bar for Mongolian genre cinema with his twist-heavy, visually impressive psycho-horror debut ‘Aberrance’.

Parsley

Parsley

Sep 16, 2022 | ,

Jose Maria Cabral’s historical drama about the appalling 1937 ‘Parsley massacre’ in the Dominican Republic is a well-mounted but utterly harrowing picture of atrocity.

Junk Space Berlin

Junk Space Berlin

Sep 16, 2022 | ,

Debutant director Juri Padel’s low-budget cyberpunk thriller ‘Junk Space Berlin’ elevates its scrambled plot and fuzzy intentions with dazzling digital glitch-art visuals.

Linoleum

Linoleum

Sep 15, 2022 | ,

Director Colin West’s soulful sci-fi comedy drama ‘Linoleum’ balances its sentimental message with sharp jokes, strong performances and deft plot twists.

Our Father, The Devil

Our Father, The Devil

Sep 15, 2022 | ,

Revenge is not so sweet in ‘Our Father, The Devil,’ director Ellie Foumbi’s gripping, horror-tinged thriller about African immigrants with a shared history of violence.

The Gravity

The Gravity

Sep 14, 2022 | , ,

Social tensions and strange cosmic disturbances collide in French director Cédric Ido’s imperfect but admirably ambitious genre-blurring thriller ‘The Gravity’.

Brothers

Brothers

Sep 14, 2022 | ,

A gory, suspenseful debut from Kazakhstan’s Darkhan Tulegenov offers a moody, pessimistic take on the crime thriller that interrogates class inequality and hypocrisy.

Way Out Ahead Of Us

Way Out Ahead Of Us

Sep 13, 2022 | ,

A vague, dreamlike lyricism is prioritised over socio-political critique in Rob Rice’s collaboratively-minded doc-fiction portrait of a family facing uncertain futures in the Californian desert.

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